Daily Pilots Post
Today on DPP, mysticism and BSG.
Obviously, the show presents its own views on mysticism, via the monotheism/polytheism dichotomy, Baltar's visions, Kara's destiny... And through simpler things like having the Twelve Colonies named for the signs of the zodiac.
With that in mind, where do you think Kara and Lee fall in the zodiac as we know it? The Colonial religion embraces some form of scrying in the people of Oracles, what about tarot and forms of scrying that are used today? Is there a particular card or rune that seems like it fits one of our pilots specifically?
Under the cut, the major arcana cards for a BSG tarot deck I've been working on with sparklegirl79 and a description of an interesting confluence of BSG and tarot in the context of RP.
At this point in this RP game, Kara was between "Scar" and "Sacrifice" canonically. The person playing Tower (here depicted as Dean Stockwell, this should not make you think of Cavil there is no connection) used a tarot computer program to do an actual reading based on cards selected by the person playing Kara. The person playing Tower had never seen BSG and had no knowledge of any events in Kara's life. Here is the reading
Obviously, the show presents its own views on mysticism, via the monotheism/polytheism dichotomy, Baltar's visions, Kara's destiny... And through simpler things like having the Twelve Colonies named for the signs of the zodiac.
With that in mind, where do you think Kara and Lee fall in the zodiac as we know it? The Colonial religion embraces some form of scrying in the people of Oracles, what about tarot and forms of scrying that are used today? Is there a particular card or rune that seems like it fits one of our pilots specifically?
Under the cut, the major arcana cards for a BSG tarot deck I've been working on with sparklegirl79 and a description of an interesting confluence of BSG and tarot in the context of RP.
At this point in this RP game, Kara was between "Scar" and "Sacrifice" canonically. The person playing Tower (here depicted as Dean Stockwell, this should not make you think of Cavil there is no connection) used a tarot computer program to do an actual reading based on cards selected by the person playing Kara. The person playing Tower had never seen BSG and had no knowledge of any events in Kara's life. Here is the reading