Daily Tarot
Feb. 14th, 2006 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sleepymaggieI think I'm going to post a daily tarot card and my thoughts on them. Rather than putting them all in my pagan filter, I'm just going to post them here. All cards (unless noted) are drawn from the Halloween Tarot, my favorite deck.
Justice
What it looks like: A pumpkin headed straw-man holds up scales in the center of the pic. The scales hold two shrunken heads on one side and a large rat on the other. There is a tree on either side: on the right, is an owl and on the left two bats. A green full moon is in the sky between the two. A crow or raven is perched on the pumpkin heads left shoulder. At his feet is a voodoo doll with a large red heart on its chest -- through the heart is one pin. The final image is the black cat (who appears in every card) looking at the rat in the scales, with one paw raised.
What it brings to mind: I often read Justice as balance, trying to bring yourself into harmony with life. Often its a positive card -- or a card that shows things can be positive if you work at it. Its a card that requires your efforts. There seems to be more going on here though -- every figure in the card is looking at the scales in...wonder? curiousity? The heads and the rat look at each other -- two dead heads, for one live rat.
At least once I've read this card much more negatively -- as stagnation, stillness, unwillingness to change or tip the scales. Today, I'm thinking about that voodoo doll in the corner and what its connotations are: revenge, balance through revenge, blood for blood. It has weird little teeth, and it isn't smiling. Balance taken too far?
Another thing I've just noticed. The pumpkin head is sort of off-balance in the picture. He leans in from the left and has all his weight on his left foot, which is the only one we can see. His shoe is untied and the lace is dragging on the ground. Balance is precarious? Balance is only momentary? Any second now he's going to tumble over with all those animals watching. This balance of the scales is only momentary, an instant. He's dancing, but also falling down.
There are some interesting things in the halloween tarot book, symbolisms of animals and such. The artist balanced animals across from each other, like good luck bats (Chinese thinking) versus the black cat of bad luck (American). The owl is for wisdom, the crow is to get rid of waste and excess. The doll is revenge. The scarecrow could be compared to the Wizard of Oz -- he wants a brain, he wants mental balance. It mentions that this is card 11, half way through the Major Arcana, balancing the two halves on itself. Interesting thought. I think I might (when I have some time) lay the cards out with Justice as the the fulcrum point and see what patterns come from that.
Justice
What it looks like: A pumpkin headed straw-man holds up scales in the center of the pic. The scales hold two shrunken heads on one side and a large rat on the other. There is a tree on either side: on the right, is an owl and on the left two bats. A green full moon is in the sky between the two. A crow or raven is perched on the pumpkin heads left shoulder. At his feet is a voodoo doll with a large red heart on its chest -- through the heart is one pin. The final image is the black cat (who appears in every card) looking at the rat in the scales, with one paw raised.
What it brings to mind: I often read Justice as balance, trying to bring yourself into harmony with life. Often its a positive card -- or a card that shows things can be positive if you work at it. Its a card that requires your efforts. There seems to be more going on here though -- every figure in the card is looking at the scales in...wonder? curiousity? The heads and the rat look at each other -- two dead heads, for one live rat.
At least once I've read this card much more negatively -- as stagnation, stillness, unwillingness to change or tip the scales. Today, I'm thinking about that voodoo doll in the corner and what its connotations are: revenge, balance through revenge, blood for blood. It has weird little teeth, and it isn't smiling. Balance taken too far?
Another thing I've just noticed. The pumpkin head is sort of off-balance in the picture. He leans in from the left and has all his weight on his left foot, which is the only one we can see. His shoe is untied and the lace is dragging on the ground. Balance is precarious? Balance is only momentary? Any second now he's going to tumble over with all those animals watching. This balance of the scales is only momentary, an instant. He's dancing, but also falling down.
There are some interesting things in the halloween tarot book, symbolisms of animals and such. The artist balanced animals across from each other, like good luck bats (Chinese thinking) versus the black cat of bad luck (American). The owl is for wisdom, the crow is to get rid of waste and excess. The doll is revenge. The scarecrow could be compared to the Wizard of Oz -- he wants a brain, he wants mental balance. It mentions that this is card 11, half way through the Major Arcana, balancing the two halves on itself. Interesting thought. I think I might (when I have some time) lay the cards out with Justice as the the fulcrum point and see what patterns come from that.
