The Maker

Keywords: Boundless creative power and limiting form

The Maker is a bulky, square-shaped woman in faded blue overalls and work-boots. She stands in profile facing to the right of the image as we look at her; her light brown hair is thick, short and curling; her cheeks are rosy red. She concentrates upon an invisible task, her arms engaged in some work, but her hands are surrounded by light and cannot be seen, nor can we see any tools in her hands. She bends slightly over the work, as if there is an unseen anvil or work-bench there.

Where we would expect to see the anvil or bench is a double spiral of stars and darkness weaving in and out of itself. This is the light source for the image, so The Maker's face is lit and shadowed accordingly, and her body casts a shadow upon the wall behind. This spiral of light and darkness is similar to those seen in certain self-iterating fractal images. These are our most recent Elemental images revealed through computer technology. The Elemental patters are universal, so little wonder that each age finds its own expression of them in human communication.

Behind The Maker is a predominantly muted orange-red brick wall, filling the entire background, with the bricks varying in colour naturally and occasionally including a blue-black fired brick. On this wall hangs an incongruous selection of tools from all ages and technologies, including blades, lenses, crystalline Platonic solids, hammers, an electric drill, a row of screwdrivers, wooden block planes, a pair of iron pincers and so forth.

The variegated wall shows that matter or substance is present at the deepest levels of creation: each brick is a world, a dimension, a universe. The range of tools suggests that the act of creation uses whatever is necessary and in one sense this making goddess is an expression of Arete, the classical Greek goddess of necessity described by Plato. In another sense, the tools show this Trump at work in the human surface world, where inventions transform culture through the ages.

The Maker embodies the appearance of form out of formlessness. In a personal reading or vision the card reveals the deepest creative and formative powers of the individual and often implies great energy for specific tasks. It will also show, depending upon other cards in the pattern, the best possible form for that energy, the way in which it may be creatively contained and enabled to reach through into the upper Realms (Pearl and Stone) and so into the surface world.

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