The Mad Hatters Musings Episode One: The Paradox of One

Part 1: Tempest in a Tea Cup, or, Can One wear a crown of Two?

Welcome to the party! Here we'll explore some of my efforts to uncover more conceptual connections, relationships, and systems surrounding Tarot, prediction, and generally, our place in this neck of the universe.

Appetizer du jour: Is One the "smallest" or "greatest" number? Is it possible that One always implies BOTH the beginning one, and thus the full circle end "whole" One of it all? If not, why do we tend to work backward from other numbers in order to roll whatever we can into One? Even each other. Why does the Ace count as 1 and/or 11 in a game of cards? Is 11 just another way of ending the cycle of 1? If we know One can we predict other one's, and vice versa? I'm not talking numerological tallies here. In fact, with Tarot, as in all life and development, each state of being or "Self-Portrait" follows, enfolds, embeds, and reinforces or intensifies the others without breaking structure from the state(s) before. And so it is with one to One.

Food for thought: Which came first; the chicken or the egg? What if there simply is no singular center point or linear “first” and both the chicken and the egg co-evolved simultaneously--each as one side of one coin, or in response to a reciprocal or hybrid mutation in one chromosome in the so called “junk” DNA of space-time?

It might be time to reconsider conventional meanings and laws of physics associated with the Power of One -- to open up to the possibility that there simply is no One without implying the Other. (Here 1 implies 2 as duality, which naturally predicts potential 1=3rd hybrid or “triangle” unit of One, and 1=0, where 1 is relative to One full of nothing or nothing of One, i.e. The Fool).
--Stay tuned for the First Course in part two of part one.

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