In which Kippur is mildly confused...
A friend of mine is running an astrology birth chart making business where he'll print your birth chart on a really nice background to hang up etc. He recently emailed me wanting to know if I'd be interested in doing a commission. The customer wants a background with Tarot cards on it.
But with only happy cards.
And no cards with signs of witchcraft such as "stars, pentagrams, snakes, devils, etc."
I'm not exactly sure what exactly constitutes a "happy" card in the Tarot, depending on where it is and how it's facing any card can be happy or sad. I'm guessing that they don't want, say the Tower or any of the Swords which don't always have nice images on them. But the suit of pentacles is all pentagrams. I can't think of a card off the top of my head with snakes in it, and only one with the devil (guess which one).
No, wait, I think some of the Wands might have snakes or salamanders on them.
When you get right down to it, actually, isn't the Tarot itself considered a form of witchcraft? They're used by people who claim to use pieces of cardboard to tell your future which is essentially magic. So you couldn't actually have any Tarot card in the picture of the Tarot cards because those are a part of witchcraft.
Which leaves me in a bit of a bind, doesn't it, design wise.
It really makes me wonder, however, what sort of person this is. They want a picture of a witch crafty thing but with no signs of witchcraft. It's sort of like wanting Star Wars, but you can't have the Dark Side, the Sith, Lightsabers, bounty hunters and hell, the Force.
I'm more than half way tempted to put the Fool in the drawing. How's that for symbolism?
But with only happy cards.
And no cards with signs of witchcraft such as "stars, pentagrams, snakes, devils, etc."
I'm not exactly sure what exactly constitutes a "happy" card in the Tarot, depending on where it is and how it's facing any card can be happy or sad. I'm guessing that they don't want, say the Tower or any of the Swords which don't always have nice images on them. But the suit of pentacles is all pentagrams. I can't think of a card off the top of my head with snakes in it, and only one with the devil (guess which one).
No, wait, I think some of the Wands might have snakes or salamanders on them.
When you get right down to it, actually, isn't the Tarot itself considered a form of witchcraft? They're used by people who claim to use pieces of cardboard to tell your future which is essentially magic. So you couldn't actually have any Tarot card in the picture of the Tarot cards because those are a part of witchcraft.
Which leaves me in a bit of a bind, doesn't it, design wise.
It really makes me wonder, however, what sort of person this is. They want a picture of a witch crafty thing but with no signs of witchcraft. It's sort of like wanting Star Wars, but you can't have the Dark Side, the Sith, Lightsabers, bounty hunters and hell, the Force.
I'm more than half way tempted to put the Fool in the drawing. How's that for symbolism?