This is a 19th century French print of a bas-relief by Renaissance sculptor Michel Colombe. With some slight modifications, it would make a wonderful Knight of Wands.

Enrique Enriquez on the tarologist’s fees:

In the unforeseen event that a question is exceptionally wondrous, to the extent of inspiring in the tarologist a renewed faith in humankind, the tarologist will be the one paying the client the standard fee, upon the delivery of his answer.

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A Tarot pinhole camera.

The tower is air.
Wisdom falls first.
—William Keckler

"The time has come for the star to appear once more. Perhaps I will dress in wolfskin, sitting in a tree watching the circle, waiting for the next step to be traced in the mud. All these shadows from the unknown. I am ignorant, but soon I shall begin to know." —Leonora Carrington, "The Stone Door" (emphasis ours)

I love this moody, atmospheric allegory of Death, by N. I. Narbut. The black gauzy scarf is a great touch.

"The star follows her strange course in the mountains, in the round temples, through green, lukewarm woods and penetrating hedges and walls. She lies hard, bright, and cold under the beds of lovers and under bodies of sleeping cattle." —the surrealist author, "mythic feminist" and painter Leonora Carrington, from her story "The Stone Door," collected in The Seventh Horse

The old Hollywood studio system excelled at producing images of actors that were archetypal in their power and beauty. These stunning images of the brilliant and beautiful Hedy Lamarr, found by my sister Carla, are no exception. In a Hollywood themed Tarot, the above image would naturally be the Star.

This image strikes me as warmer - a solar Hedy. It would make a glorious Sun card.

"The great stone tower swayed from side to side, then the air was rent with the sound of a mighty crackling and the walls split open like a broken egg. One tongue of flame shot out from the crack like a spear, and a winged creature that might have been a bird emerged. It paused momentarily on the brim of the shattered tower and we witnessed for a second an extraordinary creature. It shone with a bright light coming from its own body, the body of a human being entirely covered with glittering feathers and armless. Six great wings sprouted from its body and quivered ready for flight. Then with a shrill long laugh it leapt into the air and flew north, till it was lost to our sight."
—Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

"Has it never struck you that the Tarock pack has twenty-two trumps—precisely the same number as the letters of the Hebrew alphabet? And, what is more, do not our Bohemian cards have pictures which are obviously symbols? The Fool, Death, the Devil, the Last Judgment? How loud, my friend, do you want life to shout its answers to you? It's not necessary, of course, for you to know that Tarock, or Tarot, is the same as the Jewish word Tora, 'the Law,' or the old Egyptian tarut, which means 'One who is asked,' and the ancient Zend word tarisk, which means 'I demand the answer.' But scholars should know these facts before they assert that the Tarock pack originated during the time of Charles the Sixth. And just as the Juggler, the lowest trump, is the first card in the pack, so man is the first figure in his own picture book, his own double: the Hebrew character Aleph, which is formed after the shape of a man, with one hand pointing up at the sky and the other downwards, saying, therefore, 'As it is above, so it is below; as it is below, so it is above.'"
—Gustav Meyrink, The Golem (bold text ours)