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1st<\/sup><\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Self, Viewpoint \u2013 6 Disks \u201cSuccess\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n It looks as if, in general terms at least, the next month is going to be good for me. Even when things are going awry, I\u2019m going to succeed in putting a good face on it all. The contrast, however, between this House and the Third is worth noting. <\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> \u2013 Finances, Income \u2013 communication \u2013 3 Wands \u201cVirtue\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n A generally positive card in this House is welcome news, given how fucking broke I am this semester. That it is \u201cvirtue\u201d, though, rather than some other card offers a warning: I must not give in to the temptation to cook the books. As a TA, much of what I do is not directly supervised. It would be very easy for me to pad my hours. Virtue. <\/p>\n 3rd<\/sup> \u2013 Daily Experiences \u2013 immediate influences \u2013 7 Swords \u201cFutility\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n The contrast, as I said, between my daily experiences and my larger outlook is striking. It is also, however, not much of a surprise. My course load is exactly as much as I can handle, if not a little bit more. \u201cFutility\u201d is the only word for the way that\u2019s felt so far, and I have every reason to believe that will continue for the next month, if not the rest of the semester. <\/p>\n 4th<\/sup> \u2013 Home-place \u2013 family, land, roots \u2013 3 Cups \u201cAbundance\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n Good forecast in respect to my home and family. Good to know. <\/p>\n 5th<\/sup> \u2013 Fun \/ Pleasure \u2013 children, hobbies, lovers \u2013 Ace of Swords<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n The Ace of Swords, I feel safe suggesting, is not the first card to come to anyone\u2019s mind when they think of a good time. I think that this arrangement is a suggestion that, overwhelmingly, what fun I do have will be directly related to my studies and the new ideas and connections they inspire. <\/p>\n 6th<\/sup> \u2013 Work \u2013 illness, duty, routine \u2013 III the Empress This is particularly interesting, because I\u2019ve seen the Empress recently<\/a>. There are a couple grant opportunities for me to apply for\u2014one token and the other long term\u2014and I really ought to have started on them already. So I went ahead and did a nested reading on this, because it could be useful. <\/p>\n Unfortunately, it did not really clarify matters. I tend to think of the Empress as a very earthy card, but the only Pentacles which show up is the 3 at the bottom of the deck. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7th<\/sup> \u2013 Partnership \u2013 associations, spouse \u2013 XIII Death And \u2026 we get to the first troublesome card. My love life is adequately complicated. I don\u2019t need it to be hit by a death-and-rebirth cycle right now. So I did another nested reading to try to figure out what this is going to be about. Actually, this is technically the first nested reading I did. Because this shit is important. <\/p>\n I\u2019m really not sure that this clarifies the issue at all, except that the Ace of Cups and the Fool strongly suggest that this is nothing to do with my current partners, but with something new altogether. <\/p>\n 8th<\/sup> \u2013 Taboo \/ Crisis \u2013 sex, death, taxes, loans \u2013 XII the Hanged Man<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n The Hanged Man is an interesting card to see in the 8th house, for he is both a crisis and its solution. The tendency I have observed with this card, depending upon one\u2019s general outlook on life, is to see in one of three distinct ways: as a trial and ordeal through which one suffers but emerges victorious and powerful; as simple self-sacrifice and suffering; or, as a change in perspective. <\/p>\n The 8th House is sometimes about other people\u2019s money. As a full time college student with no fucking money<\/a>, loans are an omnipresent part of my life, and my first impluse is to look for problems there. But there\u2019s a rhythm to these things in the semester, and if I were going to have any further trouble in that arena \u2026 well, I probably would have heard about it already. And tax time isn\u2019t for a while now, which leads me to suspect that\u2014while I ought to keep an eye on that arena\u2014this is probably not about that. And if it is, it\u2019s a bout my perspective on things not the materiality. <\/p>\n Which means I\u2019m going to probably have to look to the arenas of sex, death, and other taboos or crises for the meaning of this card. <\/p>\n 9th<\/sup> \u2013 Higher Perception \u2013 journey, movement \u2013 2 Wands \u201cDominion\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n Since the odds of me physically going anywhere in the next 28 days are virtually nill, it\u2019s fairly safe for me to assume that the \u201cjourney\u201d here is metaphysical. As such, the 2 of Wands bodes well for my now months-long struggle<\/a> to resume my visionary practice: \u201c\u2026courage, eagerness to take risks, willpower, becoming spontaneously inflamed about something.\u201d(1) <\/p>\n 10th<\/sup> \u2013 Recognition \u2013 career, ambition, status \u2013 4 Cups \u201cLuxury\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to be crowned the golden child this month, but things are going to go well and my work is going to be given the recognition it\u2019s due. I\u2019m cool with that. <\/p>\n 11th<\/sup> \u2013 Friendships \u2013 groups, social activities \u2013 I the Magus<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n I\u2019m currently using the edition of the Thoth deck with the two alternate Magus cards. I leave them all in, and as you can see above it\u2019s the running golden Magus that\u2019s appeared in this reading. I haven\u2019t actually seen him come out before, and I\u2019m still not certain of his nuances. <\/p>\n The Magus is an interesting card in the 11th House. One thinks of the Magus as a singular card: the adept standing in his temple, juggling the powers of the cosmos; he is wise and powerful, knowledgeable and skillful, but he is alone. Friendship and community, conversely, are cooperative endeavors wherein the heavy-handed idiosyncrasy of the Magus. <\/p>\n 12th<\/sup> \u2013 Secrets & Fears \u2013 hopes, ambitions \u2013 XV the Devil<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n My life this semester is founded on and bound in discipline. My time must be managed carefully, dozens of deadlines juggled artfully. I chafe under this constant pressure. <\/p>\n I want to fuck shit up. Get drunk. Smoke weed. Have sex. Set things on fire and dance in the glow. Not necessarily in that order. <\/p>\n +1\/6 \u2013 Current Position \u2013 Knight of Disks<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n For this coming lunar month, I am cultivating: nurturing my meager resources in the hopes that they will grow. I\u2019ve been working. I\u2019ve been doing money magic. I\u2019m going to do more of both. <\/p>\n +2\/6 Current Influences \u2013 Queen of Cups<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n My emotional life is going to color everything this month. My intuition will be my guide. My earthy, airy, stable, and placid Knight of Disks is going to be caught up in the current of the watery part of water. <\/p>\n +3\/6 What Crowns It \u2013 8 Disks \u201cPrudence\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n +4\/6 The Root of It \u2013 Ace of Disks<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s even possible to talk about these to cards, placed thusly, separately \u2026 so I\u2019m not even going to try. It\u2019s all about resources this month, I guess: the finding and the nurturing of them. It\u2019s all about the Earth in a tidy little column of the Ace rising through the Knight to be crowned with the 8. Anyone who has any fucking idea what that means is welcome to share their thoughts with me. <\/p>\n +5\/6 Going Out \u2013 10 Cups \u201cSatiety\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n Given how little emotional Satiety I\u2019ve had since the last Dark Moon, I\u2019m a little curious what this is about. <\/p>\n +6\/6 Coming In \u2013 3 Swords \u201cSorrow\u201d And\u2026. bad news on the horizon. Particularly given the Death card in my 7th House, I thought that this warranted another nested reading. <\/p>\n There are Major Arcana all over the place here, including the Wheel of Fortune and the Tower in very central positions. Something is going to get fuckered this month, and I have no idea what it is. The Tower tells me that I might not until it\u2019s too late. I really don\u2019t like that \u201cpack up and go home\u201d 10W there at the end. <\/p>\n 1 – Banzhaf, Hajo & Brigitte Theler. Keywords fo r the Crowley Tarot p.117<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I did a reading last month. I didn\u2019t even look at it a second time after laying the cards down, let alone actually try to suss out any nuance. Pretty much the same story the month before. This month\u2019s reading, then, is exceptionally lacking in temporal context. 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