WolfyJames
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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The setting of the card is the same as The High Priestess, so I won't repeat myself here. Instead of the High Priestess, we have a sarcaphaegus under the arch.
This card, unlike most of the deck, still puzzles me. This is the wish card, is death a wish? This is a mommy, embalmed and all in this sarcaphaegus. The Egyptians used to make the brain come out through the nose, and internal organs, and put them into jars next to the sarcaphaegus, then put into some vault like that. Is it that physical death is necessary in order to be reborn as a vampire? Therefore, for the living people who want to become a vampire, death is their wish?
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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The setting of the card is the same as The High Priestess, so I won't repeat myself here. Instead of the High Priestess, we have a sarcaphaegus under the arch.
This card, unlike most of the deck, still puzzles me. This is the wish card, is death a wish? This is a mommy, embalmed and all in this sarcaphaegus. The Egyptians used to make the brain come out through the nose, and internal organs, and put them into jars next to the sarcaphaegus, then put into some vault like that. Is it that physical death is necessary in order to be reborn as a vampire? Therefore, for the living people who want to become a vampire, death is their wish?