The Suit of Batons

The Ace of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot with the title, "Batons
  • Album: The Milk-Eyed Mender
  • Element: Fire
  • Season: Summer
  • French Suit: Diamonds

The suit of Batons deals with life as an artist, a craftsperson, a student, or anyone involved in creative pursuits. A Baton may be a tool, a toy, a weapon, or more generally a token from the natural world. Many songs on this album weave in the tension between nature and art, or between instinct and learning.

The Milk-Eyed Mender is likely the most straightforward of the four albums, and in turn the images of this suit are bright, clear, and economical. Every card in the suit is based on a lyric from the album, with some songs appearing more than once.


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Ace of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot: A bone sewn onto a yellow floral cloth
2 of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot: Two tadpoles in a pond with coral and two driftwood sticks
3 of Batons from Anecdotes tarot: A peach, a plum, and a pear on a yellow and red checked picnic cloth
4 of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot: a clam, a crab, a cockle, and a cowrie shell floating in a pool of water
5 of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot: 5 stars form the constellation Cassiopeia, a seated woman
6 of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot: Six white sticks in the foreground with a train on the coast in the distance
7 of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot: seven canaries flocking
8 of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot: A girl with 8 lemon slices
9 of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot: 9 batons in a colorful driftwood fire
10 of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot: A woman with 10 batons on her back walks through butterfly-like autumn leaves
Page of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot holds a paper and watches geese flying
Knight of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot holds up a bone for a white dog
Queen of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot holds a distaff and looks at 3 children out the window
King of Batons from Anecdotes Tarot embroiders a heart on a hoop

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