Anibis
04-10-2007, 10:03 AM
Here is a 'counting board' for the Thoth Count. It is left deliberately unadorned. Basically you have three counters. One counter is for the days, mapped onto the little points of the outer circles. One counter is for the 4 year cycle, as well as for the weeks/months, located in the 4 color coded concentric rings, and their 8-fold division. The last is for the 9 clusters of four years, located in the 3x3 LoShu in the centre. There is also the option of utilizing the Sigil Tarot in tandem with it.
Instructions. Pick a starting point. (I will use the topmost circle and the lowest 'point'). Unless you intend to leap into the fray, it is best to wait till a Mercurial 'New Years'. You put a counter on that point, and every day you move it to the next in the circle (You decide the direction (for now)) when it has gone all the way around, you go to the next 11 fold circle and do the same. After you have done this for all the circles, the Year will be complete.
At the same time, you have a counter in the the appropriate ring of the 4 fold concentric circle. In the case of years that fall at the beginning of a 'cluster' you use the red, for the second, the blue, and so on inwards. Thus 4 Thoth years are marked by the circles. Also, you move that counter along the circle to correspond with the outside 'day-circle'. You move it every 11 days. As you can see, it will cover one Quadrant every 22 days. You may Also lay the appropriate Tarot Cards down as you do this. Print off the Sigil Tarot, cut out each sigil (or just draw them onto stones). Separate numbers 0-XXI and as you count days, place them in order from 0-XXI in the gray gradient space in the middle of the day circle. Each quadrant will be a complete 22-fold path working. The first one goes from 0-XXI, and the second from XXI to 0. Systole and Diastole. By the time you have gone all 88 days, the year marker will have visited all 4 quadrants, and all 12 sub-quadrants in the appropriate circle. There will be four complete 'pathworkings', and two 'breaths' (Meaning the paths from 0-XXI on the exhale, and the Paths from XXI to 0 on the Inhale). This follows the male/female/male/female pairing of Tetragrammaton.
Finally, when this has has occured in all four of the concentric rings, you go back to the outside(red) and begin again, except that you move the counter in the middle to the next appropriate 'house' of the Lo Shu (Which I don't have to number, since you have it memorized!). This is done of course 9 times. On a larger scale this can be carried by the same logic to 81, and 729 Thoth clusters. You do the math.
For the Sigil Tarot go here (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showpost.php?p=2939&postcount=15). Remember that the Sigil Tarot follows the path numberings rendered by the 'Proximity Principle', here (http://www.abrahadabra.com/proximity.principle.htm).
-Anibis
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Instructions. Pick a starting point. (I will use the topmost circle and the lowest 'point'). Unless you intend to leap into the fray, it is best to wait till a Mercurial 'New Years'. You put a counter on that point, and every day you move it to the next in the circle (You decide the direction (for now)) when it has gone all the way around, you go to the next 11 fold circle and do the same. After you have done this for all the circles, the Year will be complete.
At the same time, you have a counter in the the appropriate ring of the 4 fold concentric circle. In the case of years that fall at the beginning of a 'cluster' you use the red, for the second, the blue, and so on inwards. Thus 4 Thoth years are marked by the circles. Also, you move that counter along the circle to correspond with the outside 'day-circle'. You move it every 11 days. As you can see, it will cover one Quadrant every 22 days. You may Also lay the appropriate Tarot Cards down as you do this. Print off the Sigil Tarot, cut out each sigil (or just draw them onto stones). Separate numbers 0-XXI and as you count days, place them in order from 0-XXI in the gray gradient space in the middle of the day circle. Each quadrant will be a complete 22-fold path working. The first one goes from 0-XXI, and the second from XXI to 0. Systole and Diastole. By the time you have gone all 88 days, the year marker will have visited all 4 quadrants, and all 12 sub-quadrants in the appropriate circle. There will be four complete 'pathworkings', and two 'breaths' (Meaning the paths from 0-XXI on the exhale, and the Paths from XXI to 0 on the Inhale). This follows the male/female/male/female pairing of Tetragrammaton.
Finally, when this has has occured in all four of the concentric rings, you go back to the outside(red) and begin again, except that you move the counter in the middle to the next appropriate 'house' of the Lo Shu (Which I don't have to number, since you have it memorized!). This is done of course 9 times. On a larger scale this can be carried by the same logic to 81, and 729 Thoth clusters. You do the math.
For the Sigil Tarot go here (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showpost.php?p=2939&postcount=15). Remember that the Sigil Tarot follows the path numberings rendered by the 'Proximity Principle', here (http://www.abrahadabra.com/proximity.principle.htm).
-Anibis
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