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Aug. 31st, 2006 03:52 pm( Everybody's doing it. )
Apparently there's a football game this evening. Good. The dorms will be empty and quiet. I can finish a lot of my work. I'm making a point to do as little as possible this weekend.
And apparently my laptop has finally arrived. This pleases me greatly. I'll be picking that up this weekend when I go home. Hopefully I can find the stuff I need to move my files over with minimum hassle.
Oh, Manzanita Hall’s cafeteria > Memorial Union’s cafeteria in terms of selection, hands down, but Manzanita doesn't have the good Asian food I've been living off of.
Upon closer analysis of my X tarot cards, the Major Arcana pictures match their respective meanings quite nicely, but half of the Minor Arcana pictures even I have to stretch to make fit the meanings, especially when it's something like a lively, happy Yuzuriha on a card predicting dire unhappiness and emotional upheaval. I can stretch it, but it's still quite a stretch. I swear half of the pictures were just smacked on without regard to the cards' meanings. And the Suite of Swords--it's cool that all of the pictures have swords in them, but some of the pictures just don't correspond with the meanings. I know CLAMP only drew specifically tarot pictures for the Major Arcana, but hell, I could have done a better job selecting random pictures for the Minor Arcana. I like how Subaru and Seishirou are featured on a lot of the most lonely, desperate cards--a few even fit quite perfectly--but it's still not a complete job. There are two Court Card instances (I don't remember which cards specifically, and I don't have my deck with me) where Nataku was featured and Seishirou would have fit the description more perfectly; it makes me meditate on the similarities between the characters. Generally the common bonds I spotted through the tarot descriptions were transience of outward identity, lack of introspection, and ruthlessness.
And, yes, I know many the decks only have whatever-number of whatever-suite on whatever pip card, without the symbolism of the Rider-Waite deck or the Crowley Thoth deck, but I still like to meditate on improvements for the X deck. X has such a highly symbolic cast and story; it's sure as hell possible to put that to use in making a deck.
Apparently there's a football game this evening. Good. The dorms will be empty and quiet. I can finish a lot of my work. I'm making a point to do as little as possible this weekend.
And apparently my laptop has finally arrived. This pleases me greatly. I'll be picking that up this weekend when I go home. Hopefully I can find the stuff I need to move my files over with minimum hassle.
Oh, Manzanita Hall’s cafeteria > Memorial Union’s cafeteria in terms of selection, hands down, but Manzanita doesn't have the good Asian food I've been living off of.
Upon closer analysis of my X tarot cards, the Major Arcana pictures match their respective meanings quite nicely, but half of the Minor Arcana pictures even I have to stretch to make fit the meanings, especially when it's something like a lively, happy Yuzuriha on a card predicting dire unhappiness and emotional upheaval. I can stretch it, but it's still quite a stretch. I swear half of the pictures were just smacked on without regard to the cards' meanings. And the Suite of Swords--it's cool that all of the pictures have swords in them, but some of the pictures just don't correspond with the meanings. I know CLAMP only drew specifically tarot pictures for the Major Arcana, but hell, I could have done a better job selecting random pictures for the Minor Arcana. I like how Subaru and Seishirou are featured on a lot of the most lonely, desperate cards--a few even fit quite perfectly--but it's still not a complete job. There are two Court Card instances (I don't remember which cards specifically, and I don't have my deck with me) where Nataku was featured and Seishirou would have fit the description more perfectly; it makes me meditate on the similarities between the characters. Generally the common bonds I spotted through the tarot descriptions were transience of outward identity, lack of introspection, and ruthlessness.
And, yes, I know many the decks only have whatever-number of whatever-suite on whatever pip card, without the symbolism of the Rider-Waite deck or the Crowley Thoth deck, but I still like to meditate on improvements for the X deck. X has such a highly symbolic cast and story; it's sure as hell possible to put that to use in making a deck.
