Introduction

Greetings Unicorn Spotters!

I'm so glad to be finally here with you out in the open and on your lovely terrace that I would like to share
some thoughts with you if you are up to it on this wonderful shiny day.
I've brought some pictures of the golden and checkered hide of my unicorn with me and I surely hope that
you like what you see. here's not so much of it's head in the shots but some are there of it's horn and a
truly pointy one that is...
I'm sure that you know how to behave around unicorns so there should be no problem with that. !atience
and thoughtful awareness have to be granted no matter what...
he saying goes that only a true virgin can capture the wild beast for whom is no match in the real world's
animal kingdom.
"o boar and no lion would dare to stand in it's way but when a true virgin kneels down in the clearing
the unicorn comes to her #uite tame and rests his horn in her lap.
I have often wondered about that and the meaning it might bear.
$fter I did conceive my unicorn and later gave birth to him in hard labor I knew a little bit more and much
later when my darling could speak he told me the meaning of the tale.
%irst you must know that there are only male unicorns and mating and procreation for them is no se&ual
thing. he unicorn mates with the mind of a sentient being and gender is of no importance to him.
'ut virginity is.
So if you want to conceive a unicorn the mind has to be made (untainted) again.
$ really open mind is needed. *pen to such a degree that it sometimes may feel like your brain has +ust
fallen out... !
'ut that's a good thing in this respect and the only condition on which a real unicorn would consider to be
with you so I was told.
$nd now let's have some pictures...
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"Tarote" - The "Back-Door" To The Secret
Some weeks ago I came across the ,-illennium arot, site. here they have on display the best assembly
of historical d-s I've seen so far on the net. $nd they promise to add more of them.
http.//tarot0de0marseille0millennium.com/english/historic1tarots1gallery.html
hey are so thoughtful to show the ,backside, of every e&ceptional deck. $ feature that is not given the
credit it deserves and that is often ignored completely.
he card's backs that you see here 2as e&amples3 were downloaded from there.

his site is home to the inventor of the new 4arot of -arseille -illennium 5dition( deck 6ilfried
7oudouin who claims to have discovered 4he Sacred 8ode *f he arot( 29
st
book out and : more to
come if I understood him correctly in our short email e&change. I will cite from my answers to him on
some sub+ects where it is useful on this special behalf3.
Some pages from his work are there to download and see 2in %rench3.
his 2especially the dominating he&agram he found in the cards3 drew my attention because like him
I'm fascinated by the geometrical precision that can be found there.
6e were of very different opinion about the way to go from there though.
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his is the basic ,arot;e, structure 2as you can see here3.


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If you go back in time to -ilan in the 9<
th
century you find on 2nearly3 every hand painted card of the
=isconti family that depicts the ,personas, of arot 2Great Secrets > 8ourt3 a very similar pattern.
5very time on a pure golden :? karat carpet in the background of the ,persona,.
hough that (carpet) differs in dimensions from card to card and the angles of the crisscross pattern
change from deck to deck this could be a means for researchers to sort the (wheat) from the (chaff) in all
those scattered supposed =isconti cards that survived from the 9<
th
century.
So far as I know this crisscross0carpet0pattern in the background is only found on them.
'ut probably they know that already.
=isconti di -odrone 2ca. 9??<3.
http.//www.darktarot.com/the1oldest1tarot1deck.php
'rera 'rambilla arot 2ca. 9??@3.
!lease do a Google0search with (tarocchi brera brambilla)
he most perfect pattern 2with nearly ABC angles3 you'll find fortunately on the most complete =isconti0
SforDa arot or !ierpont0-organ0'ergamo0arocchi 2ca. 9?<B3.
http.//a.trionfi.eu/66!8-/decksB</dB:B?E/dB:B?E.htm
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I assume that most of you are familiar with these circumstances so I won't post e&amples of these different
decks and I will concentrate on circumstances that I didn't find well presented on the web to keep the
picture load as light as possible.
'ut still these pages are mostly devoted to visual conceivable patterns as I assume people back then didn't
have our informational comfort 2and sometimes discomfort that is3 and they had to work with what they
had got the cards in their hands and before their eyes and 2maybe!3 a friend who told them what he
knew.
So this pattern is typical for the =isconti02SforDa30%amily0arot08ards.

he 5rcole d'5ste arot 2and all other cards that I know from that period3 does not have such a regular
pattern. It is very artsy though .3
$nd it has holes like $FF the =isconti02SforDa30%amily0arot08ards.
'ut in another fashion. Fater there will be more about that feature.
5rcole d'5ste arot 2ca. 9?G@3
http.//#ueenoftarot.com/tarot1decks/:E
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his card called (Fe !endu) for obvious reasons 2or notH3 shows the best and most complete
representation of the carpet between the (rionfi)of the !ierpont0-organ0'ergamo0arocchi.
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his is the carpet0pattern made more visible.

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In the right lower corner the carpet dimension is a little flawed. 6ith the green (correctional s#uare) and
scaled to 9::I in height and width it comes pretty close to the cards own dimensions.

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So there we have : 2in principle3 similar crisscross patterns roughly :<B years and several hundreds of
miles apart on tarot cards of very different provenance and making.
It is probably not very likely that those %rench card0makers did visit the Italian locations were the =isconti
cards survived the tides of time.
$ very simple pattern that could very well serve only as a decoration of no special interest at all and so far
as I know it was only looked at as such in the past.
'ut before I came to think about the ,arot;e, as a (back0door) to the secret of tarot I became aware of a
free (report) 2that's what the author says it is in his foreword3 on scribd.com called (JU5 $J*)
2:B993 a while ago.
he author claims that this paper is the first half of a (construction manual) that has to be followed in
every detail. "ot one positive or instructive word about divination.
:GB pages 2mostly pictures and a somewhat crude te&t that is not easy to read all he time3.
http.//de.scribd.com/doc/EK<K9EAG/JU50$J*
7e demonstrates that details 2that are only presented in full in the (!aul -arteau/Grimaud ancien d-
9A@B) original %rench edition3 are the key to the (front0door) of the secret.
his leads to a practical structure that follows in principle the picture on the (Fe -onde) card LLI what
he uses as a (map).
$pparently it all works only out with the se#uence of Mliphas F;vi later used by $. 5. 6aite 2IN ON LLN
Fe -atN LLI3. -ost classic d-s bear the details to do the (*uroboros layout) presented there but no
(inverted cards) would work I think 2and this could be a tool to sort the (right) from the (wrong) 2in the3
d- decks I suppose because if he is right the d- was shaped and standardiDed the way it has been +ust
to make the (*uroboros layout) happen.3
$fter the (*uroboros) has consumed and digested some bits of it's tail and so re0structured his appearance
it gets (killed) and taken. In a special way though so that some of his bones 2@ think about the tripod
of the priestess at Pelphi3 stay in place together with the (Peus e& -achina) and his priestess < cards
stay in their achieved places and the rest of 9G with no change in their succession are delivered again in a
very different and comple& but practical and easy to learn pattern with sometimes very surprising content.
his new layout starts with =I and that's were the (crisscross pattern) comes in.
he dice on the table of (Fe 'ateleur) 2otherwise only displayed in the Qean "oblet arot3 with their
(individual) pips...
2Some remarks about the dice and another item on the Qean "oblet d- table in a citation from my
emails to 6ilfried 7oudouin after he told me that he had (discarded) the -arteau/Grimaud d- of 9A@B
a few years ago in his :B years of research.
(Jegarding the dice.
he "oblet has @ of them 2with 0 today 0 unusual placing of pips because today the ,contradicting, sides
of a dye always ad up to ,G,3
= pips 0 I pip 2same as Grimaud/-arteau3 on the upper face 0 what is what usually counts when you play
with them.
he @. dye has II on his upper face. 6hat should be an addition for strangers 0 but as you said 0 we won't
discuss that 2also the tip of the knife is placed between the ,real pips, and the ,fake pip, to 8U it off 0
but we won't discuss that3.
22RRR In addition it could be said that the pips shown on the visible @ sides of this dye are 9 : @ what
9
makes it highly likely that this is a %$S5 dye. It should be very easy to (in+ect) it with a weight of molten
lead for e&ample to make sure that always the high or as in this incident the low pips make an
appearance so it must be (cut off) as in (not considered at all). RRR33
he Grimaud/-arteau shows only the ,sides, with those specific pips of interest of the dice 2what is
unusual in itself 0 as a hint that 7IS is not the ,usual, way to look at them3.
Interesting is the pince neD0like structure left to the dice 0 similar to the ,@ coins, on the Grimaud/-arteau
0 it is much clearer in it's design as the Grimaud/-arteau cluster and J5%5JI"G to the structure of I0=I0
= in the achieved pattern of JU5 $J*.
It shows the ,connection, between them.
It is ,turned, in comparison to the ,cluster, roughly ABC to the left.
So to get the impression needed as a ,navigator, for =I you 2me/anyone else3 have to ,bend, the upper
goggle 2what could be done with a pince neD easily3 so that is perpendicular.
he ,pince neD, in itself is an advice to F**S in an ,enhanced fashion,.
Tou may understand these comments better when you have had the time to actually read JU5 $J*.
he dice are only an e&ample of cardmakers ,in 2some of3 the know, hinting to these circumstances.
I'm not at home for a while so I can't give you e&act e&amples but in JU5 $J* is reffered to that too.
$nything that has a countable numbers of things on it as a ,pip card, e.g. could be used for that purpose 0
but the dice are the most fitting because the 0 at that point of ,the game, 0 achieved structure between I0II0
III0IIII and = resembles a s#uare in its outline the most and so for one who has come so far it should not
be made more difficult as indispensable.)

he s#uare pics are screen shots from the pages ?? 2@? 83 and E@ 2@E 50:3 of the doc.
@? 8 displays the < pips on the upper dye of the -arteau/Grimaud 9A@B. @E 50: shows the (incoming) of
the :
nd
dye with the 9 pip with the (ladder0device) that was introduced at length there before.
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%urther on in the te&t it is shown that the (ladder device) has already been there 2without me or anyone
else getting it!3. It is used to build the whole coming structure that is needed as a playground for the
cards and it works this way 2shortened3.
9. %ind the correct place for =I 2the second dye3 2and find the correct place for every other card3
:. Petect the right placement for =I 2and detect the right placement for every other card3

he @0colored garland on LLI is key to this (ladder) combined with the : dice and the cluster of coins.
he above s#uare pic. is a screen shot from p. E< of the doc. hose below are from p. EE and EG.
his is the playground for the players as an (open field) with +ust the (landmarks) based on the (ladder)
and this ladder does only e&ist in the mind though there are (markers) on every card to keep the game
going easy.

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6hen all :: (secrets) are in the right place on this first stage of the game he has done some cute overlays
of them above the up0scaled LLI where you can actually see that the lines of the sole cards and parts of
her body match sometimes perfectly well 2page 9E: 0 9E<3
L=II makes practically her whole face and (#ueens) her with a crown of stars!
Screen shot from page 9E<
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$fter this he demonstrates that if you would drive nails through them 2like it was done to the =isconti
cards3 a crisscross0pattern emerges.
Screen shots from page 9G< and 9GE.

Screen shots from page 9GG and 9GK.

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*nce again the (Fines) pic.
his should be interesting for (7uck). he (chessboard) and the (pieces) all there and in position.

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'ut since JU5 $J* only deals with the 9
st
half of the (construction manual) the <E (lesser) secrets
have to find their place yet.
In the foreword it says that this should be considered (a challenge...)
hey will stay in place and not move and so define the (board).
Screen shots from page 9AB and 9A9 2=isconti0SforDa arot3.

$round 9BB "ails 0 with their heads clipped off 0 will be driven into the crossings.
So that the :: great secrets can move and unfold the story they have to tell.
Until some were so worn 2out3 that they had to be replaced by (ripping a new one) actually.
Screen shots from page :9E and 9KA 2=isconti0SforDa arot3.

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$t last this all looks nice and dandy at least to me.
'ut there is a problem. he crisscross0pattern was only found to be significant by working backwards.
%rom the ,arot;e, of the d-s to the =isconti cards.
6hat if we were stuck in the 9<
th
century with no convenient hints to roll byH
Fike %ilippo -aria =isconti in his palace 2summariDed from the scribd doc.3 H
he very e&pensive clumsy and one of a kind cards and the wall with the pattern and with clipped off nails
in the crossings waiting for the (players).
6hat to doH
his is in the scribd file e&plained step by step but with some outrageous remarks and a lot of blood.
It's not the only way to go but let's start there.
If you look at the (wall pic.) from page :9E you would need a starting point for the first card.
'ut what card is the first cardH
"o numerals! 'ut the pattern was derived from the (hanging man).
So let's have a look at him again!
8oncentrate on the holes. !lease.
Tes. here are two of them.

9 hole that is old and well used and a :
nd
new hole so that the card could be displayed (U la mode).
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*bviously this special card was used in the upward position.

Qust like the often mocked $ntoine 8ourt de G;belin told the crowd in the K
th
volume of (Fe -onde
primitifN analys; et compar; avec le monde moderne ) in 9GK9.
$nother interesting detail in his drawing are the very many buttons on the vest of the (reversed man).
9E of them. $nd : pockets.
he =isconti guy has 9K buttons and an unbuttoned hole for a button to come.
he d-s $ntoine 8ourt de G;belin most probably saw normally would have had between G and 9?
buttons and : pockets or not. 6hy add : buttons on the already crowded vestH
'ecause if you keep on reading you'll see that 9E 2on the first stage3 is the number of the (players).
$nd 9K is number of the (players) on the next stage 0 of which $ntoine 8ourt de G;belin obviously
didn't know or he would not have added the pockets still.
'ut he knew much more than he is given credit for.
$s an e&ample you see that the rope binding the standing leg of the (reversed man) is so very loose that
he could step out of it at will.
his is a reference to the =isconti guy and the d-s who do not show the rope keeping the delin#uent
really. he rope is hidden behind the leg 2=isconti0SforDa3 or otherwise obstructed or not even binding the
foot at all 2-arteau/Grimaud3.
his means the (hanging man) has to be cut off for good.
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In a somewhat drastic manner and with similar dark and mocking comments it is shown in the file on
scribd e&actly how and where and later why this has to happen in the mind only of course.
here is another way to look at this though without any blood and eventually more telling in itself.
Screen shots from page 9AE and 9AK

Screen shots from page 9KK and :BB

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his (cutting off) operation produces a (7erm)or (7erma).
he name (7ermes) comes from the word 7erma and (-ercury) is as you know the later roman
garden variety. 7erms were worshiped there under the name (erminus).
http.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7erma

7erms come in different siDes and proportions but with one significant feature.
Unfortunately broken off in most cases.
he (carpet) goes through a lengthy and step by step process of (cleaning) and this is the come0out.
Screen shot from page :9? and the same screen shot with a new red pattern I made over it.

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7ere the new (core) gets fully invested with it's now visible center into the former confirmed carpet.
7ermes gets introduced 0 the sentinel of the (crossroads).



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7ermes is a G*P with remarkable powers and has a surprise for you! $aand weee have a winner!
*S 0 well 0 it's not e&actly a bull's eye... But it's the center of being! Jeversed that is...



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$fter the red nails were driven into the (crossroads) the red (heads) got clipped off so that the cards can
find a bollard at last. he (reversed man) clearly should go first after all this trouble... 'ut whereH

7e finds himself at the gallows in the center...
...and gets (cut down) in several ways and for a reason and the reversed man is reversed again to begin his
+ourney...
...at the (Gates *f he Jose Garden) as the (%ootless Toung -an)
alking ("umerals) if there were any the (cocky) busybody would be (I) and the armed woman
obviously (II). 'ut there are none because there are a later and practical invention to get the cards all up
and running 2and not up at all 0 but down on the table. 6ith help from the *uroboros. 8raDy!3

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%rom this combination of circumstances Qean "oblet may have conceived his (cocky) ideas.
$nd more.


7e made (FF'$5F5=J) and (F5%*=) a !$IJ with this (cocky) feature and pointed to more of them
with this hint.
7is deliberately (wrong) "umerals IIII =IIII LIIII L=IIII are ? in total.
Qean Podal added a little (?) in the upper left corner of his (IIII)
6hen you now add the IIIIs in IIII = IIII L IIII L= IIII you get. 4 times IIII what makes... 9E!
So 0 at first 0 9E cards are involved in (pairing) could/would be an/my assumption.
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In the later d-s the (cocky feature) 2that referred to (he Seed) and the name of that special seed refers
to the original name of the reversed man between the 9E and is the real reason why he is dressed in green
pants on the =isconti0SforDa cards3 vanished because it was so obvious 2and if they had kept it arot by
now would be J0rated for sure in some countries at least V3
$nother way was established to keep (Fe 'ateleur) and (Fe -at) a pair.
(Fe 'ateleur) was already there and a deliberate miswriting of (Fe Batelier). 5asily identified by his
typical big hat. 2!lease do a search for (chapeau de batelier) on google or else... 3
(F5%*=) 2who got his name from the =isconti0SforDa guy's appearance3 was made (Fe -at) what really
is (Fe -Wt).
If you know something about (rigging) you can even identify the kind of (rack) 2'Xgelrack in German3
on the ,spar, he is carrying on his right shoulder in a really peculiar (crosswise) fashion.
Very impractical if it was not for (showing off).
he (rack) is attached with : knots to the spar and adorned with < bells 2"as8onver 9GEB3 in the later
d-s to conceal it a bit.
his kind of (rack) is only used with (s#uare rigs). he most old fashioned style for sailing but very
effective for tailwind and pace. he =ikings had them on their (dragons) who took them to the (new
world).
In %rance 2the Foire region i. e.3 this kind of rigging is still in use today.
he (Scute de Foire) and the (oue 8aban;e) are fine e&amples for that.
he (oue 8aban;e) is especially interesting for our cause because it is made with a cabin for up to :B
voyagers Ysic!Z.
he (captain) and his (mast) and :B passengers.
$nd obviously ships and sailing would have been very important for the Italian aristocracy who thrived on
trade.
o get closer to the (9E) and pairing we should get back once more to the (=isconti0SforDa) cards.

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6e +ust had a look at the (crisscross0pattern) but what's in itH
he (learned researchers) say it's (the sun).
Is itH
he (sun) comes in : versions. Going (clockwise) and (counter0clockwise).
he sun is always made of : rounded (swastikas). "o flaw to that 0 wherever you can see one.
$ (nave) with K spokes without a tread. Going (clockwise).
And a (nave) with K spokes without a tread. Going (counter0clockwise).
: (teams) with K (players) going against one0another. 6ell in principle that is.
If we would know to really read the so0called (6orld) card of the (=isconti0SforDa) arot we surely
would know more about that but this should help anyway a bit.
'ut we can do without. Somehow.
8oncerning the (chess0pieces/cards/teams) who actually are the players a link included in the (scribd) file
(JU5 $J* leads to a thread on ($eclectic).
Fiber -undi 9E pages 2:BBA3
http.//www.tarotforum.net/showthread.phpHt[9:K?:@
he same person that authored the scribd doc. 28 or (8)3 seems to have made some kind of e&periment
there. $fter an introduction to the (tarot situation) from his point of view he claims that the :: $tu 2his
name for the trumps there3 are only a disguise for the 9E characters of geomancy and that this system is
later broken up to create a new one of 9K. So 9K cards are used and ? 2he claims3 are (empty).
he sub+ect of the thread is the =isconti0SforDa arot and he claims that Pevil and ower 2which as you
know are not presented in any =isconti deck3 were some kind of (Sey08ards) so (the teachers) took them
when they left.
2"ow think about the 9E gods and trionfi and the 9E chess pieces!3
7e gives only a few hints and no sources and the posters search for pictures and te&ts themselves and post
them. he 9E characters of geomancy can easily be grouped into K pairs by structureN name and meaning.
"o astrological knowledge is needed as I assumed first.
$nd pair by pair the (atu) are grouped according to the 9E characters of geomancy 2in K pairs3 by the
thread participants only by looking at them and discovering 2sometimes with a little help3 visual features
they did not take seriously before.
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$hh... I almost forgot!
he Qean "oblet d- has the (crisscross) pattern too. *f course. Tou can see it rightH
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$nd he (paid tribute) to the (bees) with his pattern too.
Tou can find the (bees) all over %rance connected to royalty since the -erovingian era.
'ut there are no (#uick) conclusions from that.
here are some 2fantasticH3 societies and even modern organiDations that kept the nautical or naval
connotations for their leading personnel.
'ut that should be not an issue connected to this thread 2anymore3.
onc!u"ion
he thread is about the ,arot;e, as the ,back0door, to the (Secret) and the =isconti family tarot cards
that bear a similar pattern that allows to get the (game) that leads to the (Secret) started.
he =isconti0!attern is as presented the core of the cards and they couldn't go without it.
hat's why the carpet is made of pure gold. $nd originally a real carpet is meant to be walked on.
*nly the =iscontis had knowledge of that. *bviously because this pattern is seen nowhere else in that
time on the cards. It is the (essence) of (gaming) and you can not do without it.
'ecause of that it was incorporated as a (decoration) on the back of every card in a d- deck.
If the maker of that special deck 2some didn't3 choose to do so.
$nd not every one who did knew what it was for 2like 6ilfried 7oudouin... 3
So the (arot;e) became over time a decoration that was first meant to be a disguise.
So what do you think nowH
Po you like my unicornH If you happen to gain his trust you may even get permitted to caress his horn
wouldn't that be marvelousH
$nd after A months you could very well be blessed with a new life...
*ne thing or : I beg of you if you should feel inclined to post in this thread though.
!lease click on the links and go through them so that you can build an informed opinion.
his may take a month or even A because besides of the :G pages of this !P% are the :GB pages of the
JU5 $J* !P% on scribd plus the 9E thread pages on $eclectic. $nd #uite possibly you may come
across some statements or information 2the footless young man at the gates of the rose garden for
e&ample may lead you on a +ourney through the bowels of alchemy that you never knew e&isted... 3 that
may need further confirmation before it could be understood in it's depth.
So. "o rush.
$ll the best
$drian
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