La Mer: a nautical Tarot
First, I need your help. I am looking for an artist(s) to work with me in creating a new Tarot deck; an ocean-themed one. I normally use the Cosmic Tribe deck but I have been wanting to do this project for years. It is my own skill at drawing and painting that is dubious at best, some might even call it embarrassing, that has stopped me so far. I decided, however, to let the fates help me and throw this out into the void so that someone might read it and be fascinated enough to write back.
Still, I am curious no one has attempted a maritime deck yet. As a Pisces I find it natural to turn to the seas for my inspiration (OK, not "natural," maybe more "obsessive.") My vision for this project would be that each day I sketch out a new, crude (and I mean crude: pocky, loutish, unrefined!) rough draft of each card and post it on my blog. Since there are myths all around the world concerning the seas and the gods that oversee and dwell in them, then this would include a brief introduction to the role each card plays, ways of interpreting the card in a reading and a sonnet to sum up the mood of the myth being used.
I must stress I am an amateur when it comes to Tarot. I think this project is going to a lot of fun and is workable but I am also open to any suggestions, comments, criticisms anyone might have. For example, I do not even have a title for the deck. At first I wanted to call it after the French word for "sea," La Mer: a nautical Tarot. But then I discovered that "La Mer" spells out "lamer," when read quickly and the last thing I want to be is lame or even lamer. Lamer to what, though, I am not sure.
Sonnets, ocean gods, crude drawings; all the makings of a very interesting summer. What do you think? Fascinated yet?