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Completion – The Four of Wands

January 29, 2013 By Jay Gidwitz

This Tarot Card was created in collaboration with Occultist Anthony Teth.

Enter Anthony:

Referred to as “Completion” by Aleister Crowley, the Four of Wands represents the benevolent influences of Venus and Jupiter upon the Third Decan of Aries. In layman’s terms, it represents warmth, stability, and energetic serenity. Sometimes viewed as the “ideal home” in other decks, it can denote a “place” (physical or mental) of personal power, untainted by doubt or regret, charged with vibrant energy.

According to Biddy Tarot, the Four of Wands keywords include:

Upright: Celebration, harmony, marriage, home, community

Reversed: Breakdown in communication, transition

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The Fool – The Dream Logic Tarot Deck

January 28, 2013 By Jay Gidwitz

The Fool - Card 0 of the Major Arcana — The Fool – Card 0 of the Major Arcana

The Fool is card 0 of the major arcana or trump cards. The Fool represents infinite possibility with only a hint of the limitations implied by incarnation.

According to my collaborator Anthony Teth:

The Tarot draws heavily from Platonic concepts. In this light, the Fool represents pure potentiality — the first emanation from the source of divine union, known as Kether to the Qabalists. The Fool is thus androgynous, curious, and whimsical, enamored with each new experience. It is the card of the inner child or perpetual youth. Its element is Air, highlighting its inherent intellectual nature not yet “tainted” by experience, dogma, or pedagogy.

I’m developing The Dream Logic Tarot in collaboration with occultist Anthony Teth.

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Other major versions of the Fool Tarot card include the Rider-Waite deck and the Thoth Deck, pictured below.

The Fool Rider Waite Deck

The Fool Thoth Deck

Ruin – The Ten of Swords

January 27, 2013 By Jay Gidwitz

Anthony Teth and I are creating The Dream Logic Tarot. This image is one of the cards.

The Ten of Swords according to Anthony:

The gruesome imagery found in the Ten of Swords denotes its inherently negative characteristics. It represents the “perfect storm” of unhappy occurrences coupled with an inability to properly react to the inertia of the universe. Plans fall through, ideas are ridiculed, and projects disintegrate before one’s eyes. To struggle further is to strangle oneself. An entirely new approach is necessary to achieve success in a specific endeavor.

Via Wikipedia:

In its upright or positive light, the ten of swords represents absolute destruction, being pinned down by a multitude of things or situations. The person lying on the ground, defeated and bleeding, may also represent a feeling of hopelessness and being trapped by emotions or mental anguish, since swords represent strife and the mind.

Accoding to Biddy Tarot, the Ten of Swords Tarot Card Meanings include:

Upright: Back-stabbed, defeat, crisis, betrayal, endings, loss

Reversed: Recovery, regeneration, fear of ruin, inevitable end

Thoth Deck – 10 of Swords

10 of Swords – Rider Waite Deck

The Ten of Swords

We are creating a deck of tarot cards with photography and digital art, using much of the original symbolism (without the Christian and binary good/evil slant) and with contemporary ideas. Some of the concepts we’ve worked with and been inspired by so far include chaos theory and fractals, ideas from Nicholas Taleb’s series of books, cybernetics, and evolutionary psychology.

The Devil for the Dream Logic Tarot

January 26, 2013 By Jay Gidwitz

Other Dream Logic Tarot Images

According to my collaborator Anthony Teth:

One must inhale before exhaling. The Devil represents this inhalation in a broad sense, denoting the accumulation of energy before action. Some tarot decks will interpret the card as representing bondage or servitude, but it should be known that the bondage in question is self-imposed and easily escaped. Constraints such as discipline or organization can be exceptionally beneficial when properly applied. Thus, the Devil represents the necessary winter rains preceding a glorious spring bloom.

Negative meanings can include bondage, ignorance, materialism and hopelessness.

NecronomiCon Providence Kickstarter Launched:

December 20, 2012 By Jay Gidwitz

I’m part of the team at NecronomiCon Providence 2013. We’ve just launched a kickstarter to fund the coming H. P. Lovecraft Convention, coming to Providence in August. Tickets and other prizes can be gotten at the kickstarter here. Click here for more info.

For those Lovecraft fanatics who might be unaware, we here at NecronomiCON Providence now have a Kickstarter page up and running. Check it out to find out about tickets and merch.

Click here for the NecronomiCON 2013 Kickstarter!

To those of you who have already donated to our eldritch cause, we would like to thank you from the bottom of our collective grim and dreadful cosmic consciousness. Your generous donations ensure that we (and our legions of shoggoth minions) will be able to provide you with the ultimate Lovecraftian convention/celebration of the current epoch.