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The Tower (Tarot Card)

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I'm working on a Tarot deck with my good friend Anthony

This card for the tarot deck wanted to be made, first apparently, even though we'd started other cards earlier and had planned to go in some semblance of the order of the cards.

The Tower (XVI) (most common modern name) is the sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in most cartomancy Tarot decks.

Divination usage
Some frequent keywords used by card readers are:
  • Chaos ----- Sudden change ----- Impact ----- Hard times
  • Crisis ----- Revelation ----- Disruption ----- Realizing the truth
  • Disillusion ----- Crash ----- Burst ----- Uncomfortable experience
  • Downfall ----- Ruin ----- Ego blow ----- Explosive transformation
 
 Interpretation
 Many differing meanings are attributed to the card:
  • To some, it symbolizes failure, ruin and catastrophe.
  • To others, the Tower represents the paradigms constructed by the ego, the sum total of all schema that the mind constructs to understand the universe. The Tower is struck by lightning when reality does not conform to expectation.
  • Epiphanies, transcendental states of consciousness, and Kundalini experiences[5] may result. In the Triple Goddess Tarot, the card is named "Kundalini Rising".
  • The Tower further symbolizes that moment in trance in which the mind actually changes the direction of the force of attention from alpha condition (pointed mindward) to theta condition (pointed imaginal stageward). A Theta condition (especially in waking versions of theta states) is that moment when information coming into the ego-mind overwhelms external or sensory stimuli, resulting in what might otherwise be called a "vision" or "hallucination."
  • Each card in the Major Arcana is a related to the previous ones. After the self bondage of The Devil, life is self correcting. Either the querents must make changes in their own lives, or the changes will be made for them.
  • The querent may be holding on to false ideas or pretenses; a new approach to thinking about the problem is needed. The querent is advised to think outside the box. The querent is warned that truth may not oblige schema. It may be time for the querent to re-examine belief structures, ideologies, and paradigms they hold to. The card may also point toward seeking education or higher knowledge.
  • Others believe that the Tower represents dualism, and the smashing of dualism into its component parts, in preparation for renewal that does not come from reified, entrenched concepts. The Ivory Tower as a parallel image comes to mind, with all its good parts and its bad parts.

 

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Digital Art Extravaganza - Call For Entries

 

SlowArt Productions presents the group thematic exhibition, Digital Art Extravaganza. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery from April 1 - 24, 2010 and is open to all artists working in any aspect of computer digital print media. This exhibition will include all aspects of digital art. Computer generated art, computer altered photography and collage and digital photography will all be considered. All computer printing formats are eligible.    

ELIGIBILITY: Digital Art Extravaganza is open to all artists, national and international, working in any computer digital print media. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older to apply.

ENTRY FEE: There is a $35.00 entry fee for 1- 4 prints  If you wish to include more than 4, please include $5.00 for each additional. Artists accepted to exhibit will not be charged additional fees of any kind.

AWARDS:  Three artists from Digital Art Extravaganza will be featured in the upcoming Direct Art Volume #17, Fall 2010 issue. One artist will be selected for a two page spread in the magazine and two artists will be selected for a single page spread. 

SALE TERMS: All prints in the show must be for sale. The gallery will take a 30 percent commission on all sales. Sale price determined by artist.

DEADLINE: The final postmarked deadline is January 30, 2010.

Prospectus: http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/digital.htm

Digital Art Extravaganza

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