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This image is on the backs of the Key Cards. Eventually there will be 31+ Decks, and 31+ corresponding Key Cards. As the Key Card Deck grows, there will be opportunities to use it in a similar way as the Major Arcana is used in the Tarot. Primarily they will be used to determine which Deck you will draw your answer from.

The image is The Starman Constellation, the constellation created to honor him, subtly visible behind the striped outfit from the Station To Station photo shoot, which he resurrected in the Lazarus video. Since the Decks and the Keys each represent an Album, and a particular moment in his life, I wanted the backs of the Key Cards to be something all-encompassing and transcendent. I wanted something both old and new. By wearing it in the Lazarus video, he perhaps lets us know that he has been revisiting his studies of the Hermetic Kabbalah and the Tree of Life. The Major Arcana of the Tarot are the "Keys" or Paths of the Tree of Life, the lines he's drawing which connect the spheres. In the Lazarus video, he wears it in front of a Wardrobe with the door slightly open, perhaps a nod to C.S. Lewis and a reference to Bowie's statement that he had been using the Tree of Life and the Tarot to enter into other worlds back in the 70's.

So, it seemed a very fitting image: The Great I Am as The Sexy Man of Stardust, The Tree of Life as Humanity, and the Androgynous Artist; Archetype of this Aquarian Age.



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