PENEMUEL'S NEST -- SMALLVILLE TAROT
Smallville Tarot Major Arcana Cards
Smallville Tarot Major Arcana Cards
Back when I was a newbie in Photoshop, I started a Farscape Tarot Card set. I may yet go back & re-do some of them -- not sure, since they seem to be holding up fairly well against my new photoshop stuff... Maybe just some colour adjusting and some minor filter work.
Anyway, now I've decided to do a Smallville one, too. After all, I am obsessed...
I'll be updating this page as cards are finished.
--Penemuel
| CARD | MEANING | REVERSED MEANING | CHARACTER/SITUATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 -- The Fool | Beginning; initiation; beginning an adventure without much planning; stepping off into the unknown | Fear of the unknown; unwillingness to try new things | Clark Kent at the beginning of the series | I --The Magician | The power and potential inside a person; willpower; skill; magic | Use of power for negative purposes; lack of willpower | Lex -- the vision Lex from Hourglass |
| II -- The High Priestess | Female energy; intuition; receptive energy; awareness of the mysteries of the universe | Lack of common sense; trivializing mysteries; pettiness | Lillian Luthor -- I've taken liberties on this one and used Nicole Kidman. If they ever show Lillian in the show, I'll change the card to use whoever they cast. There isn't really another female character on the show who's archetypal enough to fit this card. |
| III -- The Empress | Maternal nurturing; creative process; fertility; caring | Infertility; difficult labour; technological interference in natural process; starving for love | Martha Kent |
| IV -- The Emperor | A patriarch; a great leader; mature decisions; pursuing and attaining goals; sacrifice for the greater good | Indecision; bad decisions; aggressiveness & violence; corrupt leadership; abuse of power | Lionel Luthor |
| V -- The Hierophant | A spiritual leader or teacher; connection with the sacred; ritual; ceremony; blessing | Dogma; religious tyranny; false prophecy; use of belief as excuse for bad deeds | Jonathan Kent |
| VI -- The Lovers | Choice; sex; balancing male & female energies; choices & responsibilities having to do with love | Failure to make a choice; bad choices; lack of balance; not taking responsibilities in matters of love; exploiter or victim in a relationship | Lana & Whitney |
| VII -- The Chariot | Ability to marshal seemingly opposing forces and direct them; channeling conflict and competition into success; self-confidence | Defeat that should have been victory; insufficient planning or lack of trust causes defeat; lack of confidence; disorganization | Clark's Ship |
| VIII -- Justice | Judgment; honesty; fairness; balance; impartiality; rightness | Bias; unfairness; imbalance; corruption; miscarriage of justice | Sam Phelan |
| IX -- The Hermit | Withdrawal from the world in order to learn in solitude; Teacher; wise elder | Held in the past; living in the past; ignoring the lessons of the past | Kyle Tippet |
| X -- The Wheel of Fortune | Random fate; luck; times of change with positive or negative outcomes; chaos; cycles | Bad luck; stagnation; fighting change | The main Cave painting |
| XI -- Strength | Physical and mental strength; ability to overcome adversity; harmony or understanding with nature; health | Weakness; abuse of power or the environment; out of tune with nature or oneself | Chloe Sullivan |
| XII -- The Hanged Man | Voluntary sacrifice -- for the greater good or for knowledge; a surrender to the inevitable | Stagnation; attempts to force change or events; useless sacrifice; selfishness | Whitney |
| XIII -- Death | Change; an ending in order to have new beginning; renewal | Stagnation; inability to embrace the future; fear of change; lack of renewal | The 1989 Strike & Meteor Rocks in general |
| XIV -- Temperance | Temperance; moderation; patience | Lack of moderation; short term planning with no concern of the outcome; impatience | Dr. Walden |
| XV -- The Devil | Karmic ties; unpaid debts; loss of self to another's will; slavery; violence; self-destructive tendencies | Throwing off shackles; freeing oneself; overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds; escaping the influence of one who is using you | Lionel Luthor |
| XVI -- The Tower | Violent, unexpected change; breaking down old beliefs; sudden event that destroys one's foundations or basic beliefs; events one has no control over | Continued oppression; following outmoded ways; blindness to change; once the darkness has settled and the dust lifted, do not make the same mistakes; warning | The Tornadoes & their destruction |
| XVII -- The Star | Trust in oneself & the universe; giving of oneself without fear of loss; refreshing quiet; hope; perseverance | Loss of hope; loss of faith; distrust; betrayal | Chloe Sullivan |
| XVIII -- The Moon | Realm of dreams and visions; cycles; distinguishing between dreams and reality; seeing through illusions | Confusion; uncertainty; lies; deceit; secrecy; false faces | Lana Lang |
| XIX -- The Sun | Success at the end of a quest; basking in the warmth and light of accomplishment; joy; happiness; sharing good fortune; success; freedom; growth; splendor | The above but to a lesser degree -- success bought at a higher price; hard fought victory | Pete Ross |
| XX -- Judgment | Self-judgment; forgiveness of the self; time to account for how one has used opportunities; reaping what one has sown | Punishment; avoiding self-knowledge; inability to love or forgive oneself or others | Lex Luthor |
| XXI -- The World | Completion of the cycle; end of the journey; completion of a major task; celebration; global issues; perfection; recognition; achievement; what the Fool has gained at the end of his journey | Lack of global perspective; narrow-mindedness; tunnel-vision; self-serving interests; failure to complete a task; lack of vision; the Fool has become lost during the journey | Smallville |
