December Days: The Baseball Tarot

[silveradept]

Okay, so I floated an idea and people seemed willing to work with it. So, here's how this goes:

I've had enough experience with the game of baseball, as player, viewer, follower, fan, and umpire that it's always going to be a party of my life. I was thrilled to discover, early on in life, that someone had created a tarot deck based on the game of baseball. It's a very visually appealing deck, and like other decks, closer examination can sometimes reveal details that inform the construction of the image.

Here's where you come in: Baseball can be confusing, especially for people whose only exposure is television broadcasts, because there's a lot that goes on in a baseball that the cameras don't focus on. Same thing with Tarot. So, whether you're curious about the game or the deck, here's an opportunity to scratch the knowledge itch.

Leave me a prompt about a baseball term or thing, or your favorite card in a Tarot deck, and a date (or date range) when you would like to read about it, and I'll find the card in the deck that has the term or the equivalent from another deck, then write something to post on the day you choose.

If there's no prompted card for any given day, a card will be drawn at random for that day and you'll get to hear me talk about that.

I also plan on front-loading as much information for this as possible, so I may be writing posts well in advance of the actual day. More prompts is better, in this case.

Here's the current calendar of prompts:

• December 01: The Rookie (The Fool)
• December 02: The All-Star (The Magician) for redsixwing
• December 03: Walk (The Six of Bases)
• December 04: Single (The Three of Bats)
• December 05: Steal (The Eleven of Bases) for onyxlynx
• December 06: The Hit-And-Run (The Ace of Bats) for onyxlynx
• December 07: The Seventh-Inning Stretch (Reflection/The Hermit) for nanila
• December 08: Pop Fly (The Nine of Mitts)
• December 09: XVII, Batting 1.000
• December 10: XII, Slump (The Hanged Man) for DawnM
• December 11: Balk (The Two of Balls)
• December 12: Sidelined (The Four of Balls)
• December 13: Chatter (The Ten of Mitts)
• December 14: The Eleven of Bats (Switch Hitter) for redsnake05
• December 15: Rundown (The Five of Bases)
• December 16: So Much Yet To Learn (The Coach(es)) for onyxlynx
• December 17: You Only THINK You Know Who's In Charge (XVIII, the Catcher) (for onyxlynx
• December 18: The Three Of Balls (Shake-Off) for cxcvi
• December 19: Winning Streak (The Ten of Bases)
• December 20: Everything Must Start Somewhere (XIX, the Pitcher)
• December 21: Safe (The Three of Bases)
• December 22: The Five Of Mitts (Error) for cosmolinguist
• December 23: Wild Pitch (The Twelve of Balls)
• December 24: Ground Rule Double, The Infield Fly Rule, And Other Obvious Rule Patches (The Rule Book/Judgement) for onyxlynx
• December 25: It Ain't Nothing Until I Call It (The Umpire) for onyxlynx
• December 26: Home Plate (The Nine of Bases)
• December 27: Rhubarb (The Five of Bats)
• December 28: A Group of Uniformed People, Looking All Alike (VI, The Team)
• December 29: All Things Must Eventually Come To An End (XIII, Retirement)
• December 30: Foul (The Four Of Mitts)
• December 31: Learn How To Keep Score (Nostalgia, the Six of Mitts) for onyxlynx

If you're not on the list, why not suggest something? Or go look at kaberett's list of December Days postings.

Comments

[cxcvi]

I... would not say that this is my favourite card... actually, it's a card that terrifies me... particularly becauase of it's traditional (Rider-Waite-Smith) imagery, but... could you talk about the three of swords, at some point, please?

[silveradept]

Yes, I can do that. If you have another idea, there's still plenty of space left.