WolfyJames
cjtarot has also written interesting stuffs on this card, and other cards as well, in a thread on The Gothic Tarot and he/she accepted graciously to be quoted here.
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Vargo's cards were based on earlier works, you can see some of them on his website. This card is called Succubus.
A succubus is a female demon who has sex with men during their sleep; she also takes their semen away with her (semen was considered being life then) and waste them slowly to death with sex.
A man is lied down on a ??? (sorry for my bad English, but I can't come up with the word), and there are two skulls engraved on it. He appears unconscious, but he could be dead or asleep. A woman, dressed in black with red trims, and black wings, is over him. His shirt is open and she's scratching his torso with her sharp nails. She's not looking at him though but at us. The pedestal is on the third step. There are three arches in the back, above, and ten cups on the top of them. Her lips are red.
To me, this card, along with The Lovers, is the sexiest card in the deck. She's finally getting what she wants and she's slowly enjoying it, taking her time. In the meanwhile, he's defenseless, but even if he were to wake up, he probably would let her do whatever she wants anyway. Sex, voluptuous pleasure, intensity... this is what she's is looking forward to. And this is deadly, for if she has sex with him too may times, she may kill him in the process; so not only she takes bits of his life by drinking his blood, she also kills him slowly by having sex with him.
This card also reminds me of the story of the goddess Selene, who fell in love with Endymion, and she made him immortal by making him sleep forever, and she joined him every night.
cjtarot said:I want to respond to the quote about the Lovers, the High Priest and the Empress standing in the same arch...
The Empress, guards her home...the relm of beond. (note the Emperor is inside with all the babe's doing NOTHING)
The Hight PRiest guards the knowledge in the Relm of beond
The Lovers..It is your choice (or is it) to enter into the Relm..note the lovers almost look farther into the arch..
Also look at the High Priestess and the 9 of cups...
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The HP..guarding the unknow of our sub consious - or the door to the afterlife.
The 9 of cups.. Cups are emotion, our life flow if you will..the 9 is showing the final preperation before we are fufilled, before the final journey into the ultimate unknow..(Note the 10 of cups is within that arch..the claiming or the dark angel leading you away)
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Vargo's cards were based on earlier works, you can see some of them on his website. This card is called Succubus.
A succubus is a female demon who has sex with men during their sleep; she also takes their semen away with her (semen was considered being life then) and waste them slowly to death with sex.
A man is lied down on a ??? (sorry for my bad English, but I can't come up with the word), and there are two skulls engraved on it. He appears unconscious, but he could be dead or asleep. A woman, dressed in black with red trims, and black wings, is over him. His shirt is open and she's scratching his torso with her sharp nails. She's not looking at him though but at us. The pedestal is on the third step. There are three arches in the back, above, and ten cups on the top of them. Her lips are red.
To me, this card, along with The Lovers, is the sexiest card in the deck. She's finally getting what she wants and she's slowly enjoying it, taking her time. In the meanwhile, he's defenseless, but even if he were to wake up, he probably would let her do whatever she wants anyway. Sex, voluptuous pleasure, intensity... this is what she's is looking forward to. And this is deadly, for if she has sex with him too may times, she may kill him in the process; so not only she takes bits of his life by drinking his blood, she also kills him slowly by having sex with him.
This card also reminds me of the story of the goddess Selene, who fell in love with Endymion, and she made him immortal by making him sleep forever, and she joined him every night.