three majors

daily draw at the cafe (6) lovers rx, flanked by (7) chariot and (3) empress.

yike. seems like the deck wants me to get serious about the majors.

in a deck i might create, i would likely call the six "discernment" rather than "lovers," and use very simplified imagery to show a joining of the so-called "conscious" awareness with the "subconscious" as a path to what you may call it, transcendence, unmediated awareness, whatever.

this is straight out of paul foster case.

what i am thinking right now is simply loosely clasped hands, a "female" left hand resting in a "male" right, as though a couple were standing side by side, with maybe the "female" forearm and hand in green, to suggest (3) empress, and the "male" in yellow, to suggest (1) magician -- each of whom would also likely be renamed, but that is another story.

the background might also be vertically divided in some manner, possibly with a visual reference to the hebrew letter zain, meaning "sword," and there might be figures of some kind tattoed on the forearms to reinforce or extend the conscious/subconscious reference.

and this is as good a place as any to mention that it would be my intention to place elemental, numerological, and astrological data on the borders of each card, for the convenience of those who might want to explore those associations.

so here, on the six, would be some kind of reference to the fact that gemini, a common air sign, is "ruled" by mercury, etc.

possibly also some reference to the card's placement on the path from binah to tiphareth, i don't know. part of my purpose here is to get away from the cluttered imagery of the rider deck, but that has more to do with the angel and the trees and the flaming fruit and the serpent, etc. i do want the various attributions to be very accessible.

similarly with the seven, which i might call "vehicle" or "receptivity" rather than "chariot," possibly using the literal meaning of the hebrew letter cheth, fence, to suggest the idea of enclosure or focus. this card has to do with joining the empress with the priestess, binah to geburah.

case talks about controlling language and allowing the primal will to express itself. i do not really have clear imagery for this yet, but the fence is a beginning.  maybe the human ribcage.

and with the three, which i am thinking of calling "gaia" or "fecundity," and playing with the meaning of the hebrew letter daleth, door, by depicting a cultivated landscape contoured to resemble a female pubis. a nod to georgia o'keeffe.

but to return to the three card spread itself.

elemental attributions air flanked by water and earth, which are compatible but passive, thus exerting only a modest effect on the center. left supportive, right weakening.

i am actually thinking the spread has specifically to do with this project, and the basic message is that i do not yet sufficiently understand the relationship of the six with the three by way of the seven, and ultimately the relationship of the two with the three.