You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm already into the second generation of the legacy, but I am recapping it after playing for four or so hours, so I already know what's coming up in the legacy.
Somehow blogging about it makes me more interested in this legacy than the previous three I did where it just failed. Must be a sign <3
FYI, for those of you here who might remember MadassAlex, or that guy who loves talking about swords and armor and stuff like that. He's not feeling well and he doesn't think he has much longer to live.
(Yes, that's a public thread, in case you were concerned about that.)
I have left a post and may PM him with further contact information. I really hope it turns out to be something curable and short-term, even if that is somewhat unlikely.
Tarot was actually a card game in Italy and France for most of its existence, and it was only relatively recently that the Brits started using it for fortune telling.
Tarot was actually a card game in Italy and France for most of its existence, and it was only relatively recently that the Brits started using it for fortune telling.
At least as they are currently interpreted. That mostly comes from occult writers in the '30s high on Freud and Jung and wanting to apply their archetypal mystical ideas to something convenient.
Strictly speaking, playing cards in general have been used for divination for centuries, and given that the traditional tarot suits are simply more archaic versions of the usual card suits with one extra denomination, it is not implausible that they were sometimes used for fortune telling in the same way that simpler decks were. Likewise, there is plenty of blatant symbolism in the Marseille trumps, but it is mostly satirical and tied to the notion of the Dance of Death rather than anything more arcane.
Which is to say that I am sure that someone in the Renaissance very well could have used a tarot deck as an instrument of cartomancy, but how they interpreted it would probably be fairly different from the modern "Major/Minor Arcana" approach.
Tarot was actually a card game in Italy and France for most of its existence, and it was only relatively recently that the Brits started using it for fortune telling.
At least as they are currently interpreted. That mostly comes from occult writers in the '30s high on Freud and Jung and wanting to apply their archetypal mystical ideas to something convenient.
Strictly speaking, playing cards in general have been used for divination for centuries, and given that the traditional tarot suits are simply more archaic versions of the usual card suits with one extra denomination, it is not implausible that they were sometimes used for fortune telling in the same way that simpler decks were. Likewise, there is plenty of blatant symbolism in the Marseille trumps, but it is mostly satirical and tied to the notion of the Dance of Death rather than anything more arcane.
Which is to say that I am sure that someone in the Renaissance very well could have used a tarot deck as an instrument of cartomancy, but how they interpreted it would probably be fairly different from the modern "Major/Minor Arcana" approach.
i will divine the future from a pile of 100 Phyrexian Obliterators
Tarot was actually a card game in Italy and France for most of its existence, and it was only relatively recently that the Brits started using it for fortune telling.
At least as they are currently interpreted. That mostly comes from occult writers in the '30s high on Freud and Jung and wanting to apply their archetypal mystical ideas to something convenient.
Strictly speaking, playing cards in general have been used for divination for centuries, and given that the traditional tarot suits are simply more archaic versions of the usual card suits with one extra denomination, it is not implausible that they were sometimes used for fortune telling in the same way that simpler decks were. Likewise, there is plenty of blatant symbolism in the Marseille trumps, but it is mostly satirical and tied to the notion of the Dance of Death rather than anything more arcane.
Which is to say that I am sure that someone in the Renaissance very well could have used a tarot deck as an instrument of cartomancy, but how they interpreted it would probably be fairly different from the modern "Major/Minor Arcana" approach.
i will divine the future from a pile of 100 Phyrexian Obliterators
I'm pretty sure the only divination you could perform from those cards is "I am going to get punched in the face in the near future".
Tarot was actually a card game in Italy and France for most of its existence, and it was only relatively recently that the Brits started using it for fortune telling.
At least as they are currently interpreted. That mostly comes from occult writers in the '30s high on Freud and Jung and wanting to apply their archetypal mystical ideas to something convenient.
Strictly speaking, playing cards in general have been used for divination for centuries, and given that the traditional tarot suits are simply more archaic versions of the usual card suits with one extra denomination, it is not implausible that they were sometimes used for fortune telling in the same way that simpler decks were. Likewise, there is plenty of blatant symbolism in the Marseille trumps, but it is mostly satirical and tied to the notion of the Dance of Death rather than anything more arcane.
Which is to say that I am sure that someone in the Renaissance very well could have used a tarot deck as an instrument of cartomancy, but how they interpreted it would probably be fairly different from the modern "Major/Minor Arcana" approach.
i will divine the future from a pile of 100 Phyrexian Obliterators
I'm pretty sure the only divination you could perform from those cards is "I am going to get punched in the face in the near future".
i get punched in the face, but hey then they have to sac permanents so
Tarot was actually a card game in Italy and France for most of its existence, and it was only relatively recently that the Brits started using it for fortune telling.
you're thinking of Tarrock, which many would insist is something else.
Tarot was actually a card game in Italy and France for most of its existence, and it was only relatively recently that the Brits started using it for fortune telling.
you're thinking of Tarrock, which many would insist is something else.
Ehhhhhh.
Again, modern tarot-as-divination is a pretty recent invention, but the deck and the games (of which there are several and which have many names) are very old indeed..
Actually, looking into it further, Gébelin was asserting that the trumps were rooted in Egyptian hermeticism in the late 1700s, so the archetypal interpretation is actually pretty old.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Starts here, if you're interested
Somehow blogging about it makes me more interested in this legacy than the previous three I did where it just failed. Must be a sign <3
burial pisstakes are probably my favourite genre of music at this stage tbh
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
is it any less smug
* has multiple legs
* sharp teeth
* cmc 4
* notably devoid of hair
Me
* has multiple legs
* some sharp teeth
* cmc One Donut
* fluffy hair
basically im strictly better
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
manga the gathering
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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