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Heartbreak, receiving little solace, lonesomeness, isolation, betrayal.
-- from Shadowscapes.com
This card shows a swan, its body pierced by three very ornate swords. A heart-shaped seal on the gray wall behind the swan, is stained as if it (the wall) had bled in sympathy. The wall is cracked, even more so around the seal.
I haven't gone through the whole deck to make sure, but this is one of two cards that I find remarkable in how PML not only gave a face to the pip but that face is an animal's (the other is the spider in the 8 of Pentacles.) This card reminds me of the ballet Swan Lake. A beautiful princess, cursed to turn into a magnificent white swan, was meant to be freed by a prince who pledged to marry her. Instead, he was seduced by a black swan princess, and the white swan died. If I recall, she died of heartbreak when the prince transferred his affections, not from a hunter's arrow or from some terms of the curse?
-- from Shadowscapes.com
This card shows a swan, its body pierced by three very ornate swords. A heart-shaped seal on the gray wall behind the swan, is stained as if it (the wall) had bled in sympathy. The wall is cracked, even more so around the seal.
I haven't gone through the whole deck to make sure, but this is one of two cards that I find remarkable in how PML not only gave a face to the pip but that face is an animal's (the other is the spider in the 8 of Pentacles.) This card reminds me of the ballet Swan Lake. A beautiful princess, cursed to turn into a magnificent white swan, was meant to be freed by a prince who pledged to marry her. Instead, he was seduced by a black swan princess, and the white swan died. If I recall, she died of heartbreak when the prince transferred his affections, not from a hunter's arrow or from some terms of the curse?