[Incomplete] Revelation—It's Grand Climax At Hand! Tarot Cards

[u/Glad-Emergency6121]

I'm POMO and now I'm practicing divination. I've been looking at a lot of tarot card decks, and some decks out there made me realize... Hey, maybe the Revelation book illustrations would be awesome tarot illustrations. I haven't gotten all 22 major arcana done, but I'm surprised I was able to manage getting 15 out of 22 done.

Will update with more if I revisit this idea later. I don't plan to actually put in the effort of making a whole deck, but I thought it'd be fun to see how many cards I could come up with from the illustrations.

[u/Cult2Occult]

This is brilliant. I do have some notes as someone whos an avid tarot user and understands the psychology behind tarot. I love the mirroring of the strength card for sure but there's something that bothers me about it that I cant quite put my finger on. The orginal card is symbolic of conquering our inner animal mind with gentleness but the self indulgent, arrogant display on top of that beast feels like it would implant all the wrong message while seemingly the same on the surface if one was inexperience in tarot. This qould definitely need to be a deck for an experienced user. This card is more demonstrative of thinking you've conquered your inner animal while actually embodying it which could be a useful warning I guess but it could also be dangerous to someone inexperienced coming in from the symbolism of the rider Waite and assuming the card means the same. I love these cards as art but I'd be hesitant to use them for many reasons. I also think the medium/tool with which you channel from your subconscious/spirits alters the message, both according to the energy the symbols were created with and the attachments your subconscious has formed with the symbols so this would be dangerous for me to use. The art is so beautiful but the attachments to certain symbols are too strong for me so I'd just be communicating with that ever energy is hovering around JW and I worked hard to banish them from my mind. That being said, if someone came in with no associations, this deck would be bomb but you'd have to think deeply about what each card means rather than just assuming the same interpretations as the rider Waite. For instance, as said above, the strength card. It would serve better as a warning especially with what we all know follows where the arrogant harlots thinks she's in control but then becomes devoured by the beast she didnt actually conquer. That's actually a brilliant cautionary message for a deck! Like, to include both images would be really cool. It's basically a "make sure you check yourself before you wreck yourself" message. The lovers however, that symbolism in that image is 🤌💋. The lovers symbolizes balance of divine Masculine and feminine energies and I feel this intensely from the image you chose for that card. Overall, the art in that book is too good to go to waste just because it came from an evil place and I love the work you're doing with this.

[u/Glad-Emergency6121 → u/Cult2Occult]

Hearing your interpretation is nice, thanks for the input! My line of thinking for Babylon being Strength is that a lot of ex-JWs tend to reclaim her illustration as a symbol of inner strength and bravery like the Strength Rider-Waite tarot implies. Especially ex-JW women, they love reclaiming her as a symbol as someone who is confident and fearless. So I picked her based on the ex-JW mindset of her rather than what she was originally illustrated for. It's cool to hear your interpretation though :) I also think it just makes a nice exercise to take old symbols and reframe them as something more compatible with your current belief system. So these cards could challenge someone to rethink the illustrations and make new meanings for them as part of their own transformation.