Editing Tarot Cards (section)

==Individual Cards==
===The Fool===
[[Number#0|Number 0]], the Fool card was akin to the ace.  Depending on the game being played, it was often the lowest card or the highest.  Valueless or highly valued.  Powerless or powerful.<ref>“The Fool can be the lowest value or the highest value card.  The ‘zero’.”<br>
“I know that bit.”<br>
“Fitting, for someone who doesn’t really exist.”
<br>- [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/null-9-5/ excerpt] from [[Null 9.5]]
</ref> Often depicts "a boy with a dog at his heels, staring at the sky while he walked blithely off a cliff, burdened only by a bundle on a stick."<ref name=":3">The ''Fool'' in the Tarot deck frequently depicted a boy with a dog at his heels, staring at the sky while he walked blithely off a cliff, burdened only by a bundle on a stick.  The diabolist had admitted a relationship to the card.

No single detail was quite right, but much as something might appear similar if one were to unfocus their vision…

The young diabolist walked with the sparrow at his shoulder, eyes on the windows without looking ''through'' the windows, walking forward as if he were afraid to stop.  His burden here was the gas containers.

No, he was burdened not just by the gas containers, but by some notion of responsibility. - [[Interlude 7.x]]</ref>

Drawn in relation to [[Blake Thorburn]]<ref name=":2" /><ref>“I’m the Fool card, drawn with the right hand, the High Priestess drawn with the left,” I said.

[...]

“This Blake hasn’t given us any straight answers.  He’s clever, but we don’t know where he got his power, do we?  He’s the lowest value power and the highest, in Dexter’s hemisphere.  You don’t find that curious?”

“Tarot was never my thing,” Diana said. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/collateral-4-2/ excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.2]]</ref><ref name=":3" /> and the [[Forest Ribbon Trail]].<ref name=":1" />
===The High Priestess===
The High Priestess addresses the veil of awareness, about intuition. For those who know about the practice, it has a second meaning. [[Connections]].<ref>“The High Priestess addresses the veil of awareness, about intuition,” she gave me a pointed look, one eye peering at my hand, where the tattoos were more intense.<br>
“Well then,” I said.<br>
“For those of us who know about the ''practice'', it has a second meaning.  The very first thing we perceive when we enter this realm.”<br>
“Connections.”<br>
“Yes.  Make of that what you will.”
<br>- [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/null-9-5/ excerpt] from [[Null 9.5]]
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Drawn in relation to [[Blake Thorburn]]<ref name=":2" /> and [[Alpeana]].<ref name=":1" />
===The Empress ===
Drawn in relation to the [[Forest Ribbon Trail]].<ref name=":1" />

=== The Hanged Man===
The Hanged Man suggests suspension.  Patience, waiting to act to achieve a better outcome.  Being stuck.  Despite the implications of the name, the man is often depicted hanging from his ankle, not his throat.
===The Chariot===
Victory, control, overcoming obstacles.  It can mean travel, reaching a new point in life.  It suggests aggression finding a clear outlet, being honed, often in the frame of being articulate, winning arguments, and confidence. The black and white sphinxes that pull the chariot frequently refer to mysteries, and the stance of the man in the chariot suggests will being enforced, not strength.  Schemes, rhetoric, arguments, travel, it might point to some reckless path to ruin, or to glory.

Drawn in relation to the [[Forest Ribbon Trail]].<ref name=":1" />

===The Moon===
Drawn in relation to [[Alpeana]].<ref name=":1" />

===Strength===
Drawn in relation to the [[Forest Ribbon Trail]].<ref name=":1" />

===Heirophant===
[[Magic Number#5|Number 5]], represents an institution, often related to [[Incarnation|Incarnations]].<ref name=":0">[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/26/6-9-spoilers-binding-countermeasures/ Bonus Material: Binding and Countermeasures]</ref>

===Death===
[[Number#13|Number 13]]. Covers transformation and rebirth, not necessarily literal death.<ref name=":0" />

=== The Devil===
[[Number#15|Number 15]]. The shadow self, [[binding|bindings]].<ref name=":0" />

===Two of Wands===
Choice, contemplation. On the brink of a decision.
===Five of Coins===
Poverty, adversity, loss.  In practitioner circles, one’s ‘wealth’ is usually measured in terms of power, so a loss of powers.  Might be being forsworn, might be a loss of something else that’s vital.
===Ten of Swords===
A loss so complete you don’t need to worry about further losses.  There’s a kind of peace you have to make in the face of absolute failure.