Guest Posted February 25, 2018 Posted February 25, 2018 Since I had far too much time sitting around this weekend making trouble I decided to celebrate my having done nothing for days by doing something. The court cards in my deck follow all other decks in the general sense that, they all represent the Zodiac. Mine may have a suit switched with your deck, but they all still have the same meanings. What happens is the Zodiac is separated into 3 emennations, the 1st emennation is what we think of as The kings and they are the first four Zodiacs Aries-Cancer. 2nd emanation is what we think of as the Queens and they are the next four Leo-Scorpio 3rd emannation is we think of as the Youth/Page etc. and they are the last four Sagitarius-Pisces So what happens when we pull a court card? It is such a common question on every forum I have ever been to, and the answers can get really complicated as people try to get a grip on all the things the card commands. But there is already a symbol we instantly and naturally equate with all of these things for each card. The zodiac signs and planets. The first card I present here is my first concept for my deck of course. This one is the Youth of earth and it is Capricorn. the Youths being the third emennation signs and Capricorn being the earth sign found there. the background to the card represents the environment that is ruled by Capricorn/Saturn high rocky foreboding terrain a place where life must be brave and tenacious to live there. The earth sign is central with Capricorn and Saturn within it. The text that runs through are the Governance of this card as set forth by William Lilly in the Christian Astrologer. Literally it is a gigantic list of all the things ruled by these signs. So with this deck in hand one would always have a handy reference of the various incense, flower, herb, vegetable, ailment, person, weather, etc ruled by the cards with them. I have been tossing this idea back and forth for a long time now, and this is my first real try at making it happen. :) Sometimes it is more a mater of a certain concept liek this being functional with all the cards of that variety
Guest Posted February 27, 2018 Posted February 27, 2018 I have updated the rulerships and and removed the cut and paste stuff. I added their best and worst traits at the top and bottom of the card I added the key word for the Youth of Earth "I use," youth of earth will Use things to their advantage for good or bad they are Users of things, people , the environment. They take advantage of that which they have at their disposal. I also have included the main thought type of Youth of Earth " utitlity" a Youth of earth will always have thoughts that are about utility. They don't dream or think outside of what is necessary and applicable..tell them your dreams and you will get the blankest stare EVER!!!! unless your dreams are what they are concerned with at the moment... Split things up a bit as well. Seems like a good start to an awfully complicated idea....and since I don't have any critics it must be the most awesome idea ever.... i also added some more detail into the terrain.The actual artsy fartsy effect I am going for here can not go much further until all the text and positioning is solidly in place....which means there is a good chance I am going to have all twelve of these mocked up before I really got to polishing up the back ground and interweaving it with the words. edit - please PM me if the link to the image breaks, I am always messing with my cloud directories
Guest Posted April 16, 2018 Posted April 16, 2018 i sorta changed directions with the courts, so many views of this thread without a comment, is more telling than a hundred posts, thank you. :) i have stripped down the court cards even further. The court cards are in general describing these rulership's by a given zodiac, so I went with just doing the twelve zodiac cards for the courts. i am quite happy with the concept, I approve of anything that make s the deck less complicated and more straight forward.\\ Here is gemini, I have been going back and forth with it a bit. do they dance out side? in space? in this tower? meh... Gemini is the third zodiac and it would correspond to a king card of either swords or coins depending on your deck. I think of it as king of Air personally. edit - i updated the image a little cause I was bored...
Page of Ghosts Posted April 17, 2018 Posted April 17, 2018 I like this new version a lot better! I never managed to reply because I can be a wimp but the version with the text had so much going on - it was really hard to get what the gist of it all was. Now it matches with your other cards and is toned down a lot. All that text can go in the lwb if you make one ^-^ One thing I wonder about: I've never seen the word "changeableness" but I know "changeability" (hoping I didn't spell it too terribly!) is a thing.
Guest Posted April 17, 2018 Posted April 17, 2018 I like this new version a lot better! I never managed to reply because I can be a wimp but the version with the text had so much going on - it was really hard to get what the gist of it all was. Now it matches with your other cards and is toned down a lot. All that text can go in the lwb if you make one ^-^ One thing I wonder about: I've never seen the word "changeableness" but I know "changeability" (hoping I didn't spell it too terribly!) is a thing. changeableness and changeability would be synonyms of one another now-a-days,i could use either one. They meant slightly different things not long ago. so many of my cards are full of slightly archaic words, that are just recently out of circulation. I learned them from studying these old books on astrology, tarot, translating form other languages, etc. and if I am to share this deck around I need to really address this I think. SO PLEASE DO FEEL FREE TO SAY "HAY!!! I HAD TO LOOK UP EVERY WORD YOU SAID!!!! FIX THAT!!!" Do I just describe the card in a LWB and leave the words I have? some of them are irreplaceable. For instance the 9 of water has Vicissitudes which I could find all sort of synonyms for (fluctuations for instance) but it really just feels like the right word after you learn the word. I am trying to be exhaustively specific with one word,I have two choices here that I can see. Do I put more burden on you to learn with me a single word? or do I use a more common word and a small tract of explanation of how "Fluctuations" are really vicissitudes... I prefer the first way, the act of learning a new thing creates new neural paths associated with that card when that learning takes place. Now that card has become a part of you. If i just spew an explanation they are just lots of words and you may create no new associations with the card since reading and remembering are very automatic processes. ::) am I over thinking this? and should just put playskool words on the cards? :o we talk about it a lot here, my daughter makes fun of a good handful of the titles on my cards. :-\
Guest Posted April 17, 2018 Posted April 17, 2018 i sort of went with a rather cliche Pisces card, which is a youth of water i suppose. I am beginning to think less and less of the correspondences between the decks. When I do the final version of this the two fish will be completely different fish and the bows wont be so wretched
Guest Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 king of earth is Taurus. I am arranging the specific colors I will use for reach planet and zodiac as I go through the court cards. i also pulled the border out for a differnt feel
Page of Ghosts Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 I like this new version a lot better! I never managed to reply because I can be a wimp but the version with the text had so much going on - it was really hard to get what the gist of it all was. Now it matches with your other cards and is toned down a lot. All that text can go in the lwb if you make one ^-^ One thing I wonder about: I've never seen the word "changeableness" but I know "changeability" (hoping I didn't spell it too terribly!) is a thing. changeableness and changeability would be synonyms of one another now-a-days,i could use either one. They meant slightly different things not long ago. so many of my cards are full of slightly archaic words, that are just recently out of circulation. I learned them from studying these old books on astrology, tarot, translating form other languages, etc. and if I am to share this deck around I need to really address this I think. SO PLEASE DO FEEL FREE TO SAY "HAY!!! I HAD TO LOOK UP EVERY WORD YOU SAID!!!! FIX THAT!!!" Do I just describe the card in a LWB and leave the words I have? some of them are irreplaceable. For instance the 9 of water has Vicissitudes which I could find all sort of synonyms for (fluctuations for instance) but it really just feels like the right word after you learn the word. I am trying to be exhaustively specific with one word,I have two choices here that I can see. Do I put more burden on you to learn with me a single word? or do I use a more common word and a small tract of explanation of how "Fluctuations" are really vicissitudes... I prefer the first way, the act of learning a new thing creates new neural paths associated with that card when that learning takes place. Now that card has become a part of you. If i just spew an explanation they are just lots of words and you may create no new associations with the card since reading and remembering are very automatic processes. ::) am I over thinking this? and should just put playskool words on the cards? :o we talk about it a lot here, my daughter makes fun of a good handful of the titles on my cards. :-\ Good to know it's actually a real word! It looked a little clunky to me but I'm more of a simpleton bilingual with my words and prefer to keep it simple and understandable when I write myself, so I don't know all the fancy ones ;) I don't really mind the old fashioned words, I think it's fun to read about words that have fallen out of use, but you might include a small dictionary-style blurb in your LWB if you plan on creating one?
maenifold Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 ::) am I over thinking this? and should just put playskool words on the cards? :o I like "vicissitudes", gives it a sort of weight (and you can always explain it in the LWB) As a Pisces I really like the Pisces card, interesting abstract pattern tying them together, and a nice change from the normal representations.
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