Garden of Life Tarot Art Contest

Image Descriptions, Key Words, and Meanings

Below are six sample written descriptions for you to choose from, selected from the 108 images of the Garden of Life Tarot. Pick one or more to depict as a tarot card, and create an image in any medium you like. One of the eventual plans for these "cards" will be to produce virtual reality vignettes on the web, however, we understand that the two dimensional versions of the cards will have to be simpler. To help guide you, the most important images are highlighted in various colours, in each description. If you don't know a term in a description, you can email us for information or do a quick search on the web.

 

Card Title: Child of Vessels
Leaves & Stems

The current working description of the image for this Position includes:
Two Children, a girl and boy, are playing in tidal pools. The tidal pool has an intense microcosmic biosphere, plant and animal. The girl picks up a starfish. The boy has a leaved branch and has gotten a crab to climb up on it. They both have net bags of shells at their waists. The scene is viewed from the tree line framed by leaved branches hanging down at the top.

The most important interpretation of each card occurs within the direct communication of one's mind with each image.

Possible Concepts Represented:
Emotional spontaneity and innocence as well as emotional intelligence and learning. Exploration of the panoply of emotional ranges to strengthen connections among people.


Practicable Keywords:
Instinct, Emotion Play, Connections Play, Tidal Pool


Colour produced by Light - Hologrammic Blue;
Colour produced by Pigment - Transparent Blue

Suite = Vessels       Elemental Coding = Water
Sources of current proposed images for this card
 

Card Title: Deuce of Vorti
Rapture

The current working description of the image for this Position includes:
With arms akimbo and one leg up, an Archaic Priestess of the Cypriot dances wildly inside her white, seamless, cylindrical veil. The veil hangs on a round frame supported by poles held by two attendants so that the priestess is viewed only in silhouette. Clockwise Vortex rises from Priestess; counterclockwise vortices from Attendants. Wearing simple white tunics, the attendants walk down a river rock path toward the viewer along a cliff with ocean spray rising high.

The most important interpretation of each card occurs within the direct communication of one's mind with each image.

Possible Concepts Represented:
Representing ecstatic trance as one direct connection for exploring spirit, self and the sacred. The value of direct personal experience of alternative states of consciousness, especially as induced by praxis of one's chosen spiritual tradition.


Practicable Keywords:
Ecstatic Trance, Altered States, Two Personal Energy Vorti


Colour produced by Light - Deep Blue;
Colour produced by Pigment - Earthen Medium RedPurple

Suite = Vorti       Elemental Coding = Spirit
Sources of current proposed images for this card
 

Card Title: Queen of Blades
Keeper of the Hall of Records

The current working description of the image for this Position includes:
In the foreground, both wings of the Peacock Gate are thrown open and laid back against the walls, the rest of the scene is seen beyond. An elder Asian queen is enthroned on the Hyacinth Throne in a library. She wears a rainbow armlet on her left arm. There is an open scroll to her left showing a map of Ægypt. On her right an open scroll shows a futuristic space station. She holds a third scroll and is cutting the seal cord with an elegant dagger. A scribes kit from early dynastic Ægypt is in the background along with computer elements. Two children sit in front of her. One is looking at the parchment map of Ægypt and the other at the one of the space station. In the background, the Rainbow Bridge goes to a building on a cloud.

The most important interpretation of each card occurs within the direct communication of one's mind with each image.

Possible Concepts Represented:
Every event, moment, and individual decision is recorded and each affects the structures of the Multiverses. The mystery of the Librarian who collects, catalogues, and shares all knowledge. Nurturing the value of keeping records to pass on culture, spiritual growth, and species development. Indicating the importance of keeping and teaching a continuity of knowledge and tools, as humanity prepares to leave the nest and reach for the stars.


Practicable Keywords:
Keeps Memories Alive, Tribes, Traditions, Akashic Records, The Hyacinth Throne, Elegant Dagger, Rainbow Bridge, Peacock Gate


Colour produced by Light - Medium Blue;
Colour produced by Pigment - Pale YellowGreen

Suite = Blades       Elemental Coding = Air
Sources of current proposed images for this card
 

Card Title: Four of Discs
Power

The current working description of the image for this Position includes:
The central image may be described as a woman seated with her right profile toward the viewer. She is wearing the traditional Cretan dress of the Priestess-Goddess-Ruler, with its seven layers of alternating not quite ruffles below the metal girdle and breast supporting structure; her skin is porcelain glowing white, possibly dusted with power and her ample breasts are visible with gilded nipples. The side of the belt and girdle which we can see, and which supports the side of her breast has a leaping dolphin design on it. The general decor is Cretan circa 2000bce or before. She is seated in a specially designed throne which is made of stone, with a wooden attachment at the top which allows her to lean her head back, so that her hair falls to the floor behind her. There is a circular opening in the floor allowing the earth to show. There are eleven tiles around the opening, in a medium bluegreen. The earth is a rich reddish-black. Her hair actually touches the earth. Above her is a high ceiling supported by typical Cretan columns. The ceiling has an open circular skylight in it, centered above the earth baring hole below, but a lot larger. Light streams down through the opening, Seven Amphipteré (Winged Serpents) are faintly visible in and around the light stream. In the center of the stream of light coming into the room are the descending hooves and forelocks of the Celestial Bull, but they are almost transparent with sparkles. The woman's face is upturned, her eyes closed, apparently in some trance state. Beside her on the floor lays a golden plate with pomegranates, poppy seedpods, and amanita mushrooms on it. There is Cretan décor on walls. The floor is covered with mosaics, an octopus and three dolphins are visible. The wall behind her is also covered with a mural of pheasants moving through grass, the pheasants are almost hidden by the tall grasses, and swallows dance above the field. There is a stand in front of the woman and further away from the viewer, that consist of a round pillar and top, the design on the side we can see is the Cretan octopus motif. The traditional Cretan High Priestess crown rests upon the stand. A Lion Cub in profile, it is not immediately apparent whether it is alive or an artifact, it sits on the deep blue cloth of the cap part of the crown which it normally rides above.

The most important interpretation of each card occurs within the direct communication of one's mind with each image.

Possible Concepts Represented:
Representing pure power as it manifests into material reality; the purposeful nature of physical and ethereal existence as matter: solid, liquid and gas.


Practicable Keywords:
Material Energy, Stability, Make Manifest, Foundations, Natural Forces, Four Elemental Rounds


Colour produced by Light - Deep Purple;
Colour produced by Pigment - Medium Warm Brown

Suite = Discs       Elemental Coding = Earth
Sources of current proposed images for this card
 

Card Title: Prince of Rhods
Charioteer of True Will

The current working description of the image for this Position includes:
A red-haired erect Prince wears a redpurple chlamys cape with broad border pattern of Damiana flowers and leaves. The whole chlamys is edged in copper. He has flaming winged temples and a copper torque around his neck, the two ends are the heads of bears, baring their teeth. He holds a staff with the head of a laughing Dragon. The height of the staff is equal to his throat chakra when he is standing. The shaft of the staff is made of Dragon's Eye Pine and is living with buds and leaves. From a copper ring at the neck of the Laughing Dragon a red ribbon and a white ribbon are suspended, knotted in eleven knots and bedecked in two bells at each knot. The ruddy Prince's chariot is pulled at high speed by lynxes as he drives them through a ring of fire. The two wheeled Ægyptian chariot has wheels made in the Ægyptian Wheel of Going pattern, the eleven spokes are Ankhs. Many types of staffs and wands are in the bed of the chariot.

The most important interpretation of each card occurs within the direct communication of one's mind with each image.

Possible Concepts Represented:
Attainment of the Breath of Fire, the Blessings of Lust and the urge to procreate. Awakening the Kundalini energies and forming a connection with the Higher Self or Atman and provoke a self-organizing emergent higher self via that individual's self-directed and self-defined will.


Practicable Keywords:
Breath of Fire, Volatility, To Dare, Laughing Dragon Headed Staff, The Wheel of Going


Colour produced by Light - Deep RedViolet;
Colour produced by Pigment - Pale Red

Suite = Rhods       Elemental Coding = Fire
Sources of current proposed images for this card
 

Card Title: The Priest

The current working description of the image for this Position includes:
A Winged Ægyptian priest in full regalia stands between the trapezoidal front entry pylons of a Temple. A virile man at his sexual peak, he wears traditional Ægyptian garb, of fine translucent linen, the Atef crown, a rich collar, armlets, bracelets, ankle cuffs and the wings. The pattern on the wings appears to be the Apis Bull. From within emanate seven coloured rays of energy which enter his body along his back stretched left hand and flare out from his forward reaching right arm. Two white Ibex are at his feet the one to his left a living Ibex, and the one to his right a statue. The bas reliefs on the Temple pylons are of Khemu as a potter. From the Nile a group of five Kingfishers emerge from diving, three with fish in their beaks.

The most important interpretation of each card occurs within the direct communication of one's mind with each image.

Possible Concepts Represented:
Representing a Channeling of Masculine aspects of the Divine Forces; Spiritual Energy that Radiates out; the Sending out of Spiritual Energy in Circles and Werkings. The re-emergence of the masculine facets of the Divine Forces into the Consensual World, especially the positive aspects of such facets. The provisioning of structure and scaffolding energy for Circles and Werkings. Mægikal Patterning. Durative time, the flavour of which is somewhat captured in the phrase "being on a plateau at the top of the world."


Practicable Keywords:
Projection, Catalytic Conduit for God Energies


Colour produced by Light - Medium Orange;
Colour produced by Pigment - Deep Red

Suite = Atu       Elemental Coding = Fire
Sources of current proposed images for this card
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