I'm taking you along with me as I create a new card deck for myself. I will create it with an American Indian theme as I did once before. What is Lenormand? - check out my previous article.
Card 14 Coyote
The original card is the Fox, but when I looked into the symbology of the fox in Indigenous American culture, I found that it had mixed meanings, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Whereas the coyote is almost always seen as a trickster type of character - which is the aspect needed for this card.
When we think of the coyote, we tend to think of:
- clever, smart, wily (Wile E. Coyote, for instance.)
- selfish, conniving, trickster, liar
- someone who takes, but doesn't give - even what's owed
- deceitful conman, watch out!
(It's unusual to find a card that is so completely negative!)
For more information on what this card means, check out Lenormand1's interpretation - for combining the (Fox/Coyote) with any other card, check out the site: Learn Lenormand
For my new card, For my new card, I hit Google Images search, looking for something with CC0 (Creative Commons 0) licensing meaning that I don't always have to remember to credit someone - essential if I were to start doing paid readings with these cards.
I also had to find out which traditional playing card is associated with this card. So, here is my result:
(Base image source: coyote from PxHere and the Native from MaxPixel)
It was somewhat difficult to find my images this week. Many "coyote" pictures were actually of wolves which have a very different feel about them. I loved this picture because Coyote looks very conniving here - like he's scheming.
The Native was a good touch - I felt, indicating a bit of the frustration and opposition of these two rivals. Coyote really isn't the man's friend.
To make the picture in GIMP, I split the coyote picture into two parts - the animal and the background. Adding an "alpha channel" to the coyote layer so that I could delete the background from that part of the image and sandwich my man in behind the coyote and in front of the background. I also added some color to the Native at 50% opacity on the background layer.
The card, was copied/pasted from a picture of a deck. The writing and margins added in Photoscape.
Note: Readings are entertainment only (legally). You are in charge of your own destiny.
Previous cards: 1 Rider; 2 Dreamcatcher; 3 Canoe; 4 Tipi; 5 Medicine Wheel; 6 Clouds; 7 Poison Ivy; 8 Burial; 9 Flowers; 10 Tomahawk; (11 skipped temporarily); 12 Hummingbird; 13 Child;
Crossposted at Steemit, Whaleshares, WeKu
Lori Svensen
author/designer at A'mara Books
photographer/graphic artist for Viking Visual
verified author on Goodreads
find me on Twitter
also on: Whaleshares, WeKu
Join us in the Official Whaleshares server in the text channel "the-phoenix-project"