Science Tarot
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kestrellPosted to The Art of Darkness blog
The Science Tarot
http://www.sciencetarot.com/
examples of some of the cards
http://www.sciencetarot.com/cards.html
I am including a snippet from the AOD post below because the blogger gives some descriptions of the suits and some specific cards and I must say, if one is interested in writing a technomancy story, this deck would provide a lot of inspiration for the world-building.
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...I have to give mad props to the clever artwork. The suit of Cups is represented by beakers, Swords are scalpels, Pentacles are magnifying glasses, and Wands are bunsen burners. The major arcana are all famous scientists, and the deck attempts to match their work with the various cards’ “meanings” (the nurturing Empress, for instance, is represented by Mendel and his peas). The minor arcana illuminate various scientific ideas, and again an effort has been made to match them appropriately: The ambitious Seven of Swords is represented by the expansion of a red giant star, and the partner-oriented Three of Cups is illustrated by an orchid and its symbiotic fungus.
In particular, the fact that the Wheel of Fortune is represented by Schrödinger’s Cat is utter genius.
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The Science Tarot
http://www.sciencetarot.com/
examples of some of the cards
http://www.sciencetarot.com/cards.html
I am including a snippet from the AOD post below because the blogger gives some descriptions of the suits and some specific cards and I must say, if one is interested in writing a technomancy story, this deck would provide a lot of inspiration for the world-building.
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...I have to give mad props to the clever artwork. The suit of Cups is represented by beakers, Swords are scalpels, Pentacles are magnifying glasses, and Wands are bunsen burners. The major arcana are all famous scientists, and the deck attempts to match their work with the various cards’ “meanings” (the nurturing Empress, for instance, is represented by Mendel and his peas). The minor arcana illuminate various scientific ideas, and again an effort has been made to match them appropriately: The ambitious Seven of Swords is represented by the expansion of a red giant star, and the partner-oriented Three of Cups is illustrated by an orchid and its symbiotic fungus.
In particular, the fact that the Wheel of Fortune is represented by Schrödinger’s Cat is utter genius.
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