What do you make of the Margerette Petersen tower? What do you see? What is her deck style/philisophy?
she's one of those that have 'reinterpreted' the tarot according to some personal iconography - the suits are 'feathers' ( air), 'flames' ( fire ), cups ( water ), and coins ( earth )
she says:
People often ask me >> What else do you do, aside from the Tatrot cards?<< I always answer, >>Nothing.<< And they always respond with disbelief and shock. >>That's all you do? Nothing else?<< And I say, >>Yes, nothing else.<<
she describes her painting style as a kind of "Zen meditation", but it could be the pitch for a latter day Marina Ambramovic performance piece:
You take a pot full of grain and pour it on the ground in front of you. Take one grain at a time and put it back into the pot. If you find yourself growing impatient, empty the pot again and start from scratch.
[ ... ] etc.,
She renames some cards - The Hermit becomes The Crone, The Hanged Man becomes Trial, Temperance is Mediatrix
she gives some text for each of the major arcana:
The Tower
The roaring of a mighty storm,
Thunder and lightning, the raging of the elements,
Deep chasms opening up -
No way to escape.
Icy cold hailstorms and flaming rocks of lava,
Horrible screams of bodiless beings -
Nothing to hold on to,
Nothing stays the way it was.
Fiery breath, the psychic stage is being emptied.
Separation from constricting patterns.
Jump into the flaring red sky.
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She's from Berlin, she was living there and working on tarot before the wall came down, finished her deck in 2001
as for me - what do I see?
I'd rather not say
, it'll make me look bad