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Nine in the suit of Wands in the Thoth deck is named “Strength.”

There are 8 red arrows crossing each other, and one main arrow in front down the middle. The main arrow has the sun driving the arrow, and the moon as its tip. This represents consciousness driving the unconscious. You can control your emotions. 

If you have drawn this card, maybe you have been doing some hard work, and are just about to conclude or give up. This card recommends that you endure, and continue. Use your sun energy to dip down into your inner resources, reach deep down into the bottom of your energy and keep going. It is not time to give up, yet. 

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“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” 

Tom Waits.

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“The folks who know the truth aren’t talking…. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!” Tom Waits

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Eleven of the Major Arcana in the Thoth Deck is named Lust. 

A scarlet woman rides and clutches the reins of a seven-headed lion beast. She seems to wilt in repose with ecstasy as she raises a grail of moon blood to the sky. 

Crowley ditched the more common “Strength” card, of a fair maiden taming the beast, for the more ostentatious “Lust,” where she has mounted it. This trump echoes LaVey, who wrote that the Number One of the Nine Satanic Statements is “indulgence instead of abstinence.” It suggests that instead of refraining from the luxuries and gaudiness of a fully lived life, that you learn to master them. Do not suppress your carnal desires in the name of modesty. Modesty is not the right action when you have thrown this card in a reading. 

The advice this card gives is that you may need to learn how to enjoy the baser things in life. For these things are the base, and the foundation of all other delights. It is not recommending you dive in with abandon, but instead, to learn to consume them with a measure of control. 

If you are already consuming with absolute abandon, this card recommends that you begin to look into how you can have more control and meaning in your revelry. How can you put reins on your seven-headed beast? 

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A helpful guide

Afab: assigned female at birth

Amab: assigned male at birth

Acab: all cops are bastards

Ahab: obsessively hunting the white whale

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The Two of Disks in the Thoth Tarot is named “Change.” 

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The oroboros and the yin yang symbols both remind us that the only constant in the chaos of life, is change. To ride the tides of change is a very important quality to hone in life. 

Recognize that, while you leave one destination, you will undoubtedly arrive at another. It is a talent to walk up one side of the see-saw, and gracefully walk across to the other end, without falling off. 

Balancing or juggling disparate aspects of your life can require more focus and precision than is humanly possible, and you should afford yourself grace and forgiveness if your life falls into disarray. If you have dropped the ball, pick it up as soon as you can and face the consequences of this lapse. 

Accept that life is all about how it changes and flows. Become resilient and adaptable to where it will take you, and you will have a leg up on life. 

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No system but the ecosystem

art by @entangledrootspress

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These flowers – proud and sad, like you, proud of being beautiful, and sad that everything is so stupid –

Marcel Proust, from a letter to Laure Hayman written c. August 1892 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Throwback to the time I freehand-crocheted Molly Weasley's sweater of many colors for my midwife, to pay her off :)

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Eight of Cups in the Thoth Tarot is named Indolence. 

The cups are chipped and broken and the water is drying up in this image. The lotuses can provide some water for our broken cups, but only so much. The skies are heavy and dark with a single strip of clear sky on the horizon. It will storm, but has not, yet. 

This image represents that feeling where something doesn’t thrill you anymore. There’s still work to do there, but you’re not “feeling it.” It can be a feeling of boredom, but maybe disappointment of some kind. The skies are preparing to pelt you with rain, and maybe you’re not looking forward to it. Whether you want it or not, if you stay, you will be caught in a storm. But by the way the lotuses are bending and drooping, you can see that more rain could eventually do good. 

The impulse is to leave and walk toward the strip of clear sky you see. Sometimes this literally means running away. Sometimes this can look like you are doing nothing, avoiding doing what will be healthy. You are tempted to leave your hard emotional work behind and go to where it looks easier. The advice this card offers is that before you shirk this work, really examine whether your current position is worth abandoning. Some situations can not be improved by going through the wringer with them. Some can be salvaged, but only just. Sometimes, the best answer is to remain present and ride it out. 

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Pinocchio The Story of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi

Philadelphia and London

J. B. Lippincott Company

1920

Source : archive.org

Artist : Maria Louise Kirk

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message from a pigeon

gouache, acrylic, & colour pencil on paper

prints etc available here

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A sign outside a small church in Red Level, AL.