Hi LB- I'm not sure if anyone answered your question about the snail, we have had disscussion concerning it before.
A snail can loose part of itself in order to survive, and it can mate with itself- it is self sufficent. Look up snail or slug totem.
Salamander is a fire walker- and is very sensitive to the environment-absorbeds moisture through it skin... and so forth and so on-
Each card really does have a lot of symbolism, and spiritual meaning-I dont think anything is placed by accident.
The more familiar one is with a diverse "spiritual" background - maybe that is not the right word - but diversity of the key, animal totems, astrology, religion all of it is there to some degree or another. The Tarot just kind of connects the dots and remains ambigous in it's presentation.
LittleBuddha said:
Hi everyone
The beauty of the tarot and this 'wonderful' website is the sharing and the immediate responses from the people whom use it. Learning from a book can feel so cold in comparison and doesn't fire the energies, passions and excitement that working in this way does. Our eyes and senses are what is bringing this deck alive for me.
Firstly, I have been searching for the second person in the 9 of pentacles but cannot find them. Where exactly are they? Please tell me before I go crazy looking.
Secondly, a very small observation which is probably new to me. Is there any significance to what appears to be a snail in the bottom left hand corner? I always engaged on the figure and the bird in this card. It is only, through learning with you guys that I have truely opened my eyes and looked further into the images on this deck. I think that a lot of people disregard the Rider Waite decks because they find its images to be flat and not so inspiring. I am realising that this deck is far more sophisticated than a lot of the more modern and popular packs.
Lastly, above what appears to me to be a snail, can anybody interpret what the black 'squiggle' is that sits just beneath the pentacle.
Thanks to you all.
Yaboot