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Blessed Samhain & All Saints!
Okay, I am getting very tired of this hallowe'en costume. (Especially since me? I don't even know what I'm being yet. Aren't you supposed to be a parent before you spend all week on someone else's costume?) So I declare a break.
When I need something to occupy my brains, I put together major arcana tarot decks for fandom I'm in. So last weekend while I was working a table I did one for the 2008 elections.
... shut up.
Anyway, before it becomes not relevant at all, I share!
0 - the Fool - Joe the Plumber - represents all of us! The common man, the questioner, the complete idiot we just wish would go away.
1 - the Bateleur - Karl Rove. My design for this card has him keeping four plates spinning on sticks while drinking coffee with one hand and holding a dagger behind his back with the other. Yes.
2 - the Papesses - Hillary Clinton. Wisdom and experience, the power of the feminine, mastery of the hidden arts and intuition. But as the correspondent of both the Bateleur and the Heirophant, she also represent the establishment, the old corrupt ways of doing things.
3 - the Empress - Sarah Palin. The female equivalent of the Emperor. Often depicted as pregnant. Outdoorsy and a beauty queen but sometimes not a lot of substance.
4 - the Emperor - John McCain. A hero, wise and experienced, well-respected and secure in himself. But he's also old and scary sometimes, a warrior and a small-c conservative, sometimes egocentric and too jealous of his power.
5 - the Pope - George W. Bush. Established power. The old orthodoxy. Largely irrelevant at this point, but you have to work around him anyway.
6 - The Lovers. Prop. 8 - No on eight!!! (Love wins out over all.)
7 - The Chariot - This card is for the actual issues and platforms and unimportant things like that, but I can't think of one image that would work for it (The Bridge to Nowhere maybe?)
8 - Strength. This probably ought to be a conservative pundit, to be fair and balanced with the other virtues,but I had Keith Olbermann here. (...Colbert does't count as conservative, does he?) as per ![[journalfen.net profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eleutheria, this is now Charles Krauthammer, for commentator of strength and integrity and will.
9 - Time - Colin Powell. Really, this stands in for all the old guard endorsements (it was a toss-up between him and Clinton.) For they are truly old and knowledgeable, but are not actively taking part.
10 - the Wheel of Fortune - Nate Silver (standing in for all pollsters). Up and down and who can tell where you will be tomorrow?
11 - Justice - Rachel Maddow. Making judgements, but with eyes open and all the evidence.
12 - The Traitor - Bill Ayers. Committed, passionate, heroic in his own way in his own past. Just not necessarily the politics sort of hero, and so he gets hung up to public scorn on all corners, and you'd better not be associated with him.
13 - Death - Ashley Todd. Change is fucking *scary*.
14 - Temperance - Gwen Ifill. Well, somebody has to moderate! (at suggestion ofeleutheria.)
15 - the Devil - Terrists! (Or possibly Jeremiah Wright, but I'm too chicken to use that one. Unlike McCain.)
16 - The House of God - Wall Street. --It's got to stop falling *sometime*, right?
17 - the Star - Michelle Obama. She really is like a drink of cool water on a hot day.
18 - the Moon - Joe Biden. Because pit bulls. And also this card is what happens when you take off the filters and just say whatever happen to be at the front of your mind.
19 - the Sun - Barack Obama. Optimism, joy, hope, renewal, a new dawn, and the power of youth! Yep.
20 - the Judgement - Election Day. Is it can be here yet?
21 - The World - The Oval Office. It's over, and we won it all! Now what?
ETA: Just did a super-quick reading on the question of "Will Obama win the election?" The answer was yes, 8-5, which isn't bad, but not quite enough to get a supermajority. :D Also the final card in the layout was George Bush reversed, which amuses me. (Election day was also reversed, btw, so we may be holding our breaths on Tuesday. Though it's immediately followed by Rachel Maddow triumphant.)
When I need something to occupy my brains, I put together major arcana tarot decks for fandom I'm in. So last weekend while I was working a table I did one for the 2008 elections.
... shut up.
Anyway, before it becomes not relevant at all, I share!
0 - the Fool - Joe the Plumber - represents all of us! The common man, the questioner, the complete idiot we just wish would go away.
1 - the Bateleur - Karl Rove. My design for this card has him keeping four plates spinning on sticks while drinking coffee with one hand and holding a dagger behind his back with the other. Yes.
2 - the Papesses - Hillary Clinton. Wisdom and experience, the power of the feminine, mastery of the hidden arts and intuition. But as the correspondent of both the Bateleur and the Heirophant, she also represent the establishment, the old corrupt ways of doing things.
3 - the Empress - Sarah Palin. The female equivalent of the Emperor. Often depicted as pregnant. Outdoorsy and a beauty queen but sometimes not a lot of substance.
4 - the Emperor - John McCain. A hero, wise and experienced, well-respected and secure in himself. But he's also old and scary sometimes, a warrior and a small-c conservative, sometimes egocentric and too jealous of his power.
5 - the Pope - George W. Bush. Established power. The old orthodoxy. Largely irrelevant at this point, but you have to work around him anyway.
6 - The Lovers. Prop. 8 - No on eight!!! (Love wins out over all.)
7 - The Chariot - This card is for the actual issues and platforms and unimportant things like that, but I can't think of one image that would work for it (The Bridge to Nowhere maybe?)
8 - Strength. This probably ought to be a conservative pundit, to be fair and balanced with the other virtues,
eleutheria, this is now Charles Krauthammer, for commentator of strength and integrity and will.9 - Time - Colin Powell. Really, this stands in for all the old guard endorsements (it was a toss-up between him and Clinton.) For they are truly old and knowledgeable, but are not actively taking part.
10 - the Wheel of Fortune - Nate Silver (standing in for all pollsters). Up and down and who can tell where you will be tomorrow?
11 - Justice - Rachel Maddow. Making judgements, but with eyes open and all the evidence.
12 - The Traitor - Bill Ayers. Committed, passionate, heroic in his own way in his own past. Just not necessarily the politics sort of hero, and so he gets hung up to public scorn on all corners, and you'd better not be associated with him.
13 - Death - Ashley Todd. Change is fucking *scary*.
14 - Temperance - Gwen Ifill. Well, somebody has to moderate! (at suggestion of
eleutheria.)15 - the Devil - Terrists! (Or possibly Jeremiah Wright, but I'm too chicken to use that one. Unlike McCain.)
16 - The House of God - Wall Street. --It's got to stop falling *sometime*, right?
17 - the Star - Michelle Obama. She really is like a drink of cool water on a hot day.
18 - the Moon - Joe Biden. Because pit bulls. And also this card is what happens when you take off the filters and just say whatever happen to be at the front of your mind.
19 - the Sun - Barack Obama. Optimism, joy, hope, renewal, a new dawn, and the power of youth! Yep.
20 - the Judgement - Election Day. Is it can be here yet?
21 - The World - The Oval Office. It's over, and we won it all! Now what?
ETA: Just did a super-quick reading on the question of "Will Obama win the election?" The answer was yes, 8-5, which isn't bad, but not quite enough to get a supermajority. :D Also the final card in the layout was George Bush reversed, which amuses me. (Election day was also reversed, btw, so we may be holding our breaths on Tuesday. Though it's immediately followed by Rachel Maddow triumphant.)
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(BTW, the DaColbert Code says Obama wins, and it's never wrong.)
Ooh. Strength could be Christopher Buckley?
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My idea for the chariot is voters' desire for change. Master it, or its horses master you and pull you apart. Image would be two splitscreened images of Obama's crowds and McCain's, well, mob. (The economy also works, though I don't see anyone mastering *those* horses right now.) If I were doing this, I'd probably have the Republican Party as the Tower. Great upheaval, old orthodoxies being broken, the tower of ego (house of cards that it is) comes crashing down. If I could draw, it would be a crashing tower with elephants and GWB spilling out of the top.
I *love* the moon as Biden and McCain as Emperor. Not as sure about terrorists as the Devil-- do you see them as solely of our making? (Or is the idea that we forge the chains that bind us a newfangled approach to that card?)
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"La Maison Dieu" is the name that's used in all the old European tarots for the Tower card; the name change only happened with the 19th century occultists who were trying to wipe all the Rennaissance Christianity off the deck. I like the tower as the economy, because I was going for something that was disastrous for everyone, but the GOP this year would definitely work.
The devil for me is more about how our own weaknesses defeat us? (Or others use those weaknesses against us.) But there are other ways to do it, too.