new arcana

based on this post by camelia elias i got inspired by something camelia elias and friends did once. they paired different triumphs (the entirety of them, twice) to arrive at new cards (different people, concepts, titles), and made a majors only deck based on that. i don't know if i want to actually make a deck like that, but i like the intellectual exercise, i'd like to try it out. at first i thought i want to do the whole exercise twice - once in a very structured way (pairing cards intentionally, based on their sequence), and once completely randomized. but even just going through the first set is proving difficult. even if i'm not going to make the cards, they have to be... make-able. the concept/person needs to be able to be illustrated/imagined. devil + wheel cannot equal "samsara", at least not for me because i have no idea how i'd illustrate that. so far i'm stuck enough that i'm considering scrapping the pairs that don't work and pulling new pairs from that pool. feels like a…