HP Tarot thumbnails - The Sun
Long anticipated by some at least one of you!
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"There are other ways of flying than with broomsticks." - Luna Lovegood *
The Sun card represents bright ideas and positive energy, including aspects such as confidence, vitality, and enlightenment. The character with the most inner harmony and grace in the books would have to be Luna Lovegood.
Notable art bits:
1. The traditional Sun card depicts a baby (or two), who represents the childlike innocence and confidence contained in the card. The child is riding bareback on a horse to show his perfect balance and control over the conscious and unconscious. Luna lives up to this by not only easily making friends with a wild thestral, but riding it side-saddle and bareback too.
2. Doing a GIS for "thestral" pulls up a bunch of awesome designs by other people (including the movie) that I wouldn't be able to top, so just gonna go with the general consensus. It's pretty well-described, after all. P.S. Wings D:
3. "I told Daddy most people would probably wear dress robes, but he believes you ought to wear sun colors to a wedding, for luck, you know." :3
4. Sunflowers are prominent in the card, reflecting cheerful solar energy. Happily, Luna wore one in her hair too! I probably would've done it even if she hadn't canonically, but she was just clever enough to be one step ahead of this too :) I might move it to the other side of her head as long as it doesn't block her face.
5. I was going to draw the usual bright & sunny card like most decks, but I also wanted to place the scene in the Forbidden Forest since that's where the thestrals live. Looking through my collection of reference photos, I decided on this as a happy medium. Forgive the current blobbiness I'll make it look better I promise if I have to paste the photo in and paint over it pixel by pixel.
* If you can find a better quote than this (anywhere, not just by Luna) to encompass the meaning of the card and describe her personality as well, you get extra thanks from me :> But I doubt you will because I have no life've ctrl-F'ed through all the books.
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"There are other ways of flying than with broomsticks." - Luna Lovegood *
The Sun card represents bright ideas and positive energy, including aspects such as confidence, vitality, and enlightenment. The character with the most inner harmony and grace in the books would have to be Luna Lovegood.
Notable art bits:
1. The traditional Sun card depicts a baby (or two), who represents the childlike innocence and confidence contained in the card. The child is riding bareback on a horse to show his perfect balance and control over the conscious and unconscious. Luna lives up to this by not only easily making friends with a wild thestral, but riding it side-saddle and bareback too.
2. Doing a GIS for "thestral" pulls up a bunch of awesome designs by other people (including the movie) that I wouldn't be able to top, so just gonna go with the general consensus. It's pretty well-described, after all. P.S. Wings D:
3. "I told Daddy most people would probably wear dress robes, but he believes you ought to wear sun colors to a wedding, for luck, you know." :3
4. Sunflowers are prominent in the card, reflecting cheerful solar energy. Happily, Luna wore one in her hair too! I probably would've done it even if she hadn't canonically, but she was just clever enough to be one step ahead of this too :) I might move it to the other side of her head as long as it doesn't block her face.
5. I was going to draw the usual bright & sunny card like most decks, but I also wanted to place the scene in the Forbidden Forest since that's where the thestrals live. Looking through my collection of reference photos, I decided on this as a happy medium. Forgive the current blobbiness I'll make it look better I promise if I have to paste the photo in and paint over it pixel by pixel.
* If you can find a better quote than this (anywhere, not just by Luna) to encompass the meaning of the card and describe her personality as well, you get extra thanks from me :> But I doubt you will because I have no life've ctrl-F'ed through all the books.