Cerulean
What a lovely topic!
I began wondering what would roses or lilies mean to Pamela Colman Smith, a young design graduate of the Pratt Institute, but also well-versed in stage settings and influenced by mystical Waite and in the same company of poets and writers...but all I could find were Victorian sentimental meanings...
Not quite roses and lilies, but the idea of red and white roses together in some symbolism:
http://www.hugkiss.com/flowermean.shtml
And perhaps the 1909 designs provided by Holly Volly and the transcribed Waite text might assist--that is for students looking for the online versions of images to refer to for Rider Waite designs...
http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/xr/ar01.htm
Hope this is helpful to you....great symbolic study!
Regards,
Cerulean Mari
I began wondering what would roses or lilies mean to Pamela Colman Smith, a young design graduate of the Pratt Institute, but also well-versed in stage settings and influenced by mystical Waite and in the same company of poets and writers...but all I could find were Victorian sentimental meanings...
Not quite roses and lilies, but the idea of red and white roses together in some symbolism:
http://www.hugkiss.com/flowermean.shtml
And perhaps the 1909 designs provided by Holly Volly and the transcribed Waite text might assist--that is for students looking for the online versions of images to refer to for Rider Waite designs...
http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/xr/ar01.htm
Hope this is helpful to you....great symbolic study!
Regards,
Cerulean Mari