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A story, for my own remembrance but those that wish to read it and possibly have insight.
I donât know what is wrong with the moon lately. I work on commercial fishing vessels, I am a sailor. Iâve been practicing witchcraft since I was a child and Iâve become a wiccan in the past couple of years. Iâve seen weird shit, Iâve felt weird shit, but this seeing this scared me more than anything Iâve ever worked with in shadows.
On my boyfriend/captains boat about a week ago, we were hauling lobster gear off of the coast of cape cod in Massachusetts. The water was calm, the breeze was light and that morning. His vessel is under a few different protection spells Iâve worked on it.
This morning was beautiful, the water and skies were completely ABSOLUTELY CALM.
I was standing at the wheel one moment, and the next the boat rocked violently, side to side. I looked for waves, for a whale possibly, but there was nothing in the water, nothing showing on sonar or radar. My captain, confused, went around the boat making sure we didnât loose anything important over the side. I stayed at the wheel as the the boat flatten back out. I looked at our instruments and all of a sudden the compass started spinning clockwise, rapidly. As if we were spinning in place. It did not stop. In all honesty, I was terrified and called out to my boyfriend and he ran back up and I just pointed at the compass and said âwhat the FUCKâ. he started tapping it and was said âwhat the hell... Iâve never seen it do that before.â I reached out and place my hand on it and wiggled it a bit, to see if it was perhaps loose. It wasnât, but just as suddenly as it has started spinning when I stopped moving my hand it stopped. A moment later, our GPS malfunctioned, and we could no longer connect with the satellites. Luckily we arenât fishing far from shore so it wasnât a huge deal, but it was completely bizarre. It hasnât happened since.
While there may be mechanical reasons why each of these things occurred, the feeling I had when this happened was such an uncomfortable sensation. I donât lose my cool easily, especially while on the ocean. Itâs the place I feel the most grounded and secure. But I was was terrified, and the feeling I had as I stood on that deck was one of complete confusion. Internally, there was a loss of connection with the water surrounding me. For the rest of that day, my internal compass was off, my footing was off.
There was a break in our collective connection, and that terrifies me. If anyone reads this, and possibly understands I would love to hear input. Sisters of mine from the area did not know what to do with my story, and told me they felt a strange sensation of cold as I told them what I witnessed.
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Tarot A History and Brief Overview of Spreads
A History
The tarot, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarock is a pack of playing cards, used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games such as Italian tarocchini, French tarot and Austrian KÜnigrufen, many of which are still played today. In the late 18th century, some tarot decks began to be used for divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy leading to custom decks developed for such occult purposes. The word Tarot and German Tarock derive from the Italian Tarocchi, the origin of which is uncertain but taroch was used as a synonym for foolishness in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Playing cards first entered Europe in the late 14th century, most likely from Mamluk, Egypt, with suits of Batons or Polo sticks which are commonly known as Wands by those practicing occult or divinatory tarot, Coins which are commonly known as disks, or pentacles in occult or divinatory tarot, Swords, and Cups. These suits were very similar to modern tarot divination decks and are still used in traditional Italian, Spanish and Portuguese playing card decks.Â
The first documented tarot packs were recorded between 1440 and 1450 in Milan, Ferrara, Florence and Bologna when additional trump cards with allegorical illustrations were added to the common four-suit pack. These new decks were called carte da trionfi, triumph cards, and the additional cards known simply as trionfi, which became âtrumpsâ in English. The earliest documentation of trionfi is found in a written statement in the court records of Florence, in 1440, regarding the transfer of two decks to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.
The original purpose of tarot cards was to play games. A very cursory explanation of rules for a tarot-like deck is given in a manuscript by Martiano da Tortona before 1425. Vague descriptions of game play or game terminology follow for the next two centuries until the earliest known complete description of rules for a French variant in 1637. The 18th century saw tarotâs greatest revival, during which it became one of the most popular card games in Europe, played everywhere except Ireland and Britain, the Iberian peninsula, and the Ottoman Balkans. French tarot experienced a revival beginning in the 1970s and France has the strongest tarot gaming community.
Italian-suited tarot decks
These were the oldest form of tarot deck to be made, being first devised in the 15th century in northern Italy. The so-called occult tarot decks are based on decks of this type. Three decks of this category are still used to play certain games:
The Tarocco Piemontese consists of the four suits of swords, batons, cups and coins, each headed by a king, queen, cavalier and jack, followed by the pip cards for a total of 78 cards. Trump 20 outranks 21 in most games and the Fool is numbered 0 despite not being a trump.
The Swiss 1JJ Tarot is similar, but replaces the Pope with Jupiter, the Popess with Juno, and the Angel with the Judgement. The trumps rank in numerical order and the Tower is known as the House of God. The cards are not reversible like the Tarocco Piemontese.
The Tarocco Bolognese omits numeral cards two to five in plain suits, leaving it with 62 cards, and has somewhat different trumps, not all of which are numbered and four of which are equal in rank. It has a different graphical design than the two above as it was not derived from the Tarot of Marseilles.
Italo-Portuguese-suited tarot deck
The Tarocco Siciliano is the only deck to use the so-called Portuguese suit system which uses Spanish pips but intersects them like Italian pips. Some of the trumps are different such as the lowest trump, Miseria (destitution). It omits the Two and Three of coins, and numerals one to four in clubs, swords and cups: it thus has 64 cards but the ace of coins is not used, being the bearer of the former stamp tax. The cards are quite small and not reversible.
French-suited tarot decks
The illustrations of French-suited tarot trumps depart considerably from the older Italian-suited design, abandoning the Renaissance allegorical motifs. With the exception of novelty decks, French-suited tarot cards are almost exclusively used for card games. The first generation of French-suited tarots depicted scenes of animals on the trumps and were thus called âTiertarockâ (âTierâ being German for 'animalâ) appeared around 1740. Around 1800, a greater variety of decks were produced, mostly with genre art or veduta. Current French-suited tarot decks come in these patterns:
The Industrie und GlĂźck (Industry and Luck) genre art tarock deck of Central Europe uses Roman numerals for the trumps. It is sold with 54 cards; the 5 to 10 of the red suits and the 1 to 6 of the black suits are removed.
The Adler-Cego animal tarot is used in the Upper Rhine valley and its neighbouring hills such as the Black Forest or the Vosges, and has 54 cards organized in the same fashion as the Industrie und Glßck. Its trumps use Arabic numerals but within centred indices.
The Tarot Nouveau has 78 cards, and is commonly played in France and is somtimes used to play Cego. Its genre art trumps use Arabic numerals in corner indices.
German-suited tarot decks
German-suited decks for Bauerntarock, WĂźrttemberg Tarock and Bavarian Tarock are different. They are not true tarot packs, but a Bavarian or WĂźrttemberg pattern of the standard German-suited decks with only 36 cards; the pip cards ranging from 6 to 10, Under Knave (Unter), Over Knave (Ober), King, and Ace. These use Ace-Ten ranking, like Klaverjas, where Ace is the highest followed by 10, King, Ober, Unter, then 9 to 6. The heart suit is the default trump suit. The Bavarian deck is also used to play Schafkopf by excluding the Sixes.
Tarot Card Readings
The earliest evidence of a tarot deck used for cartomancy comes from an anonymous manuscript from around 1750 which documents rudimentary divinatory meanings for the cards of the Tarocco Bolognese. The popularization of esoteric tarot started with Antoine Court and Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) in Paris during the 1780s, using the Tarot of Marseilles. French tarot players abandoned the Marseilles tarot in favour of the Tarot Nouveau around 1900, with the result that the Marseilles pattern is now used mostly by cartomancers.
Etteilla was the first to issue a tarot deck specifically designed for occult purposes around 1789. In keeping with the misplaced belief that such cards were derived from the Book of Thoth, Etteillaâs tarot contained themes related to ancient Egypt.
The 78-card tarot deck used by esotericists has two distinct parts:
The Major Arcana (greater secrets), or trump cards, consists of 22 cards without suits:
The Minor Arcana (lesser secrets) consists of 56 cards, divided into four suits of 14 cards each;
The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World, and The Fool. Cards from The Magician to The World are numbered in Roman numerals from I to XXI, while The Fool is the only unnumbered card, sometimes placed at the beginning of the deck as 0, or at the end as XXII.
Ten numbered cards and four court cards. The court cards are the King, Queen, Knight and Page/Jack, in each of the four tarot suits. The traditional Italian tarot suits are swords, batons, coins and cups; in modern occult tarot decks, however, the batons suit is often called wands, rods or staves, while the coins suit is often called pentacles or disks.
The terms âMajor Arcanaâ and âMinor Arcanaâ were first used by Jean-Baptiste Pitois (also known as Paul Christian) and are never used in relation to tarot card games. Some decks exist primarily as artwork, and such art decks sometimes contain only the 22 major arcana.
The three most common decks used in esoteric tarot are the Tarot of Marseilles, the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, and the Thoth tarot deck.Â
The six most common Tarot Spreads are the;
Love Spread
Here is a little you should know about the âloveâ spread. This type of reading evaluates the relationships relevance, how strong and happy they are. Every relationship has its ups and downs and with this six-card spread you will be able to evaluate your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual connections with your partner. The âloveâ spread has its own 6 cards which represent the following:
#1-The first card signifies what you currently feel about your relationship, your approach, and your outlook.
#2-The second card represents your partners current emotions towards you, his attitude, and expectations about your relationship.
#3- The third card is a connection card. For example; common characteristics of both of you
#4â The fourth card indicates the strength of your relationship.
#5â The fifth card shows the weaknesses in your relationship.
#6â This final card is your true love card. It interprets if the relationship is going to be successful or not.
Success Spread
Briefly about the âSuccessâ spread; it is a remarkably situational spread. Â Itâs often used when a person is facing an obstacle or hardship. It can also be helpful if you donât know how to face or overcome a problem as it will point you in the right direction.
#1- it helps you to find out about the true colours of the challenge in front of you. It will help you to identify what sort of skill set and resources you will need in order to not just solve but also overcome the challenge.
#2- this further clarifies on your current problems and challenges.
#3- The third card reveals the hidden factors affecting your current situation. You need to have knowledge about what these factors are to really overcome the obstacle youâre facing.
#4- The fourth card represents new plans, people, or objects that can help you grow further. By adapting yourself to these new aspects, your vision of the situation will change, leaving you with better solutions to your problems.
#5- The final card shows what requirements you need to fulfill in order to be proven successful and things you should avoid as they will lead you to failure. It will point you towards success if proven to be a positive card but in other cases it could be a negative card and will warn you about an upcoming disaster in your life.
Celtic Cross Spread
Despite its complications the âCeltic Crossâ Spread has stood popular for many years. This is most likely due to the fact that its importance lies in its difficulty. Each result of the Celtic Cross can be illustrated in a variety of ways depending on the direction of the of the fallen cards. Though not recommended for beginners, once anyone understands it, he or she can use this spread to find out the full depth of the situation. With enough practice it can it can be taken in use to find the answer to any problem. Celtic Cross deals with intricate situations.
#1â presents the current situation the person finds themselves in the and the reading is about the question they are facing.
#2â is placed over the first card, pointing to the left and is always read in an upright position. It shows what the basic challenge is that needs to be solved or the mental or physical object holding them back.
#3â The third spread reveals the subconscious influences. These strange influences have an extremely strong and powerful effect on oneâs everyday life, especially in scenes relating to the question.
#4 â The fourth card shows what resources one has and the things they can use to face and solve the problem shown by the second card and in the process reach their ultimate goal, shown by the third card.
#5 â The fifth card shows the prologue of the scene. A negatively influenced past may have an effect that prevents their success on their current situation and they will need to let the memory go in order to stop it from negatively influencing their current situation so they can face and eventually overcome the problem at hand as shown by the second card. A positive past should be can simply be called inspiration. Even though the person may be facing a challenge in their current part of life, the problem
They are up against is natural growth of the positive past they had the benefit of experiencing and after they have overcome all their challenges, things will look even brighter than they were in the past.
#6 â The sixth card is the headlight. If the card states there is some form of negative energy on the way the five previous cards should give a good reasoning of why this is taking place and what we could do to prevent it.
#7 â The seventh card represents the personâs attitude. It illustrates your physical actions, thinking and ideals regarding the current problem. This will give you more to work with into whether the personâs attitude is conducive to a likable outcome or whether itâs time to retrack the way the person perceives the information.
#8 â The eighth card is an energy card. It talks about the energy surrounding them and the energy other people and the environment is letting off and if these energies are helping in any shape or form.
#9 â The ninth card tells us about what the personâs desires and fears. This is a revelation card. It gives importance to the things a person should be aware of in their current situation and might change the way a person acts which should not be neglected by them.
#10 â This is the final outcome and emphasizes on the energies, if they are complementing or conflicting. It also tells the person about the future that will take place immediately and if it is necessary or not to face the future.
Spiritual Spread
Similar to the Success Spread, the Spiritual Guidance spread is used when faced with problems that are of a spiritual nature. These sorts of challenges are usually related to spirituality in a person.
#1 â The first card represents your main concerns. You may think you know about the problem but this spread goes more in depth with it.
#2 â The second card looks into your motivation for looking for guidance.
#3 â The third card looks into the things about your life you are insecure or worried about.
#4 â The fourth card emphasizes on the parts of your life that you are not aware of.
#5 â The fifth card is your advice card as it will guide you to the steps to face your fears. It ties in with the previous cards.
#6 âThe sixth card guides us to a life with no worries so that we could move forward on our spiritual journey.
#7 â The seventh card teaches you to deal with the situation with the resources you have at hand.
#8 â Finally, the eighth card finishes the Spiritual Guidance Spread by telling us that the result of the tarot cards all depends on our reaction to it whether we focus on the positive or negative.
Career Path Spread
This spread is for times where we feel left out on our career. We work hard hoping for a promotion but to no benefit. It helps us with these kind of challenges that we face in our professional life.
#1 â The first card basically asks us if our job that we have right now is indeed our ideal job
#2 â The second card emphasizes on the actions we must take to further boost our career. A positive card means we should stay at the same position we are in right now whereas a negative one means we should make some changes.
#3 â The third card tells us about certain things about our job that we can no longer alter. The card may tell you to look for a job in the same category we are working in right now.
#4 â The fourth card refers to our skills on our job to see if theyâre enough to get us a promotion or if we are behind everyone else.
#5 â The fifth card tells us about the things we can do in our career to improve and start a new one or just small things we can do in our current career to at least get noticed.
#6 â The sixth card gives us the answer to the question that if our past mistakes are influencing our career now.
#7 â The final card tells you that if the card is negative it might lead to a bad outcome as it might result in you making other bad career choices.
However, if you arenât sure of the outcome, use the card again after a few days or weeks to see if the reading changes as your attitude changes.
Three-Card Spread
The simplest and the most useful spread, âThe Three Card Spreadâ only uses three cards. This is what makes it the most popular. This is one of the most powerful spreads and can find answers for you really quickly for almost anything, let it be overcoming a problem or an obstacle or if you are simply just feeling lost or left behind.
Linear 3 Card Tarot Spreads
As you can imagine, this layout is good at suggesting some sort of linear path, sequence of events, cause and effect, or a way of getting from point a to point b.
Past, Present, Future
You, Your Path, Your Potential
You, Relationship, Partner
Situation, Action, Outcome
Idea, Process, Aspiration
Balanced 3 Card Tarot Spreads
In this layout, each card of the spread has a common intersection. They are all equally important, like three sides of a pyramid. Without any of these, the whole structure collapses.
Mind, Body, Spirit
Physical State, Emotional State, Spiritual State
Subconscious, Conscious, Super Conscious
Option 1, Option 2, Option 3
What I think, What I feel, What I do
Foundational 3 Card Tarot Spreads
I think think one is a little harder to explain, but I like thinking of these spreads being communicators of advice in a way such that âgiven X and Y, the result is Zâ. X and Y attempt to give you a clearer understanding of options, and Z is a summary, a crux, a way to move forward given the information that is there. In fact, even when phrasing these spreads, I like saying them in a way that follows this formula to make the point clearer. The bolded items represent the actual card positions.
Given your strengths and weaknesses, this is my advice.
Given what worked well, and what didnât work well, this is the key lesson.
Given that this brings you together, and that this pulls you apart, you must focus on this.
Given that you want this from the relationship, and your partner wants this, your relationship is heading towards this.
Given Option 1 and Option 2, This is what you need to know to make a decision.
Crossed 3 Card Tarot Spreads
As the layout would imply, this is about understanding conflicts and obstacles. The card that crosses over is something that stands in the way and that needs to be overcome, something that blocks you from attaining your ultimate goal, while the third card acts as a sort of advice card, looking at the situation from a more distant viewpoint. These can also be used as simpler 2 card spreads if you want to use only the crossing cards.
Situation, Obstacle, Advice
Aspiration, Obstacle, How to Overcome
Opportunities, Challenges, Outcome
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
I will be doing card meanings on a later date :)

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Whatâs really incredible about Mad Max: Fury Road is that our titular, brooding White Male Lead in an Action Movie⢠is given no opportunities to appear badass or heroic unless heâs working as a team or directly helping the women.
We see Max alone in the desert, all brooding and action-hero-y, clearly haunted by a tragic past⌠and heâs immediately captured, chained, humiliated and spends the next half hour tied up and useless while Furiosa is off getting shit done.
Then he gets free and he comes in waving a gun around and embarrassing himself. Itâs not until Furiosa calms him down, wins him over, and he starts following her orders that heâs allowed to appear properly badass - in an action sequence that begins with him handing her a gun, and which progresses with the two of them working as the ultimate team while the girls help him as much as he defends them.
Then theyâre in the Night Bog. Max fails to hit the Bullet Farmer and instead becomes a prop to steady Furiosaâs shot. Then he runs off on a solo mission and it doesnât even merit screen time. Some dude lone wolfing it to kill a scary bad guy? Who cares. Letâs watch Nux running in front of the rig and the girls cooling down the engines instead.
Then comes the final chase. Max is undeniably awesome, but he is only allowed to be awesome because all of his efforts are dedicated to helping and protecting his weird new family. And the instant he hears Furiosa is hurt, all of his badass moments are pivoted around reaching her. He fights a hundred war boys, jumps over trucks, swings off poles, sets of explosions, beats someone with a flamethrower guitar, just so he can be there to catch Furiosa once she has killed the big bad Immortan Joe.
And, of course, his biggest heroic moment in the film isnât even a cool action sequence or taking out a villain - itâs saving someoneâs life. Itâs being selfless and compassionate. Itâs expressing love and humanity. Itâs acting as a nurse and donating his blood. Maxâs triumph is fixing something thatâs broken.
Then, at the end, instead of being rewarded with a sexy girl and something else cool like most action heroes, Max gets nothing. He gives everything to Furiosa - his love, his loyalty, his fighting skills, his blood, his name - and he takes nothing in return, nor does he feel he is owed anything. He is content simply to help her, and thanks to this love and selflessness he was able to achieve some kind of redemption.Â
In Fury Road, a manâs heroism is not determined by how strong or tough he is - it is defined by how willing he is to love, help, support and protect others, particularly women, while demanding nothing in return.Â
I was talking to someone about Fury Road today and they said âI just hated how it had no plot. They just left and then turned around and went straight back, it was so stupidâ and I think my soul was in danger of leaving my body because really - thatâs the whole point. Thatâs the great message of Mad Max Fury Road - they need to leave and go back because they need to understand that the Green Place doesnât exist. Valhalla doesnât exist. Thereâs no better place waiting, no Eden to escape to, nowhere for Furiosa and the wives to run to. This world, broken and damaged and war-torn as it is, is all they have, and if they want a Green Place then they have to make it themselves. They have to choose peace. They have to choose love for each other. They have to take the seeds from the older, violent generation and start again. They have to destroy the oppressive power structures holding them back, capitalism and the patriarchy that Immortan Joe represents.
The Green Place was around them all along, and it takes this long, cyclical journey to understand that, both for them and for the audience. The circular narrative structure is an absolute work of genius, and the fact that the entire plot can be boiled down to âthey leave and come backâ is an indication of how well this works as an action movie - that the plot is simple enough so everyone can understand whatâs going on while explosions are going off and cars are racing past at 100mph - yet itâs still incredibly rich and wonderfully complex too.
And what a pertinent message to send out - the generations before us killed the world and now itâs up to us to fix whatâs broken. Thereâs no Green Place but the one we make ourselves, which will be born out of fire and blood and rise from the ashes of the old world.

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You know what line gets me every time I watch MAD MAX FURY ROAD?Â
âDo not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.â
Think about that. âAddicted to water.â It makes it sound like water is an extra luxury that people donât need but are greedy for, something they should be able to go without, and if they are desperate for it, itâs their own fault, and not the fault of the man who has all of it, and withholds it.
Think about how the people in power tell us not to be greedy for the things we need, like healthcare, like a living wage, like the right to be free of fear and violence in our own communities. The people in power tell us not to be greedy for these things, when they themselves already enjoy them freely, and withhold them from us.
Donât trust the narrative that tells us weâre being greedy by asking for things that we need.
Donât trust the asshole sitting on a grassy hilltop with his hand on the spigot telling us not to be greedy for water.
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