Horses turn into slaves that turn into vessels.
( LE CHARIOT/LEDIABLE/TEMPERANCE )
Absence turns into presence turns into ambivalence
( LA LUNE / LEMPEREUR / LAMOUREUX )
A wall becomes a river which becomes a blade
( LE SOLIEL / LESTOILLE / LAMORT )
HOW DOES IT WORK?
HOW TO PREDICT THE PRESENT?
I work with a specific tarological idea from the practices of Enrique Enriquez and Camelia Elias. In it, the poetic practice of imagism and its condensing power is harnessed. We create metaphors and analogies based on the images we see; our only rule is total visual verification.
We notice the characters bodies, how they move, what they are doing with their hands, the positions of their feet, the directions of their gaze; we remember when we ourselves were in these same positions. How did that feel? What was the situation? Our radical rejection of pre-assigned meanings for each card and its position in the spread means that we ourselves are responsible, in that very moment, for making the card NEW, each time, over and over and over again. We re-imagine the world by looking at a chance sequence of symbols that we recognize from our own lives.
This is a contemporary heirophany. It is sacred because it is one of the few places where the non-rational operates freely.