Comments on: Celebrity Tarot - The Millennium

By: @tmbchr » Y2K & The Narrative Use of Impending Disaster

@tmbchr » Y2K & The Narrative Use of Impending Disaster — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:33:13 +0000

[...] see: the Millenium card at my old Pop Culture Tarot site. And one more thing: I’m re-posting a more complete version [...]

By: 2012 Is Right Now! - Pop Occulture

2012 Is Right Now! - Pop Occulture — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:55:00 +0000

[...] Fuck it, why do we have to wait five years for another arbitrary Y2K-type non-event if we can just as arbitraririly(?) move that date up five years and however many days so that 2012 becomes right now and also tomorrow and the day after that. Right? Isn’t that what we are really going for here: tricking ourselves with language to make our lives better for a little while? Why wait for vague prophecies to come true when you could have that experience of life all the time right now? It’s called Free Will folks. It’s not a mystery how the world works: you get what you ask for and you are how you act. It’s so fucking simple. Ask seek knock. Commands to control the universe. Not an unprovable belief system. Simple science, the bedrock of Truth. If you’re against science, then you’re against the Truth, is what I think. But there is Science and Knowledge, and then there is the application of and proper use of. [...]

By: Occult Investigator » Y2K Bug as Psychopomp

Occult Investigator » Y2K Bug as Psychopomp — Sun, 29 May 2005 06:04:52 +0000

[...] found way that it affected us was as a giant let-down. I talked about this elsewhere in my Pop Tarot Millenium card, but it seems like it deserves a little ela [...]

By: Occult Investigator » Pop Tarot - The Alarmist

Occult Investigator » Pop Tarot - The Alarmist — Mon, 09 May 2005 06:47:13 +0000

[...] 0;rude awakenings.” This card is also referenced by the alarm clock in the center of the Millennium card. And like in the case of the Millennium, the exc [...]

By: Arizona

Arizona — Wed, 04 May 2005 03:55:36 +0000

Odin is usually hanging from a tree upside-down, like the Tarot Fool.

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Tue, 03 May 2005 23:05:07 +0000

yeah i think that aspect of purging is really important to whatever the esoteric purpose is in creating these cards. like once youve been able to give whatever it is a form ritually through depicting it, you’re somehow releasing it…

By: Haeresis

Haeresis — Tue, 03 May 2005 22:35:01 +0000

That’s actually been in my head for a while…feels good to purge it.

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Tue, 03 May 2005 21:41:59 +0000

they don’t have to be celebrities… im probably going to just start calling it “pop culture tarot” instead… ill be putting together a revised index page for them today. thats a great reference to the abu ghraib photos, i wanted to include them somehow too..

By: Haeresis

Haeresis — Tue, 03 May 2005 21:29:02 +0000

My entry:

http://altreligion.about.com/library/graphics/archonsam.jpg

(I guess “Uncle Sam” isn’t really a celebrity, but it occured too late to do anything different)

By: Haeresis

Haeresis — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:33:48 +0000

I think that may represent Odin, but the effect is the same.

By: J. Puma

J. Puma — Tue, 03 May 2005 16:38:16 +0000

awesome stuff! i love the ‘femiknight,’ too, bitscape!

looks like the link is broken to the post, AZ.

yeah, it’s tempting to do 9-11 as the tower, but that myth is almost too big!

By: Arizona

Arizona — Tue, 03 May 2005 10:00:45 +0000

The classic Tarot “Tower” card is, of course, a very appropriate illustration of what happened on sep11 and it was a weird coincidence that LOTR - Two Towers came out at that time.

Quite by accident, I came across this painting from “The Book of the Wise and Foolish” by artist Aurora Pope:
http://aurorastudios.wetcanvas.com/hangedman.jpg
With a Christ figure in the foreground and two towers in the background, it just seemed related.

By: Bitscape

Bitscape — Tue, 03 May 2005 08:10:14 +0000

Hey man, good stuff!

And now, a FemiKnight card…

http://bitscape.org/bluemoon.pl?code=P2TFC0QKYU6RIKCPWRY1

By: Occult Investigator » Celebrity Tarot Additions

Occult Investigator » Celebrity Tarot Additions — Tue, 03 May 2005 04:28:11 +0000

[...] sion 2 (by Drew) The Oprhess (by Jeremy) Divine Chaos (by me) The Antipope (by Jeremy) The Millenium (by me) For anybody else who wants to get in on cre [...]