Fanart: Saint Seiya Tarot - Arcana VI: The Lovers
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| The Lovers have two meanings. First, there is the traditional rendering of The Lovers featuring a man who has to decide between two women. Thus, the trump stands for decisions. When Arthur Waite introduced his version of The Lovers, he put them as a man looking to a woman at the left side who herself looks up to an angel floating in the heavens. This version symbolizes the Neo-Platonic view of love where a man needs to love a woman to see the divine powers as only women are able to see the angel directly, while men can see it only through the women. Another reading of the symbols says that the angel can only be seen when man and woman share true love - as soon as one turns away from the other, the vision fades. The qualities of The Lovers are sexuality, love, decisions. Traditionally, The Lovers are connected with the Zodiac Sign Gemini and the Planet Mercury. My rendering of The Lovers shows Pisces Aphrodite and Lacerta Misty as lovers with Virgo Shaka posing as the angel to whom the lovers look up. The volcano in the background symbolizes raw passion, while water usually stands for the deep emotions. In choosing two men as lovers, this trump transcends the traditional view that love can only exist between a man and a woman, and as they also have a quite female appearance, it contains even more ambiguity. Actually, this version of The Lovers combines both the traditional view of one person having to decide between the pure love and raw passion (I couldn't help but being influenced by "Aphrodite's" answers in the (not so) Frequently Asked Questions List where he implied that he had amourous feelings both to Shaka and Misty) and the Neo-Platonic view (sorry, Aphro, but your name put you in the position of the lady...) :) |
Themen: Saint Seiya, Tarot Stile: Aquarell Charaktere: Aphrodite, Pisces Aphrodite, VI - Die Liebenden Unterthemen: Große Arkana |
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Kommentare (3)
Die heiraten da doch nich etwaOo?^^
Von: abgemeldet
17.10.2006 21:52
ok aufgrund des englischen txtes und meiner abneigung ihn lesenund verstehen zu müssen schreib ich einfach mal frei nach schnauze^^. sieht auch wie ne tarorkarte soviel hab ich aus dem ersten satz rausgelesen. naja ich find sie schön hätte aber einen weiblichen part schöner gefunden naja geschmackssache die haare von der frau in der mitte vermitteln ein tollen eindruck . insgesamt ist das bild schön stimmig
Von: abgemeldet
15.09.2006 16:37
why did you write in english all the time? you can speak german very well, I know. it's so difficult to read it all in a less of time...
the bodys are very well painted. nice muscles. the blond guy has funny hair XD. it comes out of his head like spaghettis... but the hair of the others looking good. the bg is good, but it don't remember me of the lovers. the mercury looks like the sun. maybe blue would be better.
the bodys are very well painted. nice muscles. the blond guy has funny hair XD. it comes out of his head like spaghettis... but the hair of the others looking good. the bg is good, but it don't remember me of the lovers. the mercury looks like the sun. maybe blue would be better.
