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Speaking as an ex-teenage witch [1] and a student of Crowley's Book of Thoth, this is... underwhelming? At the very least, if you are going to re-interpret the
by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Speaking as an ex-teenage witch [1] and a student of Crowley's Book of Thoth, this is... underwhelming? At the very least, if you are going to re-interpret the Tarot for the modern era, you should make an effort to design your own deck, rather than repurpose an old deck, even keeping the cards' names.
For the uninitialised, that is how Crowley did his Tarot of Thoth, essentially an update of the old Tarot for the modern era (welll... Crowley's era!):
https://www.tarot.com/tarot/decks/crowley https://www.tarot.com/tarot/decks/crowley
For instance, the first thing I'd do would be to redesign Lust to more closely match the Internet (a red woman riding a beast of many heads):
https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/strength/crowley https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/strength/crowley
And The Tower:
https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/the-tower/crowley https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/the-tower/crowley
An obvious metaphor for the post-9/11 world, no doubt.
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[1] ex-both, to be clear.
- ljm 5y agoAfter playing Inscryption recently, I've been thinking what it would look like to have something akin to a card game (or even Tarot) but based on modern tech. Even bought a copy of Tabletop Simulator to try it out. This might be inspiration enough to give it a shot.
- tines 5y ago+1 for Inscryption, what wonderful and beautiful piece of art that game is.
- zwkrt 5y agoAgreed. I think that TFA's major arcana reinterpretations are pretty good, if not fleshed out. But Tarot when you really get into it is an entire framework for thinking about all aspects of existence, so you have to be pretty crafty to make a whole deck. A few years ago I tried, and this is as far as I got (just threw it on github now): https://github.com/zwkrt/programmer_tarot/blob/main/major_arcana.tsv https://github.com/zwkrt/programmer_tarot/blob/main/major_ar...
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoIntersting :) I'd have personally put the man in a VR helmet as the Hanged Man. Have you considered giving these descriptions to a neural net art generator? Could be fun...