THE EMPEROR (IV)

Yup, it's been over a year since I last posted to this blog. Nor have I done any work on The Marker Tarot designs in that time. Long story, but I'm now enthusiastically back to work on this deck. (The other two decks I've been sharing my designs for: The Taiga Tarot and The Found Tarot [links below in signature], will also have posts showing up for them again soon.)

As I said in November 2015, THE EMPEROR (IV) is the next card:

Original sketch for THE EMPEROR (IV) in The Marker Tarot

Closer to how THE EMPEROR (IV) will appear in The Marker Tarot

For comparison, THE EMPEROR (IV) in the well-known Rider/Waite/Smith deck

I won't go into the details but it's synchronous that the first card as I start back on posting
from The Marker Tarot would be IV. The Emperor is often seen as the archetypal, and
sometimes personal, father. And father issues have been up in my life in a big way for some time now. As of this writing I'm getting (seeing) something I'd not gotten before about this card. It can say to examine in what ways some important father figure in one's life has determined how one views (sees) things. Some foundational way one may not even be all that aware of.

Although its more often shown up in the King of Wands, IV also addresses something
my life keeps urging me in various ways not to forget to do: be the father to myself that I never really had.

In a more general sense, I always get a chuckle out of the possibility of clairvoyance this card can represent. Maybe this ability is at least partly why He can seem so solid and calm. If one has a sense of what the future may bring, then what to do becomes much clearer and one can focus on action as opposed to worrying.

I'm also often struck by his protection of what The Empress (III) creates. Both maintaining/containing Her sometimes wild creative efforts and taking good care of them in the even wilder world.

The next card up will be THE HIEROPHANT (V). A design I had an especially hard time with, even as far back as the design I'd done for it in a deck for blind folk (which deck is at the roots of The Marker Tarot) and on a side trip, to the V in my Taiga Tarot. But I think I'm finally content with its design in The Marker Tarot that I'll be sharing here soon.

Footnote: The other two decks I've got going are Roswila's Taiga Tarot (blog dedicated solely to the deck's designs), and Roswila's Tarot Gallery & Journal (you can search for "Found Tarot" at the top left of this blog; the photo/cards for The Found Tarot are salted betwixt and between all sorts of other posts).

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For the full details (history of and ideas behind this deck's designs) please see this blogs' first post, The Fool.

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'til next time, keep enjoying The Tarot, in whatever forms it comes to you,





[aka: Patricia Kelly]
****If you wish to copy or use any of my writing, please email me for permission (under "View my complete profile")**** SEE ALSO: Roswila's Dream & Poetry Realm for Tarot poetry; Roswila's Tarot Gallery & Journal; Roswila's Taiga Tarot for taiga (illustrated tanka); and Trying to Hold A Box of Light for digital photos only.