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Greetings, dear reader! This post is the third in a series about my process regarding my X-Men Tarot. Today we take a look at all of the cards featuring Iceman.
The X-Men playing card deck is adorned with images of Marvel’s Merry Mutants. I have created a system combining traditional Minor Arcana meaning with my vast knowledge of X-Men comic book stories. The archetypal roles the X-Men represent bring the energy of the missing Major Arcana to the overall calculation. I reveal the superheroic tales relevant to your path. This dual reading is amplified by the elemental nature of whatever suit is pulled in addition to the numeralogical/feudal court energy contained therein.
One of the interesting aspects of the X-Men cards that I use is that every character gets to be represented four times. For example, Rogue is all of the Fours, Archangel is all of the Fives, Gambit is all of the Sixes etcetera. Iceman is represented on the face of all of the Threes. The number three represents growth, self-expression and expansion. This is interesting in relation to Iceman because out of all the original five X-Men, Bobby Drake would at first glance appear to have progressed the least in terms of character growth and power set. Jean Grey became the Phoenix and died and returned and died again, Angel lost his feather wings and gained bladed wings as Archangel and is now capable of transforming into both forms, Beast went from a smart guy with big hands and feet to a furry Beast (at one point losing and regaining his intelligence) and then his secondary mutation transformed him into a cat-like beast and Cyclops once merged with Apocalypse and is now a taciturn general of all mutants. Although his artistic representation has varied over the years, Iceman has remained relatively the same.
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Greetings, dear reader! This post is the first in a series about my process regarding my X-Men Tarot. Today we take a look at all of the cards featuring Professor X.
The X-Men playing card deck is adorned with images of Marvel’s Merry Mutants. I have created a system combining traditional Minor Arcana meaning with my vast knowledge of X-Men comic book stories. The archetypal roles the X-Men represent bring the energy of the missing Major Arcana to the overall calculation. I reveal the superheroic tales relevant to your path. This dual reading is amplified by the elemental nature of whatever suit is pulled in addition to the numeralogical/feudal court energy contained therein.
One of the interesting aspects of the X-Men cards that I use is that every character gets to be represented four times. For example, Cyclops is all of the Kings, Wolverine is all of the Jacks, Jubilee is all of the Twos, etcetera. Professor X is represented on the face of all of the Aces. If we think about how Aces represent the beginning of an idea or situation, it is proper that Xavier, the founder of a school for mutants to successfully integrate with humans, is on each of these cards. Also, Aces trump other cards and Xavier is the most powerful telepath on the planet. With his mutant detecting computer system Cerebro amplifying his powers, there is no where to hide from his powerful mind. In fact, his onetime friend and oftentimes enemy, Magneto had to create a special helmet to protect himself from Charles Xavier’s mental prowess.
Aces also represent renewal and the Professor has a history of starting over many times. His school has been blown up countless times and yet he rebuilds. Many times he has regained his ability to walk and then lost it again. It is interesting to think that a character in a fantasy universe, who lives in a world of cybernetic limbs, nanotech and clones, has to remain paralyzed. But every time Professor X found a way to overcome his mobility challenge (even moving his consciousness into a cloned body), something has happened to return him to his wheelchair. Perhaps the idea of the world’s most powerful mind combined with a physical handicap is too strong a metaphor to leave alone. Marvel certainly has gone back to this well many times.
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