Elendil
Okay, so there are 5 Fools in this deck and I include them all in my deck of 97 cards. (I don't include the pink and white publisher information card or the black and white 'title' card - but everything else is in there.)
The 'intended' Fools are incarnations of Maiden, Mother and Crone, the alternatives are a 'superhero(ine)' and Aleph4. Only Aleph4 has actualised wings - all the others have UV effect wings, which we can assume will break their impending fall.
Are those ball-shapes which appear in the sky on each of these cards (except Aleph4) closed circuit camera devices capturing the initial images of the cosmic drama which is about to unfold? After all Egypt Urnash tells us in the accompanying book that 'the crone' is certainly playing for the camera.
I have no clue what to make of the 'sigil'/'crest' design which features on the Aleph4 card - I can't make it out clearly enough to see what it is meant to represent or to make out the words (if any) that seem to surround it as a sort of motto.
I like the idea of an actualised Fool. It is subversive… I like the fact that Aleph4 is at the centre of either creation or destruction. Is she descending or ascending I wonder?
Am I bothered that the Fools are all female - no. I have accepted that many of the traditional assumptions in Tarot have been overturned in this deck and switching the genders of many (the majority ?) of the figures is just one of them.
Thoughts?
Do you include all 5 Fools? Just three? Just one? Which one(s)?
The 'intended' Fools are incarnations of Maiden, Mother and Crone, the alternatives are a 'superhero(ine)' and Aleph4. Only Aleph4 has actualised wings - all the others have UV effect wings, which we can assume will break their impending fall.
Are those ball-shapes which appear in the sky on each of these cards (except Aleph4) closed circuit camera devices capturing the initial images of the cosmic drama which is about to unfold? After all Egypt Urnash tells us in the accompanying book that 'the crone' is certainly playing for the camera.
I have no clue what to make of the 'sigil'/'crest' design which features on the Aleph4 card - I can't make it out clearly enough to see what it is meant to represent or to make out the words (if any) that seem to surround it as a sort of motto.
I like the idea of an actualised Fool. It is subversive… I like the fact that Aleph4 is at the centre of either creation or destruction. Is she descending or ascending I wonder?
Am I bothered that the Fools are all female - no. I have accepted that many of the traditional assumptions in Tarot have been overturned in this deck and switching the genders of many (the majority ?) of the figures is just one of them.
Thoughts?
Do you include all 5 Fools? Just three? Just one? Which one(s)?