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I have been looking in recent forums in the homepage. I think this is a question to match it. Which do you think is harder to play Chess or Shogi. Shogi is Japanese chess for those who don't know. If you automatically say shogi because i don't know Japanese it doesn't mean anything because there is western symbolic pieces.
For a fetus, both would be equally difficult.
Is Shogi a good time? Maybe I'll check it out and get back to you a year from now when this thread is archived.
Since I learned chess first and been playing for years a game like it but different proved difficult for me. i sometimes make simple mistakes in chess think of shogi pawns and vice versa. i once in chess played my friend and move my rook in danger of a chess pawn thinking it wasn't in danger because of shogi pawns. learning to play without confusion is harder than learning the games.
One thing I thought was interesting about shogi in comparison to chess is that the opening of shogi consists of creating a "fortress", and rather than different opening lines, there are different types of fortresses. I'd love to learn shogi, but really don't have the time being busy with school and chess.
I like playing Shogi, I have one board that I bought in Japan.
My level is even worse than my poor level at chess. lol
The point with Shogi is that most players are in Japan and it's difficult to find serious players if you don't go to japan.
Actually there are lots of variants of shogi.
For those interested, there is (at least) a good computer programs for shogi and all its variants.
For those who want to play humans, there is also a Shogi dojo on the internet:
Have fun!
I've been playing shogi quite a bit recently, although I don't think I've got the hang of the openings. It's quite an interesting contrast to chess because a number of the pieces are better at moving forwards than backwards (or like pawns, don't move backwards at all) and there are no pawn chains (because pawns don't defend each other) so the game has a much different structure. The ability to reenter captured pieces is a whole lot of fun and is one of the main attractions of the game in my view.
the hardest one i can think of is taikyoku shogi. it's on a 36x36 board with a bunch of pieces.
I say Xianggi Chinese chess is the hardest.
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I say Xianggi Chinese chess is the hardest.
I don't agree, drop rule in Shogi makes for many more combinations.
I think IM Larry Kaufman's article posted to Shogi-l in 1999 is still interesting to read when you think of this topic. He compares chess with not only shogi but also Chinese chess, Korean chess, Chu Shogi, and so forth. Here it is;
Xiangqi seems to be better than shogi.
I've never played shogi before but I have seen a little glimps os what it looks like, do you think it's more fun than chess?
it solely depends on what aspects. long range chess, promtions shogi, long term either, shogi u can use captured pieces. it depends. i like chess since i learnt it first.
For me, Shogi is the hardest to play because I don't know how.
i think shogi is fun though. it's hard because the pieces may never end. the captured pieces can be used as your own.
Due to the rules of re-using captured pieces, the complexity is increasing in the endgame of shogi. I mean the number of possible moves one can make are bigger in the endgame than in the middlegame in shogi. So reversal often occurs in the endgame. I think shogi is often like a baseball game with reversal in the 8th or 9th inning.
i play games because i'm competitive and i like to have fun at the same time. as long as i know how to play and i have fun i'll probaly play again.
Shogi is very fun and interesting. You can 'parachute' pieces that you have captured back onto the board and use them as your own.
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Although we weren't ready financially, our son is not considered to be an accident. We did have the decision to prevent pregnancy, we tried... and obviously failed. Finding out we were to become parents was extremely scary, however, it gave us the much needed to push to further our careers. My fiance now has an amazing job where we are able to have two homes, one here in GA and one in another state, he can support me, and most importantly, our son will be well taken care of. I am almost finished with my degree and will be able to get a much better paying job afterwards. We are very blessed to have the opportunity to become parents as well as be able to provide. This just goes to show that even though we weren't ready the first three pregnancy tests I took, over these past 7 months we've worked our butts off to make sure that we are ready in February!
Well the baby girl was born a micro preemie and they are struggling in all aspects. They can't provide for their family. Their relationship is abusive. They can't afford food. They didn't even have a carseat to bring her home in so my aunt had to buy one at a garage sale. My aunt has to buy diapers weekly.
The fact that no one can deny you having a child doesn't mean that you should have one.
Aren't you being a hypocrite talking about her negative energy when you're insulting her in the same sentence?
DH and I were in our postdocs when DS was born, so money was tight. But, we never relied on fed assistance and would not have had a child if that would have been the case.
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2014 to get my masters. I will take out more loans and I will be getting help from Wic if I qualify. we are Doug enter than those that don't work at all. we are temporarily using assistance while we better our lives. then we will be paying the wic back through our taxes pai at a higher income which means more taxes pai back over our lifetime. maybe u should go back to school..
Yes, a child can be a positive focus when one is depressed but it's soooo not that simple.
J1: 6 years of precociousness!
J2: Challenging the household since Feb 2013!
I hope you do get into public policy. Most American welfare policy is currently strictly third world/ throw-money-at-it-and-pray-it-goes-away. We are long overdue for creative solutions and incentivization.
@stylinitup- GMAFB. This is clearly a "debate-type thread". All posters on this thread should know better than to expect fairies and butterflies. I'm just as entitled to my opinions as everyone else on this subject. But thanks for personally attacking me. So sweet of you.
DH and I are doing the best we can. This will be our first baby, and yes, at times we are terrified as to how we will make it work. But we WILL make it work.
Yes, we are using student loans to help our finances for the next few months until I graduate. Yes, we plan on paying them back in full. Yes, we will be getting on WIC after baby is born.
Doitallmomma- we pay taxes.... that's how we will be repaying WIC. You're not the only one who supports people on assistance. We pay taxes and that money goes in part to these government agencies. You are extremely judgemental and I would rather struggle through life and learn compassion than talk down to people like you are.
We are both full time students. While the circumstances may not be ideal, I believe that government assistance is in place for people in similar circumstances. Finding a job in our community right now is extrmely difficult, but DH got a good job with a friend. He will be taking less credits next semester so that he can work more, and will do so every semester that it is necessary. We know that within a couple of years we will be in a position to help others in our situation, and look forward to it.
I can't blieve the judgement I have seen on this thread. I'm not sorry DH and I decided not to wait until we are completely financially sound and that makes you think I'm wrong in having a baby right now.
Sometimes situations aren't ideal, and that's where we are. But I don't think it's up to anyone to put people who are trying down just because we don't have amazing incomes and are relying on the government assistance that our taxes go towards. It doesn't mean we will be on assistanc forever, but i'm not too proud to reject help.
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Shuman, a 6-foot-2 senior, drew several fouls against the taller Yellowjackets in the paint and made nine-of-11 free throws.
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Kermit finishes its season 24-7.
The Eagles jumped to a 6-0 lead and never trailed, but they never could pull away from the Yellowjackets. Kermit closed to within three points with three minutes to play, but forward Tanner Martin turned back the Yellowjackets with a 3-pointer.
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Day-of registration begins at 10am in the Town Hall Building (right across from Bond Park.) Race time starts promptly at 11am from Bond Park.
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Starting at the top of MacGregor Ave, runners begin with a downhill push to Park Lane! Crossing Elkhorn Ave to Riverside Dr, participants pass thru the extended downtown of Estes Park. Turning right at Moccasin & Crags Dr intersection, runners will take a left at the Donut House onto Moraine Ave, and continue west up the hill to WorldMark resort. Runner's turn left and cross the bridge to run thru the small resort and exiting left onto Riverside Dr. Participants continue straight on Riverside Dr. to the finish line in front of Town Hall.
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A little while ago, I talked about volunteering to host a block party for National Night Out, which was on Tuesday night across Texas.
Our neighborhood's coordinator brought over a sign for our front lawn and some handouts. She wasn't sure how many people to expect, but not to get my hopes up for a large crowd. Basically, 10 people was a success, she said.
The invitations for the block parties said 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., so my husband and I were a little surprised when the police showed up for our party at 6:30 p.m. They were very nice and brought some more giveaways, which made Evan very happy. Unfortunately, no one else was there to meet the officers, who had to leave to attend the other parties in the neighborhood.
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Students might see a slight change of scenery at Oakbrook Middle School inside one of the hallways.
This hallway is completely decked out in 31 different, authentic, United States historical documents. The collection of documents is called a Freedom Shrine, and includes notable U.S. documents such as the Bill of Rights, the Monroe Doctrine and the Declaration of Independence.
The Freedom Shrine is provided by the Charleston Exchange Club. Members gathered on May 23 to celebrate the unveiling of the Shrine, and were joined by members of the schools Beta club as well as Brandon Pitcher, vice principal of the seventh grade.
The purpose of the Shrine is to remind all Americans that their freedom is a result of the hard work and determination of our forefathers, according to the National Exchange Club.
The Charleston chapter members assembled the shrine on May 22.
Donald Allen, on the clubs board of directors, said he would like to see students checking the shrine out whenever they get a chance.
Its a program of ours to install it in as many schools as possible, he said.
Oakbrook Middle is not the only school to have a Freedom Shrine in DD2. Other district schools include Fort Dorchester High and Alston Middle.
Five hundred years ago our ancestors had no idea what freedom was, Allen said, adding ideas did not start coming about until the 17th century. A lot of those ideas were written down, and theyre on this wall.
Pitcher said he is excited about the shrine.
Its a prime example of the way things work, he said. When things are put together cooperatively the end result is usually pretty positive.
We find it fitting to have it in this nice, wide hallway that students often pass through, he added.
In 1949 the National Exchange Club agreed to install permanent displays of the countrys most significant historical documents in communities throughout the nation. George Rauton, president of the Charleston Exchange Club, said he has helped install close to 40 Shrines in schools since 1983.
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Tarotology provides the theoretical basis for Tarot reading, a subset of Cartomancy, which is the practice of using cards to gain insight into the past, current and future situations by posing a question to the cards. Variations on the reasons for such belief range from believing on guidance by a spiritual force, to belief that the cards are but instruments used to tap either into a collective unconscious or into their own creative, brainstorming subconscious.[citation needed]
Tarot decks have seventy-eight cards divided into four suits of fourteen cards each plus the twenty-two trumps. The trumps and suits are part of a trump style game with many historical and national variations.[1] In modern times suit cards are Pentacles, Swords, Cups, and Wands. Trumps are cards like the Fool, The Magician, et al. Since the introduction of the cartomantic and occult tarot there have been ongoing attempts to "get it right."[1] Subsequently the names of both have been played with over time.
The first Tarot deck to appear in a complete form (trumps, suits, etc.) was the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck in the courtly circles of Northern Italy in the 15th century.[1] They were used for gambling and card games, and possibly as a symbolic allegory for the Visconti nobility of Milan.[2]
One of the earliest reference to Tarot triumphs, and probably the first reference to Tarot as the devil's picture book, is given by a Dominican preacher in a fiery sermon against the evils of the devil's instrument.[3] References to the Tarot as a social plague continue throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, with no indication that the cards were used for anything but games anywhere other than in Bologna.[1] Tarot remained a simple card game for several centuries and only became widely associated with cartomancy after general cartomancy with normal playing cards became common in France. As Dummett (1980: 96) notes, "...it was only in the 1780s, when the practice of fortune-telling with regular playing cards had been well established for at least two decades, that anyone began to use the Tarot pack for cartomancy."
The belief in the divinatory meaning of the cards is closely associated with a belief in their occult, divine, and mystical properties: a commonly held belief in the 18th century propagated by prominent Protestant clerics and freemasons.[1]:96 One of them was Court De Gébelin who wrote that after seeing a group of women playing cards he had the idea that Tarot was not merely a game of cards but was in fact:
- of ancient Egyptian origin
- of mystical cabbalistic import
- of deep divine significance
Gébelin further claimed that the name Tarot came from the Egyptian words tar, meaning royal, and ro, meaning road, and that the tarot therefore represented a royal road to wisdom.[4] This was written before Jean-François Champollion had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs and later Egyptologists found nothing in the Egyptian language to support de Gébelin's fanciful etymologies. Despite this lack of any evidence, the misapprehension that the tarot cards were linked to the Egyptian Book of Thoth was already established in occult practice and continues in modern urban legend to the present day.[4]
The original Tarot deck being intended for a card game, a game of chance, or elite allegory, did not prevent individuals from making it into something more.[4] From its humble uptake as an instrument of prophecy in France, it went on to become a thing of hermeneutic, magical, mystical,[5] semiotic,[6] and even psychological properties. It was used by Roma when telling fortunes,[7] as a Jungian psychological apparatus capable of tapping into "absolute knowledge in the unconscious," [8] a tool for archetypal analysis,[9] and even a tool for facilitating the Jungian process of Individuation.[10]
Court de Gebelin[edit]
Many involved in occult and divinatory practices attempt to trace the Tarot to ancient Egypt, divine hermetic wisdom,[11] and the mysteries of Isis. It all began in 1781, when Antoine Court de Gébelin, a French clergyman, published Le Monde Primitif which besides tarot included religious symbolism and its survivals in the modern world. In it he was the first to say that the symbolism of the Tarot de Marseille represented the mysteries of Isis and Thoth.[citation needed] It is a massive opus, incomplete in nine volumes, published by private subscription several years after he became an active Freemason and member of the Lodge of the Neuf Soeurs.[1] Most of it is taken up promulgating a wholly speculative (and suspiciously Feudal and Christian) view of history that suggested there had once been a golden age (the age of the garden of Eden perhaps) in which
- "all men had shared a common language, common customs, a common culture and a common religion", which was a reflection of "an eternal and immutable order, which unites heaven and earth, the body and the soul, the physical and the moral....".[1]
The actual source of the occult Tarot can be traced to two articles in volume eight, one written by himself, and one written by M. le C. de M.***. [12] The second has been noted to have been even more influential than Gebelin's.[1] The author takes De Gebelin's speculations even further, agreeing with him about the mystical origins of the Tarot in ancient Egypt, but making several additional, and influential, statements that continue to influence mass understanding of the occult tarot even to this day.[citation needed] He:
- makes the first statement that the Tarot is in fact The Book of Thoth
- makes the first statement that the Tarot is associated with Gypsies (and that Gypsies were roaming Egyptians)
- makes the first association of Tarot with cartomancy
The first to assign divinatory meanings to the Tarot cards were cartomancer Jean-Baptiste Alliette (also known as Etteilla) in 1783 and Mlle Marie-Anne Adelaide Lenormand (1776-1843).[13][14] According to Dummett, Etteilla:[1]
- devised a method of tarot divination in 1783,
- wrote a cartomanic treatise of tarot as the Book of Thoth,
- created the first society for Tarot cartomancy, the Société littéraire des associés libres des interprètes du liver de Thot.
- created the first corrected Tarot (supposedly fixing errors that resulted from misinterpretation and corruption through the mists of antiquity), The Grand Ettielle deck
- created the first Egyptian tarot to be used exclusively for Tarot cartomancy
- published, under the imprint of his society, the Dictionnaire synonimique du Livere de Thot, a book that "systematically tabulated all the possible meanings which each card could bear, when upright and reversed." (Dummett, 1980: pp. 110).
Etteilla also:[citation needed]
- suggested that Tarot was repository of the wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus
- was a book of eternal medicine
- was an account of the creation of the world
- argued that the first copy of the tarot was imprinted on leaves of gold
Michael Dummett (1980) suggests that Etteilla was attempting to scoop Court De Gebelin as the author of the occult tarot.[citation needed] Etteilla in fact claims to have been involved with Tarot longer than Court De Gebelin.[1]
Marie Anne Lenormand[edit]
Mlle Marie-Anne Adelaide Lenormand outshone even Ettiella and was the first cartomancer to people in high places, being the personal confidant of Empress Josephine, Napoleon and other notables.[1] Lenormand used both regular playing cards, in particular the Piquet pack, as well as cards derived from Etteilla's Egyptian root. She was so famous that a deck was published in her name, the Grand Jeu de Mlle Lenormand, two years after her death in 1843.
Eliphas Levi[edit]
The concept of the cards as a mystical key was extended by Eliphas Lévi (1810-1875[citation needed]). Lévi (whose real name was Alphonse-Louise Constance) was educated in the seminary of Saint-Sulpice, was ordained as a deacon, but never became a priest. Dummett (1980, pp. 114) notes that it is from Levi's book Dogme et rituel that the "whole of the modern occultist movement stems." Lévi wrote that an astral light is contained within all of reality,[citation needed] and according to Dummett (1980, pp. 118), he claimed to be the first to
- "have discovered intact and still unknown this key of all doctrines and all philosophies of the old world... without the Tarot", he tells us, "the Magic of the ancients is a closed book...."
Lévi rejected Court de Gébelin's claims about an Egyptian origin of the deck symbols, going back instead to the Tarot de Marseille, calling it The Book of Hermes, claiming it was antique, that it existed before Moses, and that it was in fact a universal key of erudition, philosophy, and magic that could unlock Hermetic and Cabbalistic concepts. According to Lévi, "An imprisoned person with no other book than the Tarot, if he knew how to use it, could in a few years acquire universal knowledge, and would be able to speak on all subjects with unequaled learning and inexhaustible eloquence."[15]
According to Dummett Lévis' notable contributions include:[1]
- Lévi was the first to suggest that the Magus (Bagatto) was to work with the four suits.
- Inspired by de Gébelin, Lévi associated the Hebrew alphabet with the Tarot trumps.
- Lévi linked the ten numbered cards in each suit to the ten sefiroth.
- Claimed the court cards represented stages of human life.
- Claimed the four suites represented the Tetragrammaton.
Dummett (1980: 120) dismissed Lévi's contribution to magic as the product of "an advanced state of intellectual deliquescent," but noted that Lévi made a major contribution to the history of occult lore. Occultists, magicians, and magus's all the way down to the 21st century have cited Lévi as a defining influence.[citation needed] This trend began immediately when Jean-Baptiste Pitois (1811), writing under the name Paul Christian, wrote L'Homme rouge (1863) and later Histoire de la magie, du monde surnaturel et de la fatalité à travers les temps et les peuples (1870). Christian repeats and extends the mythology of the tarot and changes the names for the trumps and the suits (see table below for a list of Christian's modifications to the trumps).[citation needed] Batons (wands) become Scepters, Swords become Blades, and Coins become Shekels. [16] In 1888 Ély Star published Mystères de l'horoscope which mostly repeats Christian's modifications.[17] Its primary contribution was the introduction of the terms 'Major arcana' and 'Minor arcana,' and the numbering of the Crocodile (the Fool) XXII instead of 0.[citation needed]
In 1887 the Marquis Stanislas de Guaita met the amateur artist Oswald Wirth (1860-1943) and subsequently sponsored a production of Lévi's intended deck. Guided entirely by de Guaita Wirth designed the first neo-occultist cartomantic deck (and first cartomantic deck not derived from Ettielle's Egyptina deck). Known as the Arcanes du Tarot kabbalistique it consisted of only the twenty-two major arcana.[jargon]
Tarot is often used in conjunction with the study of the Hermetic Qabalah.[18] In these decks all the cards are illustrated in accordance with Qabalistic principles, most being influenced by the Rider-Waite deck. Its images were drawn by artist Pamela Colman Smith, to the instructions of Christian mystic and occultist Arthur Edward Waite and published in 1909.[citation needed] A difference from Marseilles style decks is that Waite-Smith use scenes with esoteric meanings on the suit cards.
Tarot cards have become extremely popular in Japan, where hundreds of new decks have been designed in recent years. [19]
Order of the Trumps[edit]
The following is a comparison of the order of the trumps up to and including the A.E. Waite deck. This table is based on Dummett (1980) and actual inspection of the relevant decks.[original research?]
|Tarot de Marseille[20]
|Court de Gébelin[21][22]
|Etteilla's Egyptian Tarot[23]
|Paul Christian's Egyptian Tarot
(divinatory meaning in bold)
|Oswald Wirth
|Golden Dawn
|A.E. Waite
|Book of Thoth (Crowley)
|1 - the Bateleur (Mountebank)
|the Magus / Will
|1 - The Magician
|I - The Magician
|I - The Magus
|2 - the Popess
|High Priestess
|Gate of the (occult) Sanctuary / Knowledge
|2 - The High Priestess
|II - The High Priestess
|II - The Priestess
|3 - the Empress
|Isis - Urania / Action
|3 - The Empress
|III - The Empress
|III - The Empress
|4 - the Emperor
|Cubic Stone / Realisation
|4 - The Emperor
|IV - The Emperor
|IV - The Emperor
|5 - the Pope
|Chief Hierophant
|Travel/Country Property
|Master of the Mysteries/Arcana / Occult Inspiration
|5 - The Hierophant
|V - The Hierophant
|V - The Hierophant
|6 - Love or the Lovers
|Two Roads / Ordeal
|6 - The Lovers
|VI - The Lovers
|VI - The Lovers
|7 - the Chariot
|Osiris Triumphant
|Chariot of Osiris / Victory
|7 - The Chariot
|VII - The Chariot
|VII - The Chariot
|8 - Justice
|Themis (Scales and Blade) / Equilibrium
|11 - Justice
|XI - Justice
|VIII - Adjustment
|9 - the Hermit
|Wise Man
|the Veiled Lamp / Wisdom
|9 - The Hermit
|IX - The Hermit
|IX - The Hermit
|10 - Wheel of Fortune
|Wheel of Fortune
|the Sphinx / Fortune
|10 - The Wheel of Fortune
|X - Wheel of Fortune
|X - Fortune
|11 - Fortitude
|the Muzzled(tamed) Lion / Strength
|8 - Strength
|VIII - Strength
|XI - Lust
|12 - the Hanged Man
|The Sacrifice / Sacrifice
|Hanged Man
|12 - The Hanged Man
|XII - The Hanged Man
|XII - The Hanged Man
|13 - Death
|Marriage/Love Affair
|The Skeleton Reaper / Transformation
|13 - Death
|XIII - Death
|XIII - Death
|14 - Temperance
|the Two Urns (the genius of the sun) / Initiative
|14 - Temperance
|XIV - Temperance
|XIV - Art
|15 - the Devil
|Typhon / Fate
|15 - The Devil
|XV - The Devil
|XV - The Devil
|16 - the Tower
|the Castle or Plutus
|the Beheaded Tower (Lightning Struck) / Ruin
|16 - The Tower
|XVI - The Tower
|XVI - The Tower
|17 - the Star
|Sirius or the Dog Star
|Star of the Magi / Hope
|17 - The Star
|XVII - The Star
|XVII - The Star
|18 - the Moon
|the Twilight / Deception
|18 - The Moon
|XVIII - The Moon
|XVIII - The Moon
|19 - the Sun
|the Blazing Light / (earthly) Happiness
|19 - The Sun
|XIX - The Sun
|XIX - The Sun
|20 - Judgment
|the Creation
|the Awakening of the Dead / Renewal
|20 - Judgement
|XX - Judgement
|XX - The Aeon
|21 - the World
|Law Suit/Legal Dispute
|the Crown of the Magi / Reward
|21 - The Universe
|XXI - The World
|XXI - The Universe
|Le Mat (Fool)
|0 the Crocodile (between 20 and 21) / Expiation
|0 - The Fool
|0 - The Fool
|0 - The Fool
See also[edit]
- Rider-Waite tarot deck
- Major Arcana The 22 trumps.
- Minor Arcana The 56 suit cards.
|This article lacks ISBNs for the books listed in it. (May 2012)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Michael Dummett. The Game of Tarot. London: Duckworth, 1980. ISBN 0715631225
- ^ H. Farley, A Cultural History of Tarot, London: I.B. Tauris, 2009 ISBN 1-84885-053-0
- ^ R. Steele. A notice of the Ludus Triumphorum and Some Early Italian Card Games: With Some Remarks on the Origin of the Game of Cards,' Archaeologia, vol LVII, 1900. pp. 185–200
- ^ a b c Sosteric, Mike. A Sociology of Tarot. Canadian Journal of Socoilogy, 39(3): 357-392. http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/20000
- ^ P.D. Ouspensky. The Symbolism of the Tarot: philosophy of occultism in pictures and numbers. Dover Publications. 1976
- ^ Inna Semetsky. Tarot images and spiritual education: the three I's model. International Journal of Children's Spirituality. 16(3): 249–260. 2011
- ^ Eliphas Levi. The Key of the Mysteries. Translated by Aleister Crowley. Red Wheel/Weiser. 2002 ISBN 0877280789
- ^ John Beeb. A Tarot Reading on the Possibility of Nuclear War. Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought. 16(1): 97-106. pp. 97
- ^ Sallie Nichols. The Wisdom of the Fool. Psychological Perspective: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought. 5(2): 97-116. 1974
- ^ Salie Nichols. Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey. San Francisco: Weiser Books. Also Inna Semetsky. When Cathy was a Little Girl: The Healing Praxis of Tarot Images. International Journal of Children's Spirituality. 15(1): 59-72. 2010. pp. 59
- ^ Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett. A history of the occult tarot, 1870-1970. London: Duckworth, 2002. ISBN 0715610147.
- ^ The asterix and the abbreviations are the actual way Court De Gébelin refers to the second essay. As Dummett (1980) notes, Mr Robin Briggs identifies the contributor as Louis-Raphael-Lucrece de Fayolle, comte de Mellet. Louis was a brigadier, governor, and "unremarkable court noble."
- ^ Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett, History of the Occult Tarot, London: Duckworth, 2002 ISBN 978-0715631225
- ^ Robert Place, The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2005 ISBN 978-1585423491
- ^ Eliphas Lévi. Transcendental Magic. p. 103
- ^ Interestingly, Dummett (1980) singles out Christian's writing as one of the worst examples of what he calls false ascription to be found in the occult literature.
- ^ Arcana in the Adytum by Mary K. Greer.
- ^ Israel Regardie, The Tree of Life, (London, Rider, 1932)
- ^ Laura Miller. 2011. "Tantalizing tarot and cute cartomancy in Japan." Japanese Studies Vol. 31, Issue 1, pp. 73–91.
- ^ "Queen of Tarot".
- ^ "Queen of Tarot".
- ^ Court de Gébelin is the first to attempt to provide the correct order and nomenclature for the tarot trumps. See Michael Dummett. The Game of Tarot. London: Duckworth, 1980. ISBN 0715631225
- ^ Etteilla's tarot is the first cartomantic tarot, thus the broken nomenclature that bears little resemblance to that which comes before! The imagery of Ettiella's Egyptian Tarot is similar to Tarot de Marseille, but he breaks the ordering significantly putting, for example, the imagery of the Sun (traditionally triumph 19) as triumph 1. This interested in viewing the images by do so by visiting this link
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Led by 11 first half points from Russ Smith and a stingy defense, the Cardinals doubled up the visiting Hawks, with a 42-21 lead at the break.
Hartford's usual slow-paced offense had little affect on the Cardinals. Instead it was Louisville's pressure defense that dictated Tuesday night's result.
The Cardinals forced 25 turnovers and outscored the Hawks 26-5 in points on turnovers.
Highlighted by six dunks, sophomore Montrezl Harrell led all scorers with 20 points on 9 of 12 shooting. Harrell's 9 rebounds were also a game-high.
Russ Smith added 14 points and Chane Behanan and Chris Jones had 11 apiece.
Check back for continuing coverage.
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The Childress Bobcats (12-2) will play the Daingerfield Tigers (13-0) at 3 p.m. Saturday at Pennington Field in Bedford in a Class 3A Division II state semifinals game.
Charlie Johnston read with interest the account of last week's Canadian-Omaha Paul Pewitt Class 2A semifinals football game.
Pewitt's speed and size was too much in a 55-19 victory against Canadian.
Why, though, would Johnston, coach of the Class 3A Childress Bobcats, be interested in a 2A playoff game?
"I read about how fast Omaha Pewitt was, and Daingerfield is right next to them (the schools are 12 miles apart). Pewitt lives and dies with speed, and Daingerfield's even faster. They have speed everywhere," Johnston said.
"I mean everywhere."
Johnston's Bobcats play Daingerfield in the 3A Division II semifinals on Saturday, and there's no doubt the Tigers possess the most speed Childress has faced this year.
Montoya Brown, a 196-pound tailback who has rushed for 1,824 yards and scored 26 touchdowns, has run the 100 meters in 10.6 seconds and was a state track meet qualifier last spring. He and quarterback Eric Woods both ran on Daingerfield's state-qualifying 400 relay (41.85) and 1,600 relay (3:18.54).
"If you make just one mess-up, they can be gone for a touchdown," Childress linebacker Justin Lane said. "Everybody on our defense must pursue to the ball and try to string them out to the sideline. They're fast, but Vernon had some speed, too, and we played well against them (the Bobcats beat Vernon 28-14)."
The first problem with facing a team with speed is preparing for it.
"There's no way you can simulate speed in practice when you don't have it," said Johnston, 290-83-8 in 32 seasons with the Bobcats. "Our fastest guy in Eric Green, a wingback and cornerback, and I don't imagine he's going to outrun any of their faster guys.
"How do you prepare for speed? I don't know. I guess you've just got to keep doing what you're doing. The big thing is that we can't overemphasize anything, like their speed. If we do, we'll end up not being loose and being too tense. We're not going into the game awed by the speed. We know they're capable of breaking some big plays; we've just got to keep them from doing it."
It starts with the Bobcats' defensive front. If Childress can clog up the running lanes and force Daingerfield's speed backs to stop and start again, odds are the Bobcats can get a grip before a big play unfolds.
"The first step is the most important one," Bobcats tackle Blake Freeze said. "We have to beat them off the line and hold them right there. If we do that, they can't make any creases in the line and they can't really run. If we can hold them on the line - and not give their backs any cutback lanes - there's nothing they can do."
The Bobcats also may have to adjust their pursuit angles - at the line of scrimmage and beyond - because of Daingerfield's speed.
"If you don't have good angles, you can completely loose the guy and he can go right past you," Childress cornerback Kendrix Davis said. "We worked on running to our spots earlier in the year, and we still do that in practice. It's a force of habit now."
Part of the Bobcats' pursuit will include being prepared for the Tigers' runners to cut back and change directions.
"From the film we've watched, the other team didn't stay home where they were supposed to be and got outrun," Bobcats linebacker Juan Sierra said. "We've got to stay at home and pursue with the cutback in mind."
Of course, the Childress defense doesn't enter the game unarmed. The Bobcats have held four playoff opponents to an average of 9.5 points per game. In last week's 10-7 victory against Crane, Childress held the Golden Cranes to 60 yards rushing. After an 83-yard touchdown pass on the game's third play, the Bobcats also limited Crane to 58 yards passing.
"We don't get intimidated by anyone," Sierra said. "We just have to take it to them (Daingerfield) hard on every play."
Johnston downplayed Pennington Field's Astroturf surface, which tends to make speed appear even faster.
"You're going to be just as slow on turf," he said. "Really, though, our backs are small and quick and theirs are big and fast. If we were to play Daingerfield on a muddy field, we'd be at a disadvantage because of their size.
"I think the turf deal is more of a mental thing than anything else."
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