It doesn’t take long for most vis­i­tors to my blog to notice the tarot theme; although it should be noted that while ‘tarot’ is com­monly mis­con­strued as syn­ony­mous to Major Arcana, the 22 card Major Arcana is merely part of the tarot, fol­lowed by the 56 card Minor Arcana that is roughly the equiv­a­lent of today’s nor­mal play­ing cards (just swap the Page & Knight for Jack). But there’s no doubt that the Major Arcana is the far more pow­er­ful suit within the tarot, and while most peo­ple rec­og­nize the Major Arcana as only a medium of for­tune telling, its use as a div­ina­tion tool is merely a lim­ited pre­sen­ta­tion of the arcana’s true potential:

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Over the past two weeks my life’s free time had been almost entirely con­sumed by pho­to­shop, as the Tarot Project is finally com­ing together. I only have three things to say on the mat­ter — I’ve never taken pho­to­shop to be such seri­ous busi­ness before; I can finally say I’m more than just a noob to pho­to­shop thanks to the picto-editing skills I’ve acquired; and I haven’t felt so proud of my goods for a long time.

Before any­one asks “why all girls?”, it’s to cut down on the com­pe­ti­tion between char­ac­ter and more con­sis­tency in art style. Not to men­tion — the deck is cuter this way.

I might think about mak­ing a bishie/GAR deck later, maybe, if I feel like throw­ing away another week+ of free time.

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