[tarot] Four of Coins
Jul. 2nd, 2008 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeRemember when I said I was going to do a card a day? I lied.
Well, no, first Convergence happened, and then I had to ship all the orders taken over Convergence, and then I went insane. Also, I rewrote the page on the Arcana. It still needs translating from Academic to English but it's a little better.
Thank you, all who checked in. It's interesting to me to see who's reading these thoughts. :)
Onward.
Russian Tarot
A man in, I kid you not, purple and chartreuse and blue, sits on the edge of either a bed or a bench. At his feet are two coins, in his hand and balanced on his lap is a third, and in a treasure chest to the viewer's right is a fourth coin in a chest. There is a candelabra and a castle window behind him.
Crow's Magick Tarot
A golden textured almost cutout of a tree, with a red bird on a branch on the lowest right hand coin. Four coins in each four quadrants.
Spiral Tarot
A man who looks like nothing so much as Edward Norton from The Illusionist sits in a stone chair. Brick chair, actually; it looks like it was put together from bricks. His left hand holds a coin on an open palm and his right fist is clenched. His feet are on one coin each and a fourth coin is balanced on his head. There are bars on the window over his left shoulder, which evokes a prison atmosphere.
Keywords Miser, security, unfulfilled, longing, hoarder, userer, skinflint. Setbacks, opposition to further gain, suspense, spendthrift.
This is one of those cards that seems like the timing is designed so that the universe can go "I see what you did there." The other day I got my stimulus check, and while I did indeed stimulate my credit card balance to the tune of 1/3 of what I owe, between that and the long day I'd had I felt I should be all right to stimulate the economy to the tune of two pairs of earrings and a scarf. About $60. Which isn't a bad indulgence as far as such things go, but still.
Clearly this is one of those coin cards where it really is about the coins, instead of just a metaphor. Neither of these meanings suggest a good interpretation, whether or not you believe in the reversed-card technique. If it is right side up, you are miserly and stingy. If it is reversed, you're spending frivolously and not saving anything.
Granted, I never would have gotten this from the ... well, maybe from the Russian deck. That picture certainly does look like he's hoarding something. The spiral deck just looks like he's in some sort of bizarre ritual, and the Crow's Magick deck... well, I guess that's why they have keywords. A bird in a tree, indeed.
Well, no, first Convergence happened, and then I had to ship all the orders taken over Convergence, and then I went insane. Also, I rewrote the page on the Arcana. It still needs translating from Academic to English but it's a little better.
Thank you, all who checked in. It's interesting to me to see who's reading these thoughts. :)
Onward.
Russian Tarot
A man in, I kid you not, purple and chartreuse and blue, sits on the edge of either a bed or a bench. At his feet are two coins, in his hand and balanced on his lap is a third, and in a treasure chest to the viewer's right is a fourth coin in a chest. There is a candelabra and a castle window behind him.
Crow's Magick Tarot
A golden textured almost cutout of a tree, with a red bird on a branch on the lowest right hand coin. Four coins in each four quadrants.
Spiral Tarot
A man who looks like nothing so much as Edward Norton from The Illusionist sits in a stone chair. Brick chair, actually; it looks like it was put together from bricks. His left hand holds a coin on an open palm and his right fist is clenched. His feet are on one coin each and a fourth coin is balanced on his head. There are bars on the window over his left shoulder, which evokes a prison atmosphere.
Keywords Miser, security, unfulfilled, longing, hoarder, userer, skinflint. Setbacks, opposition to further gain, suspense, spendthrift.
This is one of those cards that seems like the timing is designed so that the universe can go "I see what you did there." The other day I got my stimulus check, and while I did indeed stimulate my credit card balance to the tune of 1/3 of what I owe, between that and the long day I'd had I felt I should be all right to stimulate the economy to the tune of two pairs of earrings and a scarf. About $60. Which isn't a bad indulgence as far as such things go, but still.
Clearly this is one of those coin cards where it really is about the coins, instead of just a metaphor. Neither of these meanings suggest a good interpretation, whether or not you believe in the reversed-card technique. If it is right side up, you are miserly and stingy. If it is reversed, you're spending frivolously and not saving anything.
Granted, I never would have gotten this from the ... well, maybe from the Russian deck. That picture certainly does look like he's hoarding something. The spiral deck just looks like he's in some sort of bizarre ritual, and the Crow's Magick deck... well, I guess that's why they have keywords. A bird in a tree, indeed.