He enters a dimly lit basement apartment in a large but decrepit old Spanish Colonial house in his neighborhood of <\/em>Coyoac\u00e1n<\/em>. The <\/em>rich <\/em>scent of jasmine incense permeates his nose and intoxicates him, stupefies his senses. The walls are lined with old, moth eaten Persian rugs, ornate and regal, yet faded from years of use on someone else\u2019s floor. Statues of Deities, both Catholic and Aztec, appear on alters around the room with<\/em> drying<\/em> flowers<\/em> <\/em>decorating them. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then from behind an old beaded curtain, she appears, the fortune teller. Delfina Mar\u00eda Isadora Cienfuegos Cort\u00e9s was once a glamorous actress, yet now, in her late fifties, she looks like any other older woman with lost hopes and dreams. She wears her long hair, streaked with gray, in a low bun under her turban which she dons only for these occasions. Her shawl is a deep crimson<\/em>,<\/em> and her long dress is white linen. She usually wears black, but the summer heat is too encompassing to incorporate her entire gypsy aesthetic every day. Her eyes, black as onyx, lock with Guillermo\u2019s. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou want to know about your child,\u201d she boldly states. \u201cYes, and my wife,\u201d Guillermo replies with a mix of shock and skepticism. \u201cYour wife will live for many more years, you need not fear for her. I feel that it is your child that interests me, she shall be destined for greatness,\u201d Delfina responses. \u201cAnother girl\u2026\u201d Guillermo whispers; he already has f<\/em>ive<\/em> girls to raise, he was hoping for a boy to help him with his photography. \u201cYet she will be so much more than a mere girl, she will transcend men in her abilities. The cards <\/em>and twenty pesos <\/em>will tell you more. Please sit. Would you like some tea?\u201d <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n THE READING:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n THE STAR-\u00a0<\/strong>Hope, bright prospects in the future, loss<\/em>. A great painter will be born on July 6, 1907.\u00a0Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Calder\u00f3n\u00a0will be known to the world as Frida Kahlo. She shall call\u00a0Mexico City\u00a0home and by\u00a0the age of 11,\u00a0the great artist shall be\u00a0diagnosed with polio and confined to her bed for nine long months.\u00a0She shall become your best friend in these years, Guillermo, for you shall understand her pain. You, too, have understood the weight that illness can have on a person. You shall understand her like no one else in her childhood, but others will come along who will understand her more. Her budding artistry cannot be suppressed, she will grow away from you.\u00a0A\u00a0long line of\u00a0great pain and\u00a0illness in Frida\u2019s life can be foreseen\u00a0in this card. But also, great success, great love. More shall come from this young painter.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE CHARIOT-\u00a0<\/strong>Providence, war, triumph, vengeance, trouble.<\/em>\u00a0A regular afternoon. Frida will try to return home from school on a bus with her boyfriend Alejandro G\u00f3mez Arias. Their passionate love affair will have started two years earlier, they have planned grandiose excursions that could only be thought up by teenagers in love. Relocating to the United States, moving far away from\u00a0Coyoac\u00e1n, the possibilities are endless. Until the chariot strikes. The bus shall violently collide with a trolley.\u00a0Alejandro shall emerge unscathed, yet Frida, poor Frida will be broken.\u00a0A poll that passengers used to hold for support will pierce through Frida\u2019s uterus, rendering her childless and barren. Three vertebrae will jump out of place in sheer fright after the impact. Bones will break. Casts will incarcerate her body. Yet she shall live. She will dedicate her convalescence to painting. She shall overcome.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1925.\u00a0Frida lies in her bed. It is all she does these days, lie in her full body cast in her bed and stare at the ceiling. She is depressed and bored out of her mind, staring at nothing most of the day with nothing to do but think about her pain and all the fun she is missing. She\u2019s only 18 and her friends are off exploring Mexico City and the world, making a change and just experiencing life. Her boyfriend Alejandro is going to Germany soon for college. She knows that they will not make it through the distance, but she will try. She is thinking about this inevitable\u00a0split\u00a0when her parents walk into her room, hiding something behind their backs. \u201cWe\u2019ve brought you a present,\u201d her mother says excitedly as Frida looks\u00a0questioningly at her. \u201cProbably another bouquet for me to watch die\u2026\u201d Frida morosely thinks while she smiles appreciatively at her mother. \u201cWe know how much you loved\u00a0to paint\u00a0when you were younger,\u201d her father said as he brought the item he was holding out from behind his back, \u201cso we had a custom easel built for your bed.\u00a0Now you can paint while you get better and have something to do other than lie there and read.\u201d Frida could not have been more surprised or elated.\u00a0Her eyes widened and she started up in bed, with just caused her more pain as she sunk back with a smile on her face. \u201cThank you so much,\u201d she said as her voice broke, tears of joy were running down her face. She knew that now she could\u00a0finally express her pain and her joy. She could finally tell the world what she didn\u2019t have words for. She would show them through her paintings.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE HIGH PRIESTESS-\u00a0<\/strong>Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed, wisdom, the woman who interests<\/em>. Frida\u2019s future husband, not yet known to her, will arrive back to his home in Mexico City in 1928.\u00a0Just recovered from the Chariot and newly single, our young artist will gravitate to him, an older artist, already established in the artistic community. As he works to complete a mural that will be famous in the future, Frida will visit him and show him her paintings, to inquire as one would ask\u00a0the cards, \u201cDo you actually believe that I should continue to paint, or should I turn to some other sort of work?\u201d He will persuade her to continue, to be his model, and to stay with him. This card predicts that the\u00a0biggest love of her life is beginning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE EMPEROR<\/strong>–\u00a0Stability, power, aid, protection<\/em>. Diego Rivera, a fellow Mexican, a muralist. He will reign over Frida\u2019s life. Her one true love. He will be on her every thought from the time they meet to death, the only stability in their tumultuous marriages. Diego\u2019s stability and power will come from his ability to destroy and revive Frida. His mistresses, there will be many. Frida will be his\u00a0greatest\u00a0wife, twice.\u00a0It is foreseen that\u00a0love, passion, art, anger, distrust, separation, reunions, and magnetic attraction will dominate their union. Diego will outlive Frida by three long years, despite being over twenty years her senior. Her death will destroy him. Their power will always\u00a0be together, not apart. They will not\u00a0be able to\u00a0function apart. They will destroy and protect and aid each other all in one.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1930.\u00a0Frida and Diego sit in rocking chairs on the porch of their lovely, grand house in Mexico City.\u00a0Neighborhood noises surround them from all sides, birds chirping, vendors selling, neighbors yelling, children playing, music seems to echo from somewhere\u2026 But from where? Neither knows, nor cares. Frida stretches out her petite, sickly hand and places it on Diego\u2019s large, fat arm. She\u00a0looks into him, all\u00a0the way to his deepest depths. She knows him as she knows herself, yet they have only been together for a less than a year. Their eyes meet. Her knows her, too. Her flaws, her illness, her passion, her artistry. They will conquer this world together, bound by art, love, politics, and destiny.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE SUN-\u00a0<\/strong>Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment<\/em>. Frida and Diego will marry in August of 1929. They will live for a precious few moments in happiness and bliss. Together in an elegant, large house in a fashionable neighborhood, their days will be spent in passion and painting. Frida shall be drawn to traditional Mexican dress, as opposed to the seductive, satin dresses of Dior that she can now afford. Both shall work, both\u00a0will\u00a0be fired. One for absence, one of communist views.\u00a0But who is who in this marriage?\u00a0Merging into one.\u00a0For now, but not for long. Sunlight cannot last forever, especially for\u00a0the new\u00a0Se\u00f1ora\u00a0Rivera.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE EMPRESS-<\/strong>\u00a0Fruitfulness, motherhood, action, long days, unknown difficulty, doubt<\/em>. The Empress is a mother; the empress is fruitful. Frida shall never be the Empress\u00a0to anything but her paintings. The Chariot struck down the Empress many years before. Diego and Frida will travel around the continent for art commissions. San Francisco, Detroit, Washington D.C., Havana.\u00a0It is foreseen that\u00a0children\u00a0will be conceived in one place,\u00a0they\u00a0shall be lost in another. Isolation,\u00a0lost children, Diego: these shall be Frida\u2019s\u00a0only\u00a0companions\u00a0in the United States.\u00a0And\u00a0Diego, where will he be some nights when Frida\u00a0is\u00a0alone\u00a0in this foreign place she despises? His assistant, Louise,\u00a0will be the only one to know. Diego\u2019s lust\u00a0sets the Sun, night will come soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1932.\u00a0Frida enters Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan on July 4, the American day of Independence. Yet when she enters this bleak hospital\u00a0losing pint after pint of blood from between her legs, all\u00a0of\u00a0her independence is lost. She labors through an operation on a bed made of clean,\u00a0bleak\u00a0surgical\u00a0steel and feels like a car going through an assembly line\u00a0in this industrial, capitalistic city. Her son, a small alien fetus, is removed from her punctured uterus by a team of doctors and nurses who are sad to miss their Independence Day festivities with their own children. Yet Frida knows that she will never celebrate with hers. They will die inside of her.\u00a0Diego holds her hand on the Henry Ford Hospital bed. She has been cut open and hope has been taken out of her with forceps and gloved hands. Diego utters, \u201cIt was a boy, my son…\u201d and breaks down into\u00a0sobs. Frida feels nothing, she is numbed by anesthesia and pain. Tears roll down her face as she dissociates. She sees herself from above:\u00a0broken, painful, and bloody. As she comes back into herself, she buries her pain even deeper and says, \u201cThere is nothing to be done.\u201d\u00a0She imagines a glorious, horrifying painting in her head, it will be her dissociation. This is her reality.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE MOON-\u00a0<\/strong>Hidden enemies, danger, darkness, terror, deception, error<\/em>. Frida and Diego will return to Frida\u2019s native\u00a0Coyoac\u00e1n.\u00a0Distrust will cloud their previous passions. Yet they will still be drawn to each other like magnets. Frida will miscarry again, Diego will move on to another mistress. A cycle that will seem to repeat throughout their ruinous relationship. Yet this time, it is night. The Moon will place enemies in plain sight, it will plunge Frida into Darkness. Diego\u2019s affair will be with Frida\u2019s closest sister, Cristina. Frida\u2019s darkness shall cause her so much\u00a0despair that she will be blind to right judgement. She will\u00a0blame herself for this affair, plunge into depression,\u00a0suffer from anorexia,\u00a0and barely paint.\u00a0Trouble will encase her. Yet,\u00a0she will ultimately forgive them both and move past this obstacle, but she will play the same games as Diego in the Future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n STRENGTH-\u00a0<\/strong>Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity<\/em>. Frida\u2019s health will rebound. Her depression will fade. She will begin to paint even more than before. The painter will focus on her work, not her husband\u2019s infidelities. She will grow as an artist and become more than simply the wife of the great Muralist Diego Rivera. She will become her own entity.\u00a0The card shows Frida\u2019s paintings\u00a0displayed in museums and galleries around Mexico and the United States. Strength foresees great success for her, her courage shall be rewarded, she shall create beautiful\u00a0art.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n THE WORLD-\u00a0<\/strong>Assured success, voyage, emigration, flight, change of place<\/em>. Strength will lift Frida into the World. She shall go to Paris\u00a0and be acclaimed and embraced by the most famous artists of the time. Picasso shall say to Diego, \u201cNeither Derain, nor you and I are capable of painting a head like Frida Kahlo.\u201d She will be loved. She will be successful. Her changing place will cause separation from Diego. The Moon is still cast over her marriage. It shall stay cast for quite some time as she and Diego divorce.\u00a0She, then, will flourish artistically. Painting two of the most important and famous pieces of her life. Paintings the world shall know.\u00a0Lo que el\u00a0agua\u00a0me\u00a0dio<\/em>, What the Water Gave Me.\u00a0Las dos\u00a0Fridas<\/em>, Two\u00a0Fridas. They will be spread around the globe. Her image shall permeate classrooms, galleries, and\u00a0pop culture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1939.\u00a0Frida is in a gallery in Paris, France. All around her,\u00a0male painters\u00a0drink champagne\u00a0in their tuxedos with glamourous models at their sides, all wearing Chanel, Dior, or Givenchy. Frida stands with a wine glass near her paintings, speaking to Picasso or\u00a0Dal\u00ed\u00a0or whoever else is drawn to her surrealist masterpieces. She magnetizes the artists, she is so different from anything that they\u2019ve ever seen before. She stands very straight, reaching a height of five feet two inches. Her long, dark hair is in braids with flowers at the top of her head, like a crown. She wears long, colorful\u00a0skirts and shawls to match.\u00a0A well-dressed Frenchman walks up to her, he says, \u201cYou\u2019re the wife of Diego Rivera, aren\u2019t you?\u201d She smiles politely but, in her eyes, there is fury. She says, \u201cI am divorced. I am a painter, not a wife. I am Frida Kahlo.\u201d He stares down at her for a second, then looks up\u00a0at\u00a0Frida\u2019s paintings on the wall. Frida watches him intently, studying his face as he looks at\u00a0<\/em>Las dos\u00a0Fridas\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Lo que el\u00a0agua\u00a0me\u00a0dio. \u201cI will buy the one with two of you,\u201d he states, looking at Frida as if he is doing her a great favor. Frida looks him directly in the eyes, her spirit touches his soul. He squirms with discomfort. \u201cNo,\u201d she calmly\u00a0states, \u201cThey are not for sale. They will never be for sale. They are my children.\u201d He mutters, \u201cOkay\u2026\u201d and scurries away, turning back a few times making sure she\u2019s not following him. She strikes him as a witch: strong, magical, terrifying. He is the grandson of a French Nobleman. He has never been told no by a woman\u00a0before.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE LOVERS-\u00a0<\/strong>Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome<\/em>. Affairs, marriages, flings, reunions. The card transcends time in the life of Frida Kahlo. His affair? Hers? What does it matter now? Diego and Angelina. Diego and Guadalupe. Frida and Alejandro. Frida and Diego. Diego and Louise. Diego and Cristina. Frida and Isamu. Frida and Leo. Frida and Dolores. Frida and Nickolas. Frida and Mar\u00eda. Frida and\u00a0Chavela. And finally, Frida and Diego, again, overcoming all others, always.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1945. It is very early in the morning. Frida lies in bed with\u00a0Chavela\u00a0by her side, as she sleeps. She feels fulfilled, loved, feminine, and strong.\u00a0Chavela\u00a0is a beautiful Mexican singer who, unlike Frida\u2019s previous mistresses, does not hide her sexuality from the world.\u00a0Chavela\u00a0understands Frida, almost as much as Diego, maybe more on some levels, less on others. While Diego can tend to ignore and overlook Frida\u2019s emotions,\u00a0Chavela\u00a0understands the emotions before Frida even knows what she\u2019s feeling. While Frida paints,\u00a0Chavela\u00a0sings to her, but Diego offers advice and challenges her further. And the history\u2026 the history\u2026 Diego has been through so much with her. She has bled in the battle to give him his children. She has moved around the United States for him, time and time again. Yet\u00a0Chavela\u00a0loves Frida so much, in the kindest way Frida has ever known love. What will she do next time she sees Diego? She hopes she will not see him for a long time, yet she wants to, to love him and to flaunt\u00a0Chavela\u00a0in his face the way he has with his mistresses for so many years. Yet, she knows, all this must end. There is no hope\u00a0for her and\u00a0Chavela. She wants hope, but there never is for homosexuals in this fucking Catholic country, as\u00a0she said to\u00a0Chavela\u00a0during their last fight. What are they to do? Frida knows the monotony will drive her insane. Secrets and secrets forever. Could she even tell her father, her best friend? How would people like her art if they knew it was about lesbians? How could she paint about her reality if her reality was against the law and more faux pas than even her communism? Frida loves\u00a0Chavela\u00a0and is scared because she knows\u00a0Chavela\u00a0loves her tenfold. She turns over in bed and kisses\u00a0Chavela, yet again.\u00a0Chavela\u00a0awakens groggily yet smiling. And she is pulled into\u00a0Chavela, laughing.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE HIEROPHANT<\/strong>–\u00a0Marriage, alliance,\u00a0servitude, mercy<\/em>. They will always come back to each other. They will always be one. Only one year of divorce. Frida and Diego\u00a0shall\u00a0remarry, but this time it will be a marriage\u00a0of equals. They shall share household expenses and stop sexual relations. The domestic partnership of Frida and Diego will continue as so-\u00a0through sickness and health. Each will serve the other when needed. Each will be a nurse. Each will be a confidant. Each will be a friend.\u00a0The Moon has waned into nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n THE HANGED MAN-\u00a0<\/strong>Wisdom, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination<\/em>.\u00a0Guillermo Kahlo, you\u00a0will die in 1941.\u00a0Your faithful daughter\u00a0will suffer greatly for\u00a0your\u00a0loss and will move back to her home in\u00a0Coyoac\u00e1n. Our painter will have a difficult time with money. She will sell pictures, though it will break her he\u00a0art to part with pieces of herself. So personal, so moving, so provocative. To generate wealth, Frida shall work as a painting teacher, her band of students will be named \u201cLos\u00a0Fridos.\u201d They will work hard at her direction,\u00a0yet\u00a0it is foreseen that they\u00a0shall be robbed of their namesake teacher very\u00a0soon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n THE MAGICIAN-\u00a0<\/strong>Skill, sickness, pain, loss, disaster, self-confidence.<\/em>\u00a0Our painter\u2019s health will yet again worsen. But she will keep painting. She will paint forever, it will continue to be her only solace, her only escape, from the pain. Frida shall undergo two more intensive surgeries. Her bed shall be her prison once again. Museums will want her paintings.\u00a0The card tells that as her popularity grows, her health shall decline. Doctors will place a piece of her pelvis into her spine. She may recover. She also may not. Frida\u00a0shall become sicker and more depressed by the day. To ease her mind, she shall start a diary. She will suffer for\u00a0what seems like an eternity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1953.\u00a0Frida thought she knew what it meant to suffer. She thought that the bus accident would be the most suffering she would ever have to endure again. She was wrong, so terribly wrong. Now that she is not eighteen and her body does not want to recover, she cannot stand this constant pain.\u00a0The doctors have just amputated her foot and some of her leg. What will she do now?\u00a0Diego walks into her room as she lies in bed trying to paint at her easel, but she can only muster up the energy to cry instead. \u201cDiego, mi\u00a0amor,\u201d she says between sobs, \u201cwill you please take me into the gardens? I cannot lie here in misery for another second.\u201d \u201cAlways, Frida,\u201d He says and picks up her frail body from the bed and gently places her in her wheelchair. As he wheels her into the courtyard of La Casa Azul, she stops crying and tells him to stop pushing, immediately. \u201cGet my diary. Now!\u201d she demands. Diego stops and rushes into the house for her precious diary\u00a0that\u00a0has been her most faithful companion for the last few\u00a0years. He brings her paints with him, so she may draw in it too, as she desires. \u201cThank\u00a0you Diego, I had the most wonderful thought\u2026\u201d she trails off, smiling for the first time in days. A few minutes later, she tries to wheel herself deeper into the courtyard, to her favorite flower, the marigold. It was early October, the beginning of a beautiful bloom\u00a0which she had not been well enough to see yet. She manages\u00a0to wheel herself about three feet\u00a0over the cobblestones\u00a0before Diego notices\u00a0her panting and pushes\u00a0her the rest of the way. \u201cYou\u00a0<\/em>must\u00a0tell me when you need help,\u201d he scolds\u00a0her gently. \u201cDiego, of all people, you are myself, you know me. We are one body. I cannot live like this\u00a0any longer. I need to regain my strength, or I would rather die. I cannot have everyone doing everything for me. Are you to paint my next portrait? I need to be independent\u2026\u201d she breaks off into sobs. Diego crouches down and holds her, softly as not to hurt her weak body. They stay like this for 35 minutes.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE DEVIL-\u00a0<\/strong>Ravage, violence, force, fatality, that which is predestined but not for this reason evil<\/em>. The Devil will come to Frida through the sickness and pain that has troubled her for so many years. This time, He shall come to fully possess her. He will stop her from painting for periods of time, her output of work will decrease dramatically.\u00a0It is foreseen that he will consume Frida\u2019s right leg\u00a0and\u00a0force the doctors to cut it off. He will push her down, no matter how hard\u00a0our great\u00a0artist\u00a0will try to overcome the pain, through painting, pills, drinking, anything to stop Him.\u00a0One of the only antidotes\u00a0to the Devil shall be Diego, but only for periods of time.\u00a0 Diego will only be able to fight him off for so long. He will fail soon. The Devil is consuming Frida whole, despite her attempts to stop Him. She will try twice to take her life out of His hands and put it back\u00a0into her own. She will not succeed. Painting will soothe her. Painting and Diego. They are the\u00a0cures. The Devil\u00a0will\u00a0want her to live and suffer through this. Frida\u00a0will crave\u00a0death more than anything else, even Diego and painting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n DEATH-\u00a0<\/strong>End, mortality, destruction<\/em>. The antidotes will soothe, but they\u00a0will never\u00a0work. The Devil will not win, Frida will.\u00a0The card shows that our great painter\u00a0will die of pneumonia on July 14, 1954. She will be 47 years old13<\/sup>. She will be happy to die. Happy to go. Happy for an end of pain.\u00a0Frida Kahlo\u2019s last diary entry will read, \u201cEspero\u00a0alegre\u00a0la\u00a0salida\u00a0– y\u00a0espero\u00a0no\u00a0volver\u00a0jam\u00e1s,<\/em>\u201d or in English, \u201cI hope the exit is joyful- and I hope never to return\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the reading ends, t<\/em>he fortune teller looks up from her cards, her turban slightly askew. Guillermo and Delfina lock eyes. Delfina smiles, adjusts her turban and says, \u201cThat will be 40 pesos.\u201d Guillermo is shocked out of his stunned state, \u201cI thought we agreed upon 20?!\u201d Delfina rises, both hands on the table, and says, \u201cYes, well, that was one of my better readings.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n I,\u00a0Katy Granbom, made the artistic decision to document the life of Frida Kahlo through Tarot Cards. I did this because I thought that Frida had a certain magical quality to her life and her being that\u00a0I find to be ethereal and long-lasting. Similarly, I find tarot cards to be a very interesting medium because so many people rely on them for advice and the future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n End Notes<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n All Tarot Card <\/strong>Descriptions:<\/strong> Waite, Arthur Edward. The Key to the Tarot <\/em>(Connecticut: U.S. Game Systems, 2014), 13-17. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Star and the Chariot<\/strong> and 1925 Vignette<\/strong>: Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 244. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The High Priestess:<\/strong> Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 246. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Emperor and 1930 Vignette:<\/strong> Monsiv\u00e1is, Carlos. \u201cFrida and Her Friends,\u201d in \u201cThe Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 187-88. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sun:<\/strong> Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 246. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Empress and 1932 Vignette:<\/strong> Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 248-50. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Moon: <\/strong>Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 248-54. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lovers: <\/strong>Monsiv\u00e1is, Carlos. \u201cFrida and Her Friends,\u201d in \u201cThe Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 189. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1945 Vignette: <\/strong>Raskauskas, Stephen. \u201cWas Frida Kahlo the \u2018Greatest Love\u2019 and Muse to This Iconic Lesbian Chanteuse?\u201d 98.7WFMT, 3 May 2018, www.wfmt.com\/2018\/01\/12\/frida-kahlo-greatest-love-muse-iconic-lesbian-chanteuse\/. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Strength:<\/strong> Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 250-54. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Hierophant and The Hanged Man:<\/strong> Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 256. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Magician:<\/strong> Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 258-9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1953 Vignette and The Devil:<\/strong> Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 259-61. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Death:<\/strong> Billeter, Erika. \u201cChronology,\u201d in The Blue House: The World of Frida Kahlo<\/em>, ed. Erika Billeter (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), 260-61. Kahlo, Frida. The Diary of Frida Kahlo, <\/em>ed. Carlos Fuentes (Austin: Abrams, Inc, 1995), 247. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/image-27.jpeg\")
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