Today’s card reminds me that I need to tell y’all one of my guilty secrets. I see this card as a invitation to indulge in that secret. You want to know what the secret is?
I don’t know if I can tell you.
Let’s talk about this card instead. It’s from a 2012 Schiffer deck called the Lowbrow Tarot. It was a compilation of artists who each worked on one of the twenty two major arcana. I am not a huge fan of Majors only Tarot but have been given some great advice recently on how I might turn that around.
This deck runs the gamut from super dark to almost whimsical art. It truly is a miniature art gallery. Here is the Empress from this deck. She’s an unusual Empress to my way of thinking. More High Priestess with her cool gaze and chaste colors, this Empress seems to be challenging the onlooker.
I expect a few things from an Empress. This one doesn’t deliver on all things. She’s so subtle you almost miss that full belly. That’s pretty much a must for me. She must be fertile and show it. She holds something in her hand. Is it heart? A jewelry box?
No. It’s a very traditional symbol for the Empress–a pomegranate. But I have to wonder how she can hold that juicy fruit and not get a drop on her!
Her hair is braided to look like wheat which is a terrific touch. Her breasts are definitely full and her chair could be a throne. She’s portrayed outside which is another thing I like my Empresses to be.
At her feet are the thing that reminds me of that guilty secret.
Poppies, my pretty. Poppies.
Yes, it’s true. I have a fair-to-middlin’ impersonation of the Wicked Witch of the West.
SHOCKER!
I’ve also read every, I think, Frank L. Baum book in that series. I was seriously hooked on Oz as a young girl. I think TickTock of Oz is my personal favorite with Glinda’s book coming in at number two.
So what about you? Do you do any impersonations?
Oh! I can also do a Jimmy Cagney “you dirty rat” in sign language.
Yeah, I’m a special type of talented.
Your 180 second challenge today? For three minutes practice impersonations in the mirror. You have to do it until you laugh–hard. This is one I suggest doing with a pal because you can get them to do theirs as well.
This isn’t about doing it well.
It’s about doing it until you laugh.
Are you with me? You dirty rats!
Empress, Lowbrow Tarot: An Artistic Collaborative Effort in Honor of Tarot
Seek Joy, Y’all. Pass it on.
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