[Tarot] Three of Coins
Jun. 24th, 2008 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeOut of sheer and egotistical curiosity, how many of y'all are reading this? The usual suspects may, but need not raise their hands. (Edit: And by 'this' I mean the tarot stuff, not necessarily my journal. :D)
Russian Tarot
The coins are displayed on a backdrop (tapestry) that is shaped like nothing so much as the head of an axe, pointed upwards. Complete with crossbar. Two coins on the top and one on the bottom.A man with red hair and beard sits to the left wearing a red coat and playing a lute-like thing. A man on the right in a yellow smock and purple coat watches him, with a staff in his right hand and a set of keys in his left.
Crow's Magick
A lizard stands on two legs and sticks his tongue out at the camera. Things that may be feathers or petals arc downwards to our right, and splotches of paint curve up from our left to over his shoulder on our right. Above his head, three coins are laid side by side.
Spiral Tarot
A ballerina in pink-white dress with black spots (sequins? Jewels?) stands poised to take her bows on a stage where roses have been thrown for her. Three spotlights are marked with pentagrams; the three coins.
Keywords
Skill in trade, Mastery, Perfection, Artistic ability, Dignity, Renown, Rank, Power, Imagination, Reward. Sloppiness, mediocrity, money problems, commonplace ideas, lack of skill, preoccupation.
Again a theme: performance arts. I like the idea of a card representing artistic ability and performance, but somehow I didn't expect it to be coins. And then again, to every artistic life there has to be a material componant, right? It isn't, as the saying goes, 100% inspiration.
So I suppose this card represents the part that is 90% perspiration, and the reward that follows. The accolades that come from slogging through the novel edits, all those rehearsals, all that practice. The roses fall to the stage, the musician finds the patron with the chinks to pay for it.
One interesting thing I do note in the Russian deck is that the person watching the musician play has a set of keys that one would commonly associate with jailers. At least, these days. In olden days I would imagine they would simply be keys to doors or chests, and it could mean anything. Still, since this deck was drawn in modern times, I wonder if there's supposed to be a subtle implication here of being locked into something. A staff in one hand to represent forward progress, the keys in the other to represent being locked into a thought process, stagnation. I wonder.
Russian Tarot
The coins are displayed on a backdrop (tapestry) that is shaped like nothing so much as the head of an axe, pointed upwards. Complete with crossbar. Two coins on the top and one on the bottom.A man with red hair and beard sits to the left wearing a red coat and playing a lute-like thing. A man on the right in a yellow smock and purple coat watches him, with a staff in his right hand and a set of keys in his left.
Crow's Magick
A lizard stands on two legs and sticks his tongue out at the camera. Things that may be feathers or petals arc downwards to our right, and splotches of paint curve up from our left to over his shoulder on our right. Above his head, three coins are laid side by side.
Spiral Tarot
A ballerina in pink-white dress with black spots (sequins? Jewels?) stands poised to take her bows on a stage where roses have been thrown for her. Three spotlights are marked with pentagrams; the three coins.
Keywords
Skill in trade, Mastery, Perfection, Artistic ability, Dignity, Renown, Rank, Power, Imagination, Reward. Sloppiness, mediocrity, money problems, commonplace ideas, lack of skill, preoccupation.
Again a theme: performance arts. I like the idea of a card representing artistic ability and performance, but somehow I didn't expect it to be coins. And then again, to every artistic life there has to be a material componant, right? It isn't, as the saying goes, 100% inspiration.
So I suppose this card represents the part that is 90% perspiration, and the reward that follows. The accolades that come from slogging through the novel edits, all those rehearsals, all that practice. The roses fall to the stage, the musician finds the patron with the chinks to pay for it.
One interesting thing I do note in the Russian deck is that the person watching the musician play has a set of keys that one would commonly associate with jailers. At least, these days. In olden days I would imagine they would simply be keys to doors or chests, and it could mean anything. Still, since this deck was drawn in modern times, I wonder if there's supposed to be a subtle implication here of being locked into something. A staff in one hand to represent forward progress, the keys in the other to represent being locked into a thought process, stagnation. I wonder.