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Alchemical Wedding

Sepia-toned major arcana with soft, non-jarring artwork and dark, gentle aesthetics.

by David Aronson · Adam McLean · 2006

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A big sized card, almost 13cm by a tad over 9cm. Nice big cards. Twenty-two Majors numbered in the English/American tradition (Strength is VIII). Sepia. Nice gentle sepia. No jarring blaring computer enhanced colors stabbing at the retinas. And dark. No – no, not colorwise, although the sepia can be seen as dark; but I mean dark. Disturbing. I ramble aimlessly though them Masks. Photo collage. Some people won’t like this penises both flaccid and turgid. Breasts, along with snakes, skeletons, and masks. Eyes abound. Babies pouring forth freely from a squatting Empress – in a mask. Eyes. Masks. A falcon headed human figure, perhaps Horus rides a Strombus shell, pulled by two sea turtles to illustrate the Chariot. The Hierophant appears to remind us of the modern god consumerism, surrounded by electronic toys; the Wheel is a tractor tire with a clock-face inside, multiple hands display multiple data-points, the figure at the bottom truly crushed and the one surmounting truly beautiful. Eyes abound, and in the background an Ouroboros reminds us . XIV is Art is a winged nude male in mask, bending a flaming bar – framed by eyes. More eyes. We cannot see the faces of the lovers, and we no

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