Icons

[mskala]

Here are some icons suitable for use with DW, expanding on the one I made for the community itself. They're made from scans of the 1909 "Pamela-A" deck, which is public domain; I've edited them just slightly in GIMP by removing the text along the bottoms, which doesn't add much when scaled down to icon size, and doing a contrast stretch to brighten the colours a little. Anybody else have tarot-related icons to share?



Maybe this could be the start of the mood-theme project. Anyone want to start suggesting cards (not necessarily major arcana) for individual moods? I think there's a list of like 40 moods needed to create a theme; I don't know what the desired image sizes are. Existing mood themes (like the "kanji" one I use in my personal journal) seem to include a fair bit of duplication, with the same image for several moods, though we probably have enough different cards that we don't need to do that much.

Comments

[awils1.livejournal.com]

The Pamela-A deck is actually one of my favourites. The colours are vivid for its time, and the imagery rather unique.

I have a female version (http://pics.livejournal.com/awils1/pic/0001cs7y/g40) of the Star, which can be used by anybody to make an icon. I've also always loved the imagery of the Seven of Swords (http://pics.livejournal.com/awils1/pic/0001wwgk/g40) from the Gothic Tarot of Vampires, and the Page of Cups (http://pics.livejournal.com/awils1/pic/0001bfax/g40) from my RW deck.

An offering, though: .

[mskala]

It looks like Dreamwidth undoes links in comments posted by OpenID users - probably as an anti-spam measure. Sorry about that. It does work to cut and paste the URLs into the location bar. The embedded image got replaced by a placeholder as well.

As for actual tarot content: interesting you describe that as "a female version" of the Star; do you view other versions as being male? I think most of the Stars I've seen have looked androgynous, and that one is no exception. Note that the genitalia are almost never visible on the card and I don't think that's just censorship, I think it's part of the symbolism.

[awils1.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry. I haven't received an invite yet (not for lack of trying!).

Here is the image: http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/56866/15869.

I don't necessarily see the Star as being primarily a male card; but I do tend to notice that a lot of artists fail, in my eyes, to pull off the androgyny that is characteristic to the Star. Not that this is any easy task, mind you, because nudity does not lend itself to being androgynous from a Western point of view.

Hope that explanation clears it up.