The gray and amber Wheel of Fortune card

These blue and orange butterfly syncs are on my mind, and I had the idea of searching 4plebs for /x/ posts about butterflies of those colors, just to see what would turn up. I didn't end up getting that far, though. When I start typing in the URL for 4plebs, autocomplete always gives me https://archive.4plebs.org/x/random/ (a randomly selected /x/ post), and I generally just press enter, see what kind of random post I get, and then proceed to put in my search terms. This time, the randomizer served up this, an uninteresting "post your wishes" thread, but the image in the original post arrested my attention:

The picture on the left is from the /x/ thread; the one on the right you will recognize as the Rider-Waite Wheel of Fortune card, as drawn by Pamela Colman "Pixie" Smith and repeatedly featured on this blog. The only difference is in the color palette. The /x/ version has only four colors: amber (the wheel, serpent, and Four Living Creatures), a darker or more muted amber (Hermanubis), light gray (the sky, the sphinx, and the books), and a darker gray (the clouds).

This obviously corresponds to the four butterfly colors: light and dark amber/orange, and light and dark blue. In fact, I had just been thinking earlier today about how in the traditional eight-color palette of Marseille-style Tarot decks -- which I analyzed several years ago in much greater detail than any normal person would do --  the same underlying color is realized as gray in some historical decks and blue in others -- so I was already primed with the very specific idea of blue and gray being interchangeable on Tarot cards.

In yesterday's post, I also had this very same amber-and-gray palette juxtaposed with the light and dark orange and blue butterflies -- on a card, no less: