Talk:Yuuka Chiba

Reversal

I figured people might like to read the reasoning behind Yuuka's reversal, so ... here it is. :)

Yes, Yuuka reversed. The High Priestess card is all about secret knowledge, instincts, even magic. The lady guarding the ancient library. Hers is a card about personal and individual journeys across dark deserts to enlightenment. The opposite of the card is all about not knowing what's going on, not having the instincts that lead to her power. Her journey, her enlightment, taken from her grasp. My favorite site to explain this is: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/reversals/high_priestess.shtml (love it.)

There are several parts to the opposite reversal. In Yuuka's case, the most clear parts to the reversal is how being a reversed high priestess compares to being a normal one. Now, Yuuka does have her secrets, but she's not sharing. She has questions, but no answers to them. She has thoughts, but no way or no knowledge to put them to use. What she does know, you don't know if you'll get the sharp edge of her temper or cold silence. She's brilliantly smart, yes, but she's not using it for good; she's that utterly brilliant scientest who hoardes her ideas and scientific projects, the sneaky maiden aunt with dirt on everyone. She's not afraid anymore to use what she knows to put people down; in this, her attitude and fears about hurting people over things come out the most.

Blocked is where being reversed hits Yuuka the most. That instinctual energy, that drive for knowledge, that instinct she had to make decisions(not that she really had any before, common sense 0.5...), is near impossible to recall. There's information in front of her and no drive to learn it. It's like looking at her calculus textbook and seeing nothing but numbers, not seeing the whole problem and what she needs to do. In algabreic equations, she is what you need to solve for X, but half of the equation is missing. There are things that she needs to be whole, there are things that she needs to do, but she can't make a decision because she no longer has the instinct for it. In short, school, although still important, is just a chaotic mess for her.

Upside down, the river of knowledge that runs through the rest of the tarot isn't there anymore. The curtain of shadows that hide her are open, and people can see everything: her mysteries, There is a loss of control ther,e as the pillars that support her delicate balance do not stand up on their own. She is no longer in command of her true emotions, but at a chaotic, imbalanced state. She is confused, and she no longer knows what she is doing, and as such, has lost the most basic certainty of the High Priestess card - that of simple, passive knowledge.