The topic for this round of the TarotBlogHop is “Ostara: Paint a journey with new life”. For more information about the TarotBlogHop, see Donnaleigh’s great explanation at http://www.donnaleigh.com/tarotbloghop.htm.
Tarot Is My Medium/Muse
I am a crappy visual artist. I remember very distinctly my attempts in capturing stark winter trees against the backdrop of a stunning sunset, and failing miserably. My teenage self blamed my tools. My shitty colored pencils wren’t good enough; the paper I used as a canvas wasn’t thick enough… maybe if I had the fancy art set complete with Cray-Pas® and watercolors, I could do the sunset I saw out of my picture window justice. Surely my talent wasn’t matched with my cruddy tools.
It is only now that I realize as my adult self that quality of the tools has very little to do with artistic expression. If truly you are an artist, that fact will shine through regardless of the tools at your disposal. And really, don’t we have a little streak of artist in all of us? After all, we are creating our own lives. If you can create something, well then, you’re an artist.
If you want to look to the tarot for artistic inspiration, there are a few great examples:
- The Queen of Wands—the artiste: creativity and passion
- The Empress—giving birth to a project
- The Magician—the will and the grace of change
- The Star—hope and striving for a goal with optimism
- The World—completion and wholeness
- The Hanged Man—using a different perspective/vision
I don’t know if you did it, but I think your picture is a perfect companion to the blog hop theme! And I appreciate the reminder that the Hanged Man is part of that artistic process. I can get impatient with him when I am creating. Maybe life would be easier if I didn’t fight him!
I didn’t do the gorgeous abstract; I got it from freedigitalphotos.net (a great source for images!). Attribution is at the bottom of the post.
Yes, I remembered the Hanged Man… I usually don’t, I think of him more as stagnation and a holding pattern, but heck, he’s upside-down. I need to keep in mind the visual of Odin hanging on the World Tree… transformation by seeing things from a different point of view. Thanks for commenting! I love the Hop!
Are you kidding? The tarot is full of artistic inspiration! I enjoyed your post. I’m living your post! Great job!
Thanks, Donna! I always think of you when I think of the Queen of Wands! Of course, now I’m thinking of more tarot card choices, such as the Ace of Wands (the seed of artistic inspiration)…
I’m a big fan of the Queen of Wands! I love that abstract image that you’ve used to illustrate your post – beautiful!
Ali x
alisoncross recently posted…Ostara: Paint a journey with new life
Thanks Ali! This is why I love the Hop… though personally I think I’m more a Queen of Swords myself… 😉
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Excellent post! I love the connection of the Queen of Wands here. 😀
Arwen recently posted…Ostara Tarot Blog Hop: Bloom Where You’re Planted
Great post! We truly do “paint our lives anew every day.”
I love to pull cards based on what I want to see, rather than just what tarot wants to tell me. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Thanks for your comments, Arwen, Zanna, and Amanda!
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