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The Six of Swords – or The Six of Blades as we’re calling it in The Dream Logic Tarot – indicates a “regretful but necessary transition, rite of passage.”
For this card we used a dagger with a damascus-style blade and a background image of clouds from the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge in NM. We also used a stain glass image from a Church in Providence of the All Seeing Eye, which I turned into a fractal with orbit traps in Adobe Photoshop.
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 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.
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
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.