The Tarot

[anarfea]

 So, I've been brushing up on my tarot study since I applied to be on the Tarot panel at 221b con. Who knows if I'll be accepted, but it certainly won't hurt me to study the tarot a bit more in depth for a couple of months. Not sure if anyone would be interested in me posting about tarot or what kind of posts you would want to see. But anyway, I did an exercise a couple years ago where I assigned Sherlock characters and concepts to all the tarot cards, and I thought it might be cool to review it. I've also been studying the Thoth tarot specifically, and some of those cards are different than in more traditional decks, and also we have new characters since I've done this since I last did it pre S4, so I thought I'd re-vamp my headcanons for those.

0 The Fool: John Watson
I The Magus: Sherlock Holmes
II The Priestess: Molly Hooper
III The Empress: Mrs Hudson
IV The Emperor: Greg Lestrade
V The Hierophant: Mycroft Holmes
VI The Lovers: Sherlock and Molly
VII The Chariot: The Mind Palace
VIII Adjustment: Sally Donovan
IX The Hermit: Wiggins
X The Wheel of Fortune: London
XI Lust: Irene Adler
XII The Hanged Man: Anderson
XIII Death: Eurus Holmes
XIV Art: Mary Watson
XV The Devil: Jim Moriarty
XVI The Tower: Appledore
XVII The Star: Soo Lin Yao
XVIII The Moon: Janine Hawkins
XIX The Sun: Rosie
XX The Aeon: The Work
XXI The Universe: Anthea

Anyway, these are my headcanons. Let me know if you agree or disagree with them. Let me know yours! And let me know if you want me to babble more about the tarot.

Comments

[anarfea]

I suspect that Mycroft has an understanding of the tarot and of the occult generally. Crowley worked with the allies during WWII and explained the Nazi's occult beliefs to them. He's said to be responsible for Winston Churchill making the "V for victory" sign because it's the symbol of Mars, which counters the energy of the swastika. He wanted Churchill to be photographed often making that sign because it freaked the Nazis out.

Also a lot of freemasons and other occultists have held positions in government/politics.

So I feel like Mycroft would have an understanding of the occult, but I don't think he believes any of it, and I doubt he'd take any tarot based advice seriously.

As for Sherlock, he didn't know the earth revolves around the sun, so I doubt he'd know anything about the zodiac or the tarot, lol. And again, I think he'd dismiss any tarot reading as twaddle.

[eloquated]

I agree with all of that, especially considering Mycroft isn't in the habit of deleting any information.

When I was writing 'Solstice', I ended up really thinking about how they would have interacted with the Pagan faith they'd been raised with-- while still being science and logic based as they usually are. And I ended up deciding that Mycroft would be much more willing to play along, and learn what he was expected to.

After all, it's important to his parents, and it was how he was brought up. Respect for the faith, even if he grew not to believe it.

Sherlock, on the other hand, is much more likely to take the piss, and have fun with it. He definitely doesn't take any of it seriously! (But he doesn't want to come up the unfortunate end of his mother's swatting hand, either!)

[anarfea]

Have you read The Straw Man Fallacy by Vulgarweed? That's a really interesting take on Sherlock and paganism. It's a Johnlock fic.

[eloquated]

Ah no, I haven't.. I don't read Johnlock, but the concept sounds interesting.

edit: I did look it up, but I'm afraid I don't know The Wicker Man either, so probably not the target audience for that one!