Wondrous Apparitions, Provided by Magicians.

Now I want to make cards with the relevant lyrics on them from the songs on my tarot playlist. Thus, totally defeating the purpose, but hey. I'm liking it.

Part 4... All I have left are the Wands and the Court Cards. I might actually finish some time this year. :)

PENTACLES:
Ace - "One Sweet World" - Dave Matthews Band
2 - "Easy Wind" - The Grateful Dead
3 - "Opportunities" - Pet Shop Boys
4 - "Money" - Pink Floyd
5 - "On the Outside" - Sheryl Crow
6 - "Master And Slave" - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
7 - "Stand" - REM
8 - "Vincent" - Don McLean (but I prefer the NOFX cover)
9 - "This Charming Man" - The Smiths
10 - "Everything in its Right Place" - Radiohead

Stil working on this... Did you forget? I didn't. :) I feel pretty good about most of these -- granted, my High Priestess song is about a dude, but hey. I'm inclined to be like that.

( The Major Arcana )

OK, I'm not known for finishing what I start, but I try to get at least halfway through before becoming distracted with something else shiny.

There are actually a couple of songs on this part of the list that I don't care for. See if you can spot them: the rule is, "I am sick of the Eagles." And yet, couldn't come up with anything that captured my sense of it any better. Oh well.
( The Cups )

Of course, the suit of Swords is the first one I have finished. Raise your hand if you're surprised. There aren't any court cards in this list, as it sort of makes sense to me to post them all together. They'll happen later. Once I sort out Cups and Pentacles.

Also, I'm not totally set on the three or the five, here. I mean, one would think that, as goth as my musical tastes run, I could come up with a better song for heart-ripping betrayal, and for telling other people to fuck off so you can think about yourself. And yet! There it is.

( The Swords List )

I've been working on my tarot playlist, and I'm about half done with it. Sadly, the half that is done is not a user-friendly chunk, like "all the pentacles" or "all the court cards". Maybe soon I'll get to something postable.

However! Unexpected side effect: I can now call up the images and an interpretation of the card based only on the name (and the song I chose, if applicable). I have tried to learn to do this before, without success. Another piece of evidence to suggest that the best way for me to learn something is to give it a tune (or even a lot of thought about giving it a tune). Nice!

Today, my how-to of the day (courtesy of Google) is How to use your iPod as a tarot deck. I haven't got an iPod, of course, but the concept is entertaining enough to me that I want to play with it.

The core of the exercise is this: Assign a song to each card in a 78-card tarot deck (the original poster is using a Rider-Waite style, but one imagines that the Thoth and its descendents would work just as well). The original poster's playlist is here.

I'll probably drop my complete list in a post in a few days. For now, there are some possibilities floating about in my brain. If you were to compile such a list, what might be on it?

EDIT: Also, [attention whore] Love me! [/whore]