So concludes another rotation of the Earth around Sol.\u00a0 By the Gregorian calendar, at least, counting from the approximated birth date of the Christian Savior.\u00a0 For many years now I have also counted my year Samhain-to-Samhain, emphasized by the fact that my birthday is only seven days after.\u00a0 And most recently, I have also come to live and die by the academic calendar, which is not quite half done.\u00a0 By any of those counts, though, this has not been the best year ever.\u00a0 Not by a wide margin.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a trial-by-fire since the end of the last Spring semester: going back to the mall for the summer, but somehow not making enough money to actually cover my rent; an art class that consumed twice as much time and energy as it was supposed to; higher costs of education combined with a slightly smaller financial aid package\u2014culminating in the very real possibility that I might not have been able to go back to classes in January if I had not been able to find work over the break; financial policy madness in the United States which may STILL reduce my financial aid to the point where I am unable to finish my degree; fewer friends on campus and fires all over the terrain of my social life; the paranoia and insanity associated with Chaos Magick; and, just for spice, a little bit of inheritance drama on my father\u2019s side of the family.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong: I\u2019ve gotten a lot done, magically, and there\u2019s been some significant awesomeness in my personal and academic lives.\u00a0 I finished off the ceremonial experiment and started Project Null, and in doing so I\u2019ve made friends and inroads all over the cosmos.\u00a0 I\u2019ve come to new levels of understanding and communication with my lovers and our burgeoning polyamory.\u00a0 I\u2019ve solidified a few friendships, and maybe even started a couple new ones.\u00a0 Despite the exhausting workload, I ended the semester with a 3.69 GPA, bringing my cumulative at the new school up to 3.44.\u00a0 And yet, especially as I look a the two lists \u2026 it definitely doesn\u2019t weigh out the way I want it to.<\/p>\n
So fuck you 2012.\u00a0 Good riddance.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, I did a Tarot reading for the coming year.\u00a0 My card for the year is the XX Aeon; as I was shuffling, I also caught glimpses of the XVI Tower and XXI the Universe.\u00a0 When I did a full spread, 0 the Fool, XIII Death, XIX the Sun, and VI the Lovers were all prominent, as were the Queen of Wands and the Page of Swords.\u00a0\u00a0 II the Priestess and XVII the Star also made appearances.\u00a0 Except for Death in my 10th House (professional recognition; clarified as 6 Swords, not III the Empress), the reading is overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n
Sure, that could be the 6 of Swords as \u201ctravel\u201d not \u201cfleeing disaster\u201d, but \u2026 I don\u2019t like that shiny red reset button blinking on my career dashboard.\u00a0 It makes me nervous.\u00a0 I don\u2019t graduate until 2014.\u00a0 This<\/em> is the year I take the GRE and start filling out grad school applications.\u00a0\u00a0 An ill-timed \u201cDeath\u201d in my professional life \u2026. well, y\u2019all get the idea.<\/p>\n When I get back to the Sunrise Temple \u2013 I\u2019m in Kansas City with Aradia for the winter break \u2013 I\u2019ll compare this reading with the annual I did at Samhain.\u00a0 This should be \u2026 interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So concludes another rotation of the Earth around Sol.\u00a0 By the Gregorian calendar, at least, counting from the approximated birth date of the Christian Savior.\u00a0 For many years now I have also counted my year Samhain-to-Samhain, emphasized by the fact that my birthday is only seven days after.\u00a0 And most recently, I have also come … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[134,266,268],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-keeping-score","tag-tarot","tag-tarot-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-gL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}