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foo_intherain

East/West Tarot

CURRENT IMAGE PROGRESS: http://xcisor.deviantart.com/gallery/56041136/Devious-Folder

TAROT SKELETON:

Diamonds: Earth
Stars: Air
Lotuses: Water
Candles: Fire

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-1/12: Science
0: Folly
1: Seeking
2: Self
3: Body
4: Mind
5: Law
6: Love
7: Action
8: Inaction
9: Soul-itude
10: Karma
00: Transcendence
11: Forgiveness
12: Surrender
13: Emptiness
14: Equilibrium
15: Half-Truth
16: Truth
17: Gratitude
18: Oblivion
19: Enlightenment
20: Reflection
21: Union
Φ: Art
==

Diamonds]:
A: [ ]
2: Pay Day
3: Expansion
4: Contraction
5: Poverty
6: Attitude
7: Commitment
8: Effort
9: Effortlessness
10: Provision
P: Confidence
N: Experience
Q: Motherhood
K: Mastery

Stars]:
A: <>
2: Ignorance
3: Heart Break
4: Retreat
5: Malice
6: Rejection
7: Pride
8: Humiliation
9: Suffering
10: Victimhood
P: Progress
N: Logic
Q: Paradox
K: Authority

Lotuses]:
A: ( )
2: Intimacy
3: Kinship
4: Meaning
5: Expectation
6: Innocence
7: Infatuation
8: Impermanence
9: Ideals
10: Lucidity
P: Poetry
N: Romance
Q: Compassion
K: Sanctity

Candles]:
A: /\
2: Creativity
3: Vision
4: Spontaneity
5: Competition
6: Achievement
7: Madness
8: Closure
9: Glory
10: Perfection
P: Personality
N: Passion
Q: Sex
K: Immortality
 

foo_intherain

I added a link to the image of the Hanged Man card.

And some narrative:


A master once appeared before a gathering of his disciples.

During this sermon he spoke not a single word.

He but held up a flower.

The gathering of seekers looked upon the flower with puzzled faces

What is he trying to say? They pondered.

Has he gone mad? They asked.

One man laughed, a real uproarious laugh.

“Surely THAT MAN has gone mad!” The crowd agreed amongst themselves.

The seeker’s analytical mind tried to find a meaning to the sermon but it could not find any.

That is why he laughed.

Because he realized, the whole time he was trying to find the
meaning, he was missing out on the beauty of the flower.

One may only tend the garden.

The flower must bloom on its own.
 

reall

Awww! this is fantastic! ^^ luv your idea!^^ painting you mentioned above are some of my fav! and text is fantastic!^^ keep up with good work!^^:)) you're on my DA watch list!^^XD ;))
 

karen0205

Is this a deck you are working on or have finished or looking for input
on or just documenting? There's really no explanation with your
list of images.

The one image you posted is lovely, is that your work or someone elses?
I would like to see more images if available.
Can we get a little info about what you are posting?
 

foo_intherain

This is a deck I am working on. I have the whole thing plotted out as far as what themes I want to depict in each case. The insights are dominantly going to be pulled from historical incidences, namely from Western Philosophy, Zen Buddhism and Middle Eastern religion. Its going to loosely resemble the OSHO: Zen Tarot deck: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/osho-zen/

Yes, I am working on doing all my own art for these. The icons on the cardface (candle, star, lotus, diamond) are all royalty free stock vectors I found online, and the center pieces are custom mixed media art by myself. I draw the image in colored pencil then add a watercolor background in photoshop.

I've added a second image, one of THE TOWER card in the set. Its depicted by a black swan and the caption reads "I know that I know nothing".

The phrase "black swan" derives from a Latin expression; its oldest known occurrence is the poet Juvenal's characterization of something being "rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno" ("a rare bird in the lands and very much like a black swan". When the phrase was coined, the black swan was presumed not to exist. The importance of the metaphor lies in its analogy to the fragility of any system of thought. A set of conclusions is potentially undone once any of its fundamental postulates is disproved. In this case, the observation of a single black swan would be the undoing of the logic of any system of thought, as well as any reasoning that followed from that underlying logic.

The Swan's figure is also shaped like that of a cardiac heart, or realistic, non-valentine type heart, the one seen being formed by the necks of the two white swans depicted on HALF TRUTH (DEVIL) 15th card.

Other Major themes and Symbolism of TRUTH card:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_emblems_and_popular_culture#Aboriginal_history_and_lore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_emblems_and_popular_culture#European_myth_and_metaphor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

http://wildgratitude.com/swan-symbolism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism
 

foo_intherain

Added a link to the image of THE LOVERS card (6) to the original post. The main themes are:

The Sacred Heart universally symbolizes the transformative power of divine love for humanity.

Fire - Passion, Sexuality/Pleasure
Thorns - Pain/Growth
Hands - Offering love to another, from within, not asking for it from without. Two choices, following your heart/vs not following it

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Commentary by OSHO:

"And Because the transformation is going to be from the self towards a state of no-self, agony is very deep. But you Cannot have ecstasy without going through agony. If the gold wants to be purified, it has to pass through fire.

Love is fire.

Love gives you the first experience of being in tune with something that is not your ego. Love gives you the first lesson that you can fall into harmony with someone who has never been part of your ego. If you can be in harmony with a woman, if you can be in harmony with a friend, with a man, if you can be in harmony with your child or with your mother, why can’t you be in harmony with all human beings? And if to be in harmony with a single person gives such joy, what will be the outcome if you are in harmony with all human beings? And if you can be in harmony with all human beings, why can’t you be in harmony with animals and birds and trees? Then one step leads to another.

Love is a ladder. It starts with one person, it ends with the totality. Love is the beginning, God is the end. To be afraid of love, to be afraid of the growing pains of love, is to remain enclosed in a dark cell."
 

karen0205

Are you looking for feedback or just sharing your progress?

Are you going to include a book too?
 

foo_intherain

Are you looking for feedback or just sharing your progress?

Are you going to include a book too?

Showing progress and welcoming comments/criticism. And yes, intending to have narrative to go along with the card symbolism. Right now I've got a list of themes and quotes, and am drawing each card right now, going at about 1 per day rate at the moment, each of the current three over the past 3 days, then the booklet will come after all the art is done.
 

foo_intherain

Add THE MAGICIAN card to the original post!

Added narrative:

Legend has it that Bodhidharma initially refused to teach Huike. Huike stood in the snow outside Bodhidharma’s cave all night, until the snow reached his waist. In the morning Bodhidharma asked him why he was there. Huike replied that he wanted a teacher to "open the gate of the elixir of universal compassion to liberate all beings".

Bodhidharma refused, saying, that he would teach Huike when red snow fell from the sky.

Hearing this, something inside Huike's heart changed and he took the sword he carried from his belt and cut off his left arm. He held the severed arm above his head and whirled it around. The blood from the arm froze in the cold air and fell like red snow. Seeing this, Bodhidharma agreed to teach Huike.
 

foo_intherain

Added a link to original post for the DEATH card.