Yeah, its always a good talk, talking with you. Great observations.
I like how tarot seems to always work, if you get your imaginative juices flowing - it'll answer any question. I'm not sure which version of tarot history I believe, though. There's the version in which its a reformulation of the book of Thoth, and that resonates because it works, it just works. And then there's the version where the Visconti deck, which is still kept in a Milan museum iirc, is much simpler and then AE Waite comes along and makes all the cool symbolic pictures. He was a Freemason, btw - that alone lends a lot of credence to their claims. I mention that mostly because I've been seeing that anti-masonic rhetoric on nostr recently.
For what its worth, when I was just looking for a tarot connection, I felt like the chariot was more applicable. Idk of that's right... But it seemed more fitting. The two sphinxes mirror Jakin and Boaz, which seem to fit with the trading of value for value. And I like to look at the three cards in the whole column, when you make rows of seven cards, with the Fool off to the side. Below the chariot is Temperance, pouring water from cup to cup and one foot in water. Water is symbolic of Spirit, so its like another formulation of "the map is not the territory." And the angel with a foot in water kinda makes it the same symbol as Hecate - moving between the worlds, and having gotten a peak behind the veil in previous card symbolism. And below that, the World - awakening to a new reality. It all **_might_** (cuz idk) point to the same idea as "sell your cloak and buy a sword" because the sword/sabbath represents the real world, where reality is out of teach for us on this side of the veil, but you still have to orient your value system to a concrete and unchanging principle - the sabbath, the covenant, God.
But like I said, I can find a pattern in anything. This could be all wrong.