Six Of Pentacles: Artist Notes: This card is all about balance and giving. Generosity. I scratched my brains, trying to figure how a character like Famine, who is all about excess and hunger, could possibly be generous towards any one. Then I remember, Famine’s gifts to Sam. Demons. All you can eat buffet. The balance is there as well. Famine offers demons to expand the darkness inside of Sam’s soul and Sam uses that darkness to defeat Famine. It’s a trade of darkness, hence the dark coloring I chose for this one.
Seven Of Wands: Author's note: It was hard to decide the character at first, but then Castiel came to me. The Seven of Wands is a card of defense. The many images of Cas killing the angels stand for the opponents that the subject of the card is fighting against. Dean's amulet demonstrates where the subject stands. Although he's alone against many opponents, success will come through effort, and if he battles carefully, he will be able to defend what he believes is right.
Card Descr
iption: A smirking young man gathers up swords won in battle from two losers. In arguments and battles of ideas there are going to be times when one just loses or has to surrender. The worst of these is when the winner is an awful person, a bully, braggart, a cheat, someone who used an unfair advantage to win. But it happens. The problem: "How can I win in an argument with this person?" The answer/prediction: "You can't. All you can do is not argue." This is the closest to a win one can come to in this situation. But if the Querent feels they must argue, then they need to be prepared to learn from it, not allow feelings of failure, anger or blame to overcome them.
Artist Notes: Honestly, I have no idea why the two losers were even still alive in the Rider-Waite version. It makes more sense for them to be dead right? When you loose a sword fight, you are dead. Also the Rakasha's alter-ego was the blind knife thrower at the carnaval so I've made the swords into throwing knives.
Quote from Super-wiki:
In 2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown, the Rakshasa is disguised as the blind knife thrower who works with the circus. It appears to children as a clown, and when they invite it into their home it kills their parents. Bobby tells them the creature can be killed with a knife of pure brass. As it pursues them, Sam manages to kill the Rakshasa with a brass pipe from the organ in the funhouse.