Here's the Maninni I Magician:
Someone asked earlier in the week if the Magician was ever portrayed as a woman. The Maninni I Magician follows the tradition of many decks and does portray the Magician as a woman.

This card is a collage work produced through Photoshop by Emily Garlick (Queri). The Magician seems to float between a wild rose below her feet and a calla lily above her head--flowers traditionally associated with the Magician, as they appear in the RWS deck, and many of the decks using the RWS deck as their inspiration. The woman is dark-haired and caucasion, and she is wearing what could be identified as ancient Grecian or Roman garb. Her binding have been cast off, and she is totally free. Her left hand is held high above her head, while her right hangs loosely down. Her head is thrown back in what could be described as ecstacy, her eyes closed, seeing only her internal universe. To her right, appearing out of the rippling pink-orange-brown hued background, are four hands holding an ornate lidded cup, a blue tree limb as a wand, a yellow concentric-circled coin, and a yellow sword. The hands and the objects themselves appear to be taken from a more traditional deck, such as the Tarot of Marseille. These could be the tools she has conjured up from within her ecstatic state.

Other posts have discussed the traditional meanings associated with the Magician, so I will speak only to what this card calls forth from me.

I am called to see, by the overpowering imagery of the rose and the lily, the magic of nature herself. The magic of light and soil and air and water, the four elements of the tarot as well, which produce stupendous variations on the theme of life. The magic of fertility, of the birth of humans and ants and stars. The magic of decay, the sending back of the elements unto themselves. I believe this Magician aligns herself with this force, the flow of the Tao, and makes herself an instrument of its power. As she develops, she will learn to identify more with this power, and she will begin to control the instrument. But that will come later, after she travels more of the Fool's Journey. For now, she is content to connect and be overwhelmed by the power flowing through her.

Bonne'
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