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The Fortune Mandala |
When I was in grade school, there was always a girl with an interest in telling fortunes using a device crafted out of a piece of folded paper. She would take a square piece of paper, fold the corners back to make a smaller square or diamond, then fold the corners of the smaller square back in toward the center to create an even smaller square. Then, by bringing the corners of the smallest square together along center folds, the device would become three dimensional, such that fingers could be inserted to keep the sides pinched together. With sides pinched together the folded device could be opened, like a mouth, in one of two directions. Numbers or colors would be written on the various exposed and internal panels of the folded device. Someone would then be asked to "pick a color" which would then be spelled out while opening the device in one of the two directions for each letter. After spelling out a color, the person would then be asked to look inside the device and pick one of the four colors or numbers written on one of the internal panels. That word would then be spelled out while opening the device in altering directions. This was repeated a few times, with the last pick causing the device to be unfolded to reveal a fortune under one of the panels. I thought it might be fun to design a mandala that folds down into that functional device.
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This mandala is interesting enough to contemplate on its own, but by folding it down we can actually create several smaller mandalas out of this one. If you don't understand how to fold this device to make it work, ask any grade school girl! NEW and IMPROVED!! This is a new version of The Fortune Mandala as of 12/31/2010. The old version had a single line of text under each number. That single line of text consisted of a line of advice characteristic of the number chosen. But it was only one line, and they were all inspired by positive numbers. This version gives a separate line of advice for each Quintagram! However, there is one bit of confusion that remains. This version is called "the life-biased version" because the negative lines of advice are phrased with a life bias in mind... even though they appear under the auspices of the negative icons of the Major Icons, and their life detracting subheadings. In The Numerical Tarot I only illustrate the extreme (a.k.a. "bad") of the negative Major Icons. But I didn't want to use their mitigated alter egos here, so I left the extreme names for each negative Icon, while using mitigated sentiments below them... thus making this a life-biased version... sorta. |
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