Unicorn

Finally I made it and this is real magic :)
It’s used to think today that unicorn looks like horse with a corn. But once it was different.


Domenichino (1581-1641) The Maiden and the Unicorn


Francesco Di Giorgio Martini (1439-1502) Chasity With The Unicorn


Raphael (1483-1520) Lady with a Unicorn

Well there’s no canonical figure of unicorn but if you try to rebuild it from the archetype it’ll look more like goat with one corn. But that’s not too interesting. Beliefs related to unicorns are different matter. There’re many of them but I’ll talk about one.

It’s believed that unicorn brings good or bad luck. Unicorn is just an animal so it doesn’t do something purposely. It just lives (well, myths say it does J ). So how can it affect people?

What is luck? It’s a chain of events correlated by our attitude or estimate. Simpler it’s opportunity to get some benefit or advantage (or vice versa for bad luck).

Our life consists of events and they’re related to each other some way. This relation has rules. So what unicorn does – it changes the rules. This is not simple – these are rules of this world, at least for humans. Than unicorn must be ruled by more effective rules still acceptable by the world. I suppose it may be ability and resembling. Now back to humans.

Once I found this in the Internet.

A chain of events is analysed "according to the Patience of Medici".
On a deck of cards, each card has meaning, according to this theory:
- Hearts : are sensual experiences (sympathy, antipathy, passion etc.) - Diamonds: financial matters - Clubs: social activity, work - Spades: aggression, obstacles

In that, it is similar to Tarot cartomancy.

Further symbols: - Ace: circumstances beyond our control - King: the law - Queen: people/animals with which we interact - Jack: our personal motives, desire, motive, the intentions, which force us to act. - 10: the result of our actions - 9: information. our outputs, utterances. - 8: contact - 7: absorption (consumption of food and information, the survey of football, cinema, reading newspaper so forth. - 6: displacement

Then, you play Medici's Patience (yes, a type of solitaire). Please note that only 6-A cards play: - The deck of cards should be with the jackets upwards. - You take out three cards and lay them. - The middle (second) card is the most important one. If it is located between the cards with identical color (for example, between two hearts) or between the cards with identical values (for example, between two "ten"s), then this second card is shifted to the first. - If the second card is not added to the first, you lay out the fourth card and you begin the analysis of the third card - i.e., you look, if is located between identical colours or identical values. If it is, it is shifted on the second card, and then you again return to its analysis of the second card (since the third became the second). - If not, you open again - a fifth card and you begin to analyze the fourth card. Again, if the fourth is proven to be between similar values or colours, you put it on the third - it becomes the third - and the two are shifted on the second card - all become the second.

Interpretation: is done through looking at the chain of events, as manifested in the second card(s). Each new card is analyzed as a proposed action, that would continue "broken chains" in our lives.

This former Mary Stuart Solitaire played with 36 cards deck simulates our life. And it’s built upon 2 rules close enough to “unicorn” rules: capability and resembling. Capability is more restrictive than ability but it can be changed by external influence and that’s the trick of unicorn.