Skydancer
Hey Elven-girl!!
*You can run but you can not hide!* (hehe)
Yeah, it's me again!
I am liking the book - but am finding that I like picturing the symbols rather than reading about them. I like a lot of what Linda says - don't get me wrong. But I like the "first picture that pops into my head" when I read the symbol better. So far -- I've only had the book for a couple of weeks or so.
For example - "a rug dealer is sitting upon his stack of rugs" paraphrasing a bit I think! Anyway, I'm into mid-eastern culture so I picture a Persian rug dealer. Or Arabic. (Lived there for 3 years back in 1st-3rd grade) However, someone here might see a vast mall with heaps of discount rugs or all shapes and sizes and the salesman stumbling atop while making deals to the people standing around. Same symbol but two different scenes. Neither one is better than the other - it means what it means.
So someone said that a friend of theirs is drawing the symbols and wants to publish a book. Fine; but that by definition limits the vast array of possibilities that just the written discription can conjure up in the mind's eye. I'd rather go with my own imagination and not someone else's ideas. For this type of work. (Tarot is, you know, different!)
I've even found myself thinking up similar one-line discriptions that (so far) I haven't seen in the 360.
So - I'll check in here and see what you guys are up to. I might suggest taking one card (well, two really) at random and put them up here for discussion. People without the book can look them up at Linda's site. The site tells you how to do it for individual cards of your choice.
Later then ~!
*S*
*You can run but you can not hide!* (hehe)
Yeah, it's me again!
I am liking the book - but am finding that I like picturing the symbols rather than reading about them. I like a lot of what Linda says - don't get me wrong. But I like the "first picture that pops into my head" when I read the symbol better. So far -- I've only had the book for a couple of weeks or so.
For example - "a rug dealer is sitting upon his stack of rugs" paraphrasing a bit I think! Anyway, I'm into mid-eastern culture so I picture a Persian rug dealer. Or Arabic. (Lived there for 3 years back in 1st-3rd grade) However, someone here might see a vast mall with heaps of discount rugs or all shapes and sizes and the salesman stumbling atop while making deals to the people standing around. Same symbol but two different scenes. Neither one is better than the other - it means what it means.
So someone said that a friend of theirs is drawing the symbols and wants to publish a book. Fine; but that by definition limits the vast array of possibilities that just the written discription can conjure up in the mind's eye. I'd rather go with my own imagination and not someone else's ideas. For this type of work. (Tarot is, you know, different!)
I've even found myself thinking up similar one-line discriptions that (so far) I haven't seen in the 360.
So - I'll check in here and see what you guys are up to. I might suggest taking one card (well, two really) at random and put them up here for discussion. People without the book can look them up at Linda's site. The site tells you how to do it for individual cards of your choice.
Later then ~!
*S*