Her email reads, in part (emphasis mine):
I commented on your recent post about the Green Island Serenade. Beautiful soothing song!! Thank you for sharing it.As I was typing my comment I noticed something that I had not notice before which is a vintage linen cloth I'd bought many years ago, I think I probably bought it in the mid 1990's.The linen cloth is vintage although I don't know where or the year it was made. It's all hand stitched embroidery.I had packed it away and I got it out several years ago and put it in the linen closet. For some reason I recently got it out of the linen closet and put it in the den near the computer and lo and behold I just glanced at it tonight while typing my comment, and saw that the hand stitched embroidery is of a red heifer being milked and on each side of the red heifer are 2 birds perched on a circle which the circle kinda looks like it has (if you turn it on its side) a tail of a fish. Very similar to the Ichthys.The circle itself is green.
Although Debbie's primary interest in the image is the Red Heifer and its significance in Jewish lore, she also drew particular attention to the shape and color of the plants the birds are perched on.
As soon as I had read the email, I had a very strong hunch that I needed to consult the Tarot immediately. I did so, cutting the usual preliminaries short and cutting right to the chase. The card I drew, at 3:14 -- literally minutes after reading the email -- was the Two of Pentacles.
If you took the two ichthys-like shapes the birds are perched on and joined them together, you would have the green lemniscate the man on the card is holding. His distinctive red headgear also suggests (in exaggerated form) the red hairdo of the milkmaid.
(Note: My post title is an exclamation used by the Orthodox Jewish title character of Ari Barak and the Free-Will Paradox.)
1 comment:
William,
Holey Mowley, Alester Crow-ley!
What's odd is that after I read this post,
I was going to respond with just two
words : Two-lips.
Suggesting that you and I share( and IMHO )
quite a few of the same puzzle pieces
throughout these 4 years
and of course it was my Tulip dream is how
I met you.
Before I clicked publish with just the words
Two-Lips however, I decided to look closely
on the bottom of this linen cloth, which
has a totally different embroidery image.
The first photo of the red heifer and the 4
birds is the folded side of the same cloth.
This linen cloth is really kind of odd.
It's not a pillow case and it's too small
to be a curtain panel. Like
I mentioned it is vintage and the embroidery
appears to be hand stitched.
Anywho,
Lo and behold, like the birds there are 2 images
of the same couple ( male and female) so
4 people total on opposite sides.
4 total like the birds.
The females are wearing a red dress and the males
are wearing red pants.
The couples are standing under two trees
and behind a blue fence which the fence
post's looks
very much like crosses. There are 55 'crosses'.
My birth year.
In the middle there appears to be a female
wearing a white and blue dress, and she is wearing
on her head a strange red 'turban' type headwear
or maybe it's her hair?
.
I'll send the images to your email.
I took two photo images of the linen cloth.
One of the people image and the second
photo of the entire
white linen cloth, which as stated has both images
on it ( the red heifer and the people image )
For some reason the 2nd image hasn't
' downloaded from
my phone to my desktop, but as soon
as it does, I'll send you that one as well..
Sync Fairies be trippin'.
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