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The Fool - Uchiha Fugaku by @bandanaoshawott

Consciousness/Mind

The Magician - Senju Hashirama by @bloodredsugarknight

The High Priestess - Uchiha Izuna by @n0pepng

The Empress - Uzumaki Kushina by @bumblebeelex

The Emperor - Namikaze Minato by @stygian-blu

The Hierophant - Uzumaki Mito by @georgialawman

The Lovers - Yamanaka Ino and Sai by @sevenhelz

The Chariot represents willpower and initiative; ambition, self-discipline, focus, and courage in the face of the unknown.

Our Chariot is Maito Gai, with hints of him carrying his eternal rival Hatake Kakashi. The Chariot challenges us to take life into our own hands and steer with determination, and illustrates that victory does not come from the attainment of a goal, but instead occurs at the exact moment you choose courage instead of fear. These values are integral to how Gai approaches life.

Normally the driver of the Chariot is considered to be in control, but the piggyback scene this draws from has Kakashi chakra-exhausted and needing help; Gai takes the initiative to carry him to safety.

The Chariot was designed and created by @illtakethatroad, who said: "I wanted to create The Chariot because of how it's treated me in my Persona games; in these, your relationships with people are represented by a card of the Major Arcana (based on that specific person's characteristics), and all of my Chariots are my best characters.

I would like to give @vinniebean credit for choosing Gai for the role. In the early stages of deciding on characters, she pointed out that Gai matched better than who I originally had in mind and I agreed. The second she brought up Gai, I thought of the iconic piggyback from canon and it wouldn't leave my brain.

I initially wanted to work in a stained glass style for this, but soon I remembered the faceless style used by Genshin Impact in some of its cutscenes. I hadn't tried it before, so I'm glad it turned out well."

The Hierophant represents Doctrine: our submission and responsibility to societal beliefs, and a mediated experience of the Divine.

Our Hierophant is Uzumaki Mito, who married Senju Hashirama as part of an interclan alliance, and took on the burden - and enormous power - of holding the Kyuubi as the first jinchuuriki.

Georgie says: "Mito and Hashirama had at least partially a political marriage, which means accepting the responsibilities and, to some extent, the beliefs of the clan she married into. The Senju/Uzumaki political alliance was already important, and from the pairing of Mito and Hashirama came what would arguably be the greatest weapon of all time: Jinchuuriki. For these reasons I believe Mito makes the perfect Hierophant. The Hierophant is also a priest who teaches the priestlings - in this case, the next generations of Kyuubi jinchuuriki, shown at the bottom of the card. The banner symbols in the background obviously represent Konoha and Uzushio, showing the wider importance of the Senju/Uzumaki alliance, which was furthered by the later jinchuuriki generations also being Uzumaki. I drew Mito on Kurama as her throne partly for my own enjoyment, but also because being jinchuuriki places her as a mediator for the power of the bijuu. Kurama is an integral part of her life and role."

The Hanged Man represents sacrifice, waiting, uncertainty, contemplation, surrender, and acceptance after facing what we have made of our lives.

Our Hanged Man is Uchiha Itachi. The Hanging Man is believed to be positioned there of his own free will; Itachi understands that his position is a sacrifice that he needed to make in order for his brother and his Village to progress forward.

Caught between Village and Clan as a child, he made a terrible choice, and spent the rest of his life suffering the consequences, awaiting the final justice he expected to receive by the hand of his younger brother Sasuke.

The Hanged Man was decided, designed and created by @stygian-blu. Blue said: "Itachi is suspended with the shuriken wire that the Uchiha use in their signature shuriken jutsu, behind him is dark endless woods, symbolic of how lost his life is in and because of Konoha. He is lit from below because I think Itachi saw his sacrifice as his salvation, in his own misguided way. The butterfly on his hand is the fleeting mirage of hope (Sasuke killing him, and then being safe and strong). Fluttering around Itachi is a leaf hurricane as another nod to Konoha, but the leaves are brown and dead, since Itachi lived most of his life in the dark underbelly of its ANBU. The Hanged Man's halo is a rainbow mainly for visual interest against the dull colors of everything else, but rainbows also always gave me a sense of transience and temporariness, which I thought fit well with how short-lived and fleeting peace and love -Itachi's deepest wishes and driving forces behind his actions- were in his life."

Strength - Senju Tsunade by @richard189381184

The Hermit - Hatake Kakashi by @vinniebean

The Wheel of Fortune - Uchiha Obito by @ghosts-and-chaos

Justice - Senju Tobirama by @sevenhelz

The Hanged Man: Uchiha Itachi by @stygian-blu

Death - Orochimaru by @bloodredsugarknight

The Tower can represent chaos, sudden upheaval, trauma, disaster, revelations, confusion, violence, or natural disasters.

Typically the Tower card shows figures making a desperate escape from the broken Tower, from the turmoil and destruction inside, to plummeting uncontrollably outside. The Tower shows us that something built on shaky foundations or false premises only takes one hit to be knocked down; the destruction must happen in order to clear out the old ways and welcome something new.

Our Tower is Uchiha Madara, one of the founders of Konoha. He later broke away to enact his own plans, kidnapping and brainwashing a young Uchiha Obito to further his work. We can see his appearance in The Tower representing either his need to leave Konoha, and the concept of peace that he saw as flawed after the death of his last brother; or as a reflection on the Eye Of The Moon plan and how influenced it was by Zetsu, who lied to Madara and manipulated him to achieve Zetsu's own goals.

The Tower was decided, designed, and created by @rosyhatake, who has this to say:

"The falling god! I took inspiration from Catholic imagery (which I saw at a museum recently) and gave him a God-like halo! I drew the God Fruit in there as well since it represents godhood and is the way to reach godhood in Naruto.

Madara killed thousands for his goals and plans so I layered the foundation of his towers with skulls. He was cut in half by Kaguya so I represented that with the tower cut in half. His look of shock and horror is from his own downfall as he plunges to the ground!"

The Lovers represents choice: breaking away from what is expected, following our desire to a state of love, to a valuable, lasting, supportive relationship which leads to a new understanding of life.

Our Lovers are Sai and Yamanaka Ino. The meanings of the card are perfect for the pair. When Sai was captured and under a genjutsu Ino used her family jutsu to delve into his mind and help resolve his inner crisis and his loneliness; their mutual trust and support begins there, and Sai grows from a seemingly emotionless Root agent to an integrated self. Eventually they marry, with Ino going against people's prejudice to do so.

The Lovers was designed and created by @sevenhelz, also the main co-ordinator of the event. He says: "I didn't know much about tarot previously, but when The Kiss occurred to me as a base for The Lovers I thought it would be beautiful. I asked @vinniebean about the symbolism I should include and realised that the Tree of Life is another well-known Klimt piece from his gold period; the tree I've drawn is a little thinner, but it follows the patterns pretty clearly. I used some of the flowers from that painting below the tree in the flower meadow, which is otherwise drawn directly from The Kiss and only very slightly supplemented with flowers inspired by other Klimt paintings and patterns. The Tree of Knowledge is my own design, based a little bit on apple trees, but instead growing Chakra Fruits - here I collaborated with @chipeurtheshipper, who created Kaguya as The Devil, to design our fruits similarly. The snake design is flipped from Klimt's Hygieia, and the trunk of the tree behind the snake roughens into a snakeskin pattern inspired by Klimt's Water Snakes paintings.

Other details came from the original character design; the hearts on Ino's dress represent the shape of the hand sign she uses for her family jutsu, and the tiny snakes and mice on Sai's clothing refer to his ink animals. Sai typically wears black and grey with a little red highlight, but Ino wears a lot of purple, so I applied artist's prerogative and gave them both purple clothing. It wasn't obvious to me before, but there are sections in the middle of them which could belong to either character, and I wanted to retain that sense of them being so close as to almost be conjoined.

The last point to note is that that the flames of the Tree of Life are drawn directly from the symbol of the Will of Fire in Konoha. I was delighted to realise how neatly the concept lined up.

It was obviously important to me to include a lot of fine detail, which was quite tricky given the size of the piece. I normally outline my work with either paint pen or fineliner, but either of those would have limited me here; Ino's spirals and the linework in her dress are so close that paint marker would destroy the piece, and fineliner doesn't take well to being wetted so would've limited my options for colouring thereafter. I decided to outline with (very sharp) coloured pencils, which gave me a great range of colours to choose, and then I filled with watercolour pencils. I love the "painted" effect watercolour pencils can give, and although it softened some of the linework as I painted, I'm really pleased with the outcome overall."