The Tarot Series 2

4. Going with the Flow (The Empress)

Oil on Canvas 56 x 71 cm (2024)

INFLUENCES

The Myth of Leda and the Swan
Brigid
Swan maidens

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (1985)

“The spirit of the valley never dies.
It is called ‘the female’.
The gateway of the dark female
is called the root of ‘Heaven and Earth.’
Uninterrupted as though persistent
it is effective without effort.”

5. Lovers

Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 cm (2025)

INFLUENCES

W.B.Yeats When You are Old

“And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars”.

6. The Secret of the Golden Sun (Sun)

Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 cm (2025)

INFLUENCES

The Secret of the Golden Flower. A Taoist, esoteric text translated by Richard Wilhelm and with an introduction by C.G.Jung.

“The Golden Flower is the elixir of life. All changes of spiritual consciousness depend upon the heart”.

Hexagram 57 of the I Ching.

The Sephiroth Tiphareth in the western tradition of the Kabbalah.