WolfyJames
You know, at this rythmn, we might finish the whole deck in a month or two.
cjtarot has also written interesting stuffs on this card, and other cards as well, in a thread on The Gothic Tarot and he/she accepted graciously to be quoted here.
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Vargo's cards were based on earlier works, you can see some of them on his website. This card is called Dracula, and the three women are the vampire women in the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stocker.
The Emperor is sitting on his throne made of wood and covered with red velvet. He wears a black costume with a black cloak, and red accessories, a red gem on a ring on his ring finger of his left hand. A raven is at the top of the throne. Three women surround the Emperor, all wearing long pale blue nightgown, with a few jewels, and the third one is sit at his feet, with a bloody skull under her left hand. The throne is at the top of the steps, the fourth step. Another skull lies at the second step on the left. Two bats are flying on the right and there's a wolf being caressed by the Emperor on the left.
As I mentionned in the Fool, there's a lot of red in this deck, red meaning the underwold, the dead, hell... and blood. The wolf, the bats and the raven here have red eyes, like all the animals in the deck, including the wolf in The Fool, that I forgot to mention. The throne is covered by red velvet, the Emperor wears red velvet as well with red garmnent and a red ring. All the people's lips here are red too.
It's obvious that the Emperor has authority on these women, including all the animals in the deck, represented by the wolf, the raven and the bats. Whoever contradicts this Emperor might end up like the previous people who tried before; we can see their remains on the steps.
cjtarot has also written interesting stuffs on this card, and other cards as well, in a thread on The Gothic Tarot and he/she accepted graciously to be quoted here.
cjtarot said:I want to respond to the quote about the Lovers, the High Priest and the Empress standing in the same arch...
The Empress, guards her home...the relm of beond. (note the Emperor is inside with all the babe's doing NOTHING)
The Hight PRiest guards the knowledge in the Relm of beond
The Lovers..It is your choice (or is it) to enter into the Relm..note the lovers almost look farther into the arch..
Also look at the High Priestess and the 9 of cups...
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The HP..guarding the unknow of our sub consious - or the door to the afterlife.
The 9 of cups.. Cups are emotion, our life flow if you will..the 9 is showing the final preperation before we are fufilled, before the final journey into the ultimate unknow..(Note the 10 of cups is within that arch..the claiming or the dark angel leading you away)
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Vargo's cards were based on earlier works, you can see some of them on his website. This card is called Dracula, and the three women are the vampire women in the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stocker.
The Emperor is sitting on his throne made of wood and covered with red velvet. He wears a black costume with a black cloak, and red accessories, a red gem on a ring on his ring finger of his left hand. A raven is at the top of the throne. Three women surround the Emperor, all wearing long pale blue nightgown, with a few jewels, and the third one is sit at his feet, with a bloody skull under her left hand. The throne is at the top of the steps, the fourth step. Another skull lies at the second step on the left. Two bats are flying on the right and there's a wolf being caressed by the Emperor on the left.
As I mentionned in the Fool, there's a lot of red in this deck, red meaning the underwold, the dead, hell... and blood. The wolf, the bats and the raven here have red eyes, like all the animals in the deck, including the wolf in The Fool, that I forgot to mention. The throne is covered by red velvet, the Emperor wears red velvet as well with red garmnent and a red ring. All the people's lips here are red too.
It's obvious that the Emperor has authority on these women, including all the animals in the deck, represented by the wolf, the raven and the bats. Whoever contradicts this Emperor might end up like the previous people who tried before; we can see their remains on the steps.