[tarot] Two of Coins
Jun. 24th, 2008 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadePossibly I need icons for this. Ah well. I need icons in general anyway. Need to get off my butt and make them. I meant to post one yesterday but didn't, between one thing and another, so today you get two for the price of one.
Russian Tarot
A man in colorful Russian clothing stands on the edge of either a crevace or a precipice with another mountain in the background. A purple and fuchsia cloak swirls over his shoulder to the right, and the ocean is stylized behind it all. Two coins are in front of him, with his hands outstretched to either side as though he has cast them down or is about to pick them up.
Crow's Magick
Two coins in the upper right and left hand corners, and a bird (perhaps a vulture?) in gold flies to the left. The bird-vulture flies over what appears to be a stylized storm on the horizon; two horizontal lines, lightning jagged pointing downward, and then a jagged horizontal line (signifying a mountain range?). To the right side, two marblized red what appear to be golf tees, one slightly larger than the other, appear.
Spiral Tarot
A jester in a triangular shaped black and white harlequin dress contemplates two pentagram discs. Behind him (or her) a mountain range appears, then a sea (approaching the viewer), thena field of white flowers.
Keywords
Difficulty in launching new projects, difficult situations, embarrassment, balance, moderation, mood swings, financial fluctuation. Literary ability, task agility, simulated enjoyment, enforced gaiety, letter, message.
I have no idea what half those keywords are supposed to mean. They seem either too specific or entirely ridiculous.
I find it interesting that mountains, stylized or otherwise, appear in all three cards of all three decks I have. Actually I do have two other decks somewhere, the Maya deck and I think a Waite-Rider, but I don't feel like digging them out so largely the rest of this will be from the Russian, the Spiral, and the Crow's Magick which I do favor. Mountains tend to signify a difficult journey. So, what, this portends a difficult journey in the future? But it's always a background feature, so perhaps there's just the shadow of a difficult journey. The implication.
One is a path, or a gift, or a blessing. Or a curse. One is a certainty. Two is a choice. Two is the number of the High Priestess, who maintains the balance, both in Tarot and in my own chosen pantheon. The balance, that is, not the number.
Perhaps, then the difficulty in launching new projects, etc, comes from the stress of making financial decisions. Deciding is hard enough, but we as humans seem to place an additional burden when there's money involved. Crow's Magick adds the keywords of 'cryptic, mysterious', which I think is largely a spurious attempt to nudge some sort of image, and I see no reason why a choice should be mysterious. This, admittedly, is one of the harder cards for me to figure out.
Two coins, two choices. A choice between two colleges? I remember when I was doing college appliactions and I had choices between what provided less of a financial burden and what provided a better education in what I wanted to study. In the end what I wanted to study wasn't at all what I ended up doing. I ended up taking an opportunity that came up out of the blue (the Ace of Wands, perhaps?) to join into a family business that had nothing to do with any life's choices and everything to do with being born into a fortunate and auspicious circumstance. I ramble.
Two coins. The Russian deck shows the man seeming to cast them down or away, which is an interesting choice. The choice not to choose. Alternatively he could be trying to pick them both up, which is a difficult matter as they're both bigger than his hands; he might only be able to pick up one. And maybe that's the end result, the agonizing decision making process, the worry that accompanies setting up any financial enterprise, a new home, a new business. This expense or that expense. One or the other. Two is a choice. Perhaps I should look at this in the context of the other twos, but I think that will stand well enough for now.
Russian Tarot
A man in colorful Russian clothing stands on the edge of either a crevace or a precipice with another mountain in the background. A purple and fuchsia cloak swirls over his shoulder to the right, and the ocean is stylized behind it all. Two coins are in front of him, with his hands outstretched to either side as though he has cast them down or is about to pick them up.
Crow's Magick
Two coins in the upper right and left hand corners, and a bird (perhaps a vulture?) in gold flies to the left. The bird-vulture flies over what appears to be a stylized storm on the horizon; two horizontal lines, lightning jagged pointing downward, and then a jagged horizontal line (signifying a mountain range?). To the right side, two marblized red what appear to be golf tees, one slightly larger than the other, appear.
Spiral Tarot
A jester in a triangular shaped black and white harlequin dress contemplates two pentagram discs. Behind him (or her) a mountain range appears, then a sea (approaching the viewer), thena field of white flowers.
Keywords
Difficulty in launching new projects, difficult situations, embarrassment, balance, moderation, mood swings, financial fluctuation. Literary ability, task agility, simulated enjoyment, enforced gaiety, letter, message.
I have no idea what half those keywords are supposed to mean. They seem either too specific or entirely ridiculous.
I find it interesting that mountains, stylized or otherwise, appear in all three cards of all three decks I have. Actually I do have two other decks somewhere, the Maya deck and I think a Waite-Rider, but I don't feel like digging them out so largely the rest of this will be from the Russian, the Spiral, and the Crow's Magick which I do favor. Mountains tend to signify a difficult journey. So, what, this portends a difficult journey in the future? But it's always a background feature, so perhaps there's just the shadow of a difficult journey. The implication.
One is a path, or a gift, or a blessing. Or a curse. One is a certainty. Two is a choice. Two is the number of the High Priestess, who maintains the balance, both in Tarot and in my own chosen pantheon. The balance, that is, not the number.
Perhaps, then the difficulty in launching new projects, etc, comes from the stress of making financial decisions. Deciding is hard enough, but we as humans seem to place an additional burden when there's money involved. Crow's Magick adds the keywords of 'cryptic, mysterious', which I think is largely a spurious attempt to nudge some sort of image, and I see no reason why a choice should be mysterious. This, admittedly, is one of the harder cards for me to figure out.
Two coins, two choices. A choice between two colleges? I remember when I was doing college appliactions and I had choices between what provided less of a financial burden and what provided a better education in what I wanted to study. In the end what I wanted to study wasn't at all what I ended up doing. I ended up taking an opportunity that came up out of the blue (the Ace of Wands, perhaps?) to join into a family business that had nothing to do with any life's choices and everything to do with being born into a fortunate and auspicious circumstance. I ramble.
Two coins. The Russian deck shows the man seeming to cast them down or away, which is an interesting choice. The choice not to choose. Alternatively he could be trying to pick them both up, which is a difficult matter as they're both bigger than his hands; he might only be able to pick up one. And maybe that's the end result, the agonizing decision making process, the worry that accompanies setting up any financial enterprise, a new home, a new business. This expense or that expense. One or the other. Two is a choice. Perhaps I should look at this in the context of the other twos, but I think that will stand well enough for now.