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u24
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i want to take some photos to turn into a tarot deck. If anyone can list the major arcana and the usual visual symbolism that goes with them, or point me to a site that does, I'd be grateful. I may re-use some of my_photos in the deck.
cheers,
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u24
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actually, I don't think I'll stick to the common symbolism, partly due to lack of resouces, but also because it would restrict the artistic freedom. though it would be a good project to help formalise my photography (a photographic project would be a good thing for me to do... later)
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u24
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but, copied from the site above, this list may help me and/or others wanting to make a tarot deck:
0 - The Fool:
Free spirited youth walking unafraid off a cliff, dog nipping at heels.
I - The Magician:
A man standing at a table upon which all 4 suit symbols sit, a cup, coin, sword and wand. His may have his hands so one is pointed at the sky and one pointed at the earth. He usually has an infinity symbol or lemniscate, usually over his head.
II - The High Priestess:
Woman between 2 pillars which may be colored one black and one white. A crescent moon at her feet. Usually strongly blue in color, sometimes purple. Often she has an open book in her lap.
III - The Empress:
A motherly type woman sitting comfortably in a chair in a natural setting.
IV - The Emperor:
A fatherly looking man, often on throne decorated with rams heads.
V- The Hierophant or Pope:
A man dressed in the garb of priest or pope. He often sits on a throne between 2 pillars. He often has 2 younger looking people kneeling before him.
VI - The Lovers:
Two naked people standing hand in hand. Sometimes includes an angel above them, like a cupid blessing their union. Think Adam and Eve.
VII- The Chariot:
A Charioteer. Often the chariot is drawn by two horses, one black, one white. Sometimes he has a canopy of stars above his head.
VIII as Justice:
This is the non Rider Waite numbering. Shows a woman holding balanced scales.
VIII as Strength:
This is the numbering used by the Rider Waite and adopted y many modern decks. Shows a woman and a lion and she is often gently closing or holding its open mouth.
IX - The Hermit:
Shows a lone man in long robes holding out a lit lantern. Sometimes he is on a snowy mountaintop.
X - The Wheel of Fortune:
A wheel with different animals at each cardinal point. The old cards said around the edges, "I reign, I will reign, I have reigned, I don't reign".
XI - as Strength:
This is the older style numbering. Shows a woman and a lion and she is often gently closing or holding its open mouth.
XI - as Justice:
This is the Rider Waite style numbering often adopted in modern decks.
Shows a woman holding balanced scales.
XII - The Hanged Man
A man hanging side down from a tree, a gallows or some other wood support. He often has his legs bent into a '4' type shape.
XIII - Death:
A Grim Reaper or a skeleton. Sometimes on a horse and sometimes reaping people of all classes.
XIV - Temperance:
An angel, woman or androgyne pouring water from one urn or cup to another. Sometimes with one foot on land and one foot in a river or other water.
XV - The Devil:
A devil, goat-faced, horned and bat-winged. Sometimes he holds naked Adam and Eve like figures at the end of chains.
XVI - The Tower:
Aall tower being struck by lightning and being blown apart or on fire in some way. Pople are falling from it.
XVII The Star:
A woman under a large star. Often she nude and often se is standing with one foot on land and one in water and is pouring water onto each.
XVIII - The Moon:
A moon smetimes with 2 pillars. There is often a crustacean of some sort rising from thepths. Sometimes wolf is on one shore and a dog on the other.
XIX - The Sun:
A sun. Can have any or all of; sunflowers, naked, frolicking children, white horse, loose red covering on child/children.
XX - Judgment:
An angel blowing a horn and people rising from their graves.
XXI - The World:
A naked woman, maybe dancing, in the center of a wheel which might contain some representation of the 4 elements. The wheel might be bordered by a laurel wreath.
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misstree
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remind me once my visitor is no longer the main focus of all my hours
i spent some time poking into the quabbalistic roots of tarot so i could put together an interpretation booklet for meself... didn't get too much into the major arcana, but the biggest gist of both halves is that they're paths... thus starting with the fool and progressing from each step.
like i said, if reminded, i'll holla nearby our other mechanical theoretical discussionary groupings.
also be very interested to see the ways that you tangent from tradition. tradition only is there as the way it has been done before. no reason to think it's any more right than any other way. well, yeah. that statement isn't *entirely* true, but, well, guestness calls...
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u24
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i'm probably to go completely abstract and have the picture have nothing whatsoever to do with the cards they represent. I may try to use indicative pictures, so that the_star may become a river reflecting sunlight (to show clarity and reflect the common view of time as a river).
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nice one u24 i'm also hoping to make my own tarot deck (but not right now. Good luck with yours.
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unhinged
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tara has her own deck of tarot now
she overlaps pretty nearly with that tarot
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