The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Shweta Narayan:

Bruce (46) - I'm not sure High Priestess is right for this card; she's not just an initiate into the mysteries, keeper of the wisdom; she's Correction coming down with flaming pen aimed straight at errors.

So I figured the Tower would work since it's about everything falling down, and it's also the card after The Devil (error, seen one way). In adition, the pain of being edited is surely Tower-like, and it's a worthwhile pain because you're better afterward.

I don't see Justice as any less abstract than The Tower, but even then, the card I ended up drawing is not about balance but about fixing things, so not Justice.

But! I hear you about not having her be an abstraction. So moving away from the major Arcana, which are _all_ kind of abstract archetypes, she could be the Queen of Swords (pens). Swords being the Air suit, intelligence, wit, learning, etc, that would fit, wouldn't it? And Patrick could then conveniently be the King of Swords. Though I don't know if the symbolism fits. Not, you know, actually knowing either of them.

(Teresa, if you're reading this at all, I hope you don't mind being a tarot card. That kind of happened accidentally.)

Clifton (30) Thank you! (That's my picture)

And TW (32) Hm, would Copyeditrix be 16, The Tower? Would Patrick then be Judgement?
Not that I'm saying I'll do it, since that one took me about 4 months, but I might.

-Shweta

Comment statistics for Shweta Narayan on the Making Light blog

Total: 4 comments. View all these comments on a single page.