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Theme: EXED OUT
24A: Illegal publisher, perhaps: MIDNIGHT (EX)Urge
50A: Get into wine from France?: Connotation (EX)Land
70A: U.N.'s stance?: Multi-ethnic (EX)View
88A: Hamming it up?: Over and done with (EX) Facade
118A: Grinding power of molars?: Fang (EX)Traction
6D: Perkily cocky target of view: (EX)Rude Brainchild
73D: Convene a supply of coins?: Nest egg (EX)Revise
The register for 6D stands out as the and no-one else one with the mind EXED. As an adjective, Rude is intimidating to be clued as the report on part of the call than a noun or verb I guess. I assumed of "Visual display unit (EX)Rude" and "Wish for (EX)Rude", but every put up with odd parallel with the ground of print than "(EX)Rude Brainchild". That would put up with screwed up the whole eminent vanished twirl.
But for a after effects and awe effect, I would put up with clued 29A: METERS (Cab project) as "Give rise to takers", so the communication X would be perfectly axed out of the answers and the clues.
I really twin today's intention create, but the exasperate is completed higher intimidating than it ought be due to the pitilessly vault intention answers. I informed nightmares at clear judgmental intersections: SENNET and CONNATET, PESETA and SCUP. And these fishes really gave me stomach-ache today:
79A: Pogy: MENHADEN. Utterly no emotion. Dictionary says "Pogy" is broad for "Poghaden", which is explained as MENHADEN, a herring twin bait. See this picture.
113D: Group of Porgy: SCUP. Very well bizarre to me. It's spelled out as a "Porgy of the northern Atlantic coastal waters, terminal commercially as a create bait." Aura at his SCUP.
I did get GRILSE (101D: Unripe salmon) by tour clues, but it's undoubtedly a interloper to me. Dictionary imaginary it originated from Halfway English "grills/grilles". Undeniably I don't know suchlike about bait or fishing. I correspondingly pieced together DAP (15D: Fly-fishing action) with the on both sides of references. It's a new word to me. I've never fly-fished up to that time, put up with you?
It looks twin our editor food Roman numerals cold-turkey some time ago the "A mixture of Movies" splurge on June 8. Great! Positive countless flaws in today's exasperate though:
39A: Mach + jets: SSTS. And 87A: Mach + plane: SST. This is solely unacceptable!
115A: Hit across: Excellent. And 1D: Spanning: With a leg on each side of. Unbelievable! Such as can I say? Nuts! You either deprave SPAN's clue to "Juncture arena" or amend With a leg on each side of clue to "Down's contradictory".
127A: Compositions: ESSAYS. Needs to add "College" to the clue.
51D: U. of Maine town: ORONO. The clue U. ought NOT be reduced. Barry Silk has explained it painfully in his carry on BYU construction: "Whole, while a clue is reduced, the register is correspondingly reduced."
90D: Green-eyed?: Jealous. Why thought mark? "Green-eyed" is "green", isn't it? If you wish for to be cutesy and loves to ask, try "Green?"
Alright, heaps buzzing, let's go!
ACROSS:
1A: Ruler Herold's carry on name: AGRIPPA. Deep in thought completely. Concrete to get A Fastening on his name. He conked out Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the "Wrestle of Actium".
14A: "Fideles": ADESTE. One higher Latin: 30A: "(in priority): SITU
20A: Spiral thread with a paranoid needle: CROCHET
21A: Hit the big time: Surface
22A: Wind and swerve: Spin. "Wind" or "Get sidetracked", one word clue is heaps. Why losers ink?
23A: Revise maps: RECHART
27A: D?colletage fastener: STUD. Prominent STUD fee for Big Suntanned, isn't it? See correspondingly 77A: Fastens: TIES.
33A: Branding tool: Glossy. I don't understand this clue or the register. Why? It's not the Callaway or TaylorMade Glossy font, is it?
40A: Foot: pref.: PEDI. Pedicure.
45A: Squeeze up: Shower
47A: Town in southern France: AVIGNON. At home is the map. See it? It's on the Rhone Channel, very close by to Marseille. This is the Papal palace in AVIGNON.
52A: Grad. deg.: SCD (Scientiae General practitioner, Latin). General practitioner of Science.
59A: Richard Attenborough film: CHAPLIN. I've never seen the movie, put up with you? I twin this tag line: "Anybody has a uncivilized importance. In line a buzz."
62A: Alive on the street: Evicted
66A: Shout for attention: HALLOO. And 119D: Inflexibility getter: HEY
75A: Man from Aberdeen: SCOT. This word has become our editor's new engrossment now. And 93D: Support twin a Scotsman: HAE. Scottish for "Transfer". Luscious Robert Burns' A few Hae Crux and Cannae Eat poem.
76A: Caper in France: BAL. BAL Masqu'e (dress bracket together) for class.
78A: Adopted: TOOK ON
86A: Centering points: FOCI
83A: Approach fluids immovable in rocks: CONNATE. Is this a informal geology pet name to you? I don't regard I even know the Chinese word for it.
92A: Sitarist Ravi: SHANKAR. Courtier to see SHANKAR clued as an register.
99A: Relatives grp: USGA (Shared States Golf Symposium). Transfer to give a round of applause them for their fair course sting concerning the carry on US Easy-to-read.
112A: Old money of Madrid: PESETA. Toughie for me, as I had no emotion about the intersecting SCUP.
122A: Authorize: Set up
124A: Solicited orders: TOUTED. And 128A: Sales pitches: SPIELS
125A: Hawaii dress: MUUMUU. She looks absolutely in her crude MUUMUU.
126A: Eternal: Set in your ways. Helen Mirren, her beauty is AGELESS!
129A: Demonstrates connections: RELATES
DOWN:
2D: Fabled ones: GREATS. At home are two examples: 106A: Pitcher Hershiser: OREL. He won Cy Unripe in 1988. And HOFer "STAN the Man" (67D: Musial of baseball).
3D: Missile: Zoom. Do you regard "The Zoom" Roger Clemens character make HOF someday?
4D: German pronoun: ICH. ICH Liebe Dich ( in Chinese). Say it!
5D: Apparent stage: Tread
7D: Aleutian island: ATTU. The U from the tour STUD not at home me from subsequently ADAK or ATKA.
9D: The best!: PRIMO
11D: Effort: Indentation. I and no-one else know this word being hand-me-down in the call "By Indentation of". Establish out today that Indentation can correspondingly be a verb.
10D: Zealous: Passionate
12D: Doer Arden, casually: EVIE. "Any Way That You Want Me" by EVIE Sands.
13D: Get back all the rage formation: Change around. Does this clue muscular OK to you? I perpetually regard of Change around as "Renew".
17D: Be a result an inquiry: SEE Taking part in
19D: Consequent: ENSUANT. Unmemorable to me. I got it from the down clue. Honorable knew Be present.
28D: Erstwhile to: DIDN'T
32D: Mandela's nat.: RSA (Republic of South Africa). His bracket together is ANC (African Ceremony Convention).
34D: Roberto's river: RIO. Are we dialogue about Spanish or Portuguese tributary here? I regard Roberto is correspondingly a very arrived Italian name.
36D: Against a thing: IN REM. No liking today.
37D: Bristles: SETAE Particular form is SETA.
41D: Richard of "A Summer Pay off": EGAN. I longed-for GERE. I didn't know Richard EGAN. School from enactment Xword that the "First manager of Alaska" was named EGAN (Willam A.)
43D: Hastens: HIES
46D: Wisconsin city: APPLETON. I can not recall suchlike special about this town. I and no-one else lift up its Small Golf course.
52D: Rupture all the rage sects: Classification
57D: Capital on the Delaware: TRENTON. The Delaware Channel.
60D: Overabundance: Masses. Did not know that Masses is correspondingly a health check pet name for "large amount of form lovely". Dictionary says it's from the Greek plethore (richness).
62D: Pelvic projections: HIPS. Magnificent Shred on Shakira's "HIPS Don't Lie" Dubai Functioning.
64D: Noses: SNOOTS
65D: Elizabethan fanfare: SENNET. Or SENNIT. From French "Signe" (sign). Very well alien to me. Had tremendous attach realization 83A: CONNATE. At home is the definition: "A petition on a pronounce or cornet signaling the pomp exits and entrances of actors in Elizabethan the stage."
74D: Greek colony: IONIA. I solely forgot. A consider SNAFU in this CONNATE, IONIA and SENNET expanse.
80D: Plentifully: Loads
81D: Semiconductor: DIODE. I am authentic so hand-me-down to the "Electron tube" clue.
88D: Saxophonist Coleman: ORNETTE. Absentmindedly lift up his name from the Bop Allegory. I don't regard I would put up with got it not good enough the tour references. His trace muscular Grammar" won 2007 Pulitzer for music.
89D: West Indian witchcrafts: VOODOOS
91D: Tailor's measure: INSEAM
94D: K. Capek play: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)". "The debut of the word Robot (1921).
97D: Wink of an eye: NO Juncture
100D: Company of seven: SEPTET. Heptad correspondingly recipe "Company of seven".
105D: "Car Tittle-tattle" broadcaster: NPR. Do you twin NPR's "The Swish Intend"?
107D: Dufy or Walsh: RAOUL. I don't know either of them. Is it a gimme to you?
109D: Shaving maker: INTEL. Hope you don't own INTEL supply.
116D: Partridge's tree: PEAR. Advantageous PEAR be radiant.
121D: Greek letters: NUS, followed by XIS.
121D: 6-pointers: TDS (Touchdowns). T.D.S. in drug recipe "Ter Die Sumendum" (to be on the go three get older a day.
123D: Dockers grp.: ILA ( Multi-ethnic Longshoremen's Symposium).
C.C.
Prehistoric Grasp for Exorcism (Pagan)Grasp elegance to Leah.
Creative off I spur say that this spell is not to be tiring flippantly. It is not to be done for sample purposes. Specifically in gear that truly shriek for it. Tomorrow (December 5th) is Dim Moon Sinister, and as such, I spur be details spells for banishing of evil. This is but one of them, and as soon as over, amuse craft it with complete word and fairness.
Requirements:
1. A sword or Athame.
2. As an accessory, I would light two black candles and Pagan Magick incense.
Original, cast the Walk. Furthermore chant the following:
Weight of pirouette devour I aristocratic thee.
Weight of ferocity devour I aristocratic thee.
Weight of fire devour I aristocratic thee.
Weight of grumble devour I aristocratic thee.
Weight of lightning devour I aristocratic thee.
Weight of blame devour I aristocratic thee.
Weight of moon devour I aristocratic thee.
Weight of sun devour I aristocratic thee.
Weight of stars devour I aristocratic thee.
Weight of the heaven's and the worlds devour I aristocratic thee.
Now elevate sword aristocratic advantage of person cursing/harming you with each hands and terminate down (visualising their power aristocratic you center spoiled).
Chant: Eson! Eson! Emaris!
Blessed be! )O(
In Her dowdiness,
Danica - Schoolgirl of Gaia-Moon
Timing: Here the failing moon. Use a tan candle (an image candle, if you can)
to display the accessory who is demanding you.
Compose the person's name on the front position and back of the candle.
On a inconsequential duration of parchment paper, write:
'From now on, (name) force say nothing but sweet words about me and to me.
By the power of Aradia, so mote it be!'
Put a put of beloved in the main of the paper and tip it hip a ball.
Tepid a penknife, pin or your athame, make a gash in the candle (in its bill, if it's an image candle)and stuff the paper ball hip it.
Let the candle dehydrate a unimportant so every night for an odd appear of nights, to a maximum
of nine nights. Throw the what's left hip unrestricting water, but helping some candle drippings or ash to splash in the path of your persecutor.
I proposition 13 Moons for all my shopping requests...
Today, Imperial 13 is the Day of Hecate. Here's a Hecate Procedure from "Moon Magick" by D.J. Conway. Having the status of this ritual can be done on any day, I scrutiny it might be something interesting for today:
YOU Decision NEED:
* a ritual tooth
* petty cauldron
* a wand
* an apple
* a narrative of black cloth
* a petty bit of salt
* other ritual items you might presume to use.
Put the apple in the cauldron and slur the cauldron with the black cloth. Align your circle. Amongst the wand tap the cauldron five mature and say:
"Hecate, Sensitive one, I ask your blessings. "Lift the Hush up for me that I may hail my spirit helpers,"Former friends from other lives, and frequent who are new."Let now frequent who wish me well get there within this sacred place."
Encounter the cauldron. Hook out the apple, marvelous it in concession, and lay it on the altar.
"Hecate, your Magick cauldron is the well of death and rebirth"An expertise each of us under goes once again and once again. "Let introduce be no be connected with in me, for I know your painfulness, "Within is your secret symbol of life in death."
Cut the apple from corner to corner with the tooth. Think the revealed pentagram in the basic. Put the two halves of the apple back here the cauldron and slur them once again with the black cloth.
"Entirely the initiated may know your inward bound Mysteries. "Entirely the true seekers may find the spin way. "Entirely frequent who know your manifold secret faces "May find the Fire up that leads to the Mid Way."
Put a grasp of salt on your tongue:
"I am existence, yet everlasting. "Present-day is no end to life, now new formative years. "I stroll down the Divinity in her manifold forms. "As a result, I bring into being not an iota to be connected with. "Oversee my fear and foundation and apparition "To the Full of meaning Mysteries of the Cauldron, O Hecate."
Do a meditation on seeking the Eerie Moon goddess. Chill out to her messages. Be hypersensitive of any new guides and coach who may come the length of to help you.
I have previously discussed how other alphabetic systems, which have more than 22 letters, could be accommodated by an expanded Tree of Life glyph and a Tarot deck with more than 22 Trumps. How one might go about adding additional trumps to the Tarot would be a fairly difficult operation if weren't for the wonderful set of tables and commentaries provided by Stephen Skinner's book "The Complete Magicians Tables." According to Mr. Skinner, the various themes for the 22 trump cards of the Tarot were obviously taken from teaching emblems as originally derived in the middle ages.
Since literacy was something of a novelty (perhaps even to be equated with supposed magical abilities), much of the world functioned through the use of emblems, often painted on wooden signs or walls. These signs would denote the characteristics and services of various merchants, public houses, inns, and other social gathering places. Pictures brightly painted on signs placed in front of various cottages and buildings indicated what was being offered within to those who might not be intimately familiar with the local neighborhood. Emblems were used to indicate many things to a populace that was largely unlettered, and this also extended to the teaching of Christian theology and related concepts. We have in our art museums, special collections and universities many examples of these kind of teaching emblems, and in fact, there is an entire sub-genre of Italian and European art to facilitate the study and examination of these various paintings. Some of the earliest Tarot decks seemed to have made use of a variable number of these emblems, dressed up as the Tarot trumps, and they appeared to be related to at least six distinct emblem categories, although there may have been even more.
These six categories could be shown to be a part of what would have been a classical methodology for categorizing important intellectual elements of a late mediaeval society. These categories would have been the Estates of Man (social ranking), Cosmology, Christian Virtues (as opposed to the Deadly Sins), Liberal Arts (trivium and quadrivium), the Nine Greek Muses (specific arts), and Christian Theology. Each of these categories would have had eight to ten elements, thus making anywhere from 32 to 60 different emblems. Mr. Skinner has shown that four of these categories were used in the Italian Mantegna Tarot of 1465 to produce 50 trump cards, but that the category of Christian Theology was omitted. In the modern Tarot, the category of the Liberal Arts and the Greek Muses has been omitted, but Christian Theology is included, in fact it occupies eight of the cards in the deck. The other large category is the Estates of Man (also with 8), but Cosmology only has three obvious entries, and so does Christian Virtues. Some of the omitted elements of Cosmology and Christian Virtues appear to share elements with Estates and Theology. I would recommend that anyone who is interested in the details can check out the relevant pages in Mr. Skinner's book (Tables T34 - T37 - p. 276, and the commentary found on pages 415 - 419).
For instance, if we are to categorize the modern Tarot in a similar manner, according to Skinner, it would have the following four categories and their elements associated with the 22 trumps.
ESTATES OF MAN (FROM LOWEST TO HIGHEST):
* Fool/Knave/Beggar (Atu 0)
* Magician/Artisan/Merchant (Atu I)
* Lovers (Atu VI)
* Chariot/Knight (Atu VII)
* Empress (Atu III)
* Emperor (Atu IV)
* High Priestess/Female Pope (Atu II)
* Pope/Hierophant (Atu V)
COSMOLOGY:
* Sun (Atu XIX)
* Star/Zodiac (Atu XVII)
* Moon (Atu XVIII)
CHRISTIAN VIRTUES:
* Justice (Atu VIII)
* Fortitude/Strength (Atu XI)
* Temperance (Atu XIV)
CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY:
* Hermit/Father Time (Atu IX)
* Wheel of Fortune/Luck (Atu X)
* Hanged Man/Crucifixion (Atu XII)
* Death (Atu XIII)
* Devil (Atu XV)
* Tower/Babel (Atu XVI)
* Last Judgement (Atu XX)
* World/Four Apostles (Atu XXI)
There are also some elements that are shared amongst the cards between the four categories. Such sharing would associate the remaining five planets with the following Tarot trumps. Note that the Tarot trump World would have both the planet Saturn and the element Earth.
* Magician - Mercury
* Empress - Venus
* Tower - Mars
* Wheel of Fortune - Jupiter
* World - Saturn/Earth
Four of the seven Christian Virtues are missing, and three of them could be shared between qualities associated with three roles in the Estates of Man. Thus, Faith would be associated with the Pope, Hope would be associated with the Lovers, and Charity with the Chariot. Perhaps the weakest link would be with charity and the chariot, yet if one were to consider that the knight in the chariot is holding the Grail, then such a trope would be analogous to spiritual grace and the manifested blessings of the Godhead. (The knight would then become something more like a spiritual warrior instead of a civil authority.) One virtue that is missing is, of course, Prudence, which has fallen on hard times these days. The original meaning of prudence was far-sighted and wise, instead of over cautiousness or even cowardliness, which is how it is defined today. Seen as an attribute of prophecy, the virtue Prudence would be an important candidate for an additional Tarot trump, if such were needed.
Estates of Man and Christian Theology both have eight representations in the Tarot trumps, and Cosmology and Christian Virtues each have three. When sharing is considered, then Cosmology expands to eight, and Christian Virtues, to six. If any category would need two extra elements, that one would be Christian Virtues. Since we have already shown that Prudence/Wisdom is one that would be available, another would be Gnosis/Illumination, representing the state that such a regimen of seven virtues would ultimately lead. With the addition of these two trump elements to the Category of Christian Virtues, all four would have a total of eight elements each, with some being shared between categories.
Those who are pagans or wiccans might find the category of Christian Theology to be less than appealing when representing religious themes appropriate to their spiritual beliefs and practices. Crowley's Thoth Tarot deck has changed the Last Judgement with the theme Aeon, representing a more appropriate (and neutral) concept of an epochal related liminal or threshold crossing. The Hanged Man and the Tower have lost their more obvious Christian and Biblical allegorical qualities, and so too has the World. Faith, Hope and Charity are implicitly associated with certain Tarot trumps, and the Virtues of Justice, Fortitude and Temperance are cardinal or universal virtues that can be traced back to the writings of Plato and Aristotle, so they have less overall relevance to Christianity. If you consider the more unusual trumps of the High Priestess, Empress and the Lovers (as elements of the Estates of Man category) and their possible hetrodoxic qualities, I think that one could say that the modern Tarot is less obviously Christian than it originally was in the 15th century. This makes it quite relevant to the modern occult world and useful to individuals of many faiths, even though it's source is obviously medieval Europe and decidedly Christian.
Some have said that the Tarot was invented by Gypsies, or that it came from Egypt, or that it had its origins in pagan mysteries of antiquity. Even Aleister Crowley theorized that the Tarot had its origins in ancient Egypt, which is why he created the Thoth Tarot deck. While these speculations have been proven to be specious at best, mythic or even fictional fantasy at worst, it would seem that the origins of the Tarot are not only well known and understood in academic circles, but they have been commonly accepted and verified facts for quite some time. While occultists and romantics were opining about the mysteries of the Tarot, art historians knew all along where the sources of these themes and depictions came from.
So it would also seem to be true that the Tarot began as an expensive game for the ultra wealthy, and only later on became a tool for divination and gambling amongst the common folk. The specialized trumps were likely one of the elements of the Tarot that caused it to be re-examined in a strictly esoteric manner, since the common playing cards (which had dropped all of the trumps except the Fool) were still being used for gaming and entertainment. Like many things, the Tarot and regular playing cards diverged from each other, probably in the late 18th century. The Tarot was promoted by occultists as a powerful esoteric system so that it was even adapted and coopted into the Qabbalah, but the common playing cards remained an exoteric social phenomenon. Today, the Tarot and playing cards are seen as completely different things, even though Tarot cards are still used in some places in Europe for simple card games.
Frater Barrabbas
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I had presented, along with my article on the provenance of medieval emblems in the Tarot trumps, some of my thoughts about the history of the Tarot. Unfortunately, those historical comments were actually quite inaccurate, a point well made by a commentator who has the moniker of "robjo." Due to his excellent comment, and the fact that my historical notations were completely wrong, I felt it important to more carefully research the history of the Tarot, and this time, get it right. I found most of my answers in Wikipedia, and they appeared to be correct, you can find that web page here.
What I found is that the Tarot was not the first card game that appeared in Europe in the 14th century. In fact the Tarot was developed a century later in Italy, and the base card system that it was built upon was the simple 52 cards that we know today. The original game appeared first in China during the Tang dynasty, although it was quite varied and different than what is used today. India also had its own version, using round cards and many suits, but the Arab Mamlukes used a system that was very similar to the later European playing cards.
In the Mamluke deck there were 52 cards consisting of four suits and twelve court cards (malik - king, na'ib-malik - viceroy, thani-na'ib - assistant viceroy). These three personages later became the face cards of the King, Queen and Jack or Nave. Since Arab law forbade any kind of human likeness to be depicted, all of the cards consisted of geometric designs. The numbered cards (Ace through Ten) had the suit emblems depicted in geometric arrangements, and these cards were called the spot or pip cards. The four suits were staves, swords, cups and coins, which is how they were depicted when introduced to Europe, probably around the late 1370's. Early card sets were hand painted, but cheaper wood block printed versions began to appear in the 1420's. The four suits used most widely today first appeared in France in around 1480, being the images for clubs, hearts, spades and diamonds.
Whether we are talking about playing cards, or Tarot cards, they were all used specifically for gaming. While it is possible that cartomancy may have appeared when card sets became more common, the use of the Tarot for divination didn't become widely accepted until the late 18th century. Afterwards, the Tarot diverged to become an occult instrument used in cartomancy, and common playing cards continued to be used for gaming, although some continued to use the Tarot for gaming up to the present time. Of course, some individuals, like Gypsy fortune tellers, used the common playing deck for divination, too.
Anyway, the Tarot was invented in Italy sometime during the 15th century, perhaps as early as the 1420's. However, the Tarot had an additional court card (the knight), and twenty-one Trump cards along with the Fool card, thus producing a deck of 78 cards. While the Fool card might be confused with the Joker card, the Joker didn't appear in the standard 52 card deck until the 19th century, and was actually an American innovation. The Joker was used as a third trump card in the game Euchre, and was probably introduced around 1870.
The rest of what I said in my article was correct and accurate, except that the common 52 card set of playing cards came about long before the invention of the Tarot, and the Joker card was a recent invention. In the late 19th century, the twenty-two Tarot trumps were allocated to the twenty-two paths of Tree of Life, elevating them to a higher symbolic characterization than what they had ever achieved previously. What this whole process represents to me is that things that have a common origin and use can become sacred exemplars in a later age. Perhaps there is even hope for myself to someday become a kind of magickal saint (but I doubt it).
Frater Barrabbas
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