This exploration poignantly illustrates that the true cost of immortality is the loss of the vulnerability that defines our humanity. It serves as a sobering reminder that life only gains its weight through the very finitude we so desperately try to escape.
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Evening Adoartion to the Muses, "Come Lady Death."Ajouté :
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Hello beautiful people and welcome to Drying Down the Dragon. I'm Snappy and thank you for joining me for our evening adoration to the muses.
And we cry out in loving adoration to the great mother, the twins and the muses, the one duality and generation.
And we ask the muses to sing in us the songs of inspiration to guide us in our daily wanderings and to teach us to listen and perceive with reasoned clarity.
Hail the great gods. Hail Hestia. Much love everyone. It's so great to be here with you all. Let's give a shout out to the chat. Much love, Honeybee. Lesie, much love, Metal Chaos. Much love, Brian. Much love, Christy. Much love. It's a pleasure to see you guys. Really truly appreciate it. Steve, much love. Great to see you.
All right, now let's discuss the astrology. Excuse me. Let me get a quick drink here.
We are under the moon in Virgo. Intense, analytical, organizing, hardworking Virgo. Powerful energy. Energy that can be truly self-reflective. That can call us into the depths of our inner worlds.
That can give us the strength to overcome and refine ourselves, right?
Really powerful energy. An energy that we should sit in. You should take the time to meditate and feel it and organize your life. Figure it out. Where are you going? What do you want? What are you building towards? How can you better yourself? What needs to go and what needs to be refined? Right?
Powerful energy for this. But also, we got to relax a bit too. It's so easy with that Virgo perfectionism to just be overly critical of ourselves and overly critical of the world. Isolating energy, right? There's a time and a place. It's always important to sit in the self and listen, but we also don't want to be too hard on us and we don't want to push people away either. So, use this energy, put it into that organizing mindset.
Figure out what matters most and what you can do to grow. All right, that's the astrology. So, we're now going to dive in and read our magical prayer. And as always, we read the prayer to Seline for any spell from the PGM, the Greek magical papyrie. One of my all-time favorite prayers. Just a really, really beautiful piece. So, let's bring that up and we'll dive in.
All right.
Come to me, oh beloved mistress, three-face Seline. Kindly hear my sacred chants. Knights ornament young, bringing light to mortals. Oh child of mourn who ride upon fierce bulls. Oh queen who drive your car on equal course with Helios. Who with the triple forms of triple graces dance and revel with the stars. Your justice and the Moira's threads. Cloth and laces and atropose three-headed your pesphananya alleto many formed who arm your hands with dreaded murky lamps. Who shake your locks of fearful serpents on your brow who sound the roar of bulls out from your mouths whose womb is decked out with the scales of creeping things with poisonous rows of serpents down the back bound down your backs with horrifying chains. Night crier, bull-faced, loving solitude, bullheaded. You of eyes of bulls, the voice of dogs. You hide your forms in shanks of lions. Your ankle is wolf-shaped. Fierce dogs are dear to you. Wherefore they call you hikate.
Many named men, cleaving air, just like dart shooter, Artemis, Pphanie, shooter of deer, night shining, triple sounding, triple-headed, triplevoiced. Selene, tripleointed, triplefaced, triple necked, and goddess of the triple ways, who hold untiring flaming fire in triple baskets. And you who ought frequent the triple way, and rule the triple decades, unto me whom calling you be gracious, and with kindness give heed, you who protect the spacious world at night, before whom diamonds quake in fear, and gods immortal tremble. Goddess who exalt men, you of many names, who bear fair offspring, bully horned, mother of gods and men and nature, mother of all things. For you frequent Olympus, in the broad and boundless chasm, you traverse.
Beginning and end are you, and you alone rule all. For all things are from you, and in you do all things, eternal one, come to their end. As everlasting band around your temples, you wear great Cronis' chains. unbreakable and unreovable. And you hold in your hands a golden scepter. Letters round your scepter Kronos wrote himself and gave to you to wear that all things stay steadfast. Subdu and subdued. Mankind subduer and force subduer. Chaos too you rule. Aarakura ephiscer. Hail goddess attend your epithets. I burn for you despise. Oh child of Zeus, dartshooter, heavenly one, goddess of harbors who roam the mountains, goddess of crossroads, oh nether and nocturnal and infernal, goddess of dark, quiet and frightful one. Oh you who have your meal amid the graves, night, darkness, broad chaos, necessity, hard to escape are you, your Moira and Arones, torment, justice and destroyer. And you keep cerberous in chains. With scales of serpents are you dark. Oh you with hair of serpents, serpent girded, who drink blood, who bring death and destruction, and who feast on hearts, flesh eater, who devour those dead untimely, and you who make grief resound and spread madness. Come to my sacrifices. And now for me, do you fulfill this matter. Hail Artemis. Hail Heci. Hail Seline.
Absolutely love it. Beautiful.
Beautiful. I hope that got you as pumped as it always does me. Truly a beautiful prayer. Love it. Wild stuff. Now, we're going to dive into our readings for the evening. And we're going to continue ex our exploration into this fun book here, the book of imaginary beings by Jorge Garcia Lou or by Jorge Louie Garcia, an Argentinian writer, really beautiful, really beautiful writer. So, last we left off this morning was with this passage here, the Chinese Sphinx. And those of you who are new, um, we've been exploring this work and it's sort of like a encyclopedia of mythological animals from across many cultures, times, and places. Anything that I guess uh, Borgess read about and thought was interesting. And he assembled this and gives us a little brief synopsis and cites his sources. It's a fun book exploring mythic, magical, imaginary creatures.
The Chinese phoenix.
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The sacred books of the Chinese may be disappointing for the reason that they lack the pathetic element to which we have been accustomed by the Bible. But occasionally, all at once, in their eventeered discourse, we are moved by some intimacy. This one, for instance, recorded in book seven of the Confucian analcts, the Wy translation. The master said, "How utterly have things gone to the bad with me. It is long now indeed since I dreamed that I saw the Duke of Chu. Or this one from the book nine."
The master said, "The phoenix does not come. The river gives forth no chart. It is all over with me." The chartor sign explained the commentaries refers to an inscription on the back of a magical tortoise. As for the phoenix, it is a bird of brilliant colors, not unlike the pheasant and peacock. In prehistoric times, it visited the gardens and palaces of virtuous emperors as a visible token of celestial favor. The male Fang, which had three legs, lived in the sun. the female Wong. Together they are the emblem of everlasting love.
In the first century AD, the daring unbeliever Wang Chun denied that the phoenix constituted a determined species. He said that just as the serpent turns into a fish and the rat into a tortoise, the stag in times of widespread prosperity takes the form of the unicorn and the goose that of the phoenix. He explained these mutations by the well-known liquid which some 2,356 years BC in the countryard of Yao who was one of the model emperors had made the grass grow scarlet. As may be seen his information was deficient or rather excessive. In the infernal regions there is an imaginary structure known as the tower of the phoenix.
Oh, how fun. And I love how they reference the the turtle with the sign upon his back. What is the sign upon the turtle's back? It's the magic square, the loud shoe, which is in our western tradition the Saturn square. The 3x3 square that I use in every single one of my tarot readings.
How fun is that? Eh, interesting. Okay, let's continue here. Let's continue.
We're going to now read Kronos or Heracles.
The treatis difficulties and solutions of prince of first principles by the neoplatinist Damascus born about AD 480 records a strange version of the theogy and cosmogy of orphism in which Kronos or Heracles is a monster.
According to Heronomous and Helenicus, if the two are not one, Orphic doctrine teaches that in the beginning there was water and mud with which the earth was shaped. These two principles were taught to be the first, water and earth. From them came the third, a winged dragon, which in its four parts had the head of a bull, and its hind parts the head of a lion, and in its middle the face of a god. This dragon was named the unaging Kronos and also Heracles. With him, necessity, also known as the inevitable, was born and spread to the boundaries of the universe. Kronos the dragon, drew from himself a three-fold seed, moist ether, limitless chaos, and misty Arabus. Under them he laid an egg from which the world was to hatch. The last principle was a god who was man and woman with golden wings on its back and bulls heads on its sides and on its head a huge dragon like all manner of beasts perhaps because what is excessively monstrous seems less fitting to Greece than to the east. Walter Kron attributes an oriental origin to these fancies.
I don't know about that an oriental origin maybe. I mean Dian Isis comes from the east but you know to me and to people who are into this kind of stuff who follow along on this channel will be familiar with much of the magical orphic stuff here. This is this is familiar and this is beautiful. We have cosmogonic aeros right cosmogonic aeros that primordial elemental one right that Kronos time Heracles right that's what we're talking about here it's that primal elemental energy that then comes into the earth in the water right and then gives birth to the cosmic egg and that egg is F's thesis right which is then ripped apart and descends into all creations and we see such similar ilarities between this and the other Indo-Uropean myths. You know, you can see very similar things in the vadas, right? It's a really powerful imagery.
Truly magical, beautiful. Love it.
All right, let's continue.
Okay, so this will be the last one we're going to read from Louis Borges, a creature imagined by CS Lewis.
Slowly, shakily, with unnatural and inhuman movements, a human form, scarlet in the fire light, crawled out onto the floor of the cave. It was the unman of course, dragging its broken leg and with its lowered jaw sagging open like that of a corpse. It raised itself to a standing position, and then close behind it, something else came up out of the hole. First came what looked like branches of trees and then seven or eight spots of light irregularly grouped like a constellation. Then a tubular mass which reflected the red glow as if it were polished. His heart gave a great leap as the branches suddenly resolved themselves into long wiry feelers and the dotted lights became the many eyes of a shell helmeted head and the mass that followed it was revealed as a large roughly cylindrical body. Horrible things followed angular many jointed legs and presently when he thought the whole body was in sight a second body came following it and after that a third. The thing was in three parts, united only by a kind of wasps waist structure. Three parts that did not seem to be truly aligned and made it look as if it had been trotten on a huge, manylegged, quivering deformity, standing just behind the unman so that that the horrible shadows of both danced in enormous and united menace on the wall of rock behind them. CS Lewis, Perilandra.
Oh, wow. What a wild description there.
What a wild description.
What a wild description. Truly, truly beautiful. How fun is that? How fun is that? You know, CS Lewis may be a weirdo, but could they ever write?
Okay, let's continue. Now, we're going to dive into a fun piece of fiction I'm excited to share with you all. We're going to be reading the beautiful short story Come Lady Death. And this is by Peter S. Beagle. And Peter S. Beagle is one of these authors many of you will know but not know. For they are most famous for writing one of the great fantasy novels, The Last Unicorn. And many of you will not have read that book, but I'm certain so many of you have seen the wonderful animation.
Right? If you haven't yet, go check out The Last Unicorn. It's free up on YouTube. I was just watching it the other day and it made me think of Peter Beagle and to go back and look up some of his stuff. So, led me to this beautiful, beautiful work here. So, we're going to have some fun and read this wonderful short. And this was published back, I believe, in 1963 in Atlantic magazine.
Come Lady Death, Peter S. Beagle.
Born and brought up in the Bronx, Peter S. Beagle studied creative writing under Edwin L. Peterson at the University of Pittsburgh and then spent a year on the European continent. His first novel, A Fine and Private Place, was published by Viking in 1960. He is now at work on another book of fiction, so before his fame. All right, let's see here.
This all happened in England a long time ago when that George who spoke English with a heavy German accent and hated his sons was king. At that time there lived in London a lady who had nothing to do but give parties. Her name was Flora, Lady Neville, and she was a widow and very old. She lived in a great house not far from Buckingham Palace, and she had so many servants that she could not possibly remember all their names.
Indeed, there were some she had never even seen. She had more food than she could eat, more gowns than she could ever wear. She had wine in her sellers that no one would drink in her lifetime, and her private vaults were filled with great works of art that she did not know she owned. She spent the last years of her life giving parties and balls to which the greatest lords of England and sometimes the king himself came and she was known as the wisest and wittiest woman in all London. But in time, her own parties began to bore her. And though she invited the most famous people in the land and hired the greatest jugglers and acrobats and dancers and magicians to entertain them, she still found her parties duller and duller. Listening to court gossip, which she had always loved, made her yawn. The most marvelous music, the most exciting feats of magic, put her to sleep.
Watching a beautiful young couple dance by her made her feel sad and she hated to feel sad. And so one summer afternoon she called her closest friends around her and said to them, "More and more I find that my parties entertain everyone but me. The secret of my long life is that nothing has ever been dull for me.
For all my life, I have been interested in everything I saw and been anxious to see more. But I cannot stand to be bored. And I will not go to parties at which I expect to be bored, especially if they are my own. Therefore, to my next ball I should invite, the one guest I am sure no one, not even myself, could possibly find boring. My friends, the guest of honor, and my next party shall be death himself.
A young poet thought that this was a wonderful idea, but the rest of her friends were terrified and drew back from her. They did not want to die. They pleaded with her. Death would not come for them when he was death would come for them when he was ready. Why should she invite him before the appointed hour, which would arrive soon enough?
But Lady Neville said, "Precisely, if death is planned to take any of us on the night of my party, he will come whether he is invited or not. But with if none of us are to die, then I think it would be charming to have death among us. Perhaps even to perform some little trick if he is in a good humor. And think of being able to say that we had been to a party with death. All of London will envy us all of England. The idea began to please her friends. But a young lord, very new to London, suggested timidly, "Death is so busy.
Suppose he has work to do and cannot accept your invitation.
No one has ever refused an invitation of mine, said Lady Neville, not even the king. And the young lord was not invited to her party.
She sat down then and there and wrote out the invitation. There was some dispute among her friends as to how they should address death. His lordship death seemed to place him only on the level of a viscount or a baron. His grace death met with more acceptance. But Lady Neville said it sounded hypocritical.
And to refer to death as his majesty, was to make him the equal of the king of England, which even Lady Neville would not dare to do. It was finally decided that all should speak of him as his eminence death, which pleased nearly everyone. Captain Thompson, known both as England's most known both as England's most dashing off cavalry officer and most elegant rake, remarked next. That's all very well, but how is the invitation to reach death?
Does anybody here know where he lives?
Death undoubtedly lives in London, said Lady Neville, like everyone else of any importance, though he probably goes to Doville for the summer. Actually, death must live fairly near my own house. This is much the best section of London, and you could hardly expect a person of death's importance to live anywhere else. When I stopped to think of it, it's really rather strange that we haven't met before now on the street.
Most of her friends agreed with her, but the poet, whose name was David Lorimman, cried out, "No, my lady, you are wrong.
Death lives among the poor. Death lives in the foulest, darkest alleys of this city, in some vile ratridden havvel that smells of. He stopped there, partly because Lady Neville had indicated her displeasure, and partly because he had never been inside such a hut, or thought of wondering what it smelled like.
"Death lives among the poor," he went on, "and come to visit them every day, for he is their only friend."
Lady Neville answered him as coldly as she had spoken to the young lord. He may be forced to deal with them, David, but I hardly think that he seeks them out as compions. I am certain that it is as difficult for him to think of the poor as individuals as it is for me. Death is, after all, a nobleman. There was no real argument among the lords and ladies that death lived in a neighborhood, at least as good as their own. But none of them seemed to know the name of Death Street. And no one had ever seen Death's house. If there were a war, Captain Thompson said, Death would be easy to find. I have seen him.
You know, even spoken to him, but he has never answered me. Quite proper, said Lady Neville. Death must always speak first. You are not very correct. You are not a very correct person, Captain. But she smiled at him as all women did.
Then an idea came to her. "My hairdresser has a sick child. I understand," she said. "He was telling me about it yesterday, sounding more dull and hopeless. I will send for him and give him the invitation, and he in his turn can give it to death when he comes to take the brat." A bit unconventional, I must admit, but I see no other way. If he refuses," asked the Lord, who had just been married. Why should he? asked Lady Neville. Again, it was the poet who exclaimed amidst the general approval that this was a cruel and wicked thing to do. But he fell silent when Lady Neville innocently asked him, "Why, David?"
So the hairdresser was sent for, and when he stood before them smiling nervously and twisting his hands to be in the same room with so many great lords, Lady Neville told him the errand that was required of him, and she was right, as she usually was, for he made no refusal. He merely took the invitation in his hand and asked to be excused. He did not return for two days, but when he did, he presented himself to Lady Neville without being sent for and handed her a small white envelope, saying, "How very nice of you. Thank you very much." She opened it and found therein a plain calling card with nothing on it except these words. "Death will be pleased to attend Lady Neville's ball." "Death gave you this?" she asked the hairdresser eagerly. "What was he like?" But the hairdresser stood still, looking past her and said nothing. And she, not really waiting for an answer, called a dozen servants to her and told them to run and summon her friends. As she paced up and down the room, waiting for them. She asked again, "What is death like?" The hairdresser did not reply. When her friends came, they pressed the little card excitedly from hand to hand until it had gotten quite smudged and bent from their fingers. But they all admitted that beyond its message there was nothing particularly unusual about it. It was neither hot nor cold to the touch, and what little odor clung to it was rather pleasant.
Everyone said that it was a very familiar smell, but no one could give it a name. The poet said that it reminded him of lilacs, but not exactly. It was Captain Copson, however, who pointed out the one thing that no one else had noticed. "Look at the handwriting itself," he said. "Have you ever seen anything more graceful? The letters seem as light as birds. I think we have wasted our time speaking of death as his this and his that." A woman wrote this note. Then there was an uproar and a great babble and the card had to be handed around again so that everyone could exclaim yes by God over it. The voice of the poet rose out of the hubbub saying it is very natural when you come to think of it. After all the French say lama lady death. I should much prefer death to be a woman. Death rides a great black horse, said Captain Thompson firmly, and wears armor of the same color. Death is very tall, taller than anyone. It was no woman I saw on the battlefield, striking right and left like any soldier. Perhaps the hairdresser wrote it himself or the hairdresser's wife. But the hairdresser refused to speak, though they gathered around him and begged him to say who had given him the note. At first they promised him all sorts of rewards and later they threatened to do terrible things to him. Did you write this card?
He was asked. And who wrote it then? Was it a living woman? Was it really death?
Did death say anything to you? How did you know it was death? Is death a woman?
Are you trying to make fools of us all?
Not a word from the hairdresser. Not one word. And finally Neville called her servants to have him whipped and thrown into the street. He did not look at her as they took him away or utter a sound.
Silencing her friends with a wave of her hand, Lady Neville said, "The ball will take place two weeks from tonight. Let death come as death pleases, whether as man or woman or strange sexless creature." She smiled calmly. "Death may well be a woman," she said. I am less curious of death's form than I was, but I am also less frightened of death. I am too old to be afraid of anything that can use a quill pen to write me a letter. Go home now, and as you make your preparations for the ball, see that you speak of it to your servants, that they might spread the news all over London. Let it be known that on this one night no one in the world will die. For death will be dancing at Lady Neville's ball.
Visiting in the homes of richer, mightier people than herself, fearing the scorn of death, she worked night and day supervising her servants preparations. Curtains and carpets had to be cleaned. Gold work and silverware polished until they gleamed by themselves in the dark. The grand staircase that rushed down into the ballroom like a waterfall was washed and rubbed so often that it was almost impossible to walk on it without slipping. As for the ballroom itself, it took 32 servants working at once to clean it properly, not counting those who were polishing the glass chandelier that was taller than a man and the 14 smaller lamps. And when they were done, she made them do it all over, not because she saw any dust or dirt anywhere, but because she was sure the death would. As for herself, she chose her finest gown and saw to its laundering personally. She called in another hairdresser and had him put up her hair in the style of an earlier time, wanting to show death that she was a woman who enjoyed her age and did not find it necessary to ape the young and beautiful. All the day of the ball she sat before her mirror, not making herself up much beyond the normal touches of rouge and eyeshadow and fine rice powder, but staring at the lean old face she had been born with, wondering how it would appear to death. Her steward asked her to approve his wine selection. But she sent him away and stayed at her mirror until it was time to dress and go downstairs to meet her guests. Everyone arrived early. She looked out of a window. Lady Neville saw that the driveway of her home was choked with carriages and fine horses. It all looks like a great funeral procession, she said. The footmen carried the names of her guests to the echoing ballroom.
Captain Henry Thompson, his majesty's household cavalry. Mr. David Laurimond, Lord and Lady Torrance. They were the youngest couple there, having been married only three months before. Sir Roger Harbison, the Contessa Dela Candini, Lady Neville permitted them all to kiss her hand and made them welcome.
She had enraged engaged the finest musicians she could find to play for the dancing. But though they began to play at her signal, not one couple stepped out on the floor, nor did one young lord approach her to request the honor of the first dance as was proper. They milled together, shining and murmuring, their eyes fixed on a ballroom door. Every time they heard a carriage clatter up the driveway, they seemed to flinch a little and draw closer together. Every time the footmen announced the arrival of another guest, they all sighed softly and swayed a little on their feet with relief. Why did they come to my party if they were afraid? Ley, Lady Neville muttered scornfully to herself. I am not afraid of meeting death. I ask only that death may be impressed by the magnificence of my house and the flavor of my wines. I will die sooner than anyone here. But I am not afraid.
Certain that death would not arrive until midnight, she moved among her guests, attempting to calm them, not with her words which she knew they would not hear, but with the tone of her voice, as they were so many frightened horses. by little by little. She herself was infected by their nervousness.
Whenever she sat down, she stood up again immediately. She tasted a dozen glasses of wine without finishing any of them, and she glanced constantly at her jeweled watch. At first, wanting to hurry the midnight along and end the waiting, later scratching at the watch face with her forefinger, as if she would push away the night and drag the sun backward into the sky. When midnight came, she was standing with the rest of them, breathing through her mouths shifting foot to foot, listening for the sound of carriage wheels turning in gravel. When the clock began to strike midnight, everyone, even Lady Neville and the brave Captain Thompson, gave one startled little cry, and then was silent again, listening to the toiling of the clock. The smaller clocks upstairs began to chime. Lady Neville's ears hurt. She caught sight of herself in the ballroom mirror. One gray face turned up toward the ceiling as if she were gasping for air. And she thought, "Death will be a woman, a hideous, filthy old crone as tall and strong as a man. And the most terrible thing of all will be that she will have my face." All the clocks stopped striking, and Lady Neville closed her eyes. She opened them again only when she heard the whispering around her take on a different tone. One in which one in which fear was fused with relief and a certain chagrin for no new carriage stood in the driveway. Death had not come. The noise grew slowly louder here and there. Perhaps people were beginning to laugh. Near her. Lady Neville heard young Lord Torrance say to his wife, "There, my darling, I told you there was nothing to be afraid of. It was all a joke."
"I am ruined," Lady Neville thought. The laughter was increasing. It pounded against her ears and strokes like the chiming of the clocks. "I wanted to give a ball so grand that those who were not invited would be shamed in front of the whole city. And this is my reward. I am ruined. and I deserve it. Turning to the poet Laura, she said, "Dance with me, David." She signaled to the musicians who at once began to play.
When Laurimond hesitated, she said, "Dance with me now. You will not have another chance. I shall never give a party again." Lorimond bowed and led her out onto the dance floor. The guests parted for them, and the laughter died down for a moment. But Lady Neville knew that it would soon begin again. "Well, let them laugh," she thought. "I did not fear death when they were all trembling.
Why should I fear their laughter?"
She thought, "I did not fear death when they were all trembling, but why should I fear their laughter?" But she could feel his stinging at the thin lids of her eyes, and she closed them once more.
She began to dance with Lorond. And then quite suddenly all the carriage horses outside the house winnied loudly just once as the guests had cried out at midnight. There was a great many horses and their one salute was so loud that everyone in the room became instantly silent. They heard the heavy steps of the footman as he went to open the door, and they shivered as if they felt the cool breeze that drifted into the house.
Then they heard a light voice saying, "Am I late? Oh, I am so sorry. The horses were tired." And before the footmen could re-enter to announce her, a lovely young girl in a white dress stepped gracefully into the ballroom doorway and stood there smiling. She could not have been more than 19. Her hair was yellow, and she wore it long.
It fell thickly upon her bare shoulders that gleamed warmly through it. two limestone islands rising out of a dark golden sea. Her face was wide at the forehead and cheekbones and narrow at the chin. And her skin was so clear that many of the ladies there, Lady Neville among them, touched their own faces wonderingly and instantly drew their hands away as though their own skin had rasped their fingers. Her mouth was pale, where the mouths of the other women were red and orange and even purple. Her eyebrows, thicker and straighter than was fashionable, met over dark, calm eyes that were set so deep in her young face, and were so black, so uncompromisingly black that the middle-aged wife of a middle-aged lord murmured. Touch of the gypsy there, I think. Or something worse, suggested her husband's mistress. Be silent. Lady Neville spoke louder than she had intended, and the girl turned to look at her. She smiled and Lady Neville tried to smile back, but her mouth seemed very stiff. "Welcome," she said. "Welcome, my lady death." A sigh rustled among the lords and ladies as the girl took the old woman's hand in curtsy to her, sinking and rising in one motion like a wave. "You are Lady Neville," she said.
"Thank you so much for inviting me." Her accent was as faint and as almost familiar as her perfume. Please excuse me for being late," she said earnestly.
"I had to come from a long way off, and my horses are so tired." "The groom will rub them down," Lady Neville said. "And feed them if you wish." "Oh, no," the girl answered quickly. "Tell him not to go near the horses, please. They are not really horses, and they are very fierce." She accepted a glass of wine from a servant and drank it slowly, sighing softly and contentedly. "What good wine!" she said, "And what a beautiful house you have." "Thank you," said Lady Neville, without turning. She could feel every woman in the room envying her, sensing it as she could always sense the approach of rain. "I wish I lived here," Death said in her low, sweet voice. "I will one day."
Then, seeing Lady Neville become as still as if she had turned to ice, she put her hand on the old woman's arm and said, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I am so cruel, but I never mean to be. Please forgive me, Lady Neville. I am not used to company, and I do such stupid things.
Please forgive me. Her hand felt as light and warm on the Lady Neville's arm as the hand of any other young girl, and her eyes were so appealing that Lady Neville replied, "You have said nothing wrong. While you are my guest, my house is yours."
Thank you, said Death, and she smiled so radiantly that the musicians began to play quite by themselves, with no sign from Lady Neville. She would have stopped them, but Death said, "Oh, what lovely music! Let them play, please." So the musicians played a gavat, and death, unabashed by eyes that stared at her in greedy terror, sang softly to herself without words, lifted her white gown slightly with both hands, and made hesitant little padding steps with her small feet. "I have not danced in so long," she said wisfully. "I'm quite sure I forgotten how." She was shy. She would not look up to embarrass the young lords, not one of whom stepped forward to dance with her. Lady Neville felt a flood of shame and sympathy, emotions she thought she had withered in her years ago. Is she to be humiliated at my own ball? She thought angrily. It is because she is death. If she were the ugliest, foulest hag in all the world, they would clamor to dance with her because they are gentlemen and they know what is expected of them. But no gentleman will dance with death, no matter how beautiful she is. She glanced sideways at David Lurimund. His face was flushed. His hands were clasped so tightly as he stared at death that his fingers were like glass. But when Lady Neville touched his arm, he did not turn. And when she hissed, "David," he pretended not to hear her. Then Captain Compson, gray-haired and handsome in his uniform, stepped out of the crowd and bowed gracefully before death. "If I may have the honor," he said. "Captain Thompson," said death, smiling. She put her arm in his. I was hoping you would ask me. This brought a frown from the older women who did not consider it a proper thing to say, but for what that death cared not a rap. Captain Thompson led her to the center of the floor, and there they danced. Death was curiously graceless at first. She was too anxious to please her partner, and she seemed to have no notion of rhythm. The captain himself moved with the mixture of dignity and humor that Lady Neville had never seen in another man. But when he looked at her over death's shoulders, she saw something that no one else appeared to notice. That his face and eyes were immobile with fear, and that though he offered death his hand with easy gallantry, he flinched slightly when she took it, and yet he danced as well as Lady Neville had ever seen him.
Ah, that's what comes of having a reputation to maintain, she thought.
Captain Thompson too must do what is expected of him. I hope someone else will dance with her soon. But no one did. Little by little, other couples overcame their fear and slipped hurdly out on the floor when death was looking the other way. But nobody sought to relieve Captain Compson of his beautiful partner. They danced every dance together. In time, some of the men present began to look at her with more appreciation than terror. But when she returned their glances and smiled at them, they cling. They clung to their partners as if a cold wind were threatening to blow them away.
One of the flew one of the few who stared at her frankly and with pleasure was the young Lord Torrance, who usually danced only with his wife. Another was the poet Laurant dancing with Lady Neville. He remarked to her, "If she is death, what do these frightened fools think they are? If she is ugliness, what must they be? I hate their fear. It is obscene." Death and the captain danced past them at that moment, and they heard him say to her, "But if that was truly you that I saw in the battle, how can you have changed so? How can you have become so lovely?" Death's laughter was gay and soft. I thought that among so many beautiful people it might be better to be beautiful. I was afraid of frightening everyone and spoiling the party. They all thought she would be ugly, said Laurammont to Lady Neville. I I knew she would be beautiful. Then why have you not danced with her? Lady Neville asked him. Are you also afraid?
Oh, oh no. The poet answered quickly and passionately. I will ask her to dance very soon. I only want to look at her a little longer.
The musicians played on and on. The dancing warway the night as slowly as falling water wears down a cliff. It seemed to Lady Neville that no night had ever endured longer. And yet she was neither tired nor bored. She danced with every man there except with Lord Torrance, who was dancing with his wife as if they had just met that night, and of course with Captain Thompson. Once he lifted his hand and touched death's golden hair very lightly. He was a striking man, still a fit partner for so beautiful a girl. But Lady Neville looked at his face each time she passed him and realized that he was older than anyone knew. Death herself seemed younger than the youngest there. No woman at the ball danced better than she now, though it was hard for Lady Neville to remember at what point her awkwardness had given way to the liquid sweetness of her movements. She smiled and called to everyone who caught her eye, and she knew them all by name. She sang constantly, making up words to the dance tunes, nonsense words, sounds without meaning. And yet everyone strained to hear her soft voice without knowing why. And when during a waltz she caught up the trailing end of her gown to give her more freedom as she danced, she seemed to Lady Neville to move like a little sailing boat over a still evening sea. Lady Neville heard Lady Torrance arguing angrily with the Contessa Dela Candini. I don't care if she is death. She's no older than I am.
She can't be. Nonsense, said the Contessa, who could not afford to be generous to any other woman. She is 2830 if she is an hour and that dress that bridal gown she wears really vile said the woman who had come to the ball as Captain Thompson's freely acknowledged mistress tasteless but one should know better than to expect taste from death I suppose. Lady Torrance looked as if she were going to cry. They are jealous of death. Lady Neville said to herself, how strange. I am not jealous of her, not in the least, and I do not fear her at all.
She was very proud of herself. Then, un as unbiddingly as they had begun to play, the musicians stopped. They began to put away their instruments. In the sudden shrill silence, death pulled away from Captain Thompson and ran to look out of one of the tall windows, pushing the curtains apart with both hands.
"Look," she said with her back turned to them. Come and look. The night is almost gone.
The summer sky was still dark, and the eastern horizon was only a shade lighter than the rest of the sky, but the stars had vanished, and the trees near the house were gradually becoming distinct.
Death pressed her face against the window and said so softly that the other guests could barely hear her. "I must go now." "No," Lady Neville said, and was not immediately aware that she had spoken. "You must stay a while longer.
The ball was in your honor. Please stay.
Death held out both hands to her, and Lady Neville came and took them in her own. I've had a wonderful time, she said gently. You cannot possibly imagine how it feels to be actually invited to such a ball as this, because you have given them and gone to them all your life. One is like another to you, but for me it is different. Do you understand me? Lady Neville nodded silently. I will remember this night forever, Death said. Stay, Captain Thompson said. stay just a little longer. He put his hand on death's shoulders. And she smiled and leaned her cheek against it. "Dear Captain Thompson," she said. "My first real galang, my real gallant. Aren't you tired of me yet?" "Never," he said.
"Please stay. Stay," said Lorie Mond.
And he too seemed about to touch her.
"Stay! I want to talk to you. I want to look at you. I will dance with you if you stay." How many followers I have, said death, death said in wonder. She stretched one hand toward Lormont. But he drew back from her and then flushed in shame. A shoulder, a soldier, and a poet. How wonderful it is to be a woman.
But why did you not speak to me earlier, both of you? Now it is too late. I must go. Please stay, Lady Torrance whispered. She held on to her husband's hand for courage. We think you are so beautiful. Both of us do. Gracious Lady Torrance," the girl said kindly. She turned back to the window, touched it lightly, and it flew open. The cooled on air rushed into the ballroom, fresh with rain, but already smelling faintly of the London streets over which it had passed. They heard bird song in the strange harsh nickerings of death's horses. "Do you want me to stay?" she asked. The question was put not to Lady Neville, nor to Captain Consonant, nor to any of her admirers, but to the Contessa Delicandini, who stood well back from the mall, hugging her flowers to herself and humming a little song of irritation. She did not, in the least, want death to stay, but she was afraid that all the other women would think her envious of death's beauty, and so she said, "Yes, of course I do." Ah, said Death. She was almost whispering. And you said to another, she said to another woman, "Do you want me to stay? Do you want me to be one of your friends?"
"Yes," said the woman, "because you are beautiful and a true lady." "And you," said death to a man, and you to a woman, and you to another man, "Do you want me to stay?" And they all answered, "Yes, Lady Death, we do. Do you want me then?"
She cried at last to all of them. Do you want me to live among you and to be one of you and not to be death anymore? Do you want me to visit your houses and come to all your parties? Do you want me to ride horses like yours instead of mine? Do you want me to wear the kind of dresses you wear and say the things you would say? Would one of you marry me and would the rest of you dance at my wedding and bring gifts to my children?
Is that what you want? Yes, said Lady Neville. Stay here. Stay with me. Stay with us.
Death's voice, without becoming louder, had become clearer and older. Too old a voice, thought Lady Neville, for such a young girl. Be sure, said Death, be sure of what you want, be very sure. Do all of you want me to stay? For if one of you says to me, "No, go away." Then I must leave at once and never return. Be sure. Do you all want me? And everyone there cried with one voice. Yes, yes, you must stay with us. You are so beautiful that we cannot let you go. We are tired, said Captain Thompson. We are blind, said Lorimman, adding especially to poetry. We are afraid, said Lord Torrance quietly, and his wife took his arm and said, "Both of us, we are dull and stupid," said Lady Neville, "and growing old uselessly. Stay with us, Lady Death." And then death smiled sweetly and radiantly and took a step forward. And it was as though she had come down almost amongst them among them from a great height. Very well, she said, I will stay with you. I will be death no more. I will be a woman. The room was full of a deep sigh. Although no one was seen to open his mouth, no one moved.
For the goldenhaired girl was death still was death still. and her horses still winnied for her outside. No one could look at her for long, although she was the most beautiful girl there had ever se there had ever seen.
There is a price to pay, she said.
There's always a price. Some of you, some one of you must become death in my place, for there must forever be death in the world. Will any one choose? Will anyone here become death of his own free will? For only only thus can I become a human girl. No one spoke. No one spoke at all. But they backed slowly away from her and like waves slipping back down a beach to the sea. When you tried to catch them, the Contessa Delicandini and her friends would have crept quietly out of the door, but death smiled at them and they stood where they were. Captain Compsons opened his mouth as though he were going to declare himself, but he said nothing. Lady Neville did not move.
"No one," said death. She touched a flower with her finger, and it seemed to crouch and flex itself like a pleased cat. "No one at all," she said. "Then I must choose, and that is just, for that is the way that I became death. I never wanted to be death, and it makes me so happy that you want me to become one of yourselves. I have searched a long time for people who would want me. Now I have only to choose someone to replace me and it is done. I will choose very carefully.
Oops. Where? Oh, we were so foolish, Lady Neville said to herself. We were so foolish. But she said nothing aloud. She merely clasped her hands and stared at the young girl, thinking vaguely that if she had a daughter, she would have been greatly pleased if she resembled the lady death. The contestant Delicacini said, "Death thoughtfully, and that woman gave a little squeak of terror because she could not draw her breath for a scream, but death laughed and said, "No, that would be silly." She said nothing more. But for a long time after that, the contestant burned with humiliation, and not having been chosen to be death. Not Captain Thompson, murmured death, because he is too kind to become death, and because it would be too cruel to him. He wants to die so badly. The expression on the captain's face did not change, but his hands began to tremble. Not Lurund, the girl continued. because he knows so little about life and because I like him. The poet flushed and turned white and then turned pink again. He made as if to kneel clumsily one knee, but instead he pulled himself erect and stood as much like Captain Compst as he could. Not the Torrances, said death. Never lord and Lady Torrance, for both of them cared too much about another person to take any pride in being death. But she hesitated over Lady Torrance for a while, staring at her out of her dark and curious eyes. I was your age when I became death, she said at last. I wonder what it will be like to be your age again. I have been death for so long.
Lady Torrance shivered and did not speak. And at last, Death said quietly, Lady Neville. I am here, Lady Neville answered. I think you are the only one, said Death. I choose you, Lady Neville.
Again, Lady Neville heard every guest sigh softly, and although her back was to them, all she knew that they were sighing in relief that neither themselves nor anyone dear to themselves had been chosen. Lady Torrance gave a little cry of protest, but Lady Neville knew that she would have cried out at whatever choice Death made. She heard herself say calmly, "I am honored." But was there no one more worthy than I? Not one, said death. There is no one quite so weary of being human. No one who knows better how meaningless it is to be alive. And there is no one else here with the power to treat life. And she smiled sweetly and cruy. The life of your young hairdresser's child, for instance, as the meaningless thing that it is. Death has a heart, but it is forever an empty heart. And I think, Lady Neville, that your heart is like a dry riverbed, like a seashell. You will be very content as death, more so than I, for I was very young when I became death. She came toward Lady Neville, light and swaying, her deep eyes wide and full of the light of the red morning sun that was beginning to rise. The guests at the ball moved back from her, although she did not look at them. But Lady Neville clenched her hands tightly and watched death come toward her with her little dancing steps. "We must kiss each other," Death said. "That is the way I became death." She took her head delightedly so that her soft hair swirled about her shoulders. "Quickly, quickly," she said. "Oh, I cannot wait to be human again. You may not like it, Lady Levelville. Nat Lady Neville said she felt very calm, though she could hear her old heart pounding in her chest and feel it in the tips of her fingers.
You may not like it after a while, she said. Perhaps not. Death's smile was very close to her now. I will not be as beautiful as I am, and perhaps people will not love me as much as they do now.
But I will be human for a while, and at last I will die. I have done my penance.
What penance? The old woman asked the beautiful girl. What was it you did? Why did you become death? I don't remember, said the lady death. And you too will forget in time. She was smaller than Lady Neville and so much younger. In her white dress, she might have been the daughter that Lady Neville had never had, who would have been with her always, and held her mother's head lightly in the crook of her arm when she felt old and sad. Now she lifted her head to kiss Lady Neville's cheek. And as she did so, she whispered in her ear, "You will still be beautiful when I am ugly. Be kind to me." Then behind Lady Neville the handsome gentlemen, and ladies murmured inside, fluttering like moths in their evening dress, in their elegant gowns. "I promise," she said.
And then she pursed her lip her dry lips to kiss the soft, sweet smelling cheek of the young lady death.
What did you guys think of that? What a wild magical story. Eh, how beautiful Lady Death came and became human again. Got to live her life as a girl and passed it on to an uncaring old older person.
Wild stuff. Wild stuff.
I always think that was a fun one. I knew you guys would appreciate it. Okay, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. All right, and with that, we are now going to Oops. What's going on?
We're now going to hop over and do our magical chanting for the evening. So, one thing I've been doing lately is chanting the magical words here, uh, the the Ephesians grammata. The Ephesia grammata. What's going on here? All right, here we go. The Ephesia Grammata.
And this is a powerful magic spell for warding off evil and for protection, for empowering oneself in dedication to Artemis. These words were inscribed on the magical temple of Aremis at Ephesus before it was destroyed and they are used in many a magical charm enchanted since time memorial. The words themselves, you know, are said to not have specific meaning or the meaning has been lost. There's been attempts to try and figure out what they could mean. You know Clement of Alexandria writes about them and he says that Oke means light, Katasque means dark, licks means the earth, Tetrax is the four seasons, Damn Namenuse is the son and Aon the secret name of the child to come, the great mother spirit, excuse me, but you know that's coming from a Christian source. Other sources point out how Damn Menus is one of the names of the Idendacti, the spirits of Rehea that she summons when she puts her hands into the earth, the shieldbearers and the smiths who then protect the child Zeus.
So powerful stuff though, beautiful magical words. And we're going to read these. So I encourage you all to follow along if you would like. And the words are as Katask licks tetrax damnmenus aon.
All right.
So let us do our chanting and then we're going to take a short 12minut break and when we come back we'll dive into the tarot proper. All right. So here we go.
Let's get a drink here.
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licks tet tracks many kas tetra Anyone kasix tet tracks do many oats tetra damon.
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Katas tetra many oats tetra kasix tetra many tet tracks to namask tion.
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I hope you guys enjoyed that. I hope it was as enlightening and empowering for you as it was for me. Really, really beautiful. absolutely love it. And with that, we're now going to take a 12m minute break and when we return, we shall begin our divination proper. Okay, so let's bring up that beautiful music and some magical art. Please enjoy and I'll be back shortly.
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Hello, beautiful people and welcome back to Drawing Down the Dragon. I'm Snappy and thank you for joining me for our evening adoration to the muses. And now that we return, we're going to begin our divination proper. But before I do, please give me a like and a subscribe.
It really does make a big difference. It boosts everything in the algorithm and I would truly love and appreciate it. And if anyone is interested in me pulling them a few cards this evening, you can send me a super chat, a super thanks or sign up for a YouTube membership. And let us begin today by going to our Ghanaati Oracle. All right. And we invoke Ganapati Ganesh, the divine child, the lord of beginnings, the guardian of the threshold and the master of the spirits, the Ghanas. And we ask Lord Ganapati to send us an empowering message through the cards and to help ensure that our words are heard by those who need to hear them. So Lord Gapati, what is today's message? Inspire. All right, let's take a look.
All right.
Harmony 22. Wonderful energy, right? 22 reducing to the solidity of the four, the cross, the the crossroads, the threshold. Hermes and Hecati united, right? The force of Aries in the tarot, the emperor energy, the foundation upon which we stand, right? Beautiful wondrous magic here. And the two is also of course the the power of the high priestess that Aphrodite Urania the highest hidden muse the voice in the silence that calls us in that divine imitation. So we find that balance and harmony when we can be in that magic of the high priestess when we can trust in our intuition and we can be in flow when we can imitate after her and we can see oursel reflected in the other. The two matches the two here. Two beautiful people on the same quest reflecting the same magic from the same divine source and coming together to form a foundation. Right? To come into loving harmony and flow, right? To see oneself reflected in the other is to know the self, right? Wonderful magic. Beautiful.
Thank you so much. Gapati harmon harmony indeed. Harmonious indeed.
All right. Beautiful.
Let's continue here.
We're now going to go to the fairy guardian oracle. The fairy guardian oracle. And we invoke the fairies, the spirits, the daimon, the manes, the larries, the penitentes, the gi, the seleni, the sedaters, the dryads, the niads, the oids, the nyes, the narids, the kurits, the corabantes, the elves, the gnomes, all the spirits of mind, of place, of the elements, of the ancestors, of the crossroads of the dead. We invite them all in and ask them to watch over our readings, to guide my hands, and inspire. What is the message?
Fairy spirits. Let's take a look.
Protect your dreams. You are the guardian of your precious dreams and they are safe in your care. Keep them close to your heart until you are ready to release them. The power, the profound power of personal nosis, the profound majesty of the self. Each of us contains multitudes access to universes within and that is entitled for you and for you alone. Right? Each of us has a profound beautiful ego and it is free to explore and to be in. And it is for us. You don't have to share it and recognize to share it is often to make oneself truly vulnerable. And it is also to call another person in to examine you. That can be really empowering, but it can also be truly denigrating, right? And there's a magic in the nosis. There's a magic in what is meant for you, right?
We can't all experience the same things.
But that doesn't mean that your profound dreams, your beautiful intuition, the magical things that happen to you aren't real and aren't profound. They're just meant for you. They're just yours. You get to enjoy them. You get to explore it and empower yourself by it. Doesn't matter what anyone else says. No one else gets to experience it. It's for you and for you alone. And so to share it is to call it into question in an essence, right? Because you are giving away something that is profoundly personal.
Sometimes it is important to be silent, you know, but that's up to you to figure that out for yourself. But just recognize the multitude of self, the beautiful universes within and you have the right to explore. Protect your dreams, protect yourself.
Wonderful. Love it. Thank you, fairy spirits. A reminder sometimes, you know, it's good to share, but we don't need to share at all. And some things are meant for you, and you get to enjoy them.
Wonderful.
Okay, we're now going to go to the angel guardian oracle and we invoke the angalos, the attendant spirits of Hermes and ask them to shine their light upon us to guide us on our way and to help us to realize the beauty of our dreams. So what is the message? Angalos inspire blessings and abundance. Blessings and abundance. What incredible magical energy this is. Recognize the beauty around you. We are blessed. We are loved. And life is beautiful. We have such incredible fulfillment, so much wealth and abundance, so much power. You know, it is ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
And it's so important that we take a moment to recognize the moment we find ourselves in, the power that we have, and the beauty we get to experience.
Right? Life is so profoundly beautiful.
And we really need to embrace that beauty. Recognize that Aphrodite is inherent in all things. The beauty is there for those who behold her and those who cultivate her. Those who share love, express love and hope for love find love. Embrace that magic. Project that beauty. Right? Be in connection with that true magic of the fool. Chase after her with loving adoration. Bacus in adoration of Venus.
Wonderful stuff here. So profound, right? That's the whole of the path, guys.
Wonderful.
All right, let's continue.
We're now going to go to the witches oracle. The witches oracle. And we invoke the witches, Hecati, Media, Cersei, and ask them to shine their light upon us, to help us on our way, and to guide us to our true will. What is the message? Witches inspire.
Oh, we got a card shooting out. Oh, and that is so fun. Now we got to we got to celebrate with this one. Joyous. Joyous.
Dance under the light of the moon.
Embrace the magic of wonder. Recognize how blessed we truly are. How beautiful life is. How loved we are. Right. Smile and enjoy the moment. Be fulfilled. How glorious. How glorious. Right. Listen.
Right. Life is beautiful. If you're here with me now, you feel it. I know it.
Amazing. Wow. Love that energy. Thank you so much, which is glorious.
Up next, we're going to check out the Egyptian gods oracle. And we invoke the gods of Egypt, the spirits of the Nile, the Netaru, the Agdawad. And we ask them to shine their light upon us to guide us on our journey and to help us to realize the beauty of our dreams. So what is the message? What is the message? Egyptian gods. Oh, we got a card shooting out here for them as well. And we have Nefertam completeness.
Completeness of self, right? Oh, beautiful energy. Oh, beautiful energy. The first and the last, the whole, right? The primordial human, the divine androgine, Fonnie's thesis, right? Wondrous energy here, the one who is ripped apart in order to know, in order to love. Incredible magic here. Coming back into that holistic being. This is to walk the lover's path, to engage in the alchemical wedding, to be inspired by the muse, and to reach for the stars, right? to transcend the limits and to complete the self. What beautiful energy this is, right? And embrace that holistic sense of being.
Come into true balanced fulfillment.
Pursue that magical sense of wonder.
Chase after the muse in loving adoration.
Glorious.
All right, we continue.
Up next, we're going to go to the Delian Oracle. And this will be our last oracle deck for the evening, the Delian Oracle.
And we invoke Apollo and the Muses and ask them to shine their light upon us, to guide us throughout our day, and to help us to realize the beauty of our dreams. So Apollo and the muses, what is today's empowering and enlightening message? Inspire.
All right, we've got the 10 dove. The 10 dove. What glorious energy here. What glorious energy here.
The dove has long been the symbol of love and harmony. The first dove was a nymph named Perista who aided Aphrodite in a flower picking contest. The love goddess had with her son Aeros. Angry at losing to his mother, Aeros turned Parisetera into a dove, prompting Aphrodite to take the bird under her wing and make it one of her sacred animals. Aphrodite herself turned Pelia into a dove after turning the mortals Delian husband Melis, pining for the death of his childhood friend, Adonis, into an apple. Peace, love, tranquility, harmony, hope, freedom, innocence, blessing.
Glorious energy here. Glorious energy here. Right. Peace, love, and tranquility. The magic of the birds, the beauty of the morning dove, right? The resilience of the pigeon. The the dove is such a profound magical bird, right?
It's not just the white dove either.
There's so much to that magic and it represents, you know, the nymphi, the spirits connected to Aphrodite, her profound priestesses.
Engage in that peaceful tranquility, recognize the bird song and be moved.
Love it. Thank you so much.
Wonderful.
Oh, that's wonderful. Love to hear that, Fern. How beautiful and amazing picking clover. That's so wonderful, Valdane.
Oh, man. Now's the season, eh? Gosh, got to love the spring. Got to love it.
Amazing. All right, and now that we're done our oracle readings, we are going to dive into the tarot proper. But once again, please give me a like and a subscribe. It really does make a big difference. It does really help in the algorithm. I truly appreciate it. And if anyone would like me to pull them a few cards this evening, you can send me a super chat, a super thanks, or sign up for a YouTube membership. All right. And we're going to go to the Thoth Tarot by Lady Freda Harris and Alistister Crowley. And let us invoke Apollo and the muses and ask them to shine their light upon us to guide us throughout our days and to help us to realize the beauty of our dreams. So what is today's enlightening and empowering message inspire?
All right. So our center card and defining image for the read today is the Ace of Cups. The beginning of new relationships, new profound connections, new love, right? And the Ace is always such profound magic, right? This is a real opportunity, something that implies the totality of this cycle which could bring you into real happiness, true love and fulfillment. There's something real here. You must struggle and develop. You must be willing to pursue this energy.
But if you can drink from that cup, if you can share your cup, you have a real opportunity for fulfillment, for wholeness. Wow. And look at that. This is glorious. We are standing at top the foundation and we are crossing our threshold. We are pursuing love and we are moving beyond the limits of this energy here. The four of cups is profound, right? These this is the familial energy. Those people who stay with us and love us, you know, in spite of our complexity, in spite of the challenges, right? They form that foundation. But at the same time, this energy cannot be truly fulfilling, right? I always think of this as imagine you're the teenager at home, right? Your parents can love you and support you, but they can't be your best friend. They can't be your partner. The love you seek cannot be found at home. And this is what we're doing. We're moving out of our comfort zone, and we're coming into love. But we do have that support. We do have that beautiful foundation. And look at this. This opportunity can re can really lead us into profound growth to true empowerment. The magic of the nine of disks gain right. This is the cycle in the earth at its absolute height manifesting that true power of affinity.
This is the earth in its most fruive and abundant. Right? This is glorious stuff.
If we can cultivate these relationships, if we can move outside of our comfort zone, we have an opportunity for true empowerment, real wealth in the earth.
All right, let's continue. Yeah, but look at this.
We are bound up in our head here. We have the nine of swords. Cruelty, right?
Overthinking to its absolute height.
This is the sword path at its most intense, right? We have gotten so caught up in our anger and our fears and our frustrations that we have now transformed into the victim and are lashing out in anger and frustration.
Lashing out at the self, right? And lashing out at the world, right? Truly negative and frustrating energy. And it's this energy that is the cause of our issue. It's this energy that's keeping us from moving on into these new opportunities, from coming into wealth, from leaving that comfort zone. Now, we're seeing why these energies are here, right? There is opportunity, but will we allow it in? We have to break free of this cycle of fear and frustration, of victimization, and we have to take ownership for our actions.
Right? The swords are always so heavy like this. But we recognize right we have gone as far as we can go. It can't get worse than this. In fact, all we can do now is change our perspective. It's time to turn around and to face herself in the mirror. Admit defeat. Come into the energy of the T of swords ruin.
Close this energy out. Be in that true self-reflective mode. Take ownership of one's actions. And then return to the root of the element. Go back to the start. Right? And this time we have profound wisdom. Wisdom born of experience. We've gone through the cycle. We've come out of fear. We've admitted defeat. We faced our yourself and can begin again. And that's what we need to do. Break out of this fear.
Allow opportunity in. Come out of our comfort zones. Right. Embrace our empowered potential.
Yeah. And look how we're showing up. Of course, right? We're showing up as the reckless youth, the prince of wands. The prince of wands, the air of fire, right?
The idealist, passionate and wise, empowered in the dream, but completely disconnected from others and from the earth, unable to be in true emotional connection, unable to be grounded in reality. Right? This energy is profoundly artistic and creative and capable. But ultimately it becomes frustrated by the harshness of the earth. Right? They don't understand why things don't just go the way they believe they should. Right? This energy of an activist can easily turn into an extremist.
And we see that this energy is caught up caught up in fear. Caught up in fear and its own desires. Bound up in security.
Right? Unable to let the love in. All right. Oof. Intense. Let's see.
And look, yeah, what do we need? We need we need to bring we need to be in this energy of the four right now. We're seeing it showing up twice here. Our foundational energy, right? The four of swords is really profound magic. This is the beginning of true wisdom. The finally seeing outside of oursel and coming to a holistic perspective, one informed by the people we love and trust the most. Right? This is the foundation that informs our being. This is how we see and perceive the world. And what we're seeing here is we're being called back to this elemental foundational self. Right? We got to let all this fear and frustration go and face herself in the mirror as we are. Right? Come back into what matters most and listen to those people who know us best. Right?
That's what this prince needs. We've flown too high, got too caught up in our own fears and frustrations, and there's a need to come back in. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Wow. Wow. We got to listen to the people who love and know us best. And we got to stop trying to fight. We're not a victim. And nor do we need to go out and fight anyone, right? We need to get out of that frustrative energy. Okay, let's see here. Oof. Where do we go from here?
So, the crown of our square. Yeah, look at that. Look at that. What does the prince need to do? They need to pursue virtue. Right. This is hard energy, but profound energy here for the prince.
This is the spirit of hecaty trivia. The magic of accountability, right? It's one thing to pursue our will. It's another to be in flow and in harmony and in responsibility. On the one hand, we're seeing us take responsible action, break free of actions that harm others, right?
And take ownership for our passions, our desires. And then on the second aspect of this card is we come into harmony with the people around us, with the community around us. We see oursel fulfilled by uplifting and inspiring others, by being in harmony, by pursuing virtue. Right? This is the magic that speaks truth to power, that stands up for what it believes in, that comes into that true energy of understanding and completeness and solidity. But to do that, you got to be in it. You got to stay what you actually feel. You got to pursue what you truly want and you have to be in harmony, harming none and collaborating, right? Real responsible energy here. And that'll take that prince into the four grounding themsel yet again, right? Bringing them back into that true foundational sense of self. They've risen too high in their head, right? They've gotten too caught up in fantasy and they need to come back into solidity, right? Wow. Okay, let's continue here. Let's continue here. Oh, and look at that. There's another prince here. There's another prince here. So this is interesting, right? Someone is coming into our energy here, this profound opportunity, right? There is real love, but we're going to have to learn to harmonize with this person. And this person is also showing up in prince energy matching us, right? So there's a need for us to grow together. But this is a real empowered potential. This is something that is going to take us outside of this energy of the four, right? It'll take us away from that fear. It's going to require us to be at peace, right? Before we can recognize this profound opportunity, right? And we're going to have to harmonize, come into flow with them, connect to them.
But there's a real friendship, a real potential love here. Let's see. Yeah.
And look at that. This is the closing of a cycle, guys. We're being put under the pressure of Taichi of Fortuna, right?
The 10 is such intense energy, but it's the beginning and the end. That first energy of completion in the major arcana, right? And what we're seeing here is that when we can learn to harmonize our will, to get out of our head and to let new love in, to go back to our foundational energy, and then to take responsibility, come into growth, we can complete the cycle, and we can come into profound opportunity. Right?
There's real chance to grow here. This is all about healing and maintenance.
Going back into what's important, taking the virtuous path, being responsible for self, breaking out of fear, coming into new loving connections, and building and constructing in the earth. There's real opportunity here if we can come back into that peaceful centered self to the relationships and the people who see us and love us best into those core perspectives of understanding into that energy of acceptance and truths repose.
All right, that's the message guys.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I hope that resonated with you. It certainly resonated with me. All right, and up next, we've got our first donation of the evening. Thank you so much to Amber Satana. Much love to you. Thank you for signing up for a membership. Great to see you here, my dear friend. And for you, let's pull you some cards. Okay, which tarot should we go to for Amber?
Um, let's check out We're going to go to Amber for you. The Egyptian Tarot of the Lima, one of my favorite decks. All right. And let us invoke Oh, I forgot to take this card here.
All right. And let us invoke Apollo and the Muses and ask them to shine their light upon Amber to guide her throughout her day and to help her to realize the beauty of her dreams. So Apollo in the muses, what is the empowering and inspiring message for Amber? All right, let's take a look.
All right, your defining image, your center card, it's worry, the five of discs. O, heavy energy, right? Energy we all feel and know too well, right? This is being in insecurity. On one hand, you do have the foundation, right? You're not you're not in a position where you are, you know, vulnerable, but there is that frustration of not being in success.
There is that frustration of if something terrible were to happen, could you maintain your foundation or would it fall apart? Right? There's a lot of stress here in the earth. And this energy can come in us in two ways.
Right? On one hand, this is the magic of Aries and Aphrodite united. the force that calls us into profound action to engage in the hard work right to exceed our limits to cross the threshold and to come into success right real intense action but on the other hand there is that frustration I don't have I'm insecure right and things could collapse o all right all right what do we got on the other side here oh the queen of swords so you're showing up as the queen of swords beautiful energy right represents all the air signs And this is the water of air. You're in that true kind of mediation energy, justice energy, seeking to come into communion and connection with other people to pursue wisdom and understanding. But this energy, this energy is kind of, you know, disconnected from the earth, right?
They're caught up in the opposite pole.
They're all in their head. They're all in their head, right? It's not that the worry isn't real, but this is someone who's going to struggle in the earth.
See here, but look at that. Look at that. There is a king of discs energy showing up in your life. So, there's a reminder here. This is a partnership.
This is a partnership of energies. Look, you have the water.
They got the earth. Together, you can build. Bring this in energy together and you can really grow something truly profound here right this is really mature empowered energy. The king of discs is the fire of earth. They are the one who is empowered in their work who takes responsibility who builds the foundation who finds themsself fulfilled in that kind of energy right doing what they have to do being a provider being that hardworking person. So there's a need for you to connect to this energy and to recognize that this is a partnership to overcome this energy of worry, right? And when you guys collaborate together, you bring that profound energy of the water, they bring the profound energy of the earth and together you can grow something really beautiful. All right. Can I talk about Avalon? Unfortunately, not really. I am not too familiar, Robbie, with uh Avalon. I've never really got too much into a Theorian legend if I'm being honest. Uh yeah, unfortunately.
But um yeah, I mean Avalon, it's an interesting idea, right, of magical fairy realm. I'm just I don't feel comfortable speaking on it because it's so out of my personal wheelhouse, unfortunately, you know.
But it's still truly cool and magical.
If you find any books about it that you would recommend me to read, it's something that I could potentially research. You know, I could learn about Merlin, right? Merlin. So, Welsh mythology.
Cool.
Is Merlin a Mason? I doubt it.
the Masons, you know, the Masons have a mythopoetic history that connects them to an ancient reality, but it's it's it's a it's a magical history, right?
They're um the the Masons are a modern organization and they have a very specific history, right? They show up in the the 17th century, 16th century, right? Um and so yeah, no Merlin is is a is a Welsh ancient Welsh myth, you know. Uh but there is if there's any connection between them, it's this idea that math is magic and that in the ancient times you would contain the secrets of math, of arithmetic, of the other sciences within these closed um you know guilds, these closed guilds.
That's a true reality. But has any of these guilds survived into modernity?
Hard to say. Are any of them directly connected to the Masons? Almost certainly not.
Almost certainly not. All right, we're going to continue. Okay. So, thank you, Lux. Did you want a reading, Lux, for your your token of appreciation? Let me know if you want a tarot reading or sort or if it's just a donation.
appreciate you, my dear friend. Thank you.
That's beautiful.
All right, so let's now we're going to hop over and we're going to do the opening of the key spread. The opening of the key. This is a really fun reading. Comes to us from the Golden Dawn tradition. And we dissect the universe. We cut it up and expose it upon the plate. Oh, no pressure. Okay, Lux, let's give you let's do let's do a sort.
I want to I want to check out this new book.
I think we'll get something good. I have I'm having intuition about it. DH Lawrence, women in love. So, let's see here. Muses, what is the message for Luxalta inspired from DH Lawrence, woman in love?
He must be an artist. Nobody else could have such fine adjustment and single in singleness.
He must be an artist.
Goodrun could not understand a word of his monologue, but she was spellbound watching him.
Are you an artist, Lux? Is someone spellbound watching you? They may not understand a word of what you're on, but they're certainly intrigued by you. Oh, wow. That's a cute one.
He must be an artist. Nobody else could have such fine adjustment in singleness.
Gund could not understand a word of his monologue, but she was spellbound watching him.
Well, someone is watching you. Certainly spell bound. Love it.
How cute.
All right. What a g what a great little fun read. I hope you enjoyed that. Thank you my friend for your support.
Professional.
Beautiful.
Hey man, it's still admiration is admiration, right? Must feel good. Love it. Okay.
We're now going to begin our opening of the key spreads. Right. And once again though, if anyone wants me to give them a read, send me a super chat, a super thanks, or sign up for a YouTube membership. All right? And let us invoke Saturn, ion, Dianisis, Kronos, and ask them to dissect their life to expose it upon the plate to show us the interconnections so we can best learn how to move and flow, how to overcome our conflicts, and how to manifest our true will. So what is the message?
What is the message?
Saturn ion Dianisis inspire. All right. So, we're going to take a look here. Okay. Thanks, Donna.
After this reading, I will get to you.
Much love, my friend.
So, we're going to divide the universe into its four elements.
Okay?
And we're going to take a look here and see.
Right. So, for this particular reading, we're going to have a significator. And since we're under the moon in Virgo, the significator for this evening will be the hermit card. Wherever the hermit card shows up, that deck we will put off to the side and read it in the end as a horseshoe. In the meantime, we're going to explore all four of these elements.
And we have the fire, the water, the air, and the earth. The fire represents our passions, our past, the driving energy and action that leads us into our present and into the future. The water represents where our heart is at, our emotions, our connections to others, and our presence. We have the air which is where our mind is at. Our thoughts, how we are envisioning things, how we are communicating, engaging with the people around us, how we see the world and how they see us and any conflicts that we are having also our present. And then we have the earth which represents the consummation of all the other elements.
What the future potentially has in store if all of this unfolds as it is here.
All right. So let's take a look here.
Starting with the fire and we're going to begin by seeing if that hermit card is in our elemental fire. And if they are, we will put this off to the side.
And yes, they are. The hermit is here in our past. So that means the message from the muse is in the past. But before we dive into this specific deck, we're going to examine what the other elements have to tell us. Okay. So the water where our heart is at are present. Okay.
Let's see. The magician. The magician.
So, we're in magical energy here. Hermes energy. The one. The energy of the magician is the person who's gone through the cycles, empowered themsself in their will, mastered the elemental powers, drawn down the moon, bested the devil, imitated the mother, risen to the ideal. Right? This is energy calling us into those magical pursuits to be in that empowered vision and to go through the cycles to face the challenges head on. Right? To embrace our true will.
Wow. And look at that. We got the five of wands. Right? This energy is such fiery passion, right? The five of wands is strife. But this is Aphrodite and Aries united. that force that calls us to cross the threshold to empower ourself in our will to fight for what we love to engage in that passionate energy. So we are struggling to come into our will but we are doing the work right beautiful. Okay. And we have judgment. Wow. So much fire here. Now we have the elemental fire. Judgment. The ion. The ion. Right. The penultimate moment before completion. That empowered energy of the will, death and transformation, right? This is letting go of the past and becoming the new self, the re-imagining of the self, right? The burning oneself up like the phoenix in order to be born a new.
Astraya ascending to the stars. Wild, wild energy, right? Through that pursuit of our will, through this magical power, we are reinventing, re-imagining, redefining oursel in our present. Wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. And look, we've got the high priestess, Aphrodite, Urania, the highest hidden muse, the voice in the dark and in the silence. The one who calls us into divine imitation, who calls us to reach for the stars. This is us going through a profound initiation, re-imagining oursel, coming into our true will, trusting in our intuition.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. So, where is our heart at? We're deep on that spiritual mystical hermit path. We're going through it internally right now. We are closed. Wow. That's wild. All right. So, that is where our heart is at. Okay. So, next we're going to check out the air, the elemental air. And the air of course, right? This is where our mind is at. The conflicts, how we communicate, and how people see us and how we see them. Okay, let's see. We have the chariot. Wow. Passionate energy.
Passionate energy defining our air. The magic of can the magic of cancer. The power of the seven Apollo. Right. This is the force that calls us to dawn our armor to stand up and be our beautiful self to manifest our desires. Right?
This comes out of the lovers card. We have made that profound commitment and now we are called to stand up and fulfill it to fight for it to move in action and pursue it. Wow. Yeah. And what does that energy lead us? It leads us into the four.
The four Aries, the divine masculine, the emperor, right? That fiery visionary, the authority. This is the one who manifests and builds the foundation, who constructs the vision that calls us into the future, right?
The one who takes charge of their life and is willing to live with their actions, right? Really profound magic here. This is us coming into that true empowered energy. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Taking charge, making the decision, coming in and manifesting the vision.
But what are we facing? Why is there so much intensity here? We're going through a tower moment. The force of Mars and Aries. Look at that. Mars and Aries.
Wow. Wow. Wow. We're We're facing it head on here, guys.
But look at that. The tower, though, is profoundly beautiful and intense, right?
On one hand, this is the rug being pulled out from under us. We're being challenged. Our foundation is being called to question. That which doesn't serve is being knocked down. This is that force of fire that comes to burn out the old growth and allow for the new shoots of spring. Needed but also dangerous and intense, right? But if we can move through this energy, right? If we can pick up the pieces after we can come into new innovative opportunity, real profound potential, this is breaking us free of bindings, of stagnant energy and allowing for new life, rebirth. And that was what we were seeing in our heart, right? Coming into that rebirth energy. So this is needed for that to occur, right? But it's also demanding us to rise to the moment and take charge, to dawn our armor, and to protect that which we love. Woof. All right. And we have the King of Wands.
Look how we're showing up. Look how we're showing up. Inflamed in our passion, standing tall and confident. We know who we are and what we want and we are willing to pursue it with the full intensity of our being. Right? We are inflamed in this moment. We are going through it. Yes. But this energy is only making us double down. It's only making us call our best self out. Right? Wow.
Wow. Wow. That's passionate. And look where this leads you.
Look where this leads us in our presence. It brings us into real community and connection. The 10 of cups, right? The 10 of cups. How is the people around us seeing us? They're seeing us in loving beauty and fulfillment. Right? This is real friendship, real connection, real intense love. And we are completing the cycle, coming into that magic of charity. Right? We're turning to the root of the energy now fulfilled and able to share our love in a profoundly greater mature way. Right? We're coming out of conflict and coming into loving emotional maturity. being ourself and standing tall in our fire and our passion. Yeah, we got to struggle with this tower. Yeah, we got to take charge and be the responsible, determined actor. But as long as we are focused on that vision, we are doing what we need to do. Wow, that's a beautiful energy for our present folks. Look at that. How wondrous. How wondrous. The conflict is intense, but it is profoundly beautiful.
Okay. So, now we're going to see the earth. And the earth represents what the future has in stores. The consummation of all of the elements, right? Where this energy has the potential to take us. So, let's see. And we have the seven of cups. The botch. The botch. Oof.
Intense energy to see, right? The botch is the energy of coming into limited forms of pleasure of distraction.
Instead of dealing with your problems, instead of connecting in loving harmony and taking responsibility, you are distracting yourself, right? And this can distraction can come in so many different ways. Wasting time, engaging in drug use, right? Engaging in frivolous sexual activity, right? We all have our demons, right? overconumption of a kind, wasteful energy of distraction. And ultimately, this energy hurts the self and it hurts those around us. But it's energy that we have to all face and deal with, right? It's easy to fall into the seven and it's easy to come out of the seven, right? We have to be mindful of this energy and be always willing to make those adjustments. And that's why it's so important to listen to the people around us because they can truly reflect and be like, "Look, you know, you're causing me to have to bear a bigger burden because you're not pulling your weight, right? Or I see you causing yourself harm. Like this is this is silly behavior, right?
Let's see where this is going."
Oh, though we have the two of cups. We have the two of cups, though. So, this is a really interesting energy. On one hand, we have that seven, right? We're struggling to be in true harmony, right?
Dancing out of that six of pleasure, right? But here we have the two of cups, recognizing ourself in the other, coming into the warmth of embrace, the beginning of true passion and connection.
This is really beautiful energy in our future, right? Yeah, there is a potential here though for this to be a little selferving or limiting. Let's see where this goes. Interesting.
Oh, but look at that. We've got the nine of cups. Now, we're seeing, you know what I'm seeing is that in our future, we're starting out in this debaucherous energy. But through that beauty of love, through recognizing oursel and the other, we come out of debauchery and we come into the happiness of community and connection, real loving fulfillment.
Right? That 10 of cups energy is continuing over here into our future as this love, as this happiness. Oh, wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow. And where does that lead you to the six of wands?
Whoa. Remember, we saw that magus in that five of wands, right? And now we're coming into the six. We're coming in to our true balanced will, right? This is being yourself truly in love, in harmony, and in flow. Standing tall and pursuing what you desire. Being your unique beautiful self, but harming none and being uplifted, right? Being in harmony. Wow. Wow. Wow. Knowledge and conversation with the muse, right? Man, the future is bright, guys. Real loving opportunity, friendship and happiness and coming in to balance fulfillment, pursuing one's desires in harmony.
Oh man, that's wondrous. That is wondrous. Okay.
So, with that, we're now going to go to the horseshoe aspect of the reading. So, we're going to take the suit here of the fire, which is our past, which is where the muse wants us to look, where the message is for us. And we're going to unfold it here. So, it's going to take me just a second, and then we're going to see what the muse's message is. Okay? And we're going to pay special attention to where the hermit card is because wherever that hermit shows up, that'll be the first card of our read.
Okay.
Oh, and there's our hermit already.
Okay.
Beautiful.
All right. How's that looking? Not too shab. Okay. Not too shabby. All right.
Okay. So, we're starting here with the hermit. With the hermit. So, the hermit, right? the Virgo, right? Under the Virgo moon, we're doing that hard work of self-reflection, of coming into true refinement, right?
Facing oursel in our depths, coming into that analytical, grounded mindset, right? And on the other side here, we have the four of cups and we have the eight of swords, right? Okay. So the four of cups you know this is those core relationships those foundational people in our life that support us and love us the family and we have that stable foundation and that's allowing us to be in this hermit energy but on the other hand we have that eight of swords right being bound up and caught up in our fears depression energy energy that says I can't and I won't and so I don't interference right we are preventing oursel we are falling into repetitive behavior. We are trapped in false images of the past, bound up in fear and anxiety and preventing ourselves from action. Okay, so let's see where do we go from here. We count with the hermit 12 for Virgo. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. And that takes us to the page of pentacles.
The page of pentacles. The earth of earth. Wow. A real opportunity, a real connection in the past, right? That Virgo energy of self-reflection and of coming out of the limits of our love led us into this real opportunity.
Something that needed our loving, nurturing care, right? And on the other side, we have the hangman and we have the page of cups. Wow. So, there was two pages here. Two pages, right? two princesses, the earth of earth and the earth of cups. Oh wow, that's such wild energy and connected to the hangman. So there was a need for us in order to connect to these energies to have to face our fears and to come into new loving harmony to be the energy that could support and love those energies, right? Because the princesses, they represent so much potential, right? To cultivate the earth, to bring community and connection, right? But we have to provide them with a foundation so that they can grow and blossom into themselves. Right? Let's see where this energy is taking us. So from the page the princess, we count seven. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. And that takes us to the seven of pentacles. Failure to the eight of wands and to the king of swords. Okay. Wow.
All right. So the seven right. We're showing up here too as the king of swords, right? And the king of swords on one hand is mature energy, right? They are that person who is on the pursuit of wisdom, who struggles to know and to express themselves to understand, right? They're in that height of understanding and they're pursuing that with intensity, but they're not someone who's grounded in the earth, not someone who's able to provide in that kind of a sense, right?
They're in the most aloof of the kings, right? And we're here struggling in the earth. We're here struggling in the earth, right? The seven of wands is that energy that represents a lack of focus.
There's too much, right? Our success has now led us into this energy where we're juggling, overwhelmed, unable to keep the balls in the air, right? Can we provide for those pages? Can we support those pages? Or are we overwhelmed in the work? But look, there is an opportunity here. The eight of wands is the magic of Hermes swiftness. And this energy is coming in to provide us with a profound opportunity to help us break free of that seven. But we have to be able to pursue it. Can we recognize it?
We are in that king of swords energy. So let's see where this goes. All right. So from the seven of pentacles, we count seven. 1 2 3 four five six seven. And that takes us to the four of cups again.
takes us to the four of cups again and back into this hermit energy and to the six of swords understanding and wisdom.
Oh wow, that's interesting. So what I'm seeing here is there's a need for us to go back into our foundation, go back into our familial energy here, right? We are struggling to actually come into success and we need support and we need to be in this take this time to be in that hermit energy, right? There's a need for us to really come into personal refinement to take the time out and to analyze our situation to be honest about oursel and to organize and formulate a plan of action to make a a disciplined approach right and we have to do it ourselves and take responsibility for ourself. Wow, that's intense energy, you know, but this is the wise path. This is the reasoned perspective. This is where that king of swords energy goes. In order for the king of swords, right, with all of that air to come into the earth, they have to approach it with that analytical mind of Virgo. Face themselves and take responsibility.
Okay. Interesting. So from the four of cups, we count four. One, two, three, four. And that leads us to the nine of pentacles to the knight of swords to the 10 of wands. Interesting. We got the nine of pentacles, the 10 of wands, and the knight of swords. The knight of swords. Interesting energy here.
Interesting energy here, you know. So, I see us actually dancing between energies. On one hand, we're showing up in the Knight of Swords, right, in our past, right? This mature pursuer of wisdom, but we're also finding ourselves falling back into that prince energy of the air of air, right? Overwhelmed in our imagination, overwhelmed in our thoughts, thinking too much, being in this childlike energy, right? And where does that energy ultimately lead the prince to inaction, to fear, to just refusing to do? They get caught up in their own mind and they don't do anything right. Oh wow, that's intense.
Okay, so the nine of swords, the nine of pentacles, and the 10 of wands. But what we're seeing here though is there is an opportunity to take responsibility and to grow to close that prince energy finally out, right? And it's leading us into real opportunity. It's forcing us to face ourel in the mirror to break free of oppression. You know, the T of Wands is the closing of the cycle in the fire, right? So, what we're seeing is that prince energy is coming to its end, but it's going to take us to have to be this mature builder, to do the hard work in the earth, to pass through that energy of Virgo, right? And to be in this energy here of the 10 of wands, breaking free of the chains of oppression, no longer bound by false expectations of the self or others, being honest about who you are in this moment, in this time, in this place.
Right? Only once we can be in this moment, face ourself without judgment, can we truly grow and evolve. And that's what we're doing with that 10 here, right?
That's what we're doing with the 10 here. Beautiful. Okay. So, from the nine, we're going to count nine. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine. And that takes us back to this page of cups. To the page of cups, to the page of pentacles, and now to the to the five of cups. Disappointment.
Disappointment. You know, there's a struggle here to provide for these children energies. A real intense struggle here, right? We're showing up on either side in that energy of not being in fulfillment, of not being able to provide, right? There's a real need for us to grow and to face this energy head on, right? And there is the five of swords as well. Oh, wow. Okay. Whoa.
There's so much intensity here. So much intensity here.
Wow.
You know, we have the page of cups and we're in this energy of not being able to come into that emotional fulfillment, right? Not being able to provide.
Wow. Okay. Where does the page take us?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Okay. And that takes us to the Knight of Pentacles, the Eight of Wands, and the Seven of Wands.
Okay. So, the Knight of Pentacles, right? There's another person showing up in our life here, too, right? Another energy that we're having to deal with, another youthful character, and this is leading us out of focus, right? We have the seven of wands here, and we have that eight of wands energy that we already kind of saw earlier, you know?
So, on one hand, there's an opportunity with this person, but this person is also a distraction pulling us away. Oh wow, that's complicated energy here, you know, right? We're seeing that there is these troubled characters in our past that we focused upon that by giving them attention instead of giving attention to where it was needed and this is being this is causing a profound issue. This is causing a profound issue, right? And there's a need for us to recognize what's going on and to trust in our intuition. Oh wow. Okay, let's continue here. So from the knight we count four 1 2 3 4 the king of swords again right how we're showing up the king of swords and it's that energy of being in truth and the energy of facing the struggle. So, okay, here's the thing. We just have to face this struggle energy in the earth. We have to do the hard work of providing for those pages, those princesses. And it's just that it's just hard. There's nothing else to be done about it. We got to stop fighting. Listen to the people along. Listen to the people around us, right? Approach this with wisdom and do the work that is necessary. We have to be in focused energy, not being caught up with this prince energy, not being distracted. Right. Okay. Wow. So, from the king, we're going to count four.
One, two, three, four. And that takes us over here to the five of swords, defeat, and the six of swords as well as the knight of swords.
Yeah. Right.
So again, there's this energy of us dancing, dancing between the the prince energy and the king energy, right? Where we keep falling into that limited thinking of the prince and we keep falling into this defeist mode, but we're also on the cusp of wisdom and maturity, right? We just have to do the hard work within. We have to take responsibility for the children. We have to be in that hardworking energy, right?
This is the defining energy of our past.
Really intense. Okay. All right. So, from the five, we count five. One, two, three, four, five. And that takes us to the eight of swords. Interference.
Interference.
Yeah. We're recognizing here, right, that we're the force that's preventing us from coming into true wealth and opportunity, right? When we can be in that hermit energy and be responsible, be grounded and take true responsibility, then we can break out of that interfering energy and rise to the occasion. We can provide for the children. We can do what is necessary.
We can break free of the distracting limited energies and we can be that responsible person, right? But we have to really do this work here, right?
Okay. We got to be into that hermit mode. All right. So from the eight of swords, we count eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Okay. And that takes us to the two of swords.
Peace. Yeah. Peace. You know, it's going to be frustrating. We're going to fall short. We're going to fall short for the children, right? This is a time of want.
Our past is filled with a real struggle here. Struggling to provide, right? But the energy of the five, right? It's not like anyone is suffering, but you're in this real stressful mode. The everything could collapse at any moment. But the reality is this is in the past and it didn't collapse. It didn't collapse. It was truly stressful, right? There were moments where you felt like you couldn't, but you did. You provided for those energies, right? So, there's a need ultimately to be at peace with this struggle to recognize that that energy is in the past, right? It's still defining our present, right? We're still in this energy of lack. This is why the muse is calling us here, right? We're still in this energy of I got to be the selfless parent.
Oh, wow. Okay. Right. Yeah. We got to be the hierofphant, right? The hierofphant is the one who cultivates the earth, Taurus, and Venus. who is that emotional intelligent provider who manifests real community who builds the temple. Right?
So this is us being in that energy.
Being in that energy, right? Wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Okay. So from the two we count two, one, two, and that takes us back to the five again of disappointment.
Yeah. Disappointment, right? We are struggling. We are struggling to recognize that there was a time in our past where where we fell short where we fell short for the princess energies. You know, it's not that they were never provided for, but we feel we didn't do enough. We were in that real struggle energy. And that energy of feeling like a failure, of feeling like a disappointment is haunting our present. It's haunting our present. Even though you didn't fail.
Even though you didn't fail. So the muse is calling you to recognize this wound, to recognize this sacrifice that was made here. There is a real serious sacrifice that was made here. You know, and in your present, you're you're finally letting this energy go, transforming and coming in to a new profound future. You're dealing with it.
But this is why you got to go through that fire because you're still caught up in this energy of lack, in that energy of survival, right? Of being the provider.
Okay. Wow. So, let's let's pair up the cards here and we're going to get a final we're going to get a final message. All right. We have the knight of swords and we have the four of swords. Yeah.
Right. The knight of swords energy, the air of air. We keep showing up in this limited energy of the prince, caught up in our fear, caught up in our anxieties.
And this was a defining energy of our past. And we look at oursel in the past and we see this prince, we are upset, we are mad at that prince. But we need to recognize that prince is in the past, right? And we need to be in this energy of the four of truths, of looking at that prince with wisdom, of understanding why that energy was there and that that energy is gone. We've moved beyond this. Let's continue. Okay, we got the five of swords. Yeah, look, there's all of this frustration and disappointment with that prince energy.
Okay. Yeah, the king of swords is frustrated with the past self, right?
They had to mature and rise to the moment. But they are so mad at themselves for ever being the immature youth. But the reality is we all go through those energies of the prince at various times in our life. It's needed energy. It's important energy. It's energy that allows us to really see things in a profound imagined perspective. But we just can't be in that energy for too long. You know, it's part of the cycle. But this is someone who's really mad at themsel and frustrated about it. Okay. Yeah. The seven of discs, right? Defined by failure, worry, and frustration, right?
Recognizing it's a lack of focus.
Recognizing the issue is that prince energy. Struggling to overcome it.
Struggling to overcome it. You know, this is someone understanding the root cause of the issue and taking the hard path to maturing. But that doesn't mean that that energy is easy. That doesn't mean that the stress and the juggling isn't there. It's there the entire time, but they deal with it. Whoa. Okay. The eight of wands. The eight of wands. But there's a real opportunity here. There's a real passionate opportunity. Yeah. You know, yeah, there's all this struggle, but what happens? Yeah, there's all this struggle, but what happens? You build the four, the loving family, the core relationships, the people that stay with you through all these cycles, right?
That energy is here from your past till your present. And it starts here. It starts here by moving out of that prince energy and becoming that king and dealing with the struggle of that failure, that overwhelming energy of never having enough time or hands. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Yeah, that's beautiful. That's beautiful, guys. Right. Yeah, it was really ridiculously hard, but you built the four. You built the four. But there is this energy, right, of that prince.
Other youthful energies. Part of the problem, part of the reason we are struggling so much with that prince is because there are other princes in our life at this time that are pulling us down with them. You know, people who are distracted and can't care about themsel and ultimately we had to do the hard work of being the hermit. This sucks, right? But this is this is what many people got to do, right? You cut out those energies of the negative people and you walk the path yourself, right?
The hermit is the one who takes that hard analytical look at themsel in the mirror. Who organizes their [ __ ] and figures it out, builds in the earth and walks the path. Does what they got to do on their own.
Wow. Wow. Wow.
Yeah. The seven of wands, right? They are the distraction. This prince energy is the distraction. These distracted youthful people who are calling you into debauchery, right? And there's a need to stay focused true to your will, right?
And this was a real struggle for you in your past, right? A real struggle for you in the past. We have that eight of swords interfering energy, interfering energy, you know. So this these distractions keep coming in, right? These opportunities for that debauchery of youth, right? To distract ourselves, to not have to deal with the real responsibility.
But ultimately this leads us into a place of real frustration. You know the eight of swords is repetitive action often. You know doing doing the same thing and expecting different results. Being in these negative patterns of behavior that keep bringing about the same distracted energy. Right? So this is youthful action. Right? Trying to get away from your responsibility and ultimately failing to do so. just trapping yourself. Oof oof oof oof. But we are breaking free of this bull. Look at that death. Hard energy death, right?
Scorpio, hecky and Hermes united. But look, that death is leading to real profound opportunity. What are we seeing here? We are getting focused. We are coming into that hero hermit mode. We are organizing our life and figuring it out for those princesses doing what you got to do. And this is ultimately leading you to the energy of death, right? Breaking free of that prince energy. Both the external princes in your life that didn't care about you, that called you into excess, right? And the internal prince within you that caused you to fall into fear and into self arrandisement and into distraction and into selfish energy. But you're breaking free of both of those princes, right? We're letting that energy go. And this is leading to real opportunity.
What are we doing? Right? That hermit works in the earth. She does the hard work. She builds her foundation and it becomes the nine of gain. Becomes the nine of gain.
All right. The page of wands, the first of the children, right? The earth of fire and the 10 of wands. Look at this.
What do we see here? When we take responsibility for the child and we do the hard work right, we close out the energy cycle in the tent, it leads us to true selfreization and knowledge. Why?
Because now you have to take responsibility for another. You got to let go of all those things that you know you thought mattered and now you get to see what really matters. What are you really willing to make the time for?
Right? You got so limited time now.
You're taking care of the child, right?
But here, this energy is calling us into our real self, right? The T of Wands is breaking free of oppression, no longer bound by false expectations, by false ideals, right? By limited understanding, right? We are accepting oursel and our time and our place in our moment. And once you do that, you can really grow.
You can now pursue what you really want in life, right? Wow. And where does that lead you?
This takes us to the hangman. Yeah, the hangman, right? We come into that true self-standing when we can face our fears. And our fears are related to that child. But look at this.
We're also coming into profound connection here. We're not alone.
There's the queen of cups, right? The knight of swords has a queen of cups.
Someone who is here to help them do the work. help them, right? That's that core foundation, that familial energy. This is the loving partner who sees you for who you are, right? And who's helping you face your fears. So, that's really, really beautiful, right? Collaborating and coming in together to support the youth. Okay. And look, we have the other page, the page of pentacles, and we have the queen of wands. There's more than one queen here, too. The Queen of Wands, right? This is the profound artist. This is someone who is truly empowered in themselves, who wants to share their light and their love with the world, who wants to be in that real beautiful connection. So, there's more than one person who's helping with these youth.
There's there's a real profound building here. This could be a parent or it could be a friend or it could be a multiple lover, right? Whatever fits. Oh, wow.
Wow. And let's see. Yeah, we got another child there. The page of cups, right?
The other child and the fool. The fool.
Right. On one hand, this energy seems so ridiculous, right? Who is ever going to want to take care of all these kids with these queens, right? This is a real sacrifice. This is a real coming into responsibility. But the muse is saying, you pursued this with that childlike wonder and audacity. This is what you realized you wanted. Right? Out of the 10 of wands comes the fool energy, the profound force of the air, that real passionate lust, right? The fool goes for that they want. They're the child, right? They see the cookie, they take it. They don't think about consequence.
They're just going for it. And this is us following into real intense responsibility in the past. Wow. Okay, let's continue. But this leads us to the hierofphant. To the hierofphant and to the five of cups. Right? Okay. This is where the real frustration is. Right?
The hierofphant is such difficult energy. Right? It's no longer just providing for you now. It's providing for a community. You're now seeking that inspirational energy from the air and trying to be the educator. Right? And this is also for many people will be finding a teacher right will represent finding a teacher right and you know this is where that wound is the five of cups this is the wound the disappointment right the reality that we don't have things figured out and that we really had to struggle right like there's a lot of love here in the past there is a foundation but there's also a lot of struggle there's a lot of struggle there's a lot a growth and this energy of the five of cups is is is weighing heavy on us. Really weighing heavy on us. Right. Let's see the last energy of the read is the two of swords.
Yeah. The defining energy. What is the message from the muse? Why did the muse call us into our past?
Because we're too caught up in this energy of the five of cups. We're looking back at our past and we're feeling like a failure rather than looking at our past and recognize we rose to an occasion and we did the impossible.
If you analyze yourself in that critical lens, you'll always feel like a failure, right? But even though times were tough, even though things were intense, this is people really coming together and providing for the youth, really doing what was necessary, right? And it led us into that beautiful present and profound future. It led to all this magical opportunity we're experiencing now.
There's just a reminder. Don't let this energy define you. Don't let the past define you. Our failures in the past are not our present. You know, and we need to recognize that if you made it here, you survived. You survived. You overcame, right? You survived. You overcame. You're here. So there is beauty there and we got to just be at peace with it. It's in the past. Don't look back. Learn from it and move forward. Learn from it and move forward.
Right? Break free of that five of cups.
Pursue this true profound wisdom. Right?
Be in the energy of Venus and Taurus.
Take that inspired spirit of the air and plant the seed in the earth. Cultivated and manifest a garden. All right. That's the message. Wow. Intense. Intense, but beautiful. All right. I hope that resonated with you guys.
Certainly resonated with me. Okay.
Magical.
That was our opening of the key spread.
Up next, we've got a donation from the wonderful Donna Marie. Truly appreciate you, Donna Marie. All the love in the world to you, my dear friend. Thank you so much for your continued support. And let's pull you three cards. And for you, Donna, we're going to check out, let's see here. We're going to go to the Mermaid Tarot.
The Mermaid Tarot.
And let us invoke Apollo and the Muses and ask them to shine their light upon Donna Marie to guide her throughout her day and to help her to realize the beauty of her dreams.
So, Paulo Muses, what is the message for Donna Marie? Let's take a look. inspire.
So, we have the Ace of Pentacles. The Ace of Pentacles in your center card.
So, there's a real profound opportunity here, right? Something that you can truly engage with. If you pursue this energy, if you're willing to take that leap when you recognize it, it could lead you into the heights of this cycle, take you into profound gain, true accomplishment and wealth, right? Wow.
Wow. Wow. Let's see. And look at that.
The six of wands, right? Victory. Being in flow and in harmony, pursuing your will and standing tall. Being your best beautiful self, right? Look, this is something you really want. Something that will really inspire you, that'll drive you. This is the muse calling you where you need to go.
And yeah, look at that. The wheel forever turns, right? This is you being given the gifts, right? This is a real profound opportunity. That wheel has spun for you and you're in flow and harmony. Now is the time to pursue this.
If you can cultivate that earth, you will come into real wealth. The wheel spins and you get to embrace the joys of the earth. Wow. Wow. Wow. Take this opportunity. Recognize it as your true will. Build and grow. Complete that cycle. Love it.
All right, that's the message, Donna. I hope that resonated with you. Thank you so much, my dear, dear friend. Truly appreciate you. All right. And with that, I'm going to ask once again if anyone would like me to pull them a few cards to please send me a super chat, a super thanks, or sign up for a YouTube membership.
Okay. And I think we're now going to hop over and begin our magical sortace.
So for those of you who are unfamiliar, the sortace is a form of biblommancy, divination through literature and it comes to us from the Greco Roman tradition and we invoke the goddesses of inspiration, the divine muses and ask them to send us a message through the text. And today we're going to begin with Rele Gargantua and Pantigru. So muses, what is the message from Relete inspire?
What sort of disorder in nature is that?
Let's go back and slaughter the great villain.
Waring against women. What sort of disorder in nature is that? Let's go back and slaughter the great villain.
Oh, hail the great mother. Hail DK.
Right? This is just a truism, right? If you can't accept the profound, if you can't accept femininity, if you cannot accept the woman, the mother, the womb that gives birth to us all, then that's a serious problem. And we need to stand against that villain, right? And this is something that we see really active in politics and in our current reality. you know, this all of this right-wing manosphere nonsense, all of this anti-woman nonsense, all of this Christian national or whatever religion nonsense, right? Recognize the beauty and the importance of everyone.
Celebrate women, celebrate femininity, right? We all come from a womb. That's the reality. We all come from woman. We are all of that energy. We all have a mother and we will all cry for mother on our deathbed, you know. All right. Wow. Yeah.
Wow. What a wild sort. Let's continue.
The book of Thoth by Alistister Crowley.
What is the message from the book of Thoth?
It was a chemical interpretation of the equation 0 equals 2. 0 equals 2 is the fool card in the tarot. Right? It's the energy of out of chaos comes life.
Right? Out of chaos comes life.
Right? It's not out of that nothing. The zero is not nothing. It is infinite potential. It is the all right and out of that infinite potential the womb tomb comes the light right comes the duality right the divine androgine that rips itself apart the two the twins beautiful beautiful love it all right echo the name of the rose muses what is the message from Alberto Ekko insp Inspire.
Mad men and children always speak the truth, adds. It may be that as imperial adviser, my friend Marcilius is better than I, but as inquisitor, I am better.
Mad men and children always speak the truth.
Oh, wow.
Wild. All right, let's see. Next, we're going to check out Edgar Allan Poe, the complete short stories. What is the message muses from Poe? Inspire.
While the philosophers, however, were busied in blushing at their stupidity and not having foreseen these inevitable evils and intent upon the invention of new theories, the matter was put to an abrupt issue by a fellow of the name of Ma, who took everything into his own hands and set up a desperatism in comparison with which those of the fabulous Zeros and Helagabiluses were respectable and delectable.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. While the philosophers were busy debating about what should be done, the mob went and did something and set up something awful.
Sound familiar? O tale as old as time.
Okay.
Up next, we're going to go to Lorra Maldor and poems uses. What is the message for Maldor?
Inspire.
Suffering is a weakness when one doesn't need to do so, when one can find something better to do. But suffocating in marshes of perversity to exhale sufferings of deranged splendor is to show even less resistance and less courage.
Right? Suffering is a waste when there's something better to do. And also suffering is a decadence. Oof oof oof oof oof oof. Wild.
Let's continue. Do you bring it upon yourself?
Okay. The mystic tarot in the trees of eternity by Oliver St. John uses. What is the message from Oliver St. John?
Inspire.
I repeat the invocation of Buune, the 26th spirit of the Goatia. The spirit has not appeared readily. Halfway through the third conjuration, I detect a change of pressure in the room. There is a heaviness, a gravitas, an allervasive sense of gloom has come over the proceedings. I intensify my concentration and grip the magical sword firmly with a point downwards. The vision and the voice are then seen and heard simultaneously. Buune speaks at first with a dry rasping tone. He sounds incredibly tired pain.
Hail Buune.
Hail Bune. Right there over my left shoulder. Got to love it. How wonderful.
Okay, let's do one final sort here and then we're going to wind down for the evening. So this is your last chance if anyone would like a sort or for me to pull them a couple cards. If you want send me a donation final offer. Okay, let's see here. Entering the desert by Craig Williams. What is the message from Craig Williams? Inspire and whether the sword of wisdom has been sharpened is clear whenever the destructive emotions arise and unfold.
And whether the sword of wisdom has been sharpened is clear. Whenever the destructive emotions arise and unfold, sure.
Okay, let's pull I'll pull you one card, Fern. So, let's see. We're going here to the Hermetic Tarot, and your one card is the seven of pentacles. The seven of pentacles.
juggling too many balls, being overwhelmed with the work. There's a need for focus. There's a need to ask for help to come back into the success that led you to where you are. Right?
Recognize if you're in the seven, it's because you are successful. You are doing what you need to do. But bring in that focused energy. It's not a shame to ask for help. Stay focused, right? Don't allow this to overwhelm you and to knock you down. Okay. Oh, constellation Pegasus, thank you for the donation. And let me know, would you like a sort or would you like a tarot read? All right, please let me know. Appreciate your donation. Okay, in the meantime, I'm going to pull another sort here while we wait to see what constellation would like, what kind of reading they would like. All right, we're going to go to the Psychic Bible by Genesis Por.
Is the image more real than we are? Cut it up and let us see.
Oh wow. Is the image more real than we are? Cut it up and let us see. Oh wow.
How interesting. Okay.
Well, constellation. I think I'm gonna go with a sort since we're doing sort here since you haven't spoken up. And we're going to check out, let's see here. Cosma Cathonic Nosis. Cathonic Nosis by Gunnar Alchnes and Lwig Claus. Muses. What is the message from Cathonic Nosis?
Oh, I've been around. You know, I have missed a few of the regular streams, but you know, I haven't been haven't been too far off the beaten map. You know, sometimes YouTube doesn't send you updates. You got to go rec reconnect with that notification button. Turn it on, turn it off. You know, I imagine it's just the algorithm thinking you don't want to see me.
I mean, I have been doing less streams as well, you know. Um yeah, dealing with some personal things, but you know, life is still beautiful and we're here. All right, so let's see. The sort for you constellation is meaning is experienced in an interior way. Appearance in an exterior way. The former must become an image if it wants to be communicated.
You got to make your internal world an image. You've got to be able to see what you look like on the inside. Define yourself. See yourself reflected in the other. Wow. Beautiful. How glory.
Well, no, life is good. Everything is okay. Thank you for the concern, my dear friend. Really appreciate you.
Much love. And I hope that resonated. I hope that resonated. See yourself reflected. Construct the idolon of the self. Turn yourself into an image.
Beautiful. Oh, we got a final donation here from Steve. Thank you, Steve. Let's see for you, Steve. We're going to go to Arcana Monday by George Luck. Ms. What is a message from George Luck? Inspire the Ora Boros. The snake that bites its own tail is a symbol often used by alchemists. It represents the unity of all forces and processes in the cosmos.
To know one thing by studying it carefully is to know everything. The macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm.
The formula that supposedly explains the symbol seems to express the doctrine that the individual reality exists for the sake of universal reality. But also vice versa. The universe is therefore the one thing. If the universe were not present in a mystic sense, in the one thing, there would be no universe. The mystic language of alchemical texts presents many problems. The written texts are not enough. No doubt the ancient study of alchemy needed a teacher to interpret them and fill in the gaps.
The one is all, by it all, and for it all. And if one does not contain it all, all is nothing.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Hail Cersei indeed.
Right. Where does the tail get its get bitten? Aya.
Oh, wow. That's beautiful. Recognize the cycles, the one and the many, right? How beautiful. How beautiful. Love it. All right, guys. Well, thank you so much.
Peace and love, everyone. Truly appreciate you all. And we're now going to end with our magical prayer. And we cry out in loving adoration to the great mother, the twins, and the muses. The one duality and generation. And we ask the muses. Oh, we got another donation here. Astro. You got me. Okay. Astro for you. Let's see.
Um, we're going to check out Gabriel Mari.
Gabriel Mari.
Our muses. What is the message from Oay for Astro?
Our is to once more borrow from Young's terminologies the author's own Libra novice. At this juncture in time, by virtue of it being an alchemical treaty, perhaps the creation of a personal symbol, crafting one's mythopoetic in setting a flame the active principle and one's own garden of the possible.
Whoa. The muse is calling you to create the magnumopus.
Now is the time to construct your own understanding of the real, to build the temple within. Right. Oh wow, wow wow wow wow. That is really magical stuff.
Astro, how beautiful is that? Create the magnumopus, my friend. Be inspired.
Create your own symbol system.
Understand how the best way to relate to the gods is to to try something and see what works and then when it works, keep doing it and refine it. Make it more beautiful, right? Oracle stuff indeed, my friend. Oracle stuff indeed. Right.
Create that temple within the magical understanding of the universe. All right. Beautiful. And with that everyone, we're now going to end it.
So much love guys. And we cry out in loving adoration to the great mother, the twins, and the muses, the one duality and generation. And we ask the muses to sing in us the songs of inspiration to guide us in our daily wanderings and to teach us to listen and perceive with reasoned clarity. Thank you all for joining me. Peace and love.
Don't buy a rosary. Just just take a piece of string. Okay. Here. Okay. Where where did I put it? Here. This is all I use. You take a piece of string. And this is far more magical because you make it yourself and you empower it yourself with your own will. Take a piece of string and tie within the string 54 knots. 54 knots. You do two loops of the string, you get 108. No need to buy anything. Save your money.
Okay? Find yourself some string. I'm sure you probably already have some lying around at home.
Okay. All right. And with that everyone, peace and love.
Hail the Muses. Hail the great gods.
Hail Hestia. Take care.
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