Wyrd Weavings

This is just a quick look at the dynamics between the US and Iran tonight. No assigned positions for the three cards, King of Cups, Death, and the Moon, from the Science Fiction Tarot (except for the bottom of the deck, which I always see as foundational, which here appears as the World on a fingertip). A few cards from the business vocab deck, one on the situation (the EOD card) and one for each…

The Healer (3-headed snake curling around an egg), the Offering (an outstretched hand under a crescent moon, at night), the Poet (unseen in the dark but there are hands around what looks like a crystal ball and birds flying across a twilight sky), and from the bottom of the deck, the Queen (a full moon with a snake, a hand under the snake, and a lotus), all from the Wild Unknown Oracle deck. No…

An old post from my drafts folder. If you’d like me to write part 2 about the majors, please comment and let me know. —– Have you heard of best practices? In industry, they’re the practices that are most efficient and produce optimal results. I’ve been thinking about what my best practices are for life, though. I tend to think in terms of what practices will keep my life peaceful, orderly, and…

I saw the acronym SWOT today defined as strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and having recently pulled out the Wild Unknown Oracle, I thought, let’s try pulling for the collective on this. Was SWOT originally meant to be a tarot spread? Maybe someone who knows can tell me in the comments, because my running across it was pretty random. As so much is. SWOT spread using the Wild Unknown…

Every so often people ask about why to read tarot, not of me so much, but more generally on the Internet. But I’m thinking of why people turn to tarot today in response to the Pew Research study that came out in mid-May about Americans who believe in astrology, tarot, and fortunetelling. People are of course responding to this study with questions like, why this percentage of people? why these…

It’s been a long time since I have posted here, though if you want to know my views on current news and politics, you can always follow me at my Substack, Quiet Bonnie Speaks Out. Today, though, I saw in the news that the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it will stop seeking to terminate the visas of international students, and has restored the visas of students who had had their…

The U.S. Constitution, pasted in from the copy at the U.S. National Archives (you never know when the site might be taken down): We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and…

To hear me read this post aloud (length: 3:46), click here. I originally put this on Threads, but decided to copy and paste it here. I have gone back to the Washington Post and the New York Times. Even reading the Wall Street Journal when I have time. 1) They’re covering stuff I want to know about, 2) I finally figured out that my university covers the cost of these three while I’m still a…

To listen to me read this post, click here. So, I’m experimenting with a card for the month ahead, since I’m planning anyway–why not share the process with all of you? These cards are from Isabella Rotman’s This Might Hurt Tarot. (The background is an ephemeris from my Metaphysician’s Planner, the one designed by Benebell Wen, which I’ve gone back to, and highly recommend, now that I’m ready…

To hear me read this post, click here: audio for August 5 post Kamala Harris has picked Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate and I think that’s great. That said, my cards were wrong. Or at least, my reading of them was. I’ve been working on learning divination with playing cards, as an addition to my tarot work, and last Thursday, I drew playing cards on each of the six contenders.…

Why do you think the samurai practiced Zen meditation? Why do you think they didn't go around calling each other names? Because they wanted to win.

To hear me read this post aloud, click here: audio for August 1, 2024 blog post This is going to be short and blunt. Stop calling people you disagree with “idiots.” Stop calling them “mentally ill” as well. Particularly in politics. I was going to start that last paragraph with the word “please,” but fuck that. Because this isn’t a request and it’s not about being polite. I care about being…

To hear me read this blog post aloud, click here: audio of this post I once heard reader Enrique Enriquez make the comment (on the Hermit’s Lamp podcast) that “you can read the future in the objects you arrange around you.” To me, this implies that you can also affect, and change, the future by properly arranging objects around you—in other words, by cleaning, by decorating, by organizing your…

To hear me read this post aloud, click here: https://voca.ro/1oNWMjTv8jDJ. I’m listening to astrologers talking about the year (and years) ahead, and I keep hearing these remarks about Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn in Pisces. I consider myself very much a student, not an expert, when it comes to astrology. But–on the other hand, I’m pretty good with a metaphor. Astrologers keep talking about…

To hear me read this post, use the embedded audio player below. So I’m not particularly following Trump’s case in New York this week. But I caught a blip of it today and noticed how very sad and pouty he looked in court. I was wondering what’s going on with his facial expression: What does it mean? I drew a quick few cards, using my go-to four card quick spread: situation and what to know (so…

The clock is ticking. Does uncharted territory lie ahead? First, a delay (and yes, I checked the news before posting this and saw that the delay in the cards is in the news too).

To read this post read aloud, click here: https://voca.ro/15EQwSYYVRdI [This post is actually from a reading yesterday–I wrote the post but didn’t have time to edit and add the Vocaroo yesterday.] Don’t I ever read about anything besides the debt ceiling? Yes, but it seems like not lately! I am worried. My read today does look more optimistic, though. Card number 50 from Colette Baron-Reid’s…

To listen to this blog post, click here: https://voca.ro/1f3XtdeTuW9v. Why read with the Samurai Tarot about the debt ceiling? What deranged ADHD madness is causing my brain to link the U.S. economy with the greatest swordsmen who have ever lived? If that’s your question, please wake up. We live in extremely polarized times. And who better to consider this matter than a group of people who…

Just a reflective spread for those who still like to reflect.

To hear the recording of this post, click here: https://vocaroo.com/embed/1fm1xt86AMBX?autoplay=0View on Vocaroo >> Oh, knowledge. We think we know. Maybe we do. But some of what we think we know may be wrong. We may have been lied to. We may have been shown misinformation. We may simply have projected our own beliefs onto the situation. We may have refused to listen or see aspects of the…