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This is one of the most breathtaking and puzzling cards of the entire deck. Five watching owls crown and cloak the owl-eyed woman holding a child. Why Eve comes to mind may have something to do with the Vau on her chest. Vau or Vav is one of the Hebrew letters of the elements – meaning “Air” and the ‘son’. She holds the dark skinned hand of a figure not in the frame – Adam?
But in actuality she may, in fact, be Lilith (Chaos) whose castle of thorns would be the nesting place of owls – the owl is her sacred animal. Wisdom is what is associated with the owl, and it creates a contradiction in her mythology. Like many women in the Bible she is maligned for her strength and independence (Isaiah). She is not the good girl. She is said to be the killer of babies, but the child in this image does not look endangered. She reminds me a little of Athena and her owl from the Two of Coins. Athena was associated with the darkness. The owl hunts at night, in silence. The snowy owl, seen in the card is a symbol of the North.
I would suspect that the message here is to let wisdom lead you and not to let defeats get you down. Not everything is as you have been told.
Thoughts?
This is one of the most breathtaking and puzzling cards of the entire deck. Five watching owls crown and cloak the owl-eyed woman holding a child. Why Eve comes to mind may have something to do with the Vau on her chest. Vau or Vav is one of the Hebrew letters of the elements – meaning “Air” and the ‘son’. She holds the dark skinned hand of a figure not in the frame – Adam?
But in actuality she may, in fact, be Lilith (Chaos) whose castle of thorns would be the nesting place of owls – the owl is her sacred animal. Wisdom is what is associated with the owl, and it creates a contradiction in her mythology. Like many women in the Bible she is maligned for her strength and independence (Isaiah). She is not the good girl. She is said to be the killer of babies, but the child in this image does not look endangered. She reminds me a little of Athena and her owl from the Two of Coins. Athena was associated with the darkness. The owl hunts at night, in silence. The snowy owl, seen in the card is a symbol of the North.
I would suspect that the message here is to let wisdom lead you and not to let defeats get you down. Not everything is as you have been told.
Thoughts?