Or maybe that's a bad idea maybe I need some representative of "conscience" (which seems to be the RWS-and-clones symbolism, at least to me the helping companion). I'm kinda wondering if I can leave it out altogether. Whether the animal is with him, literally (his companion), figuratively (on his side, helping him), or against him (messing with him or trying to hurt him) seems to have changed throughout the history of Tarot imagery. messing with him ("I'm going to bite a hole in your pants!") is up for grabs. The Fool card, starting with the TdM and Visconti, has the motley figure with a bundle, at the edge of a precipice, with a small animal (usually a dog, but I've seen a cat in historical decks too), and whether the small animal is helping the Fool ("Look out! Cliff!"), trying to hare him over the edge, or just. I've been thinking about the essential elements of the Fool - which isn't the same as the essentials of the Fool card, is it? The Fool to me is innocence, naivete, curiosity, intrepidness (is that a word?), fearlessness or at least inconsiderate of consequence.just ready to Get Out There, to get up and GO. (That's going to be the image on the Fool card.) I may not feel like I'm fully fledged as an artist yet, but I DO know it's time to start spreading my wings! I think this post has gotten long enough, I'll do more posts with information on the cards and photos of the drawings as I go along! I've been planning this deck for several years and it's time to take the plunge.like a wood duckling from the nest into the water. Those are still fairly loose drawings here's my favorite completely-finished bird drawing so far, a Goffin's cockatoo: My concept for Strength is an oxpecker on a lion, and you can see my practice-oxpeckers here: I haven't actually finished any cards yet but I have done some sketches and studies for the cards (Strength and the Fool are having a tug-of-war over who gets put on paper first!). (I'm still deciding between partially- and fully-illustrated pip cards I want them to be more than suit symbols, whatever I do with them.) So far I've figured out what birds and scenes to use for most of the Major Arcana, most of the court cards, and a few of the pip cards. (None of them will be wearing clothing, for instance.) It will probably be more of an art deck than a daily-use reading deck, but I do want people to be able to read with it if they choose. The Avian Tarot will feature birds from around the world in a naturalistic style, with what I hope will be recognizable Tarot archetype symbolism, but not anthromorphized. I've mentioned this in a few places on the forum but haven't officially declared that I'm creating it yet.
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