Black Tar Tarot, white lines of Runes.
The old bird’s been out of the game for a while. Sometimes life creeps up on a dude. What’s funny about divination is how pulling certain items or getting a particular response seems to impart very personal meanings the more a person gets used to it.
Every night, I pull a rune that sort of encapsulates the following day, and ones that can seem negative tend to have useful results, and ones that seem benign can indicate frustration or disappointment. I guess a part of that is how the person feels about the subject matter. I pull the rune representing humanity, and I get the idea that somehow I’m going to be let down or let someone down, for better or worse. I pull the rune for hail and storms, and often the day points to some measure of adaptivity and joy in the randomness, but I have a tendency to get caught up in the weather. Maybe this just says that I’m a misanthrope who would do better sitting in a freezer with a high-powered fan.
The other thing is that divination’s like gambling: it can get addictive, where a lack of acceptance or surety can have a person pulling one more card, or doing a reading over again, to get the desired result, while wasting away precious daylight shufflig or noodling around in a bag. The stuff pulled doesn’t really dictate action as much as it points to where things could most likely go at that particular time.
But, sometimes the best way to get around that is to quit cold turkey for a few months. It’s sometimes more helpful to be without externalized decision-making processes and to trust in your gut, not your fear. Shit will go wrong at some point, but that isn’t always a bad thing. It’s hard to take the blame when something’s always at hand to be the scapegoat, or act as a tool for such. “Well, I did what the cards said.” “I expected this to happen from this astrological aspect today, and it didn’t, so I can blame the stars.” All the planets did was move in their orbit, and all the cards did was get shuffled while presenting an image. All of the interpretation was done by the diviner, and the blame soundly rests on the person when things go wrong. That’s the tough lesson at the end of any sort of fortune telling: The individual interprets and makes the decision based on that data, and thus the repercussions are on the individual rather than the environment. You only have yourself to blame when your life’s great. You’re the only one making your life suck. Responsibility is the most freeing burden that exists.
Mercury’s in the Shop for 28 Days
Thanks to the spin of the world, and where exactly a planet is in its “year,” and all of that manner of trivia, people on Earth perceive said planets as going in reverse, an effect called “retrograde.” “Retrograde” kind of obviously translates into “moving backward” (retro+gredire). Mercury’s the planet that seems to most often fly into retrograde motion, as its year goes by very fast. But, what does that action represent? Let’s give you an account of a typical, and true Mercury Retrograde moment and work from there.
So, I’m sick, with a dried up caked inside of the head and fevers coming on and off like a pouncing cat. Seeing as I was to be bed-ridden for an entire day, I decided to venture out into the perilously hot, thick, wretched Crock Pot weather. With me, I took the game Final Fantasy 12, which I was looking to trade in for being a pretty, yet ultimately boring game. I see that the sequel to one of my favorite childhood video games, Secret of Mana, had come out. I’m not sure that I can describe to you in full the effect that SoM had on me at that age, but beyond even then, it was a damned fine game. So, I go in for the sequel, and the person behind the counter mentions that they have a used one; I take it, and trade in FF12 for it. Well, I get back home, happy as a clam, and start playing. The game mechanics are terrible, simplistic, and the control is awful, but the game is pretty. So, I traded in the previous game for a game that had exactly the same problem, lost $35 in the process, and can’t return it because it’s a used game.
Now, I should have done my research and checked on the elements of gameplay before buying it, but I didn’t because I was so wrapped up in the memory of the original. Now, the Retrograde thing symbolizes things that “return” in the psyche, in terms of memories, like songs that get stuck in your head. Mercury resetting like this also symbolizes the functions of language (and thus motor skill; The two parts are connected in the brain) and logic, so a person’s ability to move and communicate is beginning to re-evaluate itself. In short, a lot of people do stupid things because of their memories of things that came before, and often end up making really stupid choices when it comes to commercial ventures, too. It’s not a great time to make a decision without a plan, or without research, especially since our usual immediate skeptical responses aren’t as sharp. Bird out.
