Hi! I'm getting started exploring the Tarot, and I'm curious about one thing. In AWP, Ariel talks about the athame (a blade) representing the element of fire, and the wand representing air. This makes perfect sense to me.
But from what I've read so far, it's the opposite in Tarot--the suit of wands signifies fire and the suit of swords, air. This is less intuitive to me.
How do you reconcile this? Is there a different way to see the correspondences in a way that makes sense of both?
Thanks, Ariel! Glad to know it's not just me! I don't actually resonate as much with the Marseille and Italian decks (at least not the ones I've seen) as some of the more modern ones, but it's good to know I can always go that way later if I choose.
For now I'm going with the Aquarian Tarot because of some existing past associations and--most importantly--I really DO resonate with its artwork. It's a gorgeous deck, and I have a strong emotional response to it.
I'll be studying the most common card meanings, but once I internalize those at least somewhat (it feels important to tap into the collective consciousness surrounding them), I plan on bringing my intuition into play when I interpret the cards. So it's good to know you can do readings (and magic!) without incorporating the elemental associations if you don't want to.
Thank you again!