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xvi the tower

It was proposed that I built the tower purely out of anxiety, of course I recognise how anxious I was, the fears and tribulations I wanted to keep at bay needed a wall as thick and as tall as the tower.  But that was many a merry moon ago and I reflected, with a drink and a friend, that my fears and tribulations had not been what I expected.  That was when my friend proposed the tower was an offering to my anxiety, now that the offering is complete and my time is done I no longer need the tower, I may never have needed the tower if i had not been unnecessarily anxious, but I was so it was.

House of God.  Devine wrath, pride punished. Disruption. Breakdown. Expulsion, losses. Destructive rivalry. Beliefs or trust shaken, bankruptcy. Ruined plans. Reversal of fortune. Starting over.

the fool
Oh look at that fool, falling, floundering, crashing about breaking the rules and...

i the magician
The question is how to put in practice that the subtle rules the dense, the question that...

ii the high priestess
The High Priestess knows about secrets.  She knows how to keep secrets.  And...

iii the empress
But how does it feel, how does it really feel?  It may be the cleverest of things to...

iv emperor
But what is power and what does it mean to me, and how can I apply this to myself? ...

v the hierophant
And here we have it, the symbol of spiritual life, that is to say the all there is that...

vi the lovers
The lovers have choices they can make, unlike a child the lover chooses the relationship...

vii the chariot
Willpower is a fantastic tool in the tasks of yokin those beasts and achieving a...

viii strength
There she goes again, our hero embarking on the quest, the mission, the journey, and the...

ix the hermit
Always in a state of flux, here comes the rational thoughts: this is a good situation, it...

xi justice
Seen to be done... well, perhaps on TikTok it does need to be seen as that is all there...

xii the hanged man
It is difficult, it would seem, to hand about upside down and appreciate the surroundings...

xiii death
Oh death, here you are with your melancholy and finality.  Last night I watched a...

xiv temperance
Everything, life is not a cartoon with dimensionless goodies and baddies that could be...

xv the devil
I have heard the devil is an oppressive experience that is, in least at part, from...

xvii the star
It is a lot harder to live hopefully than to say you are hopeful, maybe living hope is...

xviii the moon
And so began my week of lunar confusion.  The path I had trodden so casually...

xx judgement
We are limited in this human body with finite, and, indeed, quite small levels of...

xxi the world
And before me stood the world with all the complexities and all the contradictions it...

Mark My Card
Are your cards a meditation or a prediction.  Do the cards know your fate, do they...