Oh, I love this. She seems at first very disarming, but for that shadowy (and likely venomous) scorpion tail. There's this whole air of peace and beauty overlying sinister undertones. This is, of course, My Kind of Thing. :)
This is gorgeous. ♥ Condolences on Cobbie's feedtube, darling. If you need a loan or credit card until the checks come, let me know -- I'll have to check my own finances, but I might even be able to go halfsies with you on the replacement brick. I think it's worth it.
First I have to get a decent color printer for making prints, anyway!
It's definitely going to be an interesting sort of deck. Some will like it as art, some will like it as a different set of symbol associations that resonates with them, some will like it as both, and some will probably dislike it as one or both.
Okay, I'd like to hear you explain more of how you chose the symbolism - there's a lot of what I know is traditional, but even more is shed, and some of the ideas have been totally rearranged. The Moon is a favorite card of mine, and in fact was the character I took on during my only Oracles From the Living Tarot performance, so I'm pretty curious about it.
This is, largely, a distillation and remix of the Smith-Waite symbols. You've got a dog and a jackal and a scorpion down at the bottom, you've got the moon, you've got a river between two small castles. From the reference I was using (somewhere on the Net, can't remember where) the river symbolizes the distance between people, the scorpion is something about betrayal, and the moon is of course the moon.
This is generally a very figurative deck, what with me putting people on the Aces, on the Wheel of Fortune, on the Sun and the Moon. In general I'm putting girls in wherever I can, because I like drawing girls - so there's one in the moon. With a scorpion tail.
The jackal is kindasorta Anubis, there may be a Twelve Hours Of The Night kind of thing going on in older cards. These maybes are definitely, in my version.
The fingers trailing in the river are just there because it feels like it's a fun pose.
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And this is something really strongly in the usual symbolism for this card, too! Night, dreams, and lover's betrayal - that's the Moon.
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I mean under the moon; there are cats on the moon proper, of course.
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Things hidden and left unsaid: the water hides a lot.
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If you keep this up, all the really cool psychic advisers will be telling fortunes with you deck.
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It's definitely going to be an interesting sort of deck. Some will like it as art, some will like it as a different set of symbol associations that resonates with them, some will like it as both, and some will probably dislike it as one or both.
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Have fun!
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This is generally a very figurative deck, what with me putting people on the Aces, on the Wheel of Fortune, on the Sun and the Moon. In general I'm putting girls in wherever I can, because I like drawing girls - so there's one in the moon. With a scorpion tail.
The jackal is kindasorta Anubis, there may be a Twelve Hours Of The Night kind of thing going on in older cards. These maybes are definitely, in my version.
The fingers trailing in the river are just there because it feels like it's a fun pose.