PhantomAH
Is this some kind of fruit or flower? I am looking at the Universal Waite deck and what is does it mean.
Thanks in advance..
AH
Thanks in advance..
AH
I find it helps to imagine the physical reality of a symbol,Fulgour said:Innana was the Goddess of the Date Palm Warehouse,
and just as each harvest would fill it, soon it was empty,
and yet she was always there, waiting to be filled anew.
Colman Smith's "High Priestess" from 1909 original
http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/img/ar02.jpg
Date palms are the source of many mysterious myths,
from the lotus to papyrus, from the sacred to the daily
things of life ~ all wonderment and gratitude is there.
Ah, but Waite says "She had to be spoon-fed carefully over the Priestess Card, over that which is called the Fool and over the Hanged Man." ... "she" being PCS. And we know from her own words that her work was limited to the line drawings in black and white. Color was added by the printers.Rosanne said:Hi PhantomAh, They are as Flavio said, Pomegranates. The word means 'apple full of seed' Blood red juice as well. It has natural estrogen and symbolises among other things rebirth. Persephone(Myth) never quite returns to a state of 'unknowing' after having eaten the pomegranate. It also means immortality and is the emblem of Juno (Intuition) and sometimes thought to be missing from the Tarot Deck along with Jupiter.
What I really want to tell you is that if you look at the veil the pomegranates are arranged like the tree of life with the uncoloured one in the position of Daat, the unseen sefirot, and her head is over the sefirot Tiferet(beauty). She was a clever lady Pamela Coleman Smith and her insight is profound. I hope all this was not 'too much' information ~Rosanne
What I really want to tell you is that if you look at the veil the pomegranates are arranged like the tree of life with the uncoloured one in the position of Daat, the unseen sefirot, and her head is over the sefirot Tiferet(beauty). She was a clever lady Pamela Coleman Smith and her insight is profound. I hope all this was not 'too much' information ~Rosanne