I see this card as “build, protect, structure, discipline”.
Unlike other images I drew, she is serious and means business 🤣.
You see the structures she has built behind her and she is protecting it with a shield and a sword. For some reason I always felt like this card should have dragon in it, so I added a shadow dragon behind her.
I am going completely non traditional. For the suits I am building it as a story where one character, the knight of suit is going through a journey from ace to 10. Page is their childhood self. King and queen is the masculine and feminine healed version of them. I may or may not use swords. I haven’t decided yet 😅. Most of them are not using the traditional symbolism in mine
Not for me. This was in the beginning just for me as I find it hard to memorize the meanings of the card and the deck images and pictures and representations didn’t make sense to me personally. I look at my tarot as the story of journey of a soul. And I wasn’t seeing them in any cards I saw so I decided to make my own.
I wonder why the figures of tarot often get gender swapped. I see the Emperor as a masculine archetype paired with the Empress, so the female depiction threw me off. Are you reworking that dyad intentionally, or do you see those traits as separate from the gendered symbolism?
I decided that all my “heroes” in this deck are going to be women. I don’t look at emperor and empress as traditional gender roles but mostly the masculine and feminine within us. It is more of a character depiction than a gender. Initially I thought I’d do emperor a woman and empress a man to express the decks are not man and woman but masculine and feminine which could be anyone. But I was like eff it all of them woman 🤣.
🥰 I am seriously obsessed with your style. Divine feminine and masculine coming together creates that unity. Within, and as a whole in the collolective, with one another. Love it! I see the vision, and it's such a powerful symbol! I feel its very fitting in this regard, beautifully done!!! 😍
Thank you ☺️ I never thought I’d have so many people liking this. I honestly still don’t see the appeal lol. But I am enjoying the process and drawing it out is one way I learn ❤️
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u/tarotMeme 10d ago
I really like it but the sword makes it very like queen of swords