#the arcana minor characters

[swimmingcreatortyrant]

Well, let's start 🃏🙌🃏

[asneshiekhvoy]

A tarot card with Andalusite, 10 of swords. The swords belongs to her fallen friends.

[samabyart]

Ace of Swords

This weeks card represents breakthroughs, concentration, and intensity.

[neutrallyobsessed]

Clone High as Tarot Cards

Final Day: The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures as The World (+back design :3)

"And that's all of them, thank you for sticking by~!"

[eralacrimae]

[OC] Six of Swords

Transformation. Transfiguration. Something divine.

I painted this based on Orazio Gentileschi's Saint Francis and the Angel made between 1612 and 1613, a piece that I love dearly.

I've been having this feeling that I'm just reiterating Astolfo and Ludovic in a slightly different form but I'm so lost in this dynamic with the silent looming knight and my dearest intersex character drowning in religious guilt that I just need to keep it going.

And once I'm done with current work I'm going to spend some time on medieval armours and tweak what I have so far.

[sonic-adventure-3]

damn i love tarot as a storytelling and framing device. i’m not much one for divination nor fate, so that aspect is kinda lost on me, however using tarot cards to frame and understand the past and stories and the general imagery of it is soooooo epic and dope to me.

anyway associating characters and stories with tarot cards is so fun i highly recommend it. i think it’s a very fun exercise.

anyway anyway sonic games as tarot:

sonic 1: the fool

satbk: death

06: justice

shadow: judgement

forces: the tower

battle: the hanged man

adventure: the star

unleashed: temperance

cd: wheel of fortune

frontiers: the sun

sonic riders: the magician

sa2: the moon

okay thats everything i could think of and i’m not certain about some of my choices but this is really hard so many stories fit multiple cards. i mean, you could genuinely apply every card to almost every game if you angle things right. i tried to assign them based on the theme/plot/end of each game, like a general sense of what the game is about, and apply just one major arcana per game with no duplicates, but idk how well i succeeded. the ones i feel strongest about are definitely satbk as death, 06 as justice, and shth as judgement; i think those fit really well.

[ezrakara]

Hello again. These are all sneak peeks from my own tarot deck that I'm digitally painting for myself :-) Still I have a long way to go.

[haunterelle]

Debating on doing a traditional painting livestream tomorrow (have a contest entry that's due at the end of the month). We'll see, though!

In the meantime, here's some scrapped underpaintings from my previous (and upcoming) OC tarot cards. Minus the second one, since that's the composition I ended up going with! I really like how these came out.

The next card I plan on posting is Strength, which isn't depicted here. I was originally going to do the Emperor next, but I'm still undecided on the composition.

[daz4i]

wait i forgot i made a list of what major arcana fits every bsd character and wrote a whole explanation for my choices for atsushi. might as well post it bc i don’t think i’d write for the others any time soon

The Fool, The Moon

ok i’m ngl the fool is mostly bc i felt obligated to bc it’s his card in all the official tarot art, and he’s the protag. i will say he does start a new journey so there’s that, but at the same time i don’t think he’s a blank slate enough to be a good ol fashioned fool, he’s got too much baggage. 

but this is where the moon comes in! honestly, imo it’s perfect for him. 

on the surface level: anxiety - he’s got plenty - illusions - my boy and his literal hallucinations - and intuition, which is how he releases the tiger at first before even realizing he’s under the effect of fukuzawa’s ability. reversed, it is about the release of fear, which i’d argue is in part what his arc is about, as well as repressed emotions which he has to learn to let out. 

going deeper: the moon is essentially about projecting your fear onto your present and future, letting it get the better of you, something we see happens to atsushi often. it can be about being controlled by your fear, many times based on the past, which i doubt i need to explain here considering how obvious atsushi’s ptsd is. the moon can be a sign of distrust in yourself and beating yourself up, things which atsushi certainly doesn’t lack. 

also in a literal sense his ability is literally called beast beneath the moonlight lmao 

……i guess if i have to give the fool more credit in this context i’d say it’s about recklessness and innocence as well. i don’t think atsushi in innocent, but compared to the rest of the cast (except maybe kenji) he’s certainly the most likely to fall for tricks and see the world as filled with more light than it actually is, possibly due to simply being younger and lacking the life experience to know better, which i’ll admit is fool-like. his recklessness is more about his lack of thinking during battles, which becomes more obvious especially while he’s fighting alongside or against akutagawa (👀). 

[avid-adoxography]

Inspired by @echoes-lighthouse's post, I've done my own

✨🃏 Selfships & Tarots Match-Ups! 🃏✨

How to read: first card for ship dynamic, second one for my F/O and last one for my S/I.

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。..・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。..・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

Thick as Thieves (Macchia Nera x Silvia Garzetta)

Walk on Vanity Ruins (Lord of Lies x Griselda Thaar / Murias)

Calcium Supplement (Lord Bhaltair Kardok x [undone])

Sturm und Drang (Sturm x Silvia Baronio)

Delichiously Bad (King Cornelius x [redacted])

A Dire Heterophony (Oliver Veenstra x [undone])

Exquisite Corpses (Greg Madsen x [undefined])

Till the Batter End (Attila Buckethead x Morvran of Tirannwyn)

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。..・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。..・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

Credits: Tarot deck by TarotCardsDarkForest on Etsy

[xceanlynx]

I'm thinking of doing another tarot gifset but it is a bit hard to match only one card for the characters 😭

[dinomites]

me: oh hey my genshi/n themed tarot cards from the online store my mom wanted to look at came in- me: why are they all minor arcana where's the maj- WDYM I THEY'RE SOLD SEPARATELY-

[samabyart]

Ten of Wands

Here is the third in the minor arcana series! This week I pulled the ten of wands.

This card represents burden, responsibility, and taking on more than you can handle.

[brokenhardies]

with foolsuke im now missing fortune, star and devil! ive decided who im making the tower

[moodyseal]

Meg and Apollo tarot card designs for @ferodactyl <3 I'm not an expert when it comes to tarot cards (this was actually the first time I looked into the full deck) but hopefully I got it right!

The explanation of the cards' symbolism is under the cut because it's a bit lengthy oof

Meg's card is the Knight of Swords, one of the minor Arcana, I think? Upright, the Knight of Swords refers to a person who is action-oriented, determined and unstoppable in what they set their mind to; however, when it's reversed the card also indicates a person who might be blind to the consequences of their actions and charges into things without having fully considered their options. Meg's choices throughout TOA point to her being exactly this sort of person: while her determination and lack of hesitation were exactly what was needed to balance out Apollo's occasional self-doubt, her impulsiveness was also what got them both into trouble multiple times. The fact that, eventually, she learned how to rely on others and slow down when needed goes hand in hand with the warning this card poses.

Apollo's card is instead one of the Major Arcana, and it's Death. The Death card is a symbol of change: it indicates a time of transition and new beginnings that are sometimes unexpected and difficult, but still necessary. Reversed, the card indicates that the person is resisting that change, and unwilling to let go of the past, which makes the journey all the more painful as the transformation that they're going through is inevitable and cannot be reversed. One of the major points in Apollo's character arc, and the biggest change he goes through, is the transition from the god he used to be to the one he would be in the future. It's a slow change, and one he didn't fully lean into at first—after all, if he chose to give up all that he had been up until then, what would he have left? However, ironically enough, death is exactly what set things in motion, and let him finally shed away his past beliefs to embrace his new sense of self.

[sidereon-spaceace]

Y'know I probably have enough ocs to make tarot-style drawings