{"id":89,"date":"2010-07-27T03:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2018-12-24T10:44:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T10:44:49","slug":"the-empress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"The Empress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong> Mary Winchester<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Artist&#8217;s notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hemmed and hawed about making this image.  I had an idea in my head,  but was having an issue translating that to the card.  But eventually I  just started experimenting, layering lenses and effects over and over  and finally came up with something that looked close to how I imagined  it.<\/p>\n<p>The Empress is a creator of life and love and Mary Winchester is  definitely a symbol of both.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional card bears fields of  wheat, a crown of stars and a heart shaped shield with the symbol for  love.  I altered these symbols by having the white fence with the roses  instead of the wheat, roses being a symbol of love.<\/p>\n<p>The picket fence is  for her role as a mother.  Instead of a crown of stars, I had the  starry sky, indicating &#8220;the night.&#8221;  Instead of the shield, I chose a  burning heart also made of roses&#8230;symbolic of the fire and how she died  for her children.  Since fire is a destroyer of life, but also allows  things to grow&#8230;I thought the reverse-coloured flames were appropriate.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/spn_tarot\/26967.html\">The Empress &#8211; Mary Winchester<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt: Mary Winchester Artist&#8217;s notes: I hemmed and hawed about making this image. I had an idea in my head, but was having an issue translating that to the card. But eventually I just started experimenting, layering lenses and effects over and over and finally came up with something that looked close to how I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-empress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}