After showing you the comforting card "XIV - Temperance" last time, today's visit to the "Temple of the Secrets" is going to confront us with some very different aspects.
On our "journey of the fool" sometimes also referred to "the journey of the hero", we have come a long way. In this metaphor of the human life, we saw how a new soul came into this world, a child was born and raised and how this person mastered all the different aspects of this great adventure, our time on this beautiful planet.
But its not over yet, and there are still some challenges and lessons left to be learned...
In "XV - The Devil" we are confronted with temptation, dependence and addiction! The devil wants to seduce us to excess and is happy when people literally fall for it, and feel bad when they are prisoners of themselves or their bad habits.
Interesting coincidence seems to be, that @abigail-dantes just wrote a brilliant post on that theme.
As I have told you before, I painted my Tarot cards largely based on intuition. I had a great teacher in the German Tarot expert Hajo Banzhaf, who initially opened a gate for me, to understanding the meanings of the cards. But later on, I more or less "felt" them and interpreted this feeling with a picture.
When I started working on "XV - The Devil", I always had to think of "eye", but I didn't see any connection to the card. The feeling was so strong however, that in the end I just based my approach on that thought. Being so persistent in my head, it had to have some meaning... Years later, I found out, that the representation of this card in the Kabbala means "eye" and so in the end it did make sense after all.
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
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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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My tarot cards were done in my special technique as introduced in What is Hinterglas?
