Following the Peacock

My project for the coming year is to create my own Tarot deck based around The Girl in the Red Dress. This will be a personal journey for me and will also be a lengthy one as there are a total of 78 cards in a full Tarot deck. I have wanted to do something like this for a long time but have never found the right theme for me until now. For some time I have been seeing peacocks everywhere to the point of seeing them in one form or another at least once every day. Recently I found this particular Tarot card depicting Juno and her peacock and believe it to be a clear go ahead for my project. I mean, she is wearing a red dress after all and her place in this deck is that of the High Priestess which has always been my favourite card as a Tarot reader. 

It is my intention to create this deck intuitively rather than rely on all of the traditional symbolism, although that's not to say that some natural associations won't be present. What will be, will be, as they say and I will be documenting my progress in my blog so feel free to share. I welcome constructive input so let's make this journey together and see where it take us.

As for the original Red Dress pieces, I have decided to use them to illustrate a Little Red Dress Book of Inspiration based around the journey I was on when I created them. I will draw on my experiences of what got me through a very dark time in my life and what ultimately led to huge personal growth. I hope that whatever else comes out of the healing already received through the process of painting the series, it will also have an equally positive effect on others. That is my in tention, so mote it be <|;-)