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Major Tarot
Fool
Meaning
At #0, the Fool is the card of infinite possibilities. The bag on the staff indicates that he has all he need to do or be anything he wants, he has only to stop and unpack. He is on his way to a brand new beginning. But the card carries a little bark of warning as well. Stop daydreaming and fantasising and watch your step, lest you fall and end up looking the fool.
Fitting Character - Gogo.
Gogo is capable of preforming just about all of your other Characters ablilities. All he needs to do is select them in between fights, which is similar to the mention of stopping and unpacking.
Magician
Meaning
At #1, the Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud ("And God said 'Let there be Light!' and there was Light"). Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand (Mercury *was* the god of thieves!) and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil. The 4 suits laid out before him remind us of the 4 aces, which in the Tarot symbolize the raw, undeveloped, undirected power of each suit. When the Magician appears, he reveals these to you. The reader might well interpet this card as telling the querent that they will be given a vision, an idea, a magical, mental image of whatever it is they most want: the solution to a problem, an ambitious career, a love life, a job.
Fitting Character - Edgar
Edgar is a very intelligent man, who helped to create all the technology of Figaro. In addition, he is quite a smooth talker, which is shown at many points during the game. In addition, with that mix of tools he sports a lot of power.
Priestess
Meaning
The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know in order to make a decision about a problem or a job, an investment, love, career, family, etc.
And, finally, there is, behind her throne, the curtain that leads to the deepest, most esoteric and secret knowledge; the pomegranates that decorate it remind us of Persephone, who was taken down into the land of the dead, ate its fruit, and became the only goddess allowed to travel to and from that strange land. Which indicates that when you get the High Priestess, you're going to be learning some very odd things. Very odd.
Fitting Character - Aeris
While I don't like her, she is quite fitting of this role. She posses's secret knowledge, noteabley that of the Ancients (Not a lot, but still). The abilities she possess's are both supernatural an insticutual, (Listening to the planet?). The White Materia could be presented as the Scrolls of ARcane information. Finally, she shows you the path to follow before her death, basically Illuminating what you did not see before.
Judgement
Meaning
With Fire as its ruling element (or Pluto as its ruling planet), Judgement is about rebirth, ressurection. The idea of Judgement day is that the dead rise, their sins are forgiven, and they move onto heaven. The Judgement card is similar, it asks the resurrection to summon the past, forgive it, and let it go. There are wounds from the past that we never let heal, sins we've committed that we refuse to forgive, bad habits we haven't the courage to lose. Judgement advises us to finally face these, recognize that the past is past, and put them to rest, absolutely and irrevocably. This is also a card of healing, quite literally from an accident or illness, as well as a card signaling great transformation, renewal, change.
Fitting Character: Amarant
Why you ask? Just look at how his story progresses. He faced up to his flaws and bad habits (Remaining alone, believing it was a better way of opperating), and as the Judgement card asks, he was brought back together with Zidane, and in the end managed to let go of what happened between them. I think Amarant is a perfect fit for judgement.
Mostly I like Amarant for Justice, and Aeris for Priestess.
Not so big on Edgar for Magician though.
Gogo is the only one I can think of for Fool that could work though.
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