Tiger Tarot: the ace of eyes

This is a post about a new deck, the Tiger Tarot, by Lori Field, book by Laetitia Barbier. This deck excites me. I’ve heard Lori talk about the deck and the tiger symbol as a sign of empowerment. That draws me in. This will draw you in too.

Ace of Eyes from Tiger Tarot by Lori Field

My auspicious first pull from the Tiger Tarot is the ace of eyes. I say auspicious because Aces are always considered good luck. We’ve got that in our language. I aced the test, the race, the competition. It’s all good when we ace something. Synchronistically, that’s the first pull and I’ll take that as a good omen for beginning this exploration.

Let’s take a look at the card: The ace of eyes, in the Tiger Tarot by artist Lori Field.

There are two figures in the card. One sits in the left hand corner and her eyes gaze up to the tiger with a girl’s face. An Eye sits atop tiger girl’s head, like a headdress or crown. It has the jaunty look of a pirate’s hat. Yet her eyes look warily at the viewer, perhaps giving us the side eye if she sees us at all.

My eye is drawn initially to the curiously elfin nude figure in the left hand corner. It looks like that figure is a girl, there is the curve of a breast obscured by the knee drawn up and hiding the nipple area. I am struck by her headdress which I first thought was a monarch butterfly but when I orient my view more carefully, I see it…