6/21 The Lovers - What are some of the repeating symbols in your deck and what is their significance
6/21 The Lovers - What are some of the repeating symbols in your deck and what is their significance?Tarot is filled with symbolism and in the Blood Moon Tarot the symbols have personal importance to me. In much of the Major Arcana the symbols are specific to the card, but in the Minor Arcana (which I have not shared yet) the repetitive symbols are more apparent. I’ve renamed the four suits to reflect my choices in symbolism: Cups have become Songs, Wands are now Skins, Swords are Dreams, and Pentacles are Honey.Cups are generally associated with the element of water and with emotions. I renamed this suit as Songs and represented it with symbols that I tie to both emotional and auditory experiences: birdsong, the sound of the ocean, and string instruments. Music is an emotional experience for me, both listening to it and playing it. It allows me to express myself and be vulnerable, to show my emotions instead of explaining them, so I felt these symbols would easily tie in to the concepts associated with the common Cups suit.The suit of Skins (Wands) is associated with the element of fire, creativity, transformation, willpower, and passion. I chose to represent these ideas with shedding snakes, swirling smoke, mushrooms, and changing leaves. The connection of these symbols to transformation is obvious, but many are also associated with invoking visions which can spark creativity.Dreams (Swords) is the suit associated with the element of air, ideas, anxieties, and illusions. The symbols I use to represent this suit are moths, eyes, abstract patterns, and phantom beasts. These reference anxieties and nightmares of mine, along with suggesting hypnagogic imagery.The final suit, Honey (Pentacles), is associated with the element of earth, manifestation, work, and abundance. I chose to represent this suit with bees, fruit, acorns, and plants. I keep bees and I think these insects are the perfect embodiment of what this suit represents.Question for you: Do you have something symbolic that you keep around, and what does it mean to you? -- source link
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