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WillieHewes

This looks very nice, I hope you can finish the deck, patter. If you have some more cards up (5 or so) maybe you want to join our webring? ( http://www.tarotcards.tk )


Willie - finished her deck some time ago
 

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temperlyne said:
I will get lost among my own ideas. I probably won't be able to keep up with you, but I'll try! [/B]

Good! My own interest might wane so having some-one else giving it a go will be a good prompt!

Here is my magician - not sure I am entirely happy with it, but it has the symbols I wanted -- may need a tad of reworking but I am not going to be a perfectionist about it at this stage.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1017605
 

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WillieHewes said:
This looks very nice, I hope you can finish the deck, patter. If you have some more cards up (5 or so) maybe you want to join our webring? ( http://www.tarotcards.tk )


Willie - finished her deck some time ago

Well done you!

I will have a look at this when I have that many done.

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patter

hey kayne - hope you don't mind that I reply here rather than at devart.

I used prometheus so capture the magician as technologist and teacher, and a person who acts willfully/skillfully rather than intuitively/spiritually (for good and ill).

So fire is the basis of much of technology, the inductrial revolution etc -- internal combustion / steam engine (guns/bombs/slash & burn agriculture) etc. Prometheus was a teacher who gave this to humans for noble reasons but with good and bad outcomes for them and himself... He acted willfully by going against the will of the gods/thinking he knew best. So I show a bridge shape and fire to suggest science/technological creativity. The eagle/vuture shows the negative outcomes but the figures expression is meant to suggest that having given warmth to humans he is to some degree at peace with himself.

I generally read the magician card either as a strong willed or forceful person -- or an action by the querent that relates to professional skills or strong non-spiritual beliefs. -- Of course their are dozens of other possible readings in context...

blah blah blah.

enough about that

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kayne

Excellent Patter, that is exactly what I was interested in. :) It would be great if you included that sort of info in the 'description' section on DA. :)

Now i see your card as the Magician! :D
 

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priestess

hmmm. I guess I see my own symbology as obvious -- but 'course it isn't. I just have never talked tarot with anyone who knoew anything about tarot before. Aint the internet grand?

Here is an equally bizarre choice -- the Perseus Preistess -- with some explanation this time:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1035034
 

temperlyne

Wow! You've really picked up the speed! I love yoyr version of the devil.
I Hope you can continue to work with so much inspiration and
energy and am looking forward to your next creations.

(I'm still looking for time and a scanner myself, but soon very soon I will be able to post my own cards here as well.)

temperlyne