The Hanged Man

[jack_babalon]

One of my favorite tarot decks (whether it be for purposes of divination, revelation or for use as razor sharp throwing cards) would have to be the infamously rare Pulp Tarot of Simon Wolfhollow. Many a night I have sought the deck's arcane council on problems regarding love, work, family and what to make for dinner. This might go some ways towards explaining such previously inexplicable actions such as leaving work early by taking my supervisor hostage, smashing through the plate glass window of the DMV when I went to register to vote or my insistance on being tied up on a first date while muttering stern promises to never reveal the D-Day codes.

I discovered the deck at a yard sale in Mechanicsville twelve years ago. Though I had simply stopped to ask for directions towards Cabbagetown, I somehow ended up leaving with the Pulp Tarot, a vintage Richard Nixon Bobblehead complete with Shriner Fez, an onyx picture frame that for some reason devours any photo placed within its borders and a stack of old newspapers that, judging by the numerous articles regarding President Dewey, I suspect either come from a parallel universe or are some sort of elaborate joke.

Never did get those directions though.

In time I traded the Tricky Dick Bobblehead for an old 7 Seconds EP, e-bayed the onyx picture frame to a disgruntled photographer and had the newspaper stack robbed from me at gun point by a curious dwarf who spoke with an even curiouser accent. The deck however has remained in my possession, despite a series of lucrative offers and life threatening ultimatums.

The origins of this unique deck have firmly remained outside my efforts to discover them, so it should come as no surprise that I've ceased making even the most rudimentary of inquiries as to who Simon Wolfhollow was or why he would have had commisoned a two-fisted tarot deck in the first place. But then again I have always believed you should never look a gift horse in the mouth... even if it's choking to death on a gold ring.

Anyway, today's random draw is, as you can plainly see (and if not how the hell are you even reading this) is the Hanged Man. This can only mean one thing of course... that I need to swing off a noose in my Sunday best and start kicking much ass in the shadow of laughing Anubis.

Good advice, that. I'll get right on it.

Comments

[weishaupt.livejournal.com]

''being tied up on a first date while muttering stern promises to never reveal the D-Day codes.''???

Nobody ever informed me this was UNUSUAL dating behaviour.

[ammutbite.livejournal.com]

Like this one x100.
I am sure that just li9ke the Golden Dawn deck, the pulp Deck incorporates both the positive and negative meanings of the card...

The whole notion of updated divinaion decks is an obsession of mine & one of the best invented cards I've ever heard of is "The Missing Polaroids", which indicates that an event from the past is going to haunt you

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

The Pulp Deck most likely does incorporate both meanings, but alas my skills might not be honed enough to decipher them fully yet.

My favorite invented cards actually come from Alan Moore's Promethea. There was an issue where we see the Beggar & the Fountain, which turn out to be two cards/paths that were destroyed after the Fall and whose ruins are the (anti)sephira of Daath (if I'm not mistaken).