Meaning: Healing and self-exploration.
Depiction: Ahab poring over his nautical charts, "in the solitude of his cabin," the "heavy pewter lamp" swinging over his head, illuminating the creases of his maps and the scars on his forehead.
My spouse, being a wonderful person and a talented artist in his own right, created original art for this card! Here it is.
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While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever threw shifting gleams and shadows of lines upon his wrinkled brow, till it almost seemed that while he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.
But it was not this night in particular that, in the solitude of his cabin, Ahab thus pondered over his charts. Almost every night they were brought out; almost every night some pencil marks were effaced, and others were substituted. For with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.
Alternate Depiction: Elijah, relaying his prophecies (Chapter 19-The Prophet). Technically very hermit-like in appearance .... but his character doesn't correspond to the actual meaning of this card. Sorry, Elijah! Maybe you'll find a place in the Minor Arcana.
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| Edward Wright, 1655/maps.bpl.org |
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