Roswila's Tarot Gallery & Journal: A TAROT FAIRY

Saturday, June 28, 2008

A TAROT FAIRY

I just stumbled across this fabulous Tarot costume photo. It was taken by "giddygirlie" at the 2007 San Diego Comic Con:

A Fairy in a Tarot Gown

What a lot of imagination, not to mention work, went into this. Wish I could have seen it "live and in person." I don't imagine, though, she could sit down ... unless she had a small chair/stool scooted up underneath it ... or maybe it was flexible like those old hoop skirts this old lady remembers wearing in her long ago youth. But even those hoops took a lot of negotiation or one wound up rather exposed up front when sitting down. LOL!

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‘til next time, keep enjoying The Tarot, where and whenever it shows up in life,

[aka: Patricia Kelly]
****If you wish to copy or use any of my writing, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”)**** SEE ALSO: Roswila’s Dream & Poetry Realm for Tarot poetry; Roswila’s Taiga Tarot for taiga (illustrated tanka); and Yahoo DREAMJIN: Group for Dreamku – Haiku-Like Dream Poems.****

3 Comments:

LGD said...: "hoops took a lot of negotiation or one wound up rather exposed up front when sitting down"

Photos-- please!; 2:39 PM
Roswila said...: Only if another woman of my age will share hers! :-D

Worse than those hoops (which I gave up on rather quickly) were the crinolines. We had less than two minutes in school to change into our gymn outfits and stuff a gazillion fluffy crinolens into a small locker. Seriously! Not those full length ones, but those barely a foot square and maybe, just maybe, 2 feet deep ... and you had to fit all your books and notebooks, bag, etc. into it as well. If I didn't already mostly dislike gymn, that alone would have finished it for me.; 3:06 PM
Anonymous said...: She is looking like a women from world of fantasy.; 8:45 PM

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What's new on ROSWILA'S MARKER TAROT (deck-in-progress) as of 8-20-15: THE MAGICIAN

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PLEASE NOTE: All photos on this blog designated as cards in Roswila's "The Found Tarot" are by Patricia Kelly (a/k/a Roswila)

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"...No student will ever exhaust the possibilities of this extraordinary symbolic alphabet, any more than one person can exhaust the possibilities of a language." BOTA Tarot Course

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"Tarot cards are like people. We get to know them more or less well, but never completely. And like people, they change with experience of them. This is not to say we can't really know a card. Anymore than one would say one doesn't really know one's best friend or mate or lover. Simply that with these cards we form, as with people, many-faceted, changing relationships." Roswila

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MY TAROT BACKGROUND: I've studied, collected and taught Tarot for 45 years, collecting many, many notes about meanings, approaches, and layouts I've seen or developed for the cards. I do not usually post the more traditional meanings as I learned them, but only those that are -- at least to me -- less common as they occur to me (many with a decidedly psychological bent). I ultimately offer Tarot meaning and other Tarot-related posts hoping to contribute to the rich and constantly evolving universe of The Tarot. But even more so, to encourage you to explore the wide variety of Tarot art, and maybe even to learn to read the Tarot for yourself and reap its rich rewards.

IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATION TO BEGINNERS: What I share here is not intended to be a comprehensive look at any one card. These simply are what I consider to be somewhat less usual ways I've come across of relating to a card, both in terms of image and meanings. Books and web sites abound for the more traditional and common meanings of the Tarot cards. If you are a beginner, I highly encourage you try some of the links listed below, and as resources at the bottoms of posts here. Tarot is an extremely diverse and exciting field.
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"...faced with silent pictures destined to make him think, his task consists in discovering in them the things that are hidden within himself." – Oswald Wirth in "Tarot of the Magicians"
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"I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don’t really have to ‘believe in’ anything. It’s there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.” – Alice Notley, poet
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"The Tarot is an ever progressing rendition or map of the inner structures of consciousness. It is a language in itself, a universal language, and its individual cards form a precise alphabet spelled out again and again in new terms to awaken those who seek to know the Self." -- John Starr Cooke, designer/channeler of The New Tarot for the Aquarian Age.
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"I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affection and the truth of the Imagination." John Keats, poet
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Name: Roswila

Location: Goleta, California, United States

Retired, I'm grateful to indulge in daily blogging, taking digital photos, writing poetry just about every day, and other creative efforts, as the spirit grabs me.

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"Ganesh dances joyfully, each step out of now into now again; each footprint filling to overflowing with kindness. Remover of Obstacles, clear me out of my own way; teach me how to dance lightly through life, how to spill over with love."
Prayer by Roswila

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"Do not follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

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