Kosjitov
From the Little White Book
There is something all too simple, and yet beautiful, about this card. In certain pagan practices, the call to mother earth to wake and heal is often called "Raising the Dragon", where they view the world as a living dragon. This picture certainly embodies such a practice's vision.
The World itself is marked by Taurus, Aquarius, Leo, and Scorpio (I think? I'm horrible at astrological stuff), each at a 90 degree angle from the center of the world. Two tall pillars reach between a world of lushness and space, with the World holding its own between them, but seemingly lightly supported by stray branches. A theme of interconnectedness from root to far branch runs through this image- a reminder that while the cycle ends it also begins anew- though not always at the same point we would expect.
Behind the world is seemingly a shadow in the distance, something my eyes have missed again and again. Is it perhaps a marker for alternate realities, different dimensions, or shadows of the paths we never took? Hmm. Food for thought.
XXI THE WORLD - A huge Dragon lies coiled around the World. Around it we see the four fixed signs of the zodiac, one for each of the four elements respectively.
Divinatory Meaning - Success, attainment.
Reversed - Fears, carrying the world on your shoulders.
There is something all too simple, and yet beautiful, about this card. In certain pagan practices, the call to mother earth to wake and heal is often called "Raising the Dragon", where they view the world as a living dragon. This picture certainly embodies such a practice's vision.
The World itself is marked by Taurus, Aquarius, Leo, and Scorpio (I think? I'm horrible at astrological stuff), each at a 90 degree angle from the center of the world. Two tall pillars reach between a world of lushness and space, with the World holding its own between them, but seemingly lightly supported by stray branches. A theme of interconnectedness from root to far branch runs through this image- a reminder that while the cycle ends it also begins anew- though not always at the same point we would expect.
Behind the world is seemingly a shadow in the distance, something my eyes have missed again and again. Is it perhaps a marker for alternate realities, different dimensions, or shadows of the paths we never took? Hmm. Food for thought.