The Greater Trumps: (04) The Ghost
There is nothing here. No image, and if this were a card, the card would be blank.
Then again, there is still something to see. There is a space. And anyone can see things in a space. Things unseen but present, things unknown but absent.
And so this trump is nothing. Worse, it is Nothing, and the Unknown. And even this is not fully known.
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I am no ghost.
high on the mountain
turns the crane against the sky
white on white unseen
I am no ghost.
Then again, there is still something to see. There is a space. And anyone can see things in a space. Things unseen but present, things unknown but absent.
And so this trump is nothing. Worse, it is Nothing, and the Unknown. And even this is not fully known.
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I am no ghost.
high on the mountain
turns the crane against the sky
white on white unseen
I am no ghost.
Labels: Greater Trumps, Symbolism
etched with acid at 9:54:00 pm
2 Comments:
Hello sir =)
Keep up the interesting explorations of the ... Egyptian profiles?
I remember when I was I think 6-8, I had my fortune told by an aunt well versed in the tarot, on a set of chinese mahjong cards. Almost every card turned out white - a blank. I think I had three or four of those cards in a row. My aunt said it was because I was perhaps, too young.
I remember when I was 8-9, my dad tried his hand it at, I think, or perhaps it was my mum. And, surprise surprise, the cards once again read similarly...
Hmm. The mahjong tile with a frame around it, or nothing on it at all, is called the White Dragon. It can mean a tabula rasa, but it can also symbolise winter, secrets hidden just below the surface, or the unknown.
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