“While in some respects, Western culture has overly-sentimentalized Death, annexing it into the realm of Toxic Positivity along with everything else, in other regards the topic of Death is simply avoided altogether. When you simply refuse to acknowledge the topic in any regard, you run the risk of forgetting that Death is as much about new beginnings as endings.” Hence the Death tarot card which corresponds with Scorpio. Great piece!
aww, thanks! i'll be writing about that Death card at a later date. The deck i learned on, the Thoth deck, has a lot of deep alchemical imagery, that i sorta allude to in this piece - the red lion, the white eagle, the idea of "solve et coagula." We can't build anything new if we hold onto absolutely everything. More on this soon!
“While in some respects, Western culture has overly-sentimentalized Death, annexing it into the realm of Toxic Positivity along with everything else, in other regards the topic of Death is simply avoided altogether. When you simply refuse to acknowledge the topic in any regard, you run the risk of forgetting that Death is as much about new beginnings as endings.” Hence the Death tarot card which corresponds with Scorpio. Great piece!
aww, thanks! i'll be writing about that Death card at a later date. The deck i learned on, the Thoth deck, has a lot of deep alchemical imagery, that i sorta allude to in this piece - the red lion, the white eagle, the idea of "solve et coagula." We can't build anything new if we hold onto absolutely everything. More on this soon!
Oh cool and can’t wait. I haven’t used Thoth but looking forward to it