baba-prague
tarot heart said:I really like the cards you have up so far, er, except for the Hanged Man. I don't think the cat looks like it's hanging. It looks more like his head is stuck in the branches of the tree. The other cards, however, look fantastic. Of course, that's just my opinion. I like the idea of it though. Maybe it's one of the cards you're still "tweaking?"
Anyway, looking forward to the rest of this deck!
tarot heart
No, he isn't hanging. In the book, he simply appears - in stages (not all of the cat is there all of the time). We're sticking to the story for this deck, rather than changing things to be more RWS. So we are showing him as he's appearing and before the whole cat is manifested.
ncefafn said:I'm curious, Karen -- what is your thinking behind the use of the Cheshire Cat as the Hanged Man?
We chose the Cheshire Cat as the Hanged Man because he's the only character who "rises above" all the action - he comments and questions more than he takes part. Of course, this means that he could, perhaps, alternatively have been the Hermit, but he's not philosophical or isolated in that way. There's also a bit of a joke (though you need to know the books to get it) about the execution aspect that many people read into the Hanged Man. The Cheshire Cat is under sentence of execution but as the executioner points out, you can't cut his head off when he doesn't have a body!