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Interpretation
In the artist's take on the tradition of the Rider Waite Tarot, the Three of Cups is about celebrating your blessings. Here, glasses of champagne are ready on the tablecloth to celebrate and enjoy the bounty ranged about them: luscious ripe fruit.
While the harvest in this rendition is literal, it can be figurative as well. It can instead represent the celebration of a new marriage, a new baby, a new chapter in one's life. Or it can be a celebration just because. Whatever the reason, in fortune-telling the Three of Cups indicates that there is or will soon be something very happy to be joyful about in life.
Technique
Digital photography. Ginger ale provided an economic stand-in for champagne in the glasses.
Three of Swords
Interpretation
Through the lens of a rain-streaked window at night, three spades hang threateningly over a heart. Unapologetically a Rider Waite take on the card, it is a bleak rainy image of disappointment and heartsickness.
The suit of Spades in standard playing cards are roughly equivalent to the Tarot suit of Swords, and in most cartomantic systems using playing cards the Spades cards herald trouble, strife and unhappiness. The three spades shown here are poised, point-down, over the heart. They may not have pierced it yet but one often finds that the anticipation of heartbreak, disappointment or bad news is just as bad as (if not worse than) the moment that it happens. This version of the Three of Swords hints of this: the dread and expectation of the moment the blow falls.
Technique
Digitally created using Sumo Paint.
Eight of Wands
A scroll stands in a grove of slender birch trees, gold ribbons tied around eight of them. Written on the scroll is a rough interpretation of the Eight of Wands from a simple numerological and elemental standpoint with some help from Paul Marteau's numerology: "Eights in the Tarot bring together the square and the cross; they are connected to stability, bringing about a balance between stability on the physical plane and harmony on the spiritual plane. When combined with the creative growth of the Wands this card heralds effective and satisfactory news and communication." This is my interpretation in a nutshell.
In Celtic tree astrology, both stability and the sun's energy are associated with white birch. This ties to both the Eight and the Wands, which are commonly associated with Fire.
Technique
Digitally created using Sumo Paint.
Biography
Jackdaw was a member of the Tarot Collectors Forum at the time these cards were created.
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