E_Moation Devotion

It's not the Me it's the E_Moation. Buddah

Hoist the Drawbridge!

The E_Moat is the barrier between our minds, bodies and souls. Built up over a lifetime, it insulates us from the marauding hordes of our past, keeps at bay the specters of our frightening future, and, in general, locks our castle so tight that we neither see nor smell the flowers blooming in the moment, right now, on the other shore.

These cards are tools to lower the drawbridge separating our bodies from our souls, our mind from our heart. They encourage us to drain the stinking quagmire drowning our neglected souls.

E_Moat vs Tarot

The E_Moat is not another Tarot. The E_Moat has no trumps, no pip cards, no suits; no jokers, no Fool. The numbered, sequenced cards of a Las Vegas black-jack deck are more closely related to Tarot than either is to the E_Moat.

An important difference is the E_Moat card titles. Many Tarot decks omit titles altogether, or include them only for the major arcana. Where Tarot titles do appear, they are simple summations of the image. In contrast, E_Moat card titles are intrinsic, inseparable parts of each E_Moat card. Often the titles are a surprize, turning the meaning of the image inside out. In a flash of insight the seeker sees a larger truth than the image alone could convey. This sudden realization can help to jar loose the drawbridge to our true selves, and can make it easier to internalize the deeper concepts at the heart of us all.

What's with the name?

E_Moat? Shouldn't that be "emote? This set of images is intended to trigger emotional responses. Our emotions are much closer to the soul's true desires than our over-taxed, right-brained, day-after-day, almost-alive mad dash for... what? Rejoice and listen when an actual emotion occurs. The soul is speaking.

So often we isolate ourselves from our emotions. We build protective walls, a "moat" around our hearts and souls. Thus the misspelling of "emote". The underbar further symbolizes the drawbridge to our innermost desires this deck is intended to help bridge. Yes, it is fashionable to create vanity-plate style names in today's acronymic world, but forgive me please: in this case, it does remind us of the self-understanding goal.

The Deck

Today the deck consists of a dozen cards. There are many more I have sketched, but haven't drawn, or thought about but haven't penciled. The deck is growing, I want the deck to be bigger. But I didn't want to wait 'til it was perfect and all here to publish. I hope you agree.

The following links allow the student to examine all the images without resorting to asking multiple, possibly meaningless questions of the oracle. As there is no intinsic order to the E_Moat, the images are simply listed alphabetically below.

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