Table 1: Correspondences between Birthday Letters poems, Cabbala and Tarot. © Ann Skea

Tarot Card

Hebrew Alphabet

Cabbala Symbol

World of Atziluth

World of Briah

World of Yetzirah

World of Assiah

The Fool

Aleph

Ox

‘Fulbright Scholars’*

‘Chaucer’

‘Isis’

‘Dreamers’

1 The Magician

Beth

House

‘Caryatids (1)’*

‘Ouija’

‘Epiphany’

‘Fairy Tale’

2 The High Priestess

Gimel

Camel

‘Caryatids (2)’*

‘The Earthenware Head’

‘The Gypsy’

‘The Blackbird’

3 The Empress

Daleth

Door

‘Visit’

‘Wuthering Heights’

‘A Dream’

‘Totem’

4 The Emperor

Window

‘Sam’

‘The Chipmunk’

‘The Minotaur’

‘Robbing Myself’

5 The Hierophant

Vau

Nail

‘The Tender Place’

‘Horoscope’

‘The Pan’

‘Blood and Innocence’

6 The Lovers

Zain

Sword

‘St. Botolphs’

‘Flounders’

‘Error’

‘Costly Speech’

7 The Chariot

Cheth

Fence

‘The Shot’

‘The Blue Flannel…’

‘The Lodger’

‘The Inscription’

8 Justice

Teth

Serpent

‘Trophies’

‘Child’s Park’

‘Daffodils’

‘Night-Ride on Ariel’

9 The Hermit

Yod

Hand

‘18 Rugby Street’

‘9 Willow Street’

‘The Afterbirth’

‘Telos’

10 The Wheel of Fortune

Kaph

Palm/Fist

‘The Machine’

‘The Literary Life’

‘Setebos’

‘Brasilia’

11 Strength

Lamed

Ox Goad

‘God Help the Wolf…’

‘The Bird’

‘A Short Film’

‘The Coat’

12 The Hanged Man

Mem

Water

‘Fidelity’

‘Astringency’

‘The Rag Rug’

‘The Ventriloquist’

13 Death

Nun

Fish

‘Fate Playing’

‘The Badlands’

‘The Table’

‘Life After Death’

14 Temperance

Samekh

Prop

‘The Owl’

‘Fishing Bridge’

‘Apprehensions’

‘The Hands’

15 The Devil

A’Ain

Eye

‘A Pink Wool…’

‘The 59th Bear’

‘Dream Life’

‘The Prism’

16 The Tower

Mouth

‘Your Paris’

‘Grand Canyon’

‘Perfect Light’

‘The God’

17 The Star

Tzaddi

Fish-hook

‘You Hated Spain’

‘Karlsbad Caverns’

‘The Rabbit Catcher’

‘Freedom of Speech’

18 The Moon

Qoph

Back o’head

‘Moonwalk’

‘Black Coat’

‘Suttee’

‘A Picture of Otto’

19 The Sun

Resh

Head

‘Drawing’

‘Portraits’

‘The Bee God’

‘Fingers’

20 Judgement

Shin

Tooth

‘Fever’

‘Stubbing Wharfe’

‘Being Christlike’

‘The Dogs are Eating…’

21 The World

Tau

Tau Cross

‘55 Eltisley’

‘Remission’

‘The Beach’

‘Red’

* In the Atziluthic World these three poems are ordered according to Sephira 1, 2 and 3 on the Tree, not according to the alphabet.

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