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[egypturnash]

"17 year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat, complete with furry tail and dances on wine bottles, June 1958. Her performance was based on a dream and she practiced for eight hours every day in order to perfect her dance."

Found on Digg. This is totally fodder for a tarot card. Look at that photo.

Comments

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

So would it be art imitating life or life imitating art?

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

That's life being art.

[silverblue.livejournal.com]

I think she's awesome! I wonder if she's still alive? If she is, it'd be kinda fun to do some pictures for her, I think.

[abirritate.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a 10 of swords if I've ever seen one.

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

Cups you mean, surely?

[abirritate.livejournal.com]

No, I said swords and I meant swords.

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

yes'm

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

Minimal research indicates that the Ten of Swords is regarded to be the "you fail, life sucks and then you die" card, hardly positive enough for this image. I would suggest the Nine of Swords, which at least references dreams. And the number nine, of course, is associated with cats...

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Which raises the question of how much loyalty to tradition is desirable in a Tarot deck that has French cat ladies dancing on bottles. :) This is admittedly in no regard an easy question, and I mean no sarcasm by it. It just piques my curiosity about where the standard Minor Arcana symbolism as we know it came from and how much it's varied...

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

A fair question. It seems to have mostly derived from the arbitrary illustrations on the Smith-Waite. But it's been around for long enough that tarot users aren't going to unlearn it. For symbols unburdened by old meanings, one would have to create a new system, in which, for instance, this card is the Ten of Bottles, or the Black Cat.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Wellllll...

What does the image of a woman in a cat costume dancing atop wine bottles symbolize? What card in the Tarot deck symbolizes the same thing? There you go. Load the imagery with some details that reference the other meanings layered into the Tarot card and it's done.

(I think the meanings stuffed into illustrated-number decks like the Smith-Waite comes from lots of numerology/gemmatria/Kabbala correspondence, btw. At least originally.)

[xyzzysqrl]

... I... oh wow. She's -gorgeous-.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

It ALREADY looks like one of your pieces.

Cool, but...

[rayjaysuyin.livejournal.com]

If she's a 7-year old, then so am I.

Re: Cool, but...

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Hee. Typo. She's 17. I saw the same link. :D

Re: Cool, but...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Cut and paste accident. Fixed. Thanks!

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

Didn't figure you for the Digg type. Huh.


Eye-catching and deliciously off photo.


Knave of cups.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I stay the hell away from the comments section.

variable seriosity

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

I think that's a wise choice because that's what I do with many/most websites. One of the first things that can kill enjoyment of a good contentstream is checking out the fora/IRC channel/MySpace/party line, yes?

Also I use StumbleUpon which doesn't require "talking" to people.

Re: variable seriosity

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Yes. Argh. So many sites look like this:

incrediblycoolthing.com?coolthingid=171

[INCREDIBLY COOL THING HERE]

Comments:
1. Incredibly cool!
2. fake
3. No it isn't.
4. gay
5. shut up, feminine hygiene product
6. make me, homosexual slur
7. dfasfdfgdsaf
8. Pretty good but check out _HOTNAKEDCAMZ_

[pyro.livejournal.com]

that is absolutely mindblowing.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Two of coins or swords maybe.