#wildemount tarot
The Sunrepresents positivity, vitality, happiness and fun. It portends good fortune and success in the direction you are moving towards.
Here’s Twiggy! This has been in the works since… I think not very long after she showed up? Because to me she’s just the personification of the Sun card, on both a superficial and a deeper level. Of course, we don’t know a whole lot about Twiggy, since she was only there for one episode, which definitely made this a lot harder, and that goes for all of the things I’m talking about here, they’re all based off what little we have, because that’s really all one can do.
To me, she absolutely represents that unrestrained, sometimes childlike joy and enthusiasm for life and excitement and new things. And despite her surely having had less happy things in her past (she mentioned that her parents died a long time ago, and she’s also clearly been around a whole bunch of different things, ending up on a pirate island), she retains an energy and air of innocence, retaining her optimism, friendliness and cheerfulness even in the face of a whole bunch of strangers, an uncertain future and fighting a god damn fucking dragon.
Of course I had to include Trixie, as well, hopping along the way in front of Twiggy, her faithful companion (much like the hamster unicorn I included for Jester’s Fool card), and also an animal I at least associate with fun and play and curiosity. The apple is just, well, an apple. There’s no very deep apple symbolism going on here, more of just a general, Twiggy eating sweet things that she enjoys (and then maybe she got distracted by something else and the apple landed by the wayside). The sunflowers, of course, are a reference to the Rider-Waite-Smith design, and one I felt was fitting both for Twiggy and for the composition, to go along with the sun itself, and the happy fun ball.
Then there’s that. The Happy Fun Ball of Tricks. That I obviously had to include, and I early on knew I wanted to do with this very composition (as much as it pained me several times in the process). This ball she stole off some guy she didn’t like who didn’t deserve it (whether or not she knows more about this that she never told the nein), that she played with and did tricks with and that turned out to be quite more than just a fun ball of tricks. But I like the idea of it, this shiny beautiful golden ball, held up towards the sun, played with as a fun toy doing a bunch of cool tricks, that actually contains a whole bunch of sub-dimensions and an ancient wizard and a whole slew of terrifying monsters. And, you know, she killed a dragon in there. Which is certainly encompassing of positive outcomes, and of accomplishment! It’s not that the struggle and the dark and the difficult doesn’t exist, it’s about being able to overcome them, and gain knowledge, and bring back hope and happiness. And I think Twiggy represents all of that, in her strengths, in her joy and energy and confidence, and all her wonderful qualities that made her such a joy to watch, even if she was there for only a short little time.
