Three of Swords β€” Fantasy Showcase Tarot

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Jim OdbertArtist: Jim Odbert

 

From the LWB*:

Meaning: Sorrow; strife in love.

Reversed: Disarray in love affairs; caution against loss.

 

Again, the same card two days in a row. I said, β€œTell me something about printing my tarot deck.” I am really looking for advice. I got a few estimates. I have to decide how many decks I want to print, what size the deck should be, how to package it, and (especially) how much money I want to spend up front. I’m beginning to settle on a limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies. I would kinda like to package them in a folio-type cover, tied closed by ribbon, designed & stamped. It would take a while to make those folio covers, tho. The printing company I’m thinking of going with doesn’t seem to make card boxes, but they have a reputation for very good card quality and they do small runs. I’m horrible at marketing.

 

So anyhow, I drew the Three of Swords reversed which, according to this little white book, can mean β€œcaution against loss.” I can’t think of what that might refer to other than loss of money. I’m really pretty paranoid about losing money in this endeavor. I’ve already spent so much time drawing the pictures. I mean, I guess it just might not get as spectacular reception as I’ve hoped. That would feel like a loss. Or sorrow. What about sorrow is not loss or loss is not sorrow? I do hope for a lot in terms of what others think of my work, but there are so many people and so many opinions. Like color? Not this deck! β€œTraditional” tarot symbolism? Not much here! Conformity? Forget it! But if you want some new ideas, a new way of looking at things, I have a story to tell in rich black and voluptuous curves and eventually, some day, words.

 

Anyone out there who wants to tell me what they really like in a deck and how it is packaged is more than welcome to (please) let me know!

 

*Little White Book of Possibly Arbitrary Meanings

 

Six of Swords β€” Fantasy Showcase Tarot

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

George MetzgerArtist: George Metzger

 

Interpretation: Uprightβ€” Escape from oppressions; a water journey; sending forth of a representative in one’s stead. Reversedβ€” Stasis; inescapability of difficulties; unfavorable outcomes.

 

Yesterday I came across a blog article by Alec Satin called 37 Best Tarot Questions. I like the question: “What should I look out for?”

 

This image shows three cloaked people on a boat in very deep water. It is drawn in such a way that I have a good view of what is above and what is below. In truth, without the perfect angle, water’s seemingly transparent surface most often distorts or obliterates the view of what is on the other side. Water is the medium.

 

[This entry is interrupted by a news-flash from my younger sister, who quickly reveals something to look out forβ€”]

 

The water is the Media whose waves of Propiganda

obscure the Terror of the outsize Corporation

whose deep pockets sink the Boat of Innovation.

 

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Ace of Cups β€” The Fantasy Showcase Tarot

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

C. Lee Healey[Although I’ve had this deck for a number of years, I’ve always been afraid to shuffle it in fear that I would thereafter never be able to tell what many of the cards are. Now it’s shuffled.]

 

Artist: C. Lee Healey

 

Interpretation: “Great love; fertility; bounty; productiveness.”

 

Ace of cups. To be full of love. The greatest love one can offer out is true love of one’s self. How can one truly love others if one does not love one’s self?

 

I am pregnant by means of love, showing my fertility, the bounty of which should be a child in another four months’ time, demonstrating my (re)productiveness. In order to best love my child, I need to act with love toward myself.

 

Last night I dreamed I was a fuzzy little winged-creature of the soaring (not flapping) type. I was clinging to the edge of a precipice with a strong updraft. I wondered, if I spread my wings and leapt and soared just right, could I go outward, round a small promontory in the cliff face, and land once more clinging to the vertical stone on the other side? My friends encouraged me. I leapt and plummeted down, down, with the cliff face shooting up before me as I fell faster and faster, the wind whipping through my wings at breakneck speed and the darkness ever deepening. It was a significant moment before I realized I needed to learn to flap if I was ever going to return to the cliff. I flapped as hard as I could, my body seeming heavier each moment, my forward movement barely negligible, my downward movement reaching terminal velocity.

 

Thus was the dream.

 

What impressed me about the dream is that I didn’t panic. Panicking would have been a waste of time. I thought only for a moment that, by the time I returned to the cliff face, I would have to climb upwards thousands of feet out of the darkness. There is no how to view private instagram profiles without following no survey point in worrying about the scarcity of handholds or the integrity of the rock or the height of a climb on a cliff face I might never reach.

 

Moral: Take care of the present, and the future will take care of itself.