This week I'll be using the Victorian Romantic Tarot, created by Alex Ukolov and Karen Mahony with Magic Realist Press as publisher. I will also be drawing from Dreaming in Color: The Luman Deck, created and self-published by Mindy Hope Sommers. Today's draws are the Knight of Pentacles and Emotion:
The Knight of Pentacles must at times think outside the box when trying to bring what is envisioned into reality. Britomart was a young woman who fell in love with a knight seen in a crystal ball; Merlin informed her that he was in trouble. Being an innovator, Britomart disguised herself as a knight (turns out, she's very skilled and strong) and goes in search of Artegall. Along the way, she frees maidens from their captors but eventually helps her soon-to-be husband. Emotion asks us how we feel when people step out of their defined roles. But aren't these roles simply constructed by humans (often with an agenda) rather than prescribed by nature? At some point, need may force us all to step into a new role. Yet it can remind us that we are more whole and diversified than what we've often been told.
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