In communication with JM Berger...creator of Chaos Tarot Deck

The correction is now on line: XXIII. Eschaton

"...I made a conscious decision to change the
elemental-suit associations. When
you look at the fractal pallette, the decision to
associate wands and earth
is a pretty easy one -- I had the concept of
green branches firmly fixed in
my mind from the start.

Pentacles, as coins and significators of wealth,
seem better reflected by
air than earth -- because I tend to view money
and the physical fortunes of
life as being fleeting and somewhat intangible.
However, I did end up
sacrificing some of the home and hearth imagery,
which is a bit of a loss.
I do think fire imagery perfectly reflects the
Swords conflict concepts, and
also the idea of fire as that which tempers
metal.

As far as the correlations, I have faith I will
work it out eventually, but
I haven't done all of the correlations yet. In
some cases, it will be tricky
because there are Tarot concepts that don't
readily align with i-Ching --
for instance, there is no obviously equivalent
hexagram to the 10 of Swords
(Fire), which signifies physical death.

If you click around the site much, you'll also
see I am very interested in
i-Ching structure (iching.egoplex.com/).
But I have painted myself
into a bit of a corner in terms of synchronizing
the deck's structure to the
i-Ching, for various technical reasons (mostly
having to do with the uneven
balance between major and minor arcana). I will
want the correlations to
have structural significance, which makes it a
much bigger and more
intimidating job. But hopefully not
insurmountable....