"Ezequiel, vampire of her memories! How she yearns to be back in his ghostly fortress and to be entwined with the mortality of his icy body"Well, I have to say, I can see Favole's point. For a bloke who has been dead for the odd century or two, Ezequiel isn't looking too bad! Today, he falls into my draw as the King of Butterflies. I have assigned the suit of Butterflies to air. From looking at the portrait used for this card in the book Set Me Free, I can see that the little butterfly above his head (the same one from the Ace of Butterflies) has been added afterwards for the purpose of this deck. It is nice to go and source the original paintings because there are the odd couple of Frances' pictures squeezed together in the one card or the crop of a far larger scene in this pack.
I think that this is often a card of good advice, clarity, and using your head over your heart. Ezequiel has a depth of thought and often does what he thinks is right, rather than surrendering to his nature. This makes me think of my good old diet again. You would not believe how many advertisements and cookery programmes were on television last night. We had The Great Bake Off, brandishing cakes of all shapes and sizes, Kirstie's Homemade Home, featuring her entry to a baking competition, and more KFC adverts than I could take. Surprisingly, there wasn't one advert endorsing wheat flakes with non-fat yogurt and oatbran, which became both my evening's treat and this morning's breakfast. I tucked into it last night while my boyfriend chomped away on a piece of crusty bread, smothered in pate. I don't eat any bread at the moment, but good god, it looked good. I needed to summon up every last bit of Ezequiels mental strength to stop me from snatching it off his plate and swallowing it in one. However, the proof really is in the pudding (or maybe the dry steak with a few spoon fulls of veg I had for my Sunday lunch), because I have lost quite a few pounds and feel so much better. When I went out on Saturday, I put on clothes that I haven't in a while. I wore straight-legged jeans, boots, a shirt, tie and jumper. I did my hair in my recent trademark quiff and put on a pair of tortoiseshell glasses. I felt better than I had in a long while. Maybe it's down to knowing that I was in control at last; very King of Butterflies, I'd say.
I think that this card could suggest more than this recently captured confidence though. My parents have a meeting booked with the solicitor this afternoon, so it might represent the person that they meet there, since the King of Butterflies can stand for someone with an authority of knowledge and who can offer advice.
Illustration from The Favole Tarot by Victoria Frances
Congratulations on holding out with the dietary stuff. That's not easy. I am very impressed!
ReplyDeleteIt's true that advertisements and cooking shows really get something into your head. That's why I haven't been watching them lately. That and they took away most of the TV channels because we don't really have much on cable.
Anyyywayyyyyy...I wish you the best of luck and continued strength on your path!
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Hugs,
MM
Ooh, Ezequiel is yummier than KFC, that's for sure! I wish the pips for this deck were illustrated - whenever you use it I get tempted, but then up crops a boring pip, blah!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the diet - hopefully the rewards you're reaping outweight the food you aren't eating.
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I think the pips are what turns a lot of people off of this deck. At first, I was a little disappointed because they could have been a bit more imaginative. Even in decks like Medieval Cats or the Rumi, there are small illustrations in the middle of each pip. That might have been nice and wouldn't have been difficult to do. I guess it was thrown together as a money-making exercise as much as anything else.
ReplyDeleteBut, I do like the pips. As I said before, they are like little secret portals that I know the meanings for and they have a very sophisticated look, probably more in line with the kind of deck it is than if it had been illustrated. Even if it was illustrated, they probably would have only put similar illustrations of women on the pips that wouldn't have meant much. I like the space that pips produce sometimes. The Art Nouveau is illustrated but the vagueness of that deck's minors mean it often may as well not be. I think this could have been like that.
Thanks to you both, re congratulations. Kind of plataued today, so not much movement. I think maybe I should just turn over the tv when a cake or burger add comes on!