Well, naturally, this led to the game of taking Tarot cards and replacing the titles with Gene Ray quotes that would give the picture a completely different meaning. I no longer have any of the original images, but here's a quick reconstruction of one that I remember.
Eventually, this developed into the project of designing a whole Cube Spirit deck (Majors only), modifying both the images and the titles to illustrate Time Cube principles. The Nuclear Waste lady, became a student wearing an MIT sweatshirt and jeans; an evil educator was added in the background, looking on in approval; and the number of stars in the sky was reduced to four (because "You can't have less than four, you can't have more than four").
The Empress card was renamed the Indian President, inspired by this Gene Ray quote.
Ray was clearly talking about American Indians here, and there was no indication that the Indian president might be a woman. However, when I looked at the Rider-Waite Empress card, her microphone-like scepter and floral-print gown made me think of a photo I had seen of Indira Gandhi -- who I guess was technically an Indian Prime Minister, but whatever.
I no longer have any of these cards, but I remember that this one was closely based on the Indira Gandhi photo but modified so as to suggest an American president delivering the State of the Union address. The president -- looking pretty much exactly like Indira Gandhi, but with a forehead dot added for extra Indian-ness -- stood at a podium, flanked by two generic clapping politicans, with a huge American flag hanging in the background.
In short, I had portrayed the Empress as a female Indian-American president of the United States -- and specifically patterned her after Indira Gandhi, daughter of Kamala Nehru.
Look back at that screenshot of Ray's "Indian president" question and notice that the immediate context refers to race-mixing ("racial slop") and to the US becoming a "black nation." Kamala Harris is mixed-race and generally presents herself not as an Indian-American but as "black."
I haven't thought of the Cube Spirit Tarot for ages, but a few months ago, in August 2021, I posted "Copper Queen," in which I connected Kamala Harris with the Empress card for completely unrelated reasons. That post was focused on the slightly modified Empress card that appears in the Grateful Dead "Ripple" video, in which the Empress holds a yin-yang symbol in one hand. In that post, I included a screenshot of the Wikipedia article for "Copper" and noted that it featured both a Venus symbol (such as appears on the Empress's shield) and a yin-yang symbol.
Now take a closer look at the paisley-floral motif on Indira Gandhi's costume.
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William,
If your recall in our conversations, I too have predicted and believe
that Harris will be catapulted as POTUS after a Black Swan Event which I believe will occur this year, and I believe it is Harris who will usher in a Triumvirate Governance of The New Atlantis (we now know as America ) .
I believe:
Harris was 'chosen' to be symbolic of the Rubedo (the last stage) of the Alchemical Experiment of America which is The Reddening or "Rusting" of the Industrial Age (Iron Age).
Humanity is shifting from the Industrial Age to the Silicon (Information ) Age.
America was destined to be built as an Empire (using Black People, per Alchemy, as cheap labor and entertainment) to be destroyed (America ) Economically, at the shifting of Ages which we are now on the precipice of.
From the Nigredo to the Rubedo (also known as the Philosopher's Stone, i.e. The Great Work, Magnum Opus.
I believe that it was because of the Alchemical Nigredo, why the Alchemists (we know as America's founding fathers) enslaved Africans symbolic of the Nigredo, to begin America's
building of the empire.
The " Magical Negro' is pervasive throughout America's history (especially in mythology and popular culture) as the alchemical catalyst for All Transformations.
Harris is NOT BLACK, and I highly doubt if Harris thinks of herself as Black.
One Drop doesn't make someone Black.
One Drop was enacted in 1924 because miscegenation was threatening to dissolve the Slave Pool.
Everything in this dimension Earth, is about Sex, Power and Money.
Research Elizabeth Key and Partus sequitur ventrem .
Key was a Biracial (Mulatto) woman whose father was the plantation owner.
America was under British Colonial Rule (partus sequitur partem ) which stated that the offspring was of the blood of the father and therefore was entitled to the assets of the father.
Elizabeth challenged this rule in court and won her case.
In 1662, Partus Sequitur Ventrem was enacted.
After Slavery the Black Codes, Jim Crow, ONE DROP, and Nixon's War on Drugs were all enacted to ensure a subservient peonage cheap labor source.
America could not have been built as an Empire without cheap labor.
Research Lewis Robards and his "Fancy Girls", whom I believe my father's lineage is from.
Harris is being touted as a One Drop Black, because of the Political tide of the times.
A Bread and Cirus for the Masses.
Nothing more, nothing less.
I personally believe that Harris was chosen to be symbolic of the Rubedo. The End of the Alchemical Transformation of the America Empire.
Doesn't the name Kamala in Sanskrit mean :"lotus" or "pale red"???
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