#2: Jul 6th 2015 at 7:34:18 PM
The one thing I know about tarot is that the cards have a tendency to be ironic, cryptic or otherwise differing in their meaning vs their face appearance.
For example, The Fool has a meaning of intrepid innocence. Or rather as This Danbooru image says in the comments. (It's SFW for content but the ads might not be.)
The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the childlike ability to tune into the inner workings of the world. The sun shining behind him represents the divine nature of the Fool's wisdom and exuberance, holy madness or 'crazy wisdom'. On his back are all the possessions he might need. In his hand there is a flower, showing his appreciation of beauty. He is frequently accompanied by a dog, sometimes seen as his animal desires, sometimes as the call of the "real world", nipping at his heels and distracting him. He is seemingly unconcerned that he is standing on a precipice, apparently about to step off. One of the keys to the card is the paradigm of the precipice, Zero and the sometimes represented oblivious Fool's near-step into the oblivion (The Void) of the jaws of a crocodile, for example, are all mutually informing polysemy within evocations of the iconography of The Fool. The staff is the offset and complement to the void and this in many traditions represents wisdom and renunciation, e.g. 'danda' (Sanskrit) of a Sanyassin, 'danda' (Sanskrit) is also a punctuation mark with the function analogous to a 'full-stop' which is appropriately termed a period in American English. The Fool is both the beginning and the end, neither and otherwise, betwixt and between, liminal.
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."
The number 0 is a perfect significator for the Fool, as it can become anything when he reaches his destination as in the sense of 'joker's wild'. Zero plus anything equals the same thing. Zero times anything equals zero.[6] Zero is nothing, a lack of hard substance, and as such it may reflect a non-issue or lack of cohesiveness for the subject at hand.
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Ok, themed tarot cards are all the rage nowadays. Angels, Homestuck, Hello Kitty, you name it. Wouldn't it be logical to have one dedicated to tropes/narrative writing?
My rough ideas are as thus:
The Fool: Hero/Protagonist (Since a hero comes from humble origins)
The Magician: The Trickster/Traitor
High Priestess: Threshold Guardian
Empress: Damsel/Love Interest
Pope: Writer/Author
Emperor: General/Leader/Hero
Lovers: The Choice/Shipping
Chariot: Conflict
Strength: Good Vs. Evil
Hermit: Mentor
Wheel of Fortune: The Plot/ Plot Twist (If upside down)
Justice: Fate/Destiny
Hanged Man: Heroic Sacrifice
Death: Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Temperance: The Resolution/Epilogue
Devil: The Dark Side
The Tower: Heroic BSoD/Despair Event Horizon
The Star: The Chosen One
The Moon: Foreshadowing/All Just a Dream
The Sun: Happy Ending/ Earn your Happy Ending
Judgement: Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
The World: Setting/The Narrative/ Story
Please add to this/change it! I am in no way a tarot expert, but I think it would be a fun and neat idea for all you tropers/writer nerds out there.
edited 6th Jul '15 6:49:32 PM by thedragonchick
Not an actual doctor, or a real worm. The turtle moves.