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Finally decided to show off some of my art. None of it's terribly recent but... Tell me what you think.

Practicing anime using a How-to-Draw book.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/NightBride/My%20Art/AnimeBoy2.jpg

Playing around in MSPaint, practicing anime eyes.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/NightBride/My%20Art/EyeCollage2.jpg

First time I used my micron pens. This was during my abstract phase.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/NightBride/My%20Art/MicronPenPractice.jpg

Playing around in photoshop during class.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/NightBride/My%20Art/Skycopy.jpg

Didn't draw this one, but I colored it. I like coloring stuff.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/NightBride/My%20Art/SquallandRinoa.jpg

Not really sure what this is. I used a Yu-Gi-Oh! card as a reference for the girl.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/NightBride/My%20Art/TangledintheLiescolored.jpg

Another abstract. Used a different Yu-Gi-Oh! card as a reference for the hand, which I am rather proud of.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/NightBride/My%20Art/Abstractbraid.jpg

And last, but not least, my final art project for... Freshmen or Sophmore year. Can't remember. This is where my userpic came from.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/NightBride/My%20Art/05-23-2005021545PM.jpg

I was going to just put the images in here, but they were pretty big, so...

[You say you continue to make discoveries about the deck which you were not aware of during its creation. Can you elaborate further on this?]

Doing a speech on tarot and ran across this in my research. It greatly amused me, so I thought I'd share.

You say you continue to make discoveries about the deck which you were not aware of during its creation. Can you elaborate further on this?

This has happened many times, usually intentionally placed symbolism is found to have other shades of meaning. For example, the Five of Swords shows a woman loosely holding a sword while the man, possibly her husband stands by the window leaning on the wall for support. The woman rests against a chest draped with a black cloth, on the chest is an apple.

This apple was originally intended to suggest the story of the Garden of Eden, with the associated ideas of woman's control over man. But the apple is whole, no bite has been taken from it and it's colour is gold.

When I considered this later I realised that the apple also suggested a another myth. According to the ancient Greeks the goddess Eris (goddess of Strife, which links the card to the Five of Wands), who had not been invited to a wedding, took revenge and thereby, caused trouble for Paris and directly brought about the Trojan War (the Five of Wands again). She did this by throwing an apple, baring the inscription "For the fairest" into the midst of the wedding guests. Three goddesses claimed the apple and Paris was given the task of judging which of the three was the fairest.

This myth adds a further dimension to the interpretation of the card.

[You got to dig through the wall with your little spoon]

Cainad and I were chatting the other night and I may have found a new metaphor regarding the BIP.

Cainad   1:49am
Knowing that you have to is a big step
It's easy acknowledge the BIP and then assume that, because you know about it, you have escaped it.
Unfortunately, there's work involved.
Valerie   1:50am
Well, yeah... A jailbreak doesn't 'just happen'
You got to dig through the wall with your little spoon
Cainad   1:50am
Exactly.
lol
I love that; it just might be worth expanding on that metaphor for future use.
Valerie   1:51am
Should I mention it on PD.com somewhere?
Cainad   1:52am
Once you have a decent idea of what the spoon is, yeah.
I would call it self-skepticism. But that's just me.
Valerie   1:52am
I was thinking something along the lines of "Question Everything", which is skepticism...

I was thinking about it last night and here's what I came up with. This is basically taken from a notepad where I brainstormed.

The Spoon is the tool you use to make a jailbreak. It is used to chip away at your prison walls and dig out of prison.

Metaphorically, it is:
   1. Brain (way too literal, not a good metaphor)
   2. Skepticism/Self-skepticism -> "Question Everything" (from my convo with Cainad.)
   3. Logic. (Goes with Skepticism. You have to use logic to disassemble arguments and reasoning.)

I think that the Spoon is a combination of 2 and 3. Skepticism is what will get you asking yourself "Why? Why do I think that way?" and logic will not only help you to answer that question, but lead you through the process of perpetually questioning and answering yourself.

By using logic, you can figure out if a belief you have is worth keeping. If you can't logically explain why you have a belief, you would want to drop it, wouldn't you? When you drop a belief that isn't worth keeping using this process, the Spoon, you have made it through one brick, or one layer of the wall, of your prison.

What do you guys think? Good metaphor, bad, needs more work?
Any other suggestions for what the Spoon may be?