The tarot deck. Here is one! I deal 8 of wands, The Star, ten off pentacles, King of pentacles, 6 of wands.

The problem: what the hell does that mean? The Star? She is a naked blonde lady pouring water on the ground and in the water. How starlike is that? King of Pentacles?

The proposition: the deck would be comprised of elements. I envision Carbon as Nature Goddess, but also cards for carbon in her aspect of Diamond and of Graphite. Nitrogen is an austere ascetic. Oxygen a redheaded firebrand. Hydrogen would be the Fool.

Additional cards might include other common molecules: methane, oxides, etc. The noble gases would be there, Nickel, Iron.

Now a hand might make a little bit of sense because of the molecules which the dealt elements might comprise, or the sort of biology they are involved with.
-- bungston, Feb 11 2018

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Not a baking of this idea, but you could use their deck of cards. [pertinax, Feb 12 2018]

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Also not the same as this idea [hippo, Feb 12 2018]

https://en.wikipedi..._and_tarocchi_games [pocmloc, Feb 14 2018]

I kinder like it but think it is more bottom up. The card's feel as though they are going to predict bodily state which of course affects behaviour and ultimately fate.

Running track try for Oxygen and Iron, going to a party draw a Hydrogen with a Nitrogen stabilizer or digging a garden, pick out the Goddess with some of the lesser hard working additives. Of course a drawn deal would scale positive or negative to the action on the table purely due to how the deck collapses by the questioner's touch.
-- wjt, Feb 12 2018


Its not meant to make sense. Its a card game like whist, where you try to lay a higher-ranking card to beat the other people round the table.
-- pocmloc, Feb 14 2018


// a higher-ranking card to beat the other people round the table //

One club, then.
-- 8th of 7, Feb 14 2018


So what would Hydrogen mean, when reversed?
-- Voice, Feb 16 2018


//Hydrogen would be the Fool

I would have thought Helium, for squeaky voice humour...
-- not_morrison_rm, Feb 18 2018



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