[Tarot] Eight of Coins
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Russian Tarot
A brown-haired man dressed in gold ith a purple apron stands at a smithy, his hammer in his hand and the head on the anvil. Three coins are behind him, five in front of him, and a horseshoe above his head. this has the same inside-of-a-castle setting as the other card. I don't know if the horseshoe carries the same 'luck' implication as it does in the Isles and here in the States, anyone?
Crow's Magick Tarot
Four coins above, four below, an owl against a... what looks like a mother of pearl or fire opal moon, and a golden butterfly in the foreground. And, and this amuses me, a stack of books. The titles and authors as follows from top to bottom: Londa Tarot by Londa Marks, Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Kaplan: Tarot of the Witches, Crow's Magick by Londa Marks, Medicine Cards, and Encyclopedia of Tarot by Stuart Kaplan
Spiral Tarot
A man in a blue shirt and gold pants that make him look rather like a circus performer sits at a smithy. His fire is burning in the hearth, he's workign on one of the eight coins (four are on the wall behind him, one is leaning against his workbench, and two are on the floor in front of him. The door is open, or maybe he's just in an open-air place, and so there's a line of greenry and sky that sort of frames him.
Keywords
Knowledge, Insight, Apprenticeship, Craftsmanship, Quickness to learn, Candor, Modesty, Handiwork, Personal effort; Lack of ambition, Vanity, Conceit, Disillusionment, Usury, Hypocrisy, Flattery, Intrigue
Okay, this one I seem to have more to talk about. I find it kind of interesting (and hilarious in the choice of books on the Crow's Magick) that two of the Tarot decks I have deal with smithy, making things, physical things with their hands, and only one deals with a more cerebral kind of wealth. Even the keywords are more different than usual, although the picture for the Crow's Magick is also more helpful than its usual abstract animal-with-number-of-symbols layout.
Eight of coins. If we're going through the cycle of high times, hard times, this is probably after the petitioner or reader or what have you has learned that hard work does pay off. This is the sort of attitude after a few years of experience, putting the hard work into it and letting the payoff at the end be its own reward, in a sense. Rather than looking for a get rich quick type of thing. That made no sense whatsoever, did it.
I'm not a blacksmith. One of my childhood friends who's actually in the area may be, or at least that was what was last heard of him. But when I look at this card, or at least the Spiral and the Russian cards, I think of painting minis. Of the relaxation and peace it gives, trying new techniques and watching the minis come alive with color, and the sense of accomplishment at the end of it. Which is, I think, what this card represents. That sense of accomplishment that comes with having made something you can see and maybe hold, filled a notebook or passed a class. Not so much to do with tangible wealth or resources here, perhaps, but more like wealth of spirit.
Russian Tarot
A brown-haired man dressed in gold ith a purple apron stands at a smithy, his hammer in his hand and the head on the anvil. Three coins are behind him, five in front of him, and a horseshoe above his head. this has the same inside-of-a-castle setting as the other card. I don't know if the horseshoe carries the same 'luck' implication as it does in the Isles and here in the States, anyone?
Crow's Magick Tarot
Four coins above, four below, an owl against a... what looks like a mother of pearl or fire opal moon, and a golden butterfly in the foreground. And, and this amuses me, a stack of books. The titles and authors as follows from top to bottom: Londa Tarot by Londa Marks, Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Kaplan: Tarot of the Witches, Crow's Magick by Londa Marks, Medicine Cards, and Encyclopedia of Tarot by Stuart Kaplan
Spiral Tarot
A man in a blue shirt and gold pants that make him look rather like a circus performer sits at a smithy. His fire is burning in the hearth, he's workign on one of the eight coins (four are on the wall behind him, one is leaning against his workbench, and two are on the floor in front of him. The door is open, or maybe he's just in an open-air place, and so there's a line of greenry and sky that sort of frames him.
Keywords
Knowledge, Insight, Apprenticeship, Craftsmanship, Quickness to learn, Candor, Modesty, Handiwork, Personal effort; Lack of ambition, Vanity, Conceit, Disillusionment, Usury, Hypocrisy, Flattery, Intrigue
Okay, this one I seem to have more to talk about. I find it kind of interesting (and hilarious in the choice of books on the Crow's Magick) that two of the Tarot decks I have deal with smithy, making things, physical things with their hands, and only one deals with a more cerebral kind of wealth. Even the keywords are more different than usual, although the picture for the Crow's Magick is also more helpful than its usual abstract animal-with-number-of-symbols layout.
Eight of coins. If we're going through the cycle of high times, hard times, this is probably after the petitioner or reader or what have you has learned that hard work does pay off. This is the sort of attitude after a few years of experience, putting the hard work into it and letting the payoff at the end be its own reward, in a sense. Rather than looking for a get rich quick type of thing. That made no sense whatsoever, did it.
I'm not a blacksmith. One of my childhood friends who's actually in the area may be, or at least that was what was last heard of him. But when I look at this card, or at least the Spiral and the Russian cards, I think of painting minis. Of the relaxation and peace it gives, trying new techniques and watching the minis come alive with color, and the sense of accomplishment at the end of it. Which is, I think, what this card represents. That sense of accomplishment that comes with having made something you can see and maybe hold, filled a notebook or passed a class. Not so much to do with tangible wealth or resources here, perhaps, but more like wealth of spirit.