Indigo_lady said:
I love the craft in you cards
They're so inspirational, they should be so useful for meditation
I'm new to this, so my questions might seem a little silly, but what took you to use a book for the high priestess?
I love the devil card coz, at least to me, it seems so dynamic and in permanent movement, it's quite an interesting perception of the devil card. And I love the ilussions that the long lines create. Is there smth behind the green spiral on it?
Hi there!
It's interesting that you perceive The Devil card as a dynamic one. For me, actually, is quite static. Lines actually don't move anywhere, there's no depth (like in The Moon - lines go somewhere out of sight and you might guess that there is something out there). I tried to create an impression of prison, a spider web that one can be easily trapped into (following the Devil's green fumes maze - the green spiral thing - you get straight into the trap - of course, nobody forces you do take this path, and there's the easy way out of it - you just need to WANT to get out of there!)
The book as The High Priestess - Instead of having Torah or a crystal ball, this one has the book, the journal of life. She has seen quite a lot, she has the ability to guess things but not because she is a psychic - her wisdom comes from within because she studied life and has keeping notes of it. Things repeat themselves, they come in cycles and by careful observation one can "predict" what's going to happen in the future.
This may sound odd a bit, but if The Magician is The Tarot, The High Priestess for me is The Major Arcana.
She also has some rituals for healing in the book, some remedies, the knowledge of plants, herbs, astrology... she collected it all. Maybe she was The Hermit in her previous life, isolated for so long but now she has returned and gives the knowledge to people. She is still studying and writing, though. It never stops, of course! She herself IS The Book!