Bat Chicken
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This is a card in which I see new things in every time I view it. That gate is at once a barrier. I want to know what is on the other side. Who is waiting at the door of the tower? Is it the Tower on better days?
The gate itself is tipped with the hilts of 8 swords. The gate arch has a series of glyphs on it. At the apex of the gate there appears to be a sun with the numbers 12 and 21 on either side of it. The sun itself appears to be made from an 8 sided figure pattern that also appears in some variation in the following two cards as well – the Cups and Disks. On the left pillar is at least one rune, birch. The other glyphs I am less certain of. One “Y” shaped glyph looks like the Pythagorean symbol for life’s path and the choice between good and evil. The vvvvv (read as a continuous zig-zag!) symbol is almost universally water. Others still look like runes or ogham, but I can’t be certain enough to make a guess.
There are three blackbirds on the gate, a white lily (Moon) in front and a red rose (Sun) in behind. Reason may be the way out, but intuition is the way in. It would seem that it is some kind of way of thinking causing the block. Letting go of rigid thinking in favour of something more creative might be in store. Something has to change in order to change!
Thoughts?
This is a card in which I see new things in every time I view it. That gate is at once a barrier. I want to know what is on the other side. Who is waiting at the door of the tower? Is it the Tower on better days?
The gate itself is tipped with the hilts of 8 swords. The gate arch has a series of glyphs on it. At the apex of the gate there appears to be a sun with the numbers 12 and 21 on either side of it. The sun itself appears to be made from an 8 sided figure pattern that also appears in some variation in the following two cards as well – the Cups and Disks. On the left pillar is at least one rune, birch. The other glyphs I am less certain of. One “Y” shaped glyph looks like the Pythagorean symbol for life’s path and the choice between good and evil. The vvvvv (read as a continuous zig-zag!) symbol is almost universally water. Others still look like runes or ogham, but I can’t be certain enough to make a guess.
There are three blackbirds on the gate, a white lily (Moon) in front and a red rose (Sun) in behind. Reason may be the way out, but intuition is the way in. It would seem that it is some kind of way of thinking causing the block. Letting go of rigid thinking in favour of something more creative might be in store. Something has to change in order to change!
Thoughts?