Symbols, Archetypes, and Plots The Aces Symbols The Court Cards Archetypes Swords Plots Cups Plots Wands Plots Pentacles Plots Every Minor Arcana card will belong to one of the four Tarot suits: Swords, Cups, Wands, or Pentacles. Each suit contains an Ace through Ten, then a Page, a Knight, a Queen, and a King. Once […]
*Spoiler alerts :: The Fifth Element; Metropolis. Everything The beginning, the middle, and the end. The World is the whole Major Arcana in one card. The Fool has been through the dizzying highs and the terrifying lows, and they’ve come out the other side. They have died and been reborn, they have risen from ashes.
Awakening Judgment is your inward call to change. The Tower’s change is sudden, from somewhere else, not up to you. The chance to change with Judgment is all yours. A karmic restart. Judgment is Scrooge Christmas morning. It’s all three of the ghosts who had changed his mind. It’s Jacob Marley’s fate too. From the clouds,
Epiphany After all that darkness, here comes the Sun. I mean, finally. Here’s your inner child riding the white steed of truth right out of your heart, right out of your dreams — which are always most vivid right before we wake — and into the forefront of our mind. “So when earth, After that
*Spoiler alert: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Dreams The Moon, great celestial orb made of rock and dreams. A dog and a wolf howl at her. They’re barking mad, signified by the lobster crawling out of the water to join them in a kind of inverted trinity. The sky is blue and the
*Spoiler alerts :: Steven Universe. The Inner You The youest you of all yous. After the darkness of the Devil and the Tower, you’ve been beaten rock bottom, stripped to your core. The Star is what’s left. What survived. What Polonius means when he says, “To thy own self be true.” “Out of a galactic cloud
*Spoiler alerts :: Lion King, Wreck-It-Ralph; Little Women; Star Wars IV: A New Hope; The Book of Joan All is Lost Violent change. Unexpected total destruction. The sudden shit storm. A great fire. The flood. Revolution. The Tower is the most dreaded card in the deck. For good reason too. This is the ALL IS
Go Deep, Go Dark The Devil is temptation incarnate. This bad boy in black leather says, Nothing in moderation! Everything to excess! He’s Dionysus partying until he pukes. Lust, rage, sloth, pride, this guy oozes all of it it. Fear, pain, and panic are drawn to him. The Devil is the fallen angel, and the
Blended Binary Our first archetype to actively play with water. They are the Tarot’s shoulder angel. Think fussy Aziraphale to the dastard Crowley. (Good Omens.) Fusion. Moderation. Balance. A reminder to pause, to relax. They are nice socks, lots of plants, books, and sunshine. They are planning ahead, they are hygge. They are a book
*Spoiler alerts :: Wreck-It-Ralph; The Lion King; Beauty and the Beast; Tangled; Aladdin; Trolls. Metamorphosis Like a snake shedding its skin, Death signifies the death of a present self. A tranformative change. “Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” The Death card says that there are many lives inside this one. When