Tarot: Map Of Consciousness
Featured Work
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The Hamster Drawing by theyellowfury
I’ve been at this a long time and I’m so happy to have it completed. I have explanations for everything but I decided I’d let you folks artistically interpret it for a while. What do you reckon? 100% Hand drawn in HB and 2B And here are some of the interpretations The sun is an expression of your full creative potential – the fully-realised self – the upper tree to me looks like a representation of the brain, with it’s left and right hemispheres joined in the middle, and connected to the trunk (spinal column) of the ‘self’ – reaching into the collective unconcious of the earth, and your heart, your core emotional self, at the point where they merge. / -Mistertrooth Then it comes out the “interpretation” from a symbolism, that is really inherent to the piece. / The Tree…the Being. / Sound, Straight, Exuberant, / sort of a tight pressed Being, against the background. / Even you have created a perfect space softened by a blurring mist and two distant objects. For me…it is a bit suffocating. / The Sun…whimsical character here….like a woman dressed as man, doing a strip-tease show.The Idea… metaphorical, is that feeling inside , of the Cosmic Father containing much of the feminine and that once in a while is stripped of his boastful manner of doing things, and trying to reach to the cool earth..It seems that is not the tree the one needed of the feeding , nurturing sun, but the sun needed of the fresh branching of the tree. To the point of letting his rays be falling like coquette petals of a sunflower. Calling thus, his attention. / Spliting brain…not splitting at all. Just a harmonic consciousness of the brain division…very important in all the work.From there is the creativity of the artistic expression. Intellect is not dueling between the two sides, but profiting of their differences. / The Action. Queer. The Essence’s action is coming from two points. To the right (which is your left really) Yang drive. The rigid and ancestral organization of a hive. The reason well administered, managed. They bees, thoughts, seem to be there free going. False. They work in a perfect machine organization. Nothing is out of the system. / Left. The symbolism of the intuition, feminine, lunar, side. The hamster is trapped. In a sort of Wheel of Fortune, The feminine, lunar side is trying to advance to the future, but is dominated by inertia. And a humble bee is encouraging his coming out. She is a dissident….dissidence of our own thoughts and reasoning, sometimes is a great punch to our ego-centered jail of the intellect. / And at last!!! / The clockwork heart!. An extraordinary piece of art, that believe me is the most melodramatic, or theatrical object of all the piece. It is a fake. Yes.. is it a protection.. an icon of your tender emotional sensibility. You prefer to show yourself like a methodic and sort of mechanical emotional being… in order to protect your demands. I this way the souls that may reach you, will not beleive that you are let’s say, Easily captured? / -Rosa Cobos And what I was thinking myself, well basically like a lot of my work its a self portrait. Particularly my brain and heart. I never draw a brain without eyeballs for two reasons. They’re technically part of the brain and I think they’re cool. / The hornets’ nest represents the rational multitasking side and the hamster represents my single minded creative side. / I really wanted to draw a real looking human heart but decided it’d be too hard to get right. A clockwork one was the second option. I butchered an old printer to get some cogs to draw around as there was no way I was going to draw cogs freehand and get them to look right. I wasn’t about to get into pitch circle diameters (pain in the arse) and stuff / I have incorporated human style heart valves into this design. / The objects in the background are symbols of my past and will remain unnamed. / Its from a drawing I did in an old notebook round the 2002 mark. I spent as much time erasing as I did laying stuff down to keep the white clean. You have to mind your tonal range when you’re working with pencil. I think that’s it more or less. Add theyellowfury to your watchlist Detail shots / Copyright © 2009 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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This poem has been inspired by a few things: 1) The exciting new group ‘Tarot: Map of Consciousness’. 2) A picture I drew a while ago called ‘She of the Star’ 3) The Tarot cards ‘The Tower’ and ‘The Star’ as I wanted to verbally express my fascination with these two cards as The Tower is a rather scary card at first glance – not one you want to pick first thing in the morning and depicts people leaping out of a burning Tower!! What I find amazing is that a most beautiful card ‘The Star’ follows directly after ‘The Tower’ card, which suggests (given my limited knowledge of the Tarot) that lessons learned from ‘The Tower’ will be greeted with the grace and beauty of The Star and all the positive energy this card brings. This poem is ultimately about the process of growth, transformation and new beginnings. I hope you can relate to it both on a symbolic and everyday level. I have often found in life when times are tough – good things are just around the corner. /
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This is the final…of the Journey. / Now you can have the Major Arcanes there.. sending their messages to you. / A good and complete start, for getting to know… the Archetypal Journey. For enterprising my own deepening and study I make use of the Tarot of Marseille, restaured by Philippe Camoins (direct descendent of the Marseille’s family that has been printing the Tarot of Nicolas Conver (1760) and Alejandro Jodorowski, the promotor of such restauration. / Rosa Cobos
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The Lovers by nexus7
This card is one of the major cards, or Trumps from my deck of cards, called the Chalice pack, which I started to create in the late ‘80’s. There are 22 trumps in the Tarot deck, including the Fool, which is either a Zero, or has no number. The Trumps represent the Journey of the Fool. or the Soul of each of us. The Lovers represents the polarities of yin and yang and the fulfilment of each within the love act – but also, authentic choice, because true love may not incorporate the conventions of marriage. For more ideas on this card, pease visit my site at: http://webspace.webring.com/people/wa/arachnoidcritter/TheLovers.html The major cards have been published by Adam Mc Clean. More information of my cards is at http://www.geocities.com/lyndstevens
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XVI LA TORRE by dmcart
XVI-The Tower / This unrefrained power emanation had placed myself on a pedestal of prepotency. In a pride`s tower. All the Soul’s “vices”, as a counterpart of the “virtues” enclosed into an egocentrism`s tower. the Heaven is coming to help me and with a violent “consciousness’s enlighment” bolting, is liberating and throwing me out of the “Babel”’s Tower without any regard. In spite of the spectacular falling and the felt hummiliation, it is acting with benevolence and covering my “animys” and “anima” with the nutritioning “manna”. I am learning that any “fall” or suffering has been originated when we clutch ourselves to the unilaterality of the intelectual mind, that has been thrashed by the uncontrolled emotional system. / Rosa Cobos. XVI – Esta emanación de poder sin frenos me había colocado en un pedestal de prepotencia. En una torre de orgullo.Todos los “vicios” del alma, contrapartida de las “virtudes” encerrados en una Torre de egocentrismo. El cielo viene en mi ayuda y con un violento rayo “iluminador de la consciencia” me libera y a la vez me arroja sin contemplaciones de la Torre de “Babel”. A pesar de lo aparatoso de la caída y de la humillación sentida, lo hace benevolentemente, y cubre mi “animus”y el de mi “anima” de “maná”, de maná nutritivo. Aprendo que toda “caída” o sufrimiento se origina cuando nos aferramos a la unilateralidad de la mente intelectual, vapuleada por un sistema emocional descontrolado. / (Palabras de Rosa Cobos)
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The Hanged Man by Martin Derksema
‘The subconcious always strives to create an impossible situation to force the individual to give the best he or she has got. Otherwise you would be satisfied with less, you wouldn’t be complete, you wouldn’t realize yourself. You need an impossible situation, in which you have to hand over your own will and your own intellectual capacity and have no choise but trust in the impersonal force of growth and development.’ C.G. Jung Digital collage.
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The fool by Peter Zentjens
I’ve got something with eye’s and flowers, as you will notice when I upload more work. This one is, clearly, inspired by the Tarot card with the same name. It’s a 100% watercolour painting. I wanted to join up with a surrealism group here, but I’m not sure if this would fit in there. I always call it surrealism, but isn’t it more somewhere on the borderline between surrealism and fantasy art? With this I’ve introduced the 3 main areas of my artistic endeavors on to RB: still life photography, travel photography and watercolor paintings. I’m calling it a day. / Cheers detail at 100% / more work / I would also like to focus your attention on RosaCobos incredibly beautiful and inspirational comment on this painting: / I can see that he sees…. / I can feel that he is there waiting to open the egg of his own destiny. / But The Foold has not a destiny and he knows it! / The Eye…. peeing wide and wild the intensity of Life, / hidden behing the feminity of the flower..is tender and penetrating, / but not as much as he would love.. / noone takes him seriously, / excepting the wise.. / for you know. that famous quote…”The Fool that persists in his foolishness…..becomes wise”…....just I ponder about it.. and how come the wise can notice this…if his own wisedom makes him disregard such a vanity? the card /
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The Queen Of Hearts by Shannon Donovan
Inks, acrylics, and pencils on canvas panel In the words of RosaCobos: / Does he love me…? / Does´t he?.... / Who cares… / She is the Empress… / the one with eternal love breasts… / milky fountain of desires, / the searcher of the great inseminator, / the suspiring moaning of the The Fool… / the fountain of passion.
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La Force by sandytaylor
oil on canvas from a series on the tarot cards. La Force/Strength is love triumphing over hate. Love applied to any situation brings positive resolve.
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Moonscape by Martilena
Photoshop Music: Moonscape August 13, 2009: Avatar of the week in : Peace. Love and Tranquility Featured in: / Tarot-Map of Consciousness Basic meaning of the Moon-card in Tarot: With Pisces as its ruling sign, the Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition.
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The Hierophant ~ V by Libertinism In Justice
The voice to society – man and woman – as the Magician is the voice to the mystical and without true form, the Hierophant is the one who must understand and translate mortal lessons. Right hand in the action of bleeding the left, so does the one responsible for the guidance of those in search of self realization often have to give the very essence of himself to the world. The right hand, subject to the left brain, the part which calculates what always equals the sum of its parts, is in the case of the sage, concrete in form. The left hand, the one which is pierced, is the mystical, faith-based, second-sighted. The struggle for the teacher of man and woman, to all men and women, is hardship in maintaining any lifeblood within his own hopes, and ability to rely on greater things ( things beyond the eye ) to act as a stitch when life proper weakens the will. Very much as the split beast, the Steppenwolf, this is an image of one torn between sides… too often required to fight for the nature of the animal, and thus at odds with the nourishment of adopted, nurturing ideals of one created to be as he is. The secondary piece of the sociological – the battle of “the human condition” – to the first, that of the Magician, in the tarot’s Major Arcana, of all multitude of exact ways to be read, the Hierophant holds these common threads… To go to great lengths to lift others in mind, while by this very token in a battle to stay afloat in light of overly determined self reliance, and often nearly impossible spiritual satiation. A contradiction in many ways, as unable to look above without disbelief, the Hierophant becomes the above itself, and stands torn as an abacus required to position its own calculi. The stones he bears may guide others, but he is at a loss to control his own much needed understandings. Sometimes called The High Priest, he should not be offset in thought to The High Priestess… beyond perhaps his flaws being shone, while hers, few, and veiled by a curtain of peace. —-_--_—- Model: Michael Lepplestat / Photo Year: 2008 The Fool The Magician The High Priestess The Empress The Emperor The Hierophant The Lovers The Chariot Justice The Hermit Wheel of Fortune Strength The Hanged Man Death Temperance The Devil The Tower The Star The Moon The Sun Judgement The Universe/The World Card Reverse Side Design
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Eight Of Swords (Vision Of A Tarot Card) by Danilo Lejardi
/ La mente y la fuerza aprisionadas en ésos míseros y entrañables recintos que nos construimos; / tan cerca la inmensa libertad, apenas detrás de unas mal enfiladas espadas; y el agua _ la madre naturaleza_ que se abre generosa para hacernos entendible y fácil el camino. / Y nunca vemos bien, o no sabemos, o no queremos. / ¿Será un retrato de la vida o del arte? ¿O de ambas? ¿O de la misma cosa que son? / Es una carta de bolsillo, de cabecera; que se bebe; / una con la que te puedes vestir y enjabonarte. / Y tomar de almohada para construir tus sueños / O destruirlos. Danilo Lejardi
Recent Work
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Tarot: The Tower by Pete Janes
colored pencil, felt marker, pen and ink. One of only a few tarot cards I created from a perennially back-burner project. My heaviest influence was Aleister Crowley’s Thoth deck, painted by Lady Frieda Harris. Conceptually, the Thoth deck was far ahead of its time. I monkeyed with the Gamma on the scan of this piece, but I’m not sure if that counts as digital manipulation!
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Two Lovers by jenniferlove
The ambivalent… The lovers symbolise the slavery of fear, Must there be beauty attraction, Young innocence… Destroyed! Whilst the thunder roars through the deep blue sky The rain pours down with fear and hunger for life They feast upon the love and torment that yearns inside As he gazes into my eyes of enchantment and beauty His doubts fade and misery dies Vice and virtue, Their hunger for life is feast upon by the love itself They become the ambivalent As she gazes into his eyes / Faith and wisdom arise / Hope of true love / But he lays in deepened dark doubt / And shadows the misery For he is in decisive / Whether they stay or draw apart / Only they can feed from there / Ambivalent hearts…. Hesitation has gone dry / When love appears / In the mist of cry Temptation with betrayal / Only ends with / Slander and defeat All the heart can speak / Is jealousy and a deep darken pain Poison of confusion and anguish / With a rich sour taste of internal conflictions / And die with unsatisfied desires… Jbrown 2009 © This had came to me in a daycream wen i was in decisive about my relationship in the early stages i write in down and painted it in water colour…
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Queen of Wands by nexus7
This is a card from my 78-deck Chalice Pack. This is one of the Court Cards of the Minor Arcana and may signify a woman of mature years with an outgoing, Fiery nature. The Queen of Wands is decisive, dominant and not shy about expressing her ideas instincts.
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Queen of Cups by nexus7
This is one of the minor arcana, and one of the Court Cards and can signifiy a mature woman in a reading. The Queen of Cups possesses great sensitivity and a highly-developed feeling nature. It belongs to my Chalice deck of cards.
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Contemplating the Future (Chac Mool Series #2) by Tanya Keefe
The second in the Chac Mool Series, this Mayan figurine from the Yucatan peninsula in Central America has come to stay in a whole new world up in the northern United States… Here he is posing thoughtfully as the archetypal Hermit from the tarot… (The Hermit is a lone figure, walking through the darkness carrying the light, which is a great burden but also a great gift. He is quiet, contemplative. While others rush around and shout, he sits quietly alone and thinks. He goes deep within to reach wisdom.) Here he is in a quiet moment, contemplating the future of mankind… Olympus SP-565UZ / Post processing in Picasa3 Other works in this series:
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The Emperor ~ IV by Libertinism In Justice
Model: Benjamin Sowell I have to say I really miss Benji… he was one of the good ones… one of the few. One of those who you can still smell even after years have passed, and still makes the heart pang a bit in revisiting that aroma. The Fool The Magician The High Priestess The Empress The Emperor The Hierophant The Lovers The Chariot Justice The Hermit Wheel of Fortune Strength The Hanged Man Death Temperance The Devil The Tower The Star The Moon The Sun Judgement The Universe/The World Card Reverse Side Design
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The Devil ~ XV by Libertinism In Justice
I have made myself “The Devil.” So many misunderstand tarot cards thanks to current folkways, mores, and taboos… “Death” is of course not bad of itself, but simply indicates change. The closest card to what most thing of “Death” as meaning in my reading of the cards is “The Devil”, closely followed by “The Hanged Man” (also me in the image). / The devil is not stationary, ignorant, and faithless as most tarot books read… summarily he is the complete Nature in the Sociological theory of “Nature vs. Nurture”, or “Mammal vs. Ethic and Morality” (read Steppenwolf). He is the pure ego, but only because he cannot allow others to matter if he wishes to survive. He is most always alone, thus yearns, when the chance comes, for passionate (perhaps hedonistic) sexual fulfillment. He lives off instinct, and this tells him that there is always someone trying to take what is his… very often on edge, and too quick to act. Well this card can only be an insult to who it is read for, one might say. Wrong. The devil’s way is very often the only way to achieve great things. The superhero who will not on occasion break a law, will likely never catch the crook. The charming nature of the devil holds true to the saying, and he is able to get what he needs from people not always or even usually in a spirit of manipulation Indeed, often he is simply given things without asking. I read “The Devil” as a person to mean someone who is, or soon will need to tap the beast within in order to preserve the human above. “The Devil” appears to warn that protective measures, perhaps extreme ones, must be taken. In a relationship reading, however, I always take this card to mean someone is taking too much and will not soon defeat the ego in time to preserve the bond. I put it in softer terms, yes, but this is what I know the card tells me. The Fool The Magician The High Priestess The Empress The Emperor The Hierophant The Lovers The Chariot Justice The Hermit Wheel of Fortune Strength The Hanged Man Death Temperance The Devil The Tower The Star The Moon The Sun Judgement The Universe/The World Card Reverse Side Design
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Conceptual Man by Jonathan Carrick Maier
This is a a portrait I drew a few years ago when I was more fascinated in representing shdows than the actual subject. / I was also inspired by The Hermit of the major arcana – a card which teaches the importance of measuring one’s self and where you fit in. / (The scan came out rather dodgy) Featured in QUORN – 17 October 2009
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Verse that one of the entities in my artwork most likely would be reciting
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Blind Justice by Shannon Donovan
Rendered from Justice XI Justice is a cold and objective balance through reason or natural force. This is the card that tells the Querent that they can’t keep smoking and drinking without consequences to their health. It is the card that advises cutting out waste and insists that the Querent make adjustments, do whatever is necessary to bring things back into balance: physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually. Acrylics, pens and pencils on canvas panel
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The Chalice by Jonathan Carrick Maier
In the Tarot – cups or chalices represent the soul and intuition
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Picture of Death by LordMasque
Charcoal pencils on paper Go beyond the darkness into transition
About This Group
As Life itself. First was a Void. Emergent and creative. So we are. A communion of souls endevoring the “penetrating into” a Realm of Consciousness. We have symbols for that. Descriptions of our developing as a Human related to Nature.This communion is for tending a bridge between our art , feelings , wish to learn and how to manage them and express in a new and individual way, the magnificent Soul architecture of the Tarot.
In a future… each new “communicant”.. will be able to render the Spirit of this ancient symbology. We invite you to participate. We grant you a space for learning and opening to new things… So both of us will be ready to receive the pieces of art and writing, the voices of questions born from the experience,and growth with mutual understanding.
As it is more an experience than an aim to achieve, the group will be adapting itself to the realities of the JOURNEY…speeding or slowling, stopping and refraining from rush. Changing over the way, searching for different pathways, crossroads, or sometimes, navigating on the bliss of soft etheric medium.
A WORLDS THEATRE
At the beginning… was The Word..
It was the One… Word.
And the Sound created Life.
And the Light created Soul.
The Cosmic Dance started the pilgrimmage
of the Cosmic Division…
engendering cycles of Life-Death-Life.
The One coupled Light and Darkness..
and so… became the Third ..
and from there….
the myriads of existences.
Expressed in the human soul,
the Theatre of the World shared roles.
And then became.. The Fool, The Pope,
the Empress, The World….
And numbers and figures dragging our souls,
combining elements, codes, behaviours, moods,
destinies, fates, birthings, and re-birthings,
couples and trios….bunches of flowers,
in rivers where The Moon-Mother cried,
and The Sun-Father nourished us.
Feeling
Sensing
Thinking
Creating.
The Dance has begun,
it will not cease….
The World ….Human voice,
is entering into the Spirit-Flesh vows.
Rosa Cobos
There will be a place for deep discussion, commenting, mutual teaching, gathering information, caressing the works of the members as if it were their own souls. Time for may be… attending needs, listening, meditating upon images, words, playing the instintive, more than the intelectual. We are now a team.. but need to be a “communion”.. and so that’s the aim… travellers found , joined just to travel along the Archetypal Journey with us.
Thanks for being here .
Rosa . Tammy
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