TAROT 3-D -- by Kim Arnold

Just a quick post to share this link to a delightful You-tube video exploring the Death, Empress, and Judgment cards: Tarot 3D - by Kim Arnold. I found the images evocative and unusual. As I don't have working speakers I can't know what else I may have missed. But the visuals alone were worth the visit.

My thanks to Ruth and Wald Amberstone of Tarot Tips newsletter for sharing this link with their readers. You can sign up to receive their resourceful email newsletter at Yahoo groups.

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N.B. A small thing, but just in case: some of the extra reference links offered at the very end of my oldest (years old) posts no longer work. As there are so many posts here to go through I am choosing not to find and change all of those links that are "dead." If you are interested, you can try Googling for the name of the site or article referenced. I've found that some are still around in new locations or incarnations, some not.

'til next time, keep enjoying The Tarot, in whatever ways it comes to you in your 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: United Haiku and Tanka Society (UHTS) (charter member); Roswila's Dream & Poetry Realm for Tarot poetry; Roswila's Taiga Tarot for taiga (illustrated tanka); Trying to Hold A Box of Light for digital photos only.

ONE NEW FOUND TAROT CARD: The Death Card, XIII

Yes, it's been quite some time since I've posted a FOUND TAROT card here. I do have a few in mind (and on my computer) but none have really grabbed me. Then tonight I was thinking of the photo below for some reason and it hit me "Death, it's the Death card!" (I've already posted a tentative Death card here - a tree stump - but I like this photo below much more.) Very untraditional design, true. But it says it for me. Especially that aspect of the Death card that is about transition. And even if one notes the bit of green growing in the distance, that this card is about clearing away the old so that the new can grow.



I'm struck that I've also chosen a door image for The Empress. But this makes perfect sense to me. She's our doorway into this material life and Death is the doorway out. That is, both III and XIII, in my understanding, can reference liminal states. The difference between them being the direction in which the energy in each is going.

If you are interested, there are several previous FOUND TAROT card posts below.

OK, off to work on finishing my Halloween Costume for the party in the retirement community I live in. I'm going as "Words in Search of a Poem." I'm pinning lots of my favorites words all over my all black outfit, and I'll carry around yellow sticky notes and a pen in case anyone wants to add a word to me. Last year's costume party was lots of fun, so I'm looking forward to tomorrow's.

Oh, my it occurs to me it's highly appropriate, and may even be the reason why, I thought of a Death card for the FOUND TAROT tonight for 'tis the season to honor those who've gone before, while the veil between the worlds is very thin.

Blessed Samhain!

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‘til next time, keep enjoying The Tarot,

[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.****

DEATH and transformation, in the Sylph Tarot

Death in the Sylph Tarot

This will be my last post for a little while. I dismantle my computer for shipment to my new home cross country in California early Wednesday morning. When I was thinking what card to post a little bit about before I move, I decided to do the numerology for today's date which comes to 13. I was immediately struck by how appropriate this is, given I am in the middle of quite a life transformation. Then when I saw this above Death card image I thought it is very true to where I'm at: a chrysalis stage, dreaming of the wings to come (I fly to California in just a week).

So, there you have it. The Death card as representing transformation. And sometimes one that is preceded by a lengthy chrysalis phase in which the new winged form seems like it will never get here. In my case, the months of decision making, and then the two and a half months of dismantling an apartment stuffed with years of old things I could not -- nor would I have, in most cases, if I could -- take with me. This is also true of all the emotions and memories raised and released by leaving a home I lived in for 23 years, and New York where I've lived just short of all of my 64 years. In terms of the Death card, this latter phase is often said to be "cutting away the old so that the new can grow."

I'll be checking comments and emails in about a week and hopefully posting again soon thereafter from California. :-)

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‘til next time, keep enjoying The Tarot,

Roswila
[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 and Roswila’s Taiga Tarot for taiga (illustrated tanka).****

DEATH (XIII)

TODAY'S CARD is Death (XIII). This version is by Rebecca Carr (click here to visit her site at Elfwood) and is used by permission.



For comparison, here's Death (XIII) from the Rider/Waite/Smith deck:



DEATH: Of the three cards most likely to startle or frighten inexperienced readers, Death is "first among equals." (The other two being The Devil and The Hanged Man.) Although the Death card can can certainly indicate physical death, oddly enough in my over 30 years of experience, that is the very least of its meanings. The Death card, generally speaking, has everything to do with transformation.

An important note here about reading ethics. No matter what a reader may see in the Death card -- or any card(s) actually -- a death should never be predicted, IMHO. Like so much about life the time a soul picks to do anything, much less leave this plane of existence, is not written in stone. To predict a death, whether or not it happens, can cause the querant a great deal of unnecessary distress. One can, again IMHO, express concern for someone's health or well-being, or offer a warning if an accident or some such event seems imminent in a reading, but never predict a death.

DIFFERENT TAKES ON THE DEATH CARD:

There's stuff you have to let go of in order to grow.

Too much personal stuff is in the way that you need to deal with or lay to rest for you to proceed at present.

Are you trying to trample the new so that the old can continue?

Are you cutting off the new for fear it will not last?

Things are owed you -- either literally, such as money, or figuratively speaking -- that you may never collect. Is it time to let these "bad debts" go?

Let go of it. If you do not, events will take it from you and you may not like the way it happens. You have the opportunity now to let go graciously.

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Resource: Tarot Passages Tarot Deck Collection, a heavenly site for someone like myself who collects decks, and for anyone who enjoys Tarot art and the varieties of decks that are designed.

Please see the top of the sidebar for my background with the Tarot and a recommendation to beginners.

‘til next time, keep letting go as needed, and enjoying The Tarot,

Roswila
[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 some articles about Tarot.****