Comments on: Celebrity Tarot - Kundalini Rice

By: Haeresis

Haeresis — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:20:36 +0000

BTW, I have lots of Tarot images (and many more in personal archives) if anyone needs them:

http://altreligion.about.com/od/tarotimages/

By: J. Puma

J. Puma — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:15:48 +0000

boy, the tower is an archetype that came to life before our very eyes.

i say do it.

though i can’t say as how i’d like to be the one to do it.

By: Occult Investigator » Celebrity Tarot Additions

Occult Investigator » Celebrity Tarot Additions — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:26:01 +0000

[...] other people have put together entries. Here’s everything we’ve got so far: Kundalini Rice (by me) Bushomet (by Cary McCory) The Pedofooliac ( [...]

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:47:30 +0000

i say we just run with it, obvious, off base, whatever. just let it all come out. if we try to edit it too much, we’ll probably cut off a lot of good material.

By: Haeresis

Haeresis — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:36:37 +0000

What to do about the too-obvious? (IE, the Tower?)

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:14:00 +0000

i sort of like the idea of having like monsters be also positive. like in the tarot each card can be rightside up or upside down: ill-dignified they call it - where it becoms its opposite. i think if we just keep plugging away, we’ll end up with a good mix either way though. i feel like first we just have to develop the sort of lexicon, and then go from there

By: J. Puma

J. Puma — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:51:57 +0000

the key is gonna be somehow finding some concepts with positive attributes. so far we’ve got all the monsters, but what about some “good” cards?

garrett just mentioned he wants to do “the lovers” with brad pitt, angelina jolie and jennifer aniston– how excellent would that be?

By: CM

CM — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:47:30 +0000

You can have both! http://www.carymccoy.com/Bushomet.htm There are two variations here, pick the one you like. The Pedafooliac is wicked. Did you know that the Surrealist did their own version of the Tarot?

By: fantastic planet » Celebrity Tarot — The Pedafooliac

fantastic planet » Celebrity Tarot — The Pedafooliac — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:19:09 +0000

[...] ebrity Tarot — The Pedafooliac

Tim’s getting some work done on the “Celebrity Tarot” idea! So far he’s got Kundalini Rice a [...]

By: J. Puma

J. Puma — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:14:57 +0000

here’s my entry, dog:

http://www.snant.com/fp/images/mjtarot.jpg

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:59:57 +0000

cool… hey wait, it looks the same.., maybe my cache is screwed up or something… wait, now its working… hold on, i liked your text in it before. why cant we have both?

By: CM

CM — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:56:06 +0000

Tim, glad you like it. Tweaked it per your request, use at will.

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:40:43 +0000

HMMM…. thats an awesome idea, we could set up some kind of news aggregator service which scans for celebrity keywords, and then does automated matches based on it.

for the moment, im not especially concerned with whether or not we follow typical tarot structure. i say we just create and see where it goes naturally. i sort of like the unstructuredness of the vertical oracle deck

http://www.verticalpool.com/oracle.html

but that doesnt mean we need to follow it. anybody with links to other cool decks ought to go ahead and post them here

By: J. Puma

J. Puma — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:22:58 +0000

er, posted too quickly. i was gonna say, if you have the 22/56 structure, you could technically have celebrities be the major arcana and then have the minor arcana be divvied along different pop culture lines. discs could be the corporations, since they traditionally represent ‘money,’ etc. swords (intellect) could be pop psychology. cups (emotion/creativity) could be entertainment/movies, etc. wands (spirituality) could be cults and other rip-off crazies.

this’d also be cool to do as a kind of ’subscription’ tarot service, where the cards themselves could change based on the headlines of the day.

By: J. Puma

J. Puma — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:19:03 +0000

so here’s a question– would it follow typical tarot card structure w/22 major arcana and 56 minor arcana and whatnot?

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:06:23 +0000

cary, thats awesome. can you write “bushomet” on it somewhere? id like to stick to that theme

By: human?

human? — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:42:00 +0000

vampire hunter d….. i think i mentioned it before in a comment, but please if you havent already, watch the anime series “Serial Experiments Lain”

the occult investigator needs to watch that flick…

one
human?

By: CM

CM — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:41:00 +0000

This is a great idea. I decided to do one myself, â€œBushometâ€ - you can get it here http://www.carymccoy.com/image/Bushomet.jpg Itâ€™s obviously a play on Bush/Baphomet. The phrase â€œFirst in the hearts of his countrymen.â€ is at the base of a marble statue of George Washington at the Smithsonian that depicts George in a position curiously similar to the classic depiction of Baphomet seen here, bare chest and all. The astrological key floats above his head; Son at the center, apostles, oops, I meant zodiacs, broken up into groups of two, three, and four.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:31:13 +0000

funnily enough, kundalini energy goes up the spine…

By: albion

albion — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:20:04 +0000

you could give her a forked (reptilian) tongue…
condi the lizard queen…lays eggs in your spine…

By: N.M

N.M — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:16:35 +0000

Awesome stuff… I really dig the idea being fluent in tarot.

Which brings me to a few thoughts.

Imagine if the poker deck of Iraq leadership was not based on the simple deck of cards but the Tarot? Having Marines in their tents do readings of their future missions in Turkurk over a few beers, shots of heroin and a few laughs?

They said the Nazi’s were bold with their use of runes.

Well if only the Marines used my suggestion above, maybe some of the troops would have picked up on the non existant WMD a little earlier.