Farewell Blogger

 

Farewell

 

I decided to move to my Wordpress site.

 

Blogger seems t slowly descend into another project Google kills.

 

In addition I'm gonna promote my books and future tarot-based business there.

 

Good Bye!

Day 166 - Reflections on Swords and Cups

 

Day 166

 

After going through two of the suits I have some thoughts. Mostly about what I would change, add or remove if I was ever to create my own deck of oracle cards.

 

First - nine of cups and ten of cups are way too similar. Moreover if we go by four of cups logic, then nine of cups should be a negative card because it's "happy alone" in a suit focused on relationships. I think both cards should be merged into one, as nine of cups. Then ten of cups could be "memory of those who passed" as a final stage of every relationship.

 

Eight of Cups is way too similar to Six of Swords. Both cards should have been sixes in my opinion. Six of cups would work well as an eight instead, since six of cups is nostalgia - being stuck in the past, while six of swords is being stuck in problems that may not be real. 

So yeah - those are my thoughts on Swords and Cups. Tomorrow I start coins, pentacles or whatever you call it. I shall go with coins.

Day 165 - The Common Sense is the most magical

 

Day 165

 

Still going through Quareia course with my wife. Module 1 : Core Skills. I went through the whole house to check energy, mostly positive or neutral state all around. No wonder, it's a new house, new place.

 

As for meditation - going well, especially the parts with visualising something. Visionary magic was funny, mostly because of our differing time sense. When told to pick a memory from 5 years ago, my wife instead picked one from three years ago. This shows how we feel the time differently. Another interesting thing - I remember bad memories stronger, but good memories with more detail.

Tarot, well, I guess it's something I'm more advanced than basics, but I still did basic tasks. You never know what you don't know until you stumble upon it!

Inner senses was what interested my wife the most. Especially since she struggles with uncontrolled precognition, not unlike what was described in the course. I went through the document on inner senses to help her as I tend to have a strong intuition on what magical knowledge is right or wrong. Dunno where this comes.

So as a form of personal note - my thoughts on Inner Senses Quareia course.

Author frequently references common sense, but didn't list it as one of the most useful senses. Maybe she doesn't consider it magical, but it's certainly not a physical sense.

Inner hearing sounds about right. When I was really into magic as a teenager I managed to get limited mind-reading... that I mostly used as a form of cheating during oral exams. So this one checks out.

Inner sight, I got goosebumps just reading about experiences of others. Looks true, mine is extremely bad, I barely catch glimpses of things with the corner of my eye. My wife once had a precognition of having a sickly-blue hands. She worried it may be some accident... instead half a year later she looked at her hands during laying tiles and grout in out bathroom. Grout was exactly this sickly blue colour on her skin.

 

Inner touch - sorry, but I feel this one is mis-represented in the course. Surely, your hands may feel different after touching emotionally charged items, but the most important element of touch is that it breaks natural barriers. We all have some sort of natural protection from outside world energies, and touching things breaks them allowing other senses to work better. That's why in stories you usually hear advice not to touch cursed items.

As for the part about dreams - I already wrote about my dreams, at least the ones that seemed special, several times. So I must agree on dreams with author here.

Tasks showed me and my wife that we already have those senses, and that they are more developed than we thought. Third task about getting personally acquainted with spirits around boundary of our home wasn't useful in itself, but reminded us why we feel so weird about boundary here - we literally have nothing there. This house was built around three to four years ago and there is nothing except artificial fence on the boundary. 

We shall probably remedy that.

Day 164 - King of Cups

 

Day 164

 

I still need rest. Quite a lot of it.

 

Let's go! The last card of Cups suit!

 

King of Cups

 

King of Cups is a gentle leader, a compassionate and calm persona. He understands emotional situations of others and can use this in diplomatic ways. This can make him seem very intuitive and gentle, or manipulative and sly.

He is certainly someone able to move hearts of his peers. He may not be as eloquent as King of Swords, but he commands wisdom and notices more about people than King of Swords would ever be interested in.

Day 163 - Tired

 

Day 163

 

 I'm tired, and probably need to drink more.

Day 162 - Queen of Cups

Day 162

 

Today I opened my work computer at nine o'clock and I met an automatic updater of windows, that worked for about half an hour. After finally getting into system to work I'm met with angry sub-manager complaining that I did not come to meeting at 9:00 that was set to me on Sunday. After listening to his furious trade I asked him why didn't he request Sunday overtime for me, if he expected me to be in on Sunday. He was outraged by suggestion that he should pay me for the time I spend working.

Well, I guess two mass layoffs within half a year create quite a stressful environment. Not that I'm gonna bend or break, I have one offer of new employment sent to me every week and just looking at one site with job offers gave me six companies that would love to have someone with my skills.

I don't stress around, and with that good vibe onto the next card!

Queen of Cups

This card symbolises all the positive expectations and stereotypes you can find about women. Strong intuition, emotions in balance, calm and graceful in every interaction. A true heart of her family, she makes everyone feel welcome. Creative in new ways to make people smile and feel comfortable.

On the flip side she can be too moody, self-sacrificing to a fault or overly idealistic. You know the type: kind-hearted idealist, one too nice to tell her the harsh truth about the world.

Day 161

 

Day 161

 

 I don't really have topic for today. 

I noticed I'm waking up at night if hour of Mercury is after 3 AM o'clock. I will be noting whenever I'm awoken at night to check this trend.