I am back and busy with getting my Kickstarter ready!
To celebrate getting back home, here are two new cards I just processed today, the Priestess and the Moon.
The Priestess lies on her throne, which represents her corporeal self, asleep. She is asleep inside herself, beneath the towers of the moon (shown from the other direction in the Moon card), which are connected by an arch of boulders like a spine, and between the towers, among the pointed silhouette of her ribs, is her heart, half a biological thing, half a star-forming nebula. On her skin is a galaxy pattern that rises off the surface of her body. She is both an idea entirely personal and internal, but also cosmologically huge. The tunnel that runs between the biggest and the smallest things in our world.
I made the Moon's traditional dog-and-wolf into two creatures that are human and dog (or rather Fool and dog, since each one has one of the Fool's tails). The Moon is one of the cards the Fool appears in in some way (along with the Hanged Man, Love, the Wheel, the Devil and the Angel)- one of the places that allows the Fool to have a realized identity. In the Moon, the dark shadow of the conscious mind where nothing is rational and the structure of knowledge is temporarily blasted apart, the Fool is at home, as a personality seeking to understand rather than to make itself understood. Split into two howling dog-men, resting on stone blocks or coffins or pedestals, the Fool opens its mouth to catch the moonlight and moon-dew, ready to embrace exactly what others find so terrifying: the dissolution of the self, and the abyss beneath the faces we present to the world. Only the Fool would risk falling into madness or into hell, in the endless pursuit of experience.