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Literature

Tarot Factors

With a plentitude of time for rumination, I've come to realize the presence of elements of a certain relation in my past experiences. Said relation: tarot. It's astounding, the correlations I've managed to analyze. From film and television, to dreams, to real life, factors from various tarot cards have echoed through my past experiences. One scene from French animator Rene Laloux's final feature film, "Gandahar," resonates with The Lovers, The Moon, and The Star cards. The people of the planet Gandahar are under attack by army of mysterious hollow men of metal who are petrifying and abducting them. A male Gandaharian named Sylvain is chosen to seek out, investigate and stop them, only to wind up in the same predicament. After somehow becoming un-petrified along with tribal woman and fellow prisoner Airelle, the two are rescued by a giant reptilian monster mistaking their cell for her egg and them for her young before safely placing them in a newly made nest and heading off. Come the