I backed this on Kickstarter after a friend pitched it online. She is a very serious practicing witch, and so even though the idea of a woodland animals Tarot sounds twee, I took a look. And was captured by the beautiful images, as I imagine she was.
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So smillaraaq and I were talking a little about Saiyuki and the tarot, and it's kind of fun matching up characters and events to cards. I'm thinking in terms of the classic Rider-Waite deck, which has events for the pip cards in the four suits.
For our four boys, at the simplest level, I'd go with the Knights of the four suits. The definitions re personality traits for these tend to be open enough that you can find things that match each of the guys, and they also work pretty well with something that kispexi2 put forth, which is that you can match Sanzo/Hakkai/Gojyo/Goku up with Spirit/Mind/Heart/Body. That matches well with the four Western elements used in the tarot: Fire/Air/Water/Earth, which are represented by Wands/Swords/Cups/Pentacles.
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