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lunar-system · 8 months ago

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Edward Teach: The Star.

Adapted from the traditional Ride-Waite-Smith tarot, this version of the Star shows Ed kneeling down serenely by the spring of life, bare to the world, ready to heal after tumultuous events.

Stede as the Sun to follow, Izzy as the Moon can be found here.

Longer exploration of the card's symbolism under the cut.

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The Star: Hope, openness, especially after a crisis. Renewal, healing, restoration.

Rachel Pollack writes: "This is the calm after a great change, whether it comes after a drastic planetary shift or a personal upheaval. There are still difficult times ahead, but the Star tells us to trust."

In the card Ed is depicted with a short, growing beard. Multiple personal upheavals and great changes have already happened, and he is settling into a new reality. Who is he when he is stripped from titles, uniforms and roles? In the space of the Star, he has enough trust to try and find out.

Pollack continues: "In Star, we find our inner strength and belief. The Star teaches us to accept whatever it is, to drop all our shields, to believe. The water poured out signifies healing, emotional and physical."

Ed as the Star is learning to shine his own light after witnessing Stede shine as the Sun. Trust and belief don't come easy, but as the Star he can be vulnerable enough to try again. The water flows from an infinite source, letting the emotions come and go.

Even though the Star opens up towards a bright future, Ed carries his history with him. His tattoos, pictures from other tarot cards, tell about his past:

Chest: Three of Swords, the infamous card of heartbreak. "Trust no one."

Left side thigh: the face of the Devil from the Devil card. One of the largest tattoos he has, projecting his self-image. "I'm the devil."

Right side thigh: Lobster from the Moon card, a beast that lurks under the surface, in the unconscious. "I'm the Kraken."

Right side: wolf from the Moon card. In my depiction of the Moon, Izzy stands for the wolf. Here the loyal wolf is cast to the side, left howling after the broken heart.

Belly: Ram from the throne of the Emperor, a symbol of masculine power. The placement on the lower belly suggest a trans reading of the character.

Chest, around the heart: birds from Ace of Cups, suggesting new beginnings even for a broken heart.

With his past carved to his skin, Ed is kneeling at the edge of land. One of his feet is planted firmly on the ground while the other graces the water. In Tarot, earth is often connected to the material, such as the body, and the conscious mind. Water is the element of emotions and the subconscious. At the edge of the water, Ed is in balance, grounded both in his body and in his emotions, the conscious and the subconscious. The water he pours rejuvenates them both.

TL;DR: After great personal upheavals, Ed as the Star is ready to heal and trust. He carries his past with him, but is ready to shine his own light and have faith in himself and for the future. He is vulnerable and at peace, and he is connected both to the ground and the water, nourishing them both with the water he pours.

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Sources

Image source: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, republished as Tarot of A. E. Waite, 2016, AGM-Urania, Germany

Text source: Rachel Pollack, A Journey of 78 Steps, 2011, as cited in the booklet for instruction and guidance of Tarot of A. E. Waite, 2016, AGM-Urania, Germany

#ofmd #our flag means death #ed teach #edward teach #blackbeard #tarot #the star #yey i finally sat down to write the depiction and can post this!#i loved sourcing and placing all the tattoos from different cards #there are tattoos from so many different cards #but the ones i listed here are the most meaningful ones #also i made this with shipperly intentions but because it focuses so much on ed i won't be tagging those #focus is on ed being happy <3

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alicornze7 · 2 months ago

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I have a very ridiculous speculation

what if the reason she still talks back to jax after all his torment a habit she adapted from working in service jobs-?

she could be on the verge of tears but still has to put up with people’s crap and be on the receiving end of their frustrations/tantrums

She’s usually depicted as a pushover (that’s most likely true from what we’ve seen so far) but I think there are more complex layers of trauma and personality beneath that simply “shy” exterior

One can only take so much bs from people before they snap

that’s it that’s the post

#This is very out there ik #Also i hope its not too unreadable #Didnt put any commas in there huh #This happens alot when im writing essays😔#Haha toxic yuri🫵/j #Tagging this as ribbun ig #This was just an excuse to yap lol #Yey minimum wage labor\:D/#tadc gangle #tadc jax #ribbun #tadc fanart #tadc theory #the amazing digital circus #tadc human

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allcaplock · 3 months ago

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