nisaba
This card is subtitled "Nuclear Radioactive Decay", relating it to a couple of other cards that I've discussed, and I had to think for a moment before I "got" its relevance to my own personal understanding of the energies of the Eight Cups, which for me has to do with the passage of time, of separating oneself from the past and from places and things that tie one to the past.
Then I thought, you idiot, Nisaba - radioactive decay is *all* about time passing, and changing from the state you had in the past to a different state you will have in the future! How obvious is that!
Five translucent Cups stand in a neat row along the bottom of the card. Standing on them three more, a gap between the second and third filled by the negative-image of a nude man seen from behind, looking up and into the distance.
I'm going to take a moment to say now that I've commented on some photographic elements in this deck before being reproduced in the negative: I like that, it gives those figures, faces and hands a surreal, dreamlike energy which fits nicely with the whole concept of being outside of regular day-to-day consciousness. Tarot is outside of regular day-to-day consciousness although it brings its own light to the world; quantum mechanics is outside the realm of Newtonian physics (regular day to day physics) even though it brings its own special light to it also.
Now where was I - the man is standing ankle-deep in water, which graces the lower right of the card and fades into pebbly land to the left and night-space above. Clusters of particles and pre-particles abound. A glowing part-diagram of a sphere drawn in non-Euclidean triangles extends off the right side of the card, and is what the man seems to be looking at. There is a large cluster of fundamental particles and smaller clusters which seem to be breaking away and speeding out of the image - slightly blurred as if in rapid motion.
In other cards we have looked at the boson "particles" (not at fermions yet) which are responsible for giving energy to the breakdown of the nucleus and allowing pre-particles to escape the grip of the Strong Force resulting in what we know as the atomic decay of radioactive minerals; here we see a smilar viewpoint from a different angle, this time the angle of leaving behind what is necessary to be left behind in order to further our lot in life.
The naked man, definitely not a musclebound warrior who may enjoy nudity as a way of showing off, seems very vulnerable, especially with his slightly rounded shoulders. This card does not demonstrate teh most enthusiastic and positive reasons for leaving people, places and times of the past behind - he is not headed anywhere special or inviting. He is just leaving behind the dragging weight of the past, mirrored in the dragging weight of a larger atomic weight being reduced for the future.
Then I thought, you idiot, Nisaba - radioactive decay is *all* about time passing, and changing from the state you had in the past to a different state you will have in the future! How obvious is that!
Five translucent Cups stand in a neat row along the bottom of the card. Standing on them three more, a gap between the second and third filled by the negative-image of a nude man seen from behind, looking up and into the distance.
I'm going to take a moment to say now that I've commented on some photographic elements in this deck before being reproduced in the negative: I like that, it gives those figures, faces and hands a surreal, dreamlike energy which fits nicely with the whole concept of being outside of regular day-to-day consciousness. Tarot is outside of regular day-to-day consciousness although it brings its own light to the world; quantum mechanics is outside the realm of Newtonian physics (regular day to day physics) even though it brings its own special light to it also.
Now where was I - the man is standing ankle-deep in water, which graces the lower right of the card and fades into pebbly land to the left and night-space above. Clusters of particles and pre-particles abound. A glowing part-diagram of a sphere drawn in non-Euclidean triangles extends off the right side of the card, and is what the man seems to be looking at. There is a large cluster of fundamental particles and smaller clusters which seem to be breaking away and speeding out of the image - slightly blurred as if in rapid motion.
In other cards we have looked at the boson "particles" (not at fermions yet) which are responsible for giving energy to the breakdown of the nucleus and allowing pre-particles to escape the grip of the Strong Force resulting in what we know as the atomic decay of radioactive minerals; here we see a smilar viewpoint from a different angle, this time the angle of leaving behind what is necessary to be left behind in order to further our lot in life.
The naked man, definitely not a musclebound warrior who may enjoy nudity as a way of showing off, seems very vulnerable, especially with his slightly rounded shoulders. This card does not demonstrate teh most enthusiastic and positive reasons for leaving people, places and times of the past behind - he is not headed anywhere special or inviting. He is just leaving behind the dragging weight of the past, mirrored in the dragging weight of a larger atomic weight being reduced for the future.