New painting!!!

Hello friends!

Hope everyone is doing well ✨
I’m just dropping a quick line to share my new painting “Amidst a Tangle of Thorns” with you! This painting was created for a group art tarot project called the “Woven Path Tarot”. The card I illustrated is the “Three of Wands”.
I based the inspiration of my three of wands painting off one of my favorite decks-the Mary El Tarot deck, as opposed to the traditionally used Rider Waite deck. Of course Marie White, the creator of the deck, was influenced by Rider Waite as well as the Thoth deck, but she goes a bit deeper into alchemy, the Tree of Life, etc . What she writes about the three of wands card inspired me.

Though I have painted the third wand in the subject’s hair, I actually see her as the wand itself and the wand in her hair as an extension of her which includes everything in the horizontal directions. For those of you familiar with the tarot, I later realized that she does look a bit like the traditional World card, which was not intentional but which I didn’t notice until later! Perhaps subconsciously I wanted to work on The World? Who knows!
Marie of the Mary El Tarot deck writes "The three of wands calls down the creative gaze and grace of God. It is the third pillar in the Kabbalistic tree of life, the pillar of Mildness which reconciles the pillars of mercy and severity. It is the Kundalini, the serpent which coils at the base of the spine. Sex and knowledge between the two trees, two people, two aspects of the self or heavens and earth, as in the six-pointed star, the merging of male and female, sets the Kundalini in motion: pushing up through the spine creating the third pillar through which the lightning of God can blast down and through which our consciousness can travel up”.
The original painting is available for purchase, please write to me at this email address for further information.

I also have prints available in my shop!