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HP Tarot thumbnails - The Moon
Not sure if this one fits the style, but I did my best~
The Moon signifies illusion, fear, but also wild, unseen potential. It is represented here by the Deathly Hallows, which reflect upon the overarching theme throughout the books of facing death - separately, they reflect selfish, imperfect ways of dealing with death, and can result only in misfortune. Only by embracing and accepting the nature of death can one truly harness the formidable powers of all three Hallows.
Notable art bits:
1. The traditional Moon card is abundant with water, representing the unconscious. The Tale of the Three Brothers has the key event occuring at the crossing of a river, a frequent threshold motif in mythology/fairy tales, and certainly rife with interpretations if you care to do that kind of thing blah blah blah. It's got the water okay
2. There is a crayfish-thing crawling out of the water, representingCthulhu Godzilla things of the deep unconscious. On my card it is not a lobster but a Mackled Malaclaw :P It could fit with the meaning in that it bears the illusion of being delicious caek lobster, but is actually toxic...
3. The dog and wolf on the card represent the dark animal natures, to be subdued or controlled by the light of the Moon. These are reflected in the stories shown in the upper corners, warning of the results of men's simplistic desires - violence in return for attempting to dole out death, and tragedy for attempting to reverse it.
4. It looks a bit too pictoral/symbolic right now compared to the other illustrative cards, but I'm hoping that rendering the Hallows as realistically as I can will be enough to make it belong. The story parts will look fairy-tale stylistic, like a woodcut from medieval times or something in that vein.
5. I thought for a while on what colors the three brothers should wear, and decided on the three stages of alchemy - negredo (black, putrefaction) for Antioch, who was corrupted by his own desire for death's power; albedo (white, purification) for Cadmus, who could not accept death and ended up perverting it; rubedo (red, unification) for Ignotus, who had the wisdom and humility to live life through its natural course, to face death prepared and with dignity. It's not an extremely strong correlation, I just liked the thought of it :)
Bonus trivia: During the wait for the 7th book, some fans speculated that Harry was metaphorically going through the alchemical stages, where he would achieve the pinnacle of alchemy - the Philosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life - by shedding/losing the three states in the form of his father figures: Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore, and Rubeus Hagrid. I wouldn't be surprised if JKR planned for that at some point but couldn't go through with killing off Hagrid... but I would be even less surprised if it never crossed her mind and was just a big coincidence.
Drifting a little bit off-focus from RWS definitions...
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"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." - Albus Dumbledore
"There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!" - Voldemort
"You are quite wrong." - Albus Dumbledore
"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." - Albus Dumbledore
"There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!" - Voldemort
"You are quite wrong." - Albus Dumbledore
The Moon signifies illusion, fear, but also wild, unseen potential. It is represented here by the Deathly Hallows, which reflect upon the overarching theme throughout the books of facing death - separately, they reflect selfish, imperfect ways of dealing with death, and can result only in misfortune. Only by embracing and accepting the nature of death can one truly harness the formidable powers of all three Hallows.
Notable art bits:
1. The traditional Moon card is abundant with water, representing the unconscious. The Tale of the Three Brothers has the key event occuring at the crossing of a river, a frequent threshold motif in mythology/fairy tales, and certainly rife with interpretations if you care to do that kind of thing blah blah blah. It's got the water okay
2. There is a crayfish-thing crawling out of the water, representing
3. The dog and wolf on the card represent the dark animal natures, to be subdued or controlled by the light of the Moon. These are reflected in the stories shown in the upper corners, warning of the results of men's simplistic desires - violence in return for attempting to dole out death, and tragedy for attempting to reverse it.
4. It looks a bit too pictoral/symbolic right now compared to the other illustrative cards, but I'm hoping that rendering the Hallows as realistically as I can will be enough to make it belong. The story parts will look fairy-tale stylistic, like a woodcut from medieval times or something in that vein.
5. I thought for a while on what colors the three brothers should wear, and decided on the three stages of alchemy - negredo (black, putrefaction) for Antioch, who was corrupted by his own desire for death's power; albedo (white, purification) for Cadmus, who could not accept death and ended up perverting it; rubedo (red, unification) for Ignotus, who had the wisdom and humility to live life through its natural course, to face death prepared and with dignity. It's not an extremely strong correlation, I just liked the thought of it :)
Bonus trivia: During the wait for the 7th book, some fans speculated that Harry was metaphorically going through the alchemical stages, where he would achieve the pinnacle of alchemy - the Philosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life - by shedding/losing the three states in the form of his father figures: Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore, and Rubeus Hagrid. I wouldn't be surprised if JKR planned for that at some point but couldn't go through with killing off Hagrid... but I would be even less surprised if it never crossed her mind and was just a big coincidence.
Drifting a little bit off-focus from RWS definitions...
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