{"id":18370,"date":"2022-05-18T09:35:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pley2win.com\/featured-news\/pokemon-diamond-and-pearl-lives-on-in-fan-made-tarot-deck\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T09:35:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:35:28","slug":"pokemon-diamond-and-pearl-lives-on-in-fan-made-tarot-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=18370","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Diamond and Pearl Lives On In Fan-Made Tarot Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"


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My best nights in college involved solemnly laying a tarot card deck across the floor, concentrating hard while I slid a few cards toward my crossed legs, awaiting my future. Tarot, which started as a 15th century card game but morphed into fortune telling at the end of the 18th<\/span>, has always had the ability to captivate and soothe (and irritate non-believer friends and ex-boyfriends). But the practice\u2019s mysticism strikes me as not so different from the beguiling gas powers of the Pok\u00e9mon Koffing, and definitely no different from the psychic energy peeling off of lemon-headed Hypno. California-based freelance illustrator Sabling must be on a similar wavelength, as she recently created Pok\u00e9mon-themed versions of a tarot deck\u2019s 22 Major Arcana<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n