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you'll notice yourself smiling with delight over things you once paid no attention to -

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Robert Mangold, Untitled (holiday card), (color linocut on ivory Japanese paper), 1989 [The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. © Robert Mangold / ARS, New York]

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even if it didnt last

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You’re going to ride the bus to your closest Target. It’s going to take a couple of hours, and yeah you’ll neaely throw ip a couple times. Its Ok. Youll walk inside and then you’ll pick up two cadbury cream eggs at the very back of the store. Oh cool they’re on clearance . nice.. That’ll be 70 cents but you only have a five dollar bill. And you make her get your change. You both smile and say your goodbyes and you walk out of the Target to walk home.

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remember when abercrombie and fitch hired slavoj zizek to write copy for their back to school catalog

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Say more about your favorite tarot card [ judgment]

It's my favorite because it corresponds to a certain quality of somatic-psychic-spiritual experience that I have been lucky enough to enjoy a few times in my life and I know it correlates because it always always finds me there. And trying to describe it verbally is maybe silly because it's an archetype.

Judgement traditionally depicts the mass resurrection at the end of days which in my mind is mythopoetic but was a literal eschatology to many medieval peeps and is to some contemporary peeps in a different shape. On a theological level I love that it is a corporate resurrection that includes the full scope of the earth (sometimes animals too) and suggests redeemed material creation-- mythopoetic expression of apokatastasis. The quality is joyful and not "Left Behind" scary and twisted.... These R things contemporary "rapture" mythos downplay I think 2 preserve a mindset of personal distinction? But from a natural law standpoint it's true, all things included in the body of God from eternity to eternity, all things redeemed together, all things burned up in Heaven together forever.

On the archetype level it shows us 2 visual planes, one of celestial beings and one of newly awakened dead. So represents a moment of tangible contact between earth and sky, quick and dead, temporal and eternal, natural and supernatural, matter anointed (or totally saturated saturated) with sacrosanct Mind. More rarely judgement has been depicted as a stampede under a prominent skyscape which represents meaty, epileptic movements of a heart momentarily unified and steadied together under a wide awareness that contains the animal bodies and so much more. Sooo it's a picture of integration that is both spiritual and lofty and also intellectual and illuminating and also embodied and tangible. And this is always when the card finds me when this is happening to me or within my sphere or to some psychic animal that I exist inside of.

I hesitate to say all this because bringing rationality into a nonrational process might hurt it, but I hope by sharing I can help someone become a better wizard. Yeah? I would love to read something like this about every card. I'm trying to understand Hanged Man and Justice on this level because they also like to attack me but their meaning is secret right now.

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You meet god and she's mostly dead fish. You ask her why and she says most of the world is dead fish, and she's made herself to appeal to the most common denominator, the everyman funnyman comedy show that runs for eleven seasons but with the entire universe in mind. You ask her how much of the dead fish is your fault, she says it's far less than you'd think, in the grand scheme of things. You ask her if you matter at all. If you can do anything. She shrugs her rotting shoulders and says mattering is a made-up concept, like life, but sure, you can matter if you want to, on some scale. She has many scales. She doesn't know what you mean by 'anything', but you can do everything you can. You ask her if it's enough. She says there's no base requirement for deserving to exist. She's smoking a joint and the smoke filtering out of her gills gathers and forms gas giants and red dwarfs. You ask her if there's any hidden secrets of the universe you should know and she says it's not a secret if she tells, plus it's fun to let you figure it out yourself. You ask her if any of your questions were right questions and she says you worry about being right so much it might keep you from fucking around, which is as close to meaning of life as she ever bothered to make. You don't ask but she says she loves your hair, also your whole being, also your planet. She says she figured out what love is yesterday and is trying it out, which explains the ten thousand rainbows and sudden influx in rains of fish. She offers you a drag of her joint and you wake up half past midnight behind a chain restaurant clutching a smoked salmon. The new stars are winking like they're in on some joke and you're sure if you try hard enough you'll remember what it is.

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“a light inside” - peruvian trans women photographed by danielle villasana

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by robyboyscott

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Midnight colours · Vienna · Austria

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popped off with this one im afraid

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CATHERINE ET L'ARMOIRE by Théâtre du Mouvement. 1985.

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Wassily Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane, 1926