jmd
Diana, I like your perception of the circlets being described as manna from Heaven. In a reading, this could certainly be one perspective which could come up.
The freedom (from the bondage of the previous card) which you mention fits perfectly when one considers the sequence of the cards. Given that I also pair them, as I have mentioned in a couple of other threads, this card also symbolises, for me, the destruction of the existing 'home' in order for the new one to be able to emerge.
Here, the arrow of 'cupid' (on VI) has become a lightning bolt which destroys the existing home of the mother (the crown) as the lover and his beloved feel in turmoil in their new undertaking: any decision, once made, has consequences which alters the status-quo.
But to return to more 'formal' depictions, I have finally scanned the Cathedral depiction I mentioned in the first post of this thread.
Attached is what I've called the 'Amiens XVI' - as I presume it comes from the Amiens Cathedral, not the Reims as mentioned by Gettier.
The freedom (from the bondage of the previous card) which you mention fits perfectly when one considers the sequence of the cards. Given that I also pair them, as I have mentioned in a couple of other threads, this card also symbolises, for me, the destruction of the existing 'home' in order for the new one to be able to emerge.
Here, the arrow of 'cupid' (on VI) has become a lightning bolt which destroys the existing home of the mother (the crown) as the lover and his beloved feel in turmoil in their new undertaking: any decision, once made, has consequences which alters the status-quo.
But to return to more 'formal' depictions, I have finally scanned the Cathedral depiction I mentioned in the first post of this thread.
Attached is what I've called the 'Amiens XVI' - as I presume it comes from the Amiens Cathedral, not the Reims as mentioned by Gettier.