Daily Draw
Feb. 15th, 2006 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I think its really funny that I picked this card today -- as I was thinking about it yesterday. Weird.
What's on the card: Central figure is an upright skeleton, smiling, holding a watering can. He's using the can to water two Jack o' Lanterns (already carved with happy faces) that are growing along the edge of a brick path. Behind the Jacks is a crooked wooden fence. A buzzard is sitting on the fence looking at an ankh drawn on paper tacked to the wood. On the right of the skeleton two large and crazy sunflowers (with faces) are looking down on the scene. In the background, a castle just peeking over a hill, a large tree (with a ringed planet in-between the branches, and a full moon. Other details in the foreground include a rat on the fence, a large death's head moth on one of the Jacks, some ferns and pumpkin leaves, a small spider's web on the fence, a tiny snail on the path, and a happy purring black cat, complete with tail twined around the skeleton's leg.
What I see: There's a lot going on in this picture. There's a combination of realistically drawn animals (the snail, the rat, the moth, the buzzard) and crazy wild things (the giant sunflowers with faces, the Jacks, the ringed planet). Scale is very weird, with giant things (like the moth) near to small things (the snail). There are things living and not-living at the same time (the skeleton which has eyes, or the Jacks that are carved but still connected to the ground). The whole card seems very intense, everything is moving. Its like a still from a movie, where this is just one fragment of a much larger and more complicated scene.
Ok, but what are some meanings. Death always makes me think of change, which I think is pretty similar to what many others think. This card has a lot of things that are in-between or becoming or are two things at once. A lot of things taken out of their ordinary context.
In some ways I also think this card is about letting go. I keep hearing that frou frou song (aptly named, let go). There's some wacky combinations going on here, but none of the creatures is freaking out -- they're just going with it. Taking the scene for what it is. There's a lot of paradox in there, a lot of cartoony larger-than-life-ness. The paradox aspect of it, seems to relate to the central theme of the card -- this is death with a living skeleton and an ankh prominently displayed.
I think this is a tough one to look at by itself. It needs to be with other cards in context. Or maybe I need to ponder it some more. Yeah, definitely. There's a lot going on in this card, but these are my initial thoughts. Maybe it'll come up again.
According to the book: transformation, irreversible change, not mysterious (natural process), renewal, endings for new beginnings.
(It also strikes me as having a really nice connection to Neophyte (at least as far as I've heard) or any training before the transformation into clergy. Letting go to the process, allowing yourself to see, riddles and paradoxes. And all of this going on in the middle of regular life -- not shut away somewhere. Needs more thought.
I think its really funny that I picked this card today -- as I was thinking about it yesterday. Weird.
What's on the card: Central figure is an upright skeleton, smiling, holding a watering can. He's using the can to water two Jack o' Lanterns (already carved with happy faces) that are growing along the edge of a brick path. Behind the Jacks is a crooked wooden fence. A buzzard is sitting on the fence looking at an ankh drawn on paper tacked to the wood. On the right of the skeleton two large and crazy sunflowers (with faces) are looking down on the scene. In the background, a castle just peeking over a hill, a large tree (with a ringed planet in-between the branches, and a full moon. Other details in the foreground include a rat on the fence, a large death's head moth on one of the Jacks, some ferns and pumpkin leaves, a small spider's web on the fence, a tiny snail on the path, and a happy purring black cat, complete with tail twined around the skeleton's leg.
What I see: There's a lot going on in this picture. There's a combination of realistically drawn animals (the snail, the rat, the moth, the buzzard) and crazy wild things (the giant sunflowers with faces, the Jacks, the ringed planet). Scale is very weird, with giant things (like the moth) near to small things (the snail). There are things living and not-living at the same time (the skeleton which has eyes, or the Jacks that are carved but still connected to the ground). The whole card seems very intense, everything is moving. Its like a still from a movie, where this is just one fragment of a much larger and more complicated scene.
Ok, but what are some meanings. Death always makes me think of change, which I think is pretty similar to what many others think. This card has a lot of things that are in-between or becoming or are two things at once. A lot of things taken out of their ordinary context.
In some ways I also think this card is about letting go. I keep hearing that frou frou song (aptly named, let go). There's some wacky combinations going on here, but none of the creatures is freaking out -- they're just going with it. Taking the scene for what it is. There's a lot of paradox in there, a lot of cartoony larger-than-life-ness. The paradox aspect of it, seems to relate to the central theme of the card -- this is death with a living skeleton and an ankh prominently displayed.
I think this is a tough one to look at by itself. It needs to be with other cards in context. Or maybe I need to ponder it some more. Yeah, definitely. There's a lot going on in this card, but these are my initial thoughts. Maybe it'll come up again.
According to the book: transformation, irreversible change, not mysterious (natural process), renewal, endings for new beginnings.
(It also strikes me as having a really nice connection to Neophyte (at least as far as I've heard) or any training before the transformation into clergy. Letting go to the process, allowing yourself to see, riddles and paradoxes. And all of this going on in the middle of regular life -- not shut away somewhere. Needs more thought.
