Luna's Crone
It definitely looks like a back with a magnifying glass. i think i am having a hard time seeing it as a head because it still looks so a live.
It is a platform or stage! and that is not a head, look close under the horse and blacket, you can see her feet. the horse on the right is turned sideways. he is not standing faceing straight ahead.
To me it looks more like he's sitting, and those are his feet. Otherwise the woman is at a very strange angle anatomically speaking.
I think the trick is in the interpretation. What's the interpretation if it's a woman's bust instead of a severed head? What's the interpretation if the head isn't decapitated and those are the woman's feet at the bottom?
The way I see it, there's no wrong answer as long as the symbolism means something to you.
but for those of us a bit whimpy this kinda study, its great to have feedback. I have a tendency to get excited about discoveries, and apparently it now includes tarot cards as well.
The only "rule" (IMO) is that we should look for a link to the traditional or generally understood meaning. Maybe not at first or your might stifle the brainstorming process. But in the end, I try to bring it back to the Tarot system. For example, the King of Wands could be a lot of things within the context of a fiery, masculinized person, but he can't be something totally unrelated like a youthful, dreamy woman, right?
I have never noticed that the woman shall be dead. Since the King is represented as the Sun God Ra, she has always been an Egyptian woman for me, sitting by his feet.
She represents the earth mother and deep inside her is the fire, the magma. So the yellow ball is some kind of a volcano and the red streams are magma on the picture.
This it says in the book under the "Witch medicine" part, but I don't understand it at all since I'm not a Wicca.