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What - it's my week for dealing with developed masculine energy? I'm still reeling from the King Swords, and I pull the King Wands!
<thinks> Do I shuffle 'im back in and cut again? Nah ... I can't do that. He normally looks reflective, or even blank, but right at this instant he's looking at me with such sadness ...
The King Wands rules the element of Fire, and Fire he has aplenty. Someone has lit a long-wicked candle, and even though the candle is invisibly below the bottom of the image, the flame gutters right up the right side of the card, forming the King's unheld Wand in its shape. Lightning, Prometheus' vehicle for moving Fire from the realm of the Gods who clearly include Jupiter (up) to the realm of humankind (down), flickers all around the face peering out at us enigmatically, a middle-aged man with a greying moustache. His hair, chin and beard (if any) are lost in turbulence. Somewhere below the nose streaks of fire seem to rush from him down and to the left until you look twice and see that it looks spookily like the streakiness of the boiling atmosphere of Jupiter. There'd even a three-dimensional poached egg to the lower-right (I obviously haven't eaten for a while) that, were I an astronomer and completely unconscious of colour, I'd be tempted to call a "Red Spot", the famous planet-sized storm that's been in full boil for about 500 years. I am, of course, ignoring the astrological symbol in the bottom-left of the card, as just too obvious, given the poached egg and streakiness.
According to the LWB, the King Wands is all about Jupiter, astronomically and astrologically. I have no problem with that. I *am* surprised, though, that nothing has been said, given the fact that we're dealing with the suit governing Fire, that no mention has been made of the fact that Jupiter's surface gives off about three times as much heat into space as it receives from the sun. There is combustion happening in there, according to the scientists, it just may not be oxygen-driven.
It's also worth noting that most of the heavy elements, including some of the mid-heavyweights like carbon, would have been pulled into Jupiter's gaseous core and compressed under its fierce gravity. There would be quite sufficient gravitational force to compress carbon into diamonds, and in the nineties a friend of mine was suggesting that there could be several hundred diamonds the size of earth embedded in the core, along with other unimaginably odd gemstones of similar size created by crushing other complex minerals. In a technologically superior future, a billionnaire who really, really loved you could present you with the biggest diamond ring you could imagine ...
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What - it's my week for dealing with developed masculine energy? I'm still reeling from the King Swords, and I pull the King Wands!
<thinks> Do I shuffle 'im back in and cut again? Nah ... I can't do that. He normally looks reflective, or even blank, but right at this instant he's looking at me with such sadness ...
The King Wands rules the element of Fire, and Fire he has aplenty. Someone has lit a long-wicked candle, and even though the candle is invisibly below the bottom of the image, the flame gutters right up the right side of the card, forming the King's unheld Wand in its shape. Lightning, Prometheus' vehicle for moving Fire from the realm of the Gods who clearly include Jupiter (up) to the realm of humankind (down), flickers all around the face peering out at us enigmatically, a middle-aged man with a greying moustache. His hair, chin and beard (if any) are lost in turbulence. Somewhere below the nose streaks of fire seem to rush from him down and to the left until you look twice and see that it looks spookily like the streakiness of the boiling atmosphere of Jupiter. There'd even a three-dimensional poached egg to the lower-right (I obviously haven't eaten for a while) that, were I an astronomer and completely unconscious of colour, I'd be tempted to call a "Red Spot", the famous planet-sized storm that's been in full boil for about 500 years. I am, of course, ignoring the astrological symbol in the bottom-left of the card, as just too obvious, given the poached egg and streakiness.
According to the LWB, the King Wands is all about Jupiter, astronomically and astrologically. I have no problem with that. I *am* surprised, though, that nothing has been said, given the fact that we're dealing with the suit governing Fire, that no mention has been made of the fact that Jupiter's surface gives off about three times as much heat into space as it receives from the sun. There is combustion happening in there, according to the scientists, it just may not be oxygen-driven.
It's also worth noting that most of the heavy elements, including some of the mid-heavyweights like carbon, would have been pulled into Jupiter's gaseous core and compressed under its fierce gravity. There would be quite sufficient gravitational force to compress carbon into diamonds, and in the nineties a friend of mine was suggesting that there could be several hundred diamonds the size of earth embedded in the core, along with other unimaginably odd gemstones of similar size created by crushing other complex minerals. In a technologically superior future, a billionnaire who really, really loved you could present you with the biggest diamond ring you could imagine ...