I spent a full month creating a set of 22 Major Arcana tarot cards inspired by the Coronavirus pandemic. Some were based on political figures, some on the news as it developed each day, and some on my personal experiences during this strange and uncertain time.
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#1 The Fool - Stockpiling His Toilet Paper Like A Precious Resource
2points
#2 The Devil - As Portrayed By Donald Trump Who Demonstrated More Incompetence Than Any Other Leader
2points
#3 The Magician - As Portrayed By Chris Whitty. We All Grew To Love Chris Whitty
1point
#4 The High Priestess - As Portrayed By Naga Munchetty, Keeping Us Up To Date And Shooting Down The Neigh-Sayers In Fabulous Style
1point
#5 The Empress - As Portrayed By Nichola Sturgeon. At Least She Was Better Than The Emperor
1point
#6 The Heirophant - For Once Your Friend Who Spends All Day Ranting About Conspiracies On Twitter Was Right About A Global Collapse
1point
#7 The Lovers - For Those Lucky Enough To Stay Indoors With A Partner, The Lockdown Meant Netflix, Baking, And Animal Crossing
1point
#8 Strength - While Some Of Us Sat At Home, Supermarket Workers Had To Work Tirelessly To Keep The World Running
1point
#9 The Hermit - Some Of Us Chose To Stay Inside, Play Video Games And Stop Grooming Our Faces
1point
#10 Wheel Of Fortune - Being Indoors Meant Endless Hours Of Daytime TV Gameshows
1point
#11 The Hanged Man - As Portrayed By Dominic Cummings Who Became Enemy Number One After He Drove To His Second Home With Symptoms Of The Virus
1point
#12 Death - Coronavirus Roams Mercilessly Without Discrimination
1point
#13 The Star - We Were Glued To The News As The Events Unfolded. At The Beginning Every New Development Felt Like An Important New Twist
1point
#14 The Moon - With Nothing Else To Do, We Turned To Staring At Our Phones. Endless Scrolling, Illuminating The Night
1point
#15 The Sun - The TV Stays On All Day, Sometimes Telling Us What Was Happening In The World But More Often Than Not, Displaying Endless Shows About People Building Houses Or Moving To Spain
1point
#16 Judgement - As Portrayed By Victoria Derbyshire Who Cast Her Stern Glare Over Anyone Bold Enough To Be Interviewed Live On TV
1point
#17 The Emperor - As Portrayed By Boris Johnson. We Watched, We Got Angry, We Wondered What He Was Thinking
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#18 The Chariot - Captain Tom Carried The Nations Spirits On His Back (With Michael Ball Along For The Ride)
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#19 Justice - We Quickly Came To Recognise Doctors And Nurses As The Heroes We Needed
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#20 Temperance - As Portrayed By Rishi Sunak Who Helped Us Feel Safe When He Blessed Our Screens From Time To Time To Tell Us About His Furlough Scheme
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