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Nine of Wands

A 78-card digital tarot drawn in the tones of nacre and dancheong.

Nine of Wands

Resilience, last stand, persistence, guardedness, nearly there.

Keywords · Upright

  • resilience
  • last stand
  • persistence
  • guardedness
  • nearly there

Keywords · Reversed

  • burnout
  • paranoia
  • giving up at the end
  • rigid defenses
  • battle fatigue

Burnout, paranoia, giving up at the end, rigid defenses, battle fatigue.

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How this deck reads it

The hand pressed to the forehead and the posture leaning on the staff do not conceal fatigue. The bandage is wrapped in the ink lines of dancheong, made to look less like a covering of wounds than like a line marking the time already passed. The eight staves standing in a row behind the back are arranged as if to set upright the path already traveled, guiding the gaze so that the one remaining ahead feels unusually distant.

The low wall, the dry grass, and the pale moon are treated with desaturated pigments, rendering the entire canvas in a faded state. The luster of the mother-of-pearl is left only on the man's shoulder and the tip of the staff, marking with the material's light where the point that has not entirely gone out remains within the exhausted scene.

Artwork

A man with a bandage around his head, dressed in hanbok, leans on a staff with a hand to his forehead, and behind his back eight staffs are planted in a row. A low wall, dry grass, and a pale moon behind clouds.

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