A Card For Debo

The Archer Arjuna had great admiration for her teacher, Drona. Archers share a power and grace that bind them to each other. A student Archer will be shown her gifts, no one can tell her who she is. All great teachers live as students.
In the Mahabharata, the longest sanskrit epic ever written at 18 books, 74,000 versus and 1.8 million words, there is a time when the greatest Archer, Drona, places an illusionary crocodile in his students' path. Arjuna doesn't miss a beat. He carefully aims his arrow and kills the crocodile as it attacks his teacher.

The Thinker, sculpted by Rodin, was meant to represent Dante at the Gates of Hell in his epic poem The Divine Comedies. Here, Arjuna aims fire at him.
The young Archer wants to free herself of her own inner turmoil. She is poised to use her magic in a destructive way. When you open the card you see Drona, dancing across the dawn with the dark unknown. Drona helps Arjuna understand that the sorcery they share enables them to be masters of their own will.

This card is about epic poetry that never dies. And this card is about artists. Writers and Sculptors have taken the stories of life and put them into word and stone. Sharing them always. This card is to thank Debo for everything she has shared with me.