retrokat
The Female Pope vs. The High Priestess
My deck http://goldentarot.com is intended to be a Renaissance-style deck with modern readability, and this card was one where the historical and modern interpretations required a bit of juggling. Surprisingly, it ended up being one of my personal favourites when I finally finished with it.
I'm not a christian, so perhaps that's why I can be fascinated by the Pope Joan idea without seeing it at odds in any way with more pre-christian female authority figures.
I ended up going for a figure that's clearly papal, but includes a madonna figure and non-christian female sybolism (a cat, for example). I hope people can see whichever they prefer in it (female pope or high priestess).
It's one of the few cards from the to-be-published version that I've got on my site:
http://www.goldentarot.com/v2preview.htm
Hopefully the new cards will all appear on the site very shortly, although they won't be very big thanks to commercial piracy of the original (grrrrr.)
My deck http://goldentarot.com is intended to be a Renaissance-style deck with modern readability, and this card was one where the historical and modern interpretations required a bit of juggling. Surprisingly, it ended up being one of my personal favourites when I finally finished with it.
I'm not a christian, so perhaps that's why I can be fascinated by the Pope Joan idea without seeing it at odds in any way with more pre-christian female authority figures.
I ended up going for a figure that's clearly papal, but includes a madonna figure and non-christian female sybolism (a cat, for example). I hope people can see whichever they prefer in it (female pope or high priestess).
It's one of the few cards from the to-be-published version that I've got on my site:
http://www.goldentarot.com/v2preview.htm
Hopefully the new cards will all appear on the site very shortly, although they won't be very big thanks to commercial piracy of the original (grrrrr.)