Inktober Day 6: sword

[asakiyume]

I can't think of swords without thinking of the evocative Rider-Waite tarot swords--this one, for example:



Or this:



Or this:



This picture is more reminiscent of Rider-Waite 5 or Rider Waite 7, in that the figure's carrying a bunch of swords, but I was also thinking about sword-bearing angels and... so on.

Comments

[missroserose]

I was just going to comment on how I loved the dreamlike quality of the RW sword cards here. I feel this one, as well as the person bound and fenced in by swords - I think we're all too familiar with that feeling, where our fears imprison us and blind us to opportunities we could be taking.

[asakiyume]

I agree--and there's something so vivid about them too, as if, in addition to being symbolic, they have very concrete stories that they're part of.