Finally the cycle is complete. During the long journey of the fool/hero with lots of ups and downs we learned about all aspects of life. A soul materializing in this world, a person growing up and learning everything necessary to start the own life, gathering experiences and mastering difficulties and ones own personality...
And now we have reached the preliminary end of our journey.
This last picture shows a so-called mandala. A mandala is a circular picture and in many cultures the mandala is a symbol for the world. Here our human being has now found and taken his/her place in the world.
I chose all three basic colors, as one can pretty much create all other colors from them by mixing. The picture represents a mature person with great inner richness. Therefore I chose to build the mandala from golden (yellow) ankh signs, the symbol of life of the ancient Egyptians, who often combined it with lapis lazuli (blue) and rubies (red).
By reaching this last card "XXI - The World" we completed a cycle of life. If that is really the final destination depends on your own beliefs...
All the cards are part of a major artwork I created throughout the 90s in a former chapel and I called that space the Temple of the Secrets.
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As I have told you already last time, the whole work consists of 66 pieces of glass. They are between 3 and 6 feet high, and under the actual Tarot cards are corresponding pictures with the story of how the cards and the wisdom encoded in them made their way to us today. "How the cards came from Egypt to Bavaria", to be precise.
The story ends with a picture rather similar to the one at the beginning...
...where we saw the emergence of the world after the imagination of the ancient Egyptians.
The endpoint is the same figure, but instead of the primal egg, she is holding the shen ring, the ancient Egyptian symbol for eternal protection.
Unfortunately I only have a weak photo of it, as that is one of the unfinished pieces. But just to give you an idea:
To find out your Personal TAROT Card, just add day, month and year of your date of Birth:
dd + mm + jjjj = xxxx.
Now add the four digits of the resulting number:
x + x + x + x = nn
If the resulting number is greater than 22 please add n + n again.
Any result equal to or smaller than 22 is your personal number with 22 representing 0
If you are interested in the aspects of divination, please make sure to
visit @tarotbyfergus, @zero-infinity and @intuitivejakob.
@anibas also created a beautiful Tarot deck and you can order individual cards/pictures from her website
On a related theme, @mira13 is your expert on numerology
A big thank you also to @sukhasanasister for the valuable contributions to my tarot posts in the past!!
The Temple of the Secrets total size of artwork is 15ft by 45ft, unfinished
It was part of the museum I ran for twenty years.
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All photos/scans by me of my own artwork done in my special technique as introduced in What is Hinterglas?