nisaba
I decided to do my homework first, and re-read the appropriate page of the booklet. Subatomic spin, eh? I love the idea of spin that doesn't spin, and I'm wondering if spin-doctors are the modern world's jugglers?
Against a watery background, the shadow of a man stands, leaning back, off-balance. If he were to stand that way under regular Earth-gravity, he would already by too far tipped-over to stop himself falling backwards, and htere is gravity, I know, because the water is lying there behaving like water, not floating around behaving like eccentric ping-pong balls.
He holds two steel Pentacles in his hands, one of them with a yellow-green lozenge in its centre and the other one with an orange one. Behind his head there is a diffuse source of light illuminating them, the water and backlighting the figure even though he is merely a translucent shadow. Was the person photographed for this card the same as the King Wands? There is a familiarity about him somehow.
Kay, in some ways I'm very old-school, and to me Pentacles are Earth, or the material world (money, food, jewellery, fast cars, I accept them all). My biggest problem with the Mythic Deck was that the Ace of Pentacles, surely the Earthiest card of all, featured a lake with a merman in it. And here again, this earth card doesn't have the surface of an asteroid or planet or something, it has water. Isn't that what Cups are for?
I do, however, love the way sometyhing that could be bloodstains or could be hordes of spinning quarks, are flying out of hte juggler's head through the light. I like hte falling figure through space, the stuff flying out of his head, the idea that because he is only a shadow, the Pentacles could be spinning - in different directions and at different speeds - in his closed fists. I also like the fact that despite being seen in silhouette, he seems really calm about all this action occurring around and through him.
comments, people?
Against a watery background, the shadow of a man stands, leaning back, off-balance. If he were to stand that way under regular Earth-gravity, he would already by too far tipped-over to stop himself falling backwards, and htere is gravity, I know, because the water is lying there behaving like water, not floating around behaving like eccentric ping-pong balls.
He holds two steel Pentacles in his hands, one of them with a yellow-green lozenge in its centre and the other one with an orange one. Behind his head there is a diffuse source of light illuminating them, the water and backlighting the figure even though he is merely a translucent shadow. Was the person photographed for this card the same as the King Wands? There is a familiarity about him somehow.
Kay, in some ways I'm very old-school, and to me Pentacles are Earth, or the material world (money, food, jewellery, fast cars, I accept them all). My biggest problem with the Mythic Deck was that the Ace of Pentacles, surely the Earthiest card of all, featured a lake with a merman in it. And here again, this earth card doesn't have the surface of an asteroid or planet or something, it has water. Isn't that what Cups are for?
I do, however, love the way sometyhing that could be bloodstains or could be hordes of spinning quarks, are flying out of hte juggler's head through the light. I like hte falling figure through space, the stuff flying out of his head, the idea that because he is only a shadow, the Pentacles could be spinning - in different directions and at different speeds - in his closed fists. I also like the fact that despite being seen in silhouette, he seems really calm about all this action occurring around and through him.
comments, people?