Ace of Aros Tarot

Eliot, they/them, elusive forest creature and emotional support tarot reader. Need support? Drop me an ask in Tree-mail! Want to help support me? Toss a coin at ko-fi.com/ace-aros.

[normal-horoscopes]

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[aceofaros]

Happy 2021 friends, cards have spoken. and they literally said 'yep that sure sucked and you sure made it; you need to take naps and feel feelings and trust in pursuing the things you're interested in' so that's what we got folks take care out there

[laurellynnleake]

here’s a self-care idea: lay on the floor.  just lay on the goddamn floor, I don’t know.  aim for the carpet, or maybe put a blanket down first.  if you lay on your back you can look at the ceiling, if you lay on your stomach you can put your ear to the ground and listen to the building and your pulse, think about cleaning everything, then don’t do it.  I don’t know.  just lay on the floor for a while, see what happens

[bloodbonestelephones]

Death

The Nine of Cups

Justice

The Nine of Swords

The King of Swords

The Hanged Man

The Hermit

The Six of Swords

The Eight of Cups

The Five of Cups

The Sun

The Three of Swords

‘The Ghetto Tarot’: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”

[isstinna]

BREAKING NEWS

I just learned about a bird species called Golden Plover. Their chicks have an amazing camouflage: their baby fluff resembles MOSS!

LOOK AT THEM! JUST LOOK AT THEM!

...Oh to be a tiny golden plover lying in the moss safe and sound waiting for your mom to bring you some worms...

[damnit-julian]

@normal-horoscopes

[normal-horoscopes]

ATTENTION: IT IS NOW TIME FOR MOSS

[chichiraion]

Reminds me of the "Tapera Naevia" aka Striped Cuckoo whose chicks look like Pine Cones, so now we have "Moss Birb" and "Pine Cone Birb"

[aceofaros]

July 18 - Inventory Reading

1. Something to let go of; something that no longer serves you.

Nine of Arrows - Dedication

People love to bang on the drum-set of hard work and self-discipline and persistence, especially the ones who don’t understand how privilege works. And the thing most people don’t understand about self-discipline is that the harder you fight to keep yourself in order, the tighter your grip, the more exhausted you become.

Right now, it’s time to chuck the notion that if you just tried a little harder, made yourself a little bit better, pushed yourself a little bit more, you’ll be Good Enough and you’ll Have It Together. Maybe the thing you’ve been dedicating yourself to has proven hollow, or the way you’ve been pursuing it is unsustainable for you now, and the illusions around it are falling away. Maybe it was someone else’s idea of who you were supposed to be.

Cut yourself some slack. Then, once you think you’ve cut yourself enough slack, cut yourself some more slack. Eventually, you’ll remember what it was that you wanted to pursue for its own sake, and you can return to that when you’re ready.

2. Something to hold within; something to nurture.

Seven of Stones - Healing

It’s hard to think about healing while things are still in the middle of getting worse, but we still need to be here for ourselves. If you’re thinking of trying to push things off until you make it through to some hypothetical ‘other side’ and then it’ll be safe to start, you may never get started. There’s always one more ‘other side’ because once the things start coming they do not, in fact, stop coming. Make a little space inside yourself where you can go and practice patching up and replenishing as you go along. We’ll have our work cut out for us as we’re trying to be here for each other - grow this muscle slowly and patiently so you don’t strain it on something big before you’re ready.

3. Something to put out there; something to express.

Eight of Vessels - Rebirth

If you’re dying to shed an old skin and slither off all fresh and shiny, you should go for it. Yes, people might look at you funny when you start behaving in ways that are contrary to their established image of you, but that doesn’t mean they get to push you back into that mold. If your old shape doesn’t fit anymore, you don’t have to wait for the ‘right moment’ to reinvent it. The essence of your true self can stay constant while the way you show it off can look like anything you want. Keep ‘em guessing.

Donate to the Healing Justice Foundation (Mental Health Support for BIPOC)

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Black Created Tarot Decks Masterpost

Dust II Onyx Tarot - Courtney Alexander

Afro Goddess Tarot & Oracle - Andrea Furtick

Afro Tarot & Oracle - Jessi Jumanji

Adinkra Ancestral Guidance cards - Simone Bresi-Ando

Akamara Tarot & Okana Oracle - Lolu

Melanade Stand Tarot - Fontaine Felisha Foxworth

The Black Gold Lenormand - Tea

Melanated Classic Tarot - Oubria Tronshaw & Julia Goolsby

If you know any deck that should be on this list, please let me know! I want to make sure that any black created decks are spotlighted!

[aceofaros]

Midsummer Solstice - Litha

(That can’t be right, I’m pretty sure it’s still March)

No? Okay, Sun has spoken, apparently it’s late June. Wands and sunlight and fire all up in this business, and as we go careening into the next period of whatever the hell this is, this reading is to help get you thinking about how to sync up and work with it.

1. Focus: Where will you be directing your energy?

Two of Stones - Challenge:

You’re in for some confrontations - with other people, with yourself, possibly with the police if you haven’t been already. You’re seeing things you can’t let slide and squaring up to face them. Not every situation will be a fight, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be difficult, and equally worth doing - sometimes it’ll be about speaking up to express a need or a boundary, or letting someone know that who you are and what you stand for isn’t up for debate. Take some deep breaths and keep your feet shoulder-width apart, if you’ve got feet, or shoulders.  Keeping your body steady will help you as you practice holding your own with courage and integrity.

2. Feed: How will you keep yourself sustained?

Eight of Bows: Hearthfire

Having community support is never not going to be essential. (And unfortunately it’s more difficult than ever, unless you’re in a country that actually has its shit together and you’re now somewhat able to safely hang out with people.) Keep track of your people however you can, and remember to cut each other some slack now and then.  Carve out some time to just be with them; make sure you get in some actual pack-bonding outside of the good fight. You don’t have to be ‘on’ all the time - more to the point, the only way we’re making it through this is if we get this time together.

3. Fire: How will you decide when is the right moment to act?

Three of Stones - Creativity:

Cards say ‘go nuts.’ There’s not really a wrong moment, just the moment you make. You’re in charge, you funky critter. Sometimes challenging yourself means finding your way without the user manual, making it up, doing things the fun way instead of defaulting to what you know. (And it is a challenge, really, because everything else is uncertain, and it’s tempting to hold onto the things you know like a lifeline.) A whole lot of risk-taking and vulnerability is involved in every creative act, but you’ve probably noticed that the known and the accepted haven’t been working and haven’t been worth it. Creativity is a bit like a muscle - stretch it a bit at a time, build it up, use it little by little, and it’ll help you get places you couldn’t reach before.

Wildwood Tarot

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[aceofaros]

Questions for White People to ask their cards and themselves

I found this spread by browngirltarot on Instagram (and you can support her at her main site here).

1. From what unchecked privilege do I benefit?

10 - The Wheel

White people may feel that we have the option to separate ourselves from the action, even if we think we’re being supportive. Expressing and modeling support is a good start, of course, but it’s easy to show up for a bit, make some sympathetic noises, and then get on with our lives, ultimately unaffected. It’s tempting to say that ‘things will change’ as if it’s not massive, collective, substantive human effort that makes things change. If we really want to see a better world for our black friends and neighbors, then the Wheel is a reminder that we’re also responsible for making it real, not just watching it happen. Are you undergoing any changes within yourself in light of the things you’re seeing? Are you willing to let those inner changes take place rather than clinging to the comfortable and well-rehearsed patterns? What are you going to do when the dust settles but there’s still work to be done?

2. What step can I take to confront that privilege?

Two of Arrows - Injustice

We can start by taking the goddamned blindfold off. The Two of Arrows shows us who we are when we’re waylaid by illusions, prejudices, and manipulation; the Two of Arrows is ‘but violence never solves anything!’ and ‘but those officers feared for their lives!’ and ‘but I don’t see color!’ It’s easy to insist that we believe in our common humanity, but it’s also easy to ignore and justify the ways in which our world was deliberately structured to deny that common humanity. We insisted that things were better, that we’d come a long way, that we’d fixed it. We took it for granted that the police and the courts and the prisons were necessary to keep society safe, and deny the corruption and oppression no matter how ugly it is and how often it puts itself in our faces. What’s it going to take to see that what we call justice was never impartial, was never equal, was never intended to protect our black neighbors?

3. What step can I take to counter racism in my community?

5 - The Ancestor (trad. The Heirophant)

Show up and listen. Be on the alert for other white people in roles of leadership who present themselves as reasonable, but stymie solutions, make excuses, or only do the bare minimum. If you don’t have the frame of reference to see through that yet, listen to black people and people of color when they point out this behavior. If you’re in a leadership role yourself, use it to support and amplify your black neighbors. Model behavior for other white people. If you feel reluctant to show your support to black leaders in your community, take a moment or three to ask yourself where that feeling is coming from. White people like to talk a big game about ‘respect for authority’ based on unspoken and very entrenched assumptions about what constitutes authority. Start asking yourself what makes a leader, and then ask yourself where you got that from. What assumptions are you taking for granted?

4. In what way can I be an ally to people of color?

Four of Stones - Protection

A significant chunk of our nastiest, sneakiest, most insidious forms of racism involve a paradigm in which black people are a threat for white people to protect ourselves from. Learning to become better allies means coming to terms with the fact that white people are the threat to the lives and safety and futures of black people, because the power dynamic was built in our favor. Once we realize that caring about other people is the only thing that really counts and that those lives and futures are what we’re fighting for, we can use the power and privilege that comes with whiteness to offer protection for black people. It means a priority shift away from the defensiveness we build around ourselves as white people, and a shift towards squaring up and throwing down against racist people and racist powers who are trying to hurt the people we care about. How can you use your privilege to protect black people from harm?

Need a place to start? 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice

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[aceofaros]

Questions for White People to ask their cards and themselves

I found this spread by browngirltarot on Instagram (and you can support her at her main site here).

1. From what unchecked privilege do I benefit?

10 - The Wheel

White people may feel that we have the option to separate ourselves from the action, even if we think we’re being supportive. Expressing and modeling support is a good start, of course, but it’s easy to show up for a bit, make some sympathetic noises, and then get on with our lives, ultimately unaffected. It’s tempting to say that ‘things will change’ as if it’s not massive, collective, substantive human effort that makes things change. If we really want to see a better world for our black friends and neighbors, then the Wheel is a reminder that we’re also responsible for making it real, not just watching it happen. Are you undergoing any changes within yourself in light of the things you’re seeing? Are you willing to let those inner changes take place rather than clinging to the comfortable and well-rehearsed patterns? What are you going to do when the dust settles but there’s still work to be done?

2. What step can I take to confront that privilege?

Two of Arrows - Injustice

We can start by taking the goddamned blindfold off. The Two of Arrows shows us who we are when we’re waylaid by illusions, prejudices, and manipulation; the Two of Arrows is ‘but violence never solves anything!’ and ‘but those officers feared for their lives!’ and ‘but I don’t see color!’ It’s easy to insist that we believe in our common humanity, but it’s also easy to ignore and justify the ways in which our world was deliberately structured to deny that common humanity. We insisted that things were better, that we’d come a long way, that we’d fixed it. We took it for granted that the police and the courts and the prisons were necessary to keep society safe, and deny the corruption and oppression no matter how ugly it is and how often it puts itself in our faces. What’s it going to take to see that what we call justice was never impartial, was never equal, was never intended to protect our black neighbors?

3. What step can I take to counter racism in my community?

5 - The Ancestor (trad. The Heirophant)

Show up and listen. Be on the alert for other white people in roles of leadership who present themselves as reasonable, but stymie solutions, make excuses, or only do the bare minimum. If you don’t have the frame of reference to see through that yet, listen to black people and people of color when they point out this behavior. If you’re in a leadership role yourself, use it to support and amplify your black neighbors. Model behavior for other white people. If you feel reluctant to show your support to black leaders in your community, take a moment or three to ask yourself where that feeling is coming from. White people like to talk a big game about ‘respect for authority’ based on unspoken and very entrenched assumptions about what constitutes authority. Start asking yourself what makes a leader, and then ask yourself where you got that from. What assumptions are you taking for granted?

4. In what way can I be an ally to people of color?

Four of Stones - Protection

A significant chunk of our nastiest, sneakiest, most insidious forms of racism involve a paradigm in which black people are a threat for white people to protect ourselves from. Learning to become better allies means coming to terms with the fact that white people are the threat to the lives and safety and futures of black people, because the power dynamic was built in our favor. Once we realize that caring about other people is the only thing that really counts and that those lives and futures are what we’re fighting for, we can use the power and privilege that comes with whiteness to offer protection for black people. It means a priority shift away from the defensiveness we build around ourselves as white people, and a shift towards squaring up and throwing down against racist people and racist powers who are trying to hurt the people we care about. How can you use your privilege to protect black people from harm?

Need a place to start? 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice

Donate to The Healing Justice Foundation (Mental Health Support for BIPOC)

Wildwood Tarot

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[aceofaros]

May 27 - Articulation Spread

1. What is the question? What issue needs to be identified and dragged into recognizable form?

Six of Stones - Exploitation:

Just about speaks for itself on the face of it, but we’re looking for the thing that’s not obvious. What is being demanded of you? What expectations have you been trying to live up to, only to find they’ve eaten you alive? Whether it’s someone else who has leverage or you’re pushing yourself too hard, something’s getting untenable. If you’ve been scraping by and trying to get along like the ‘This Is Fine’ dog, it’s about to become painfully clear that This Is Not Fine.

2. What has been impeding this expression? What is helping it stay hidden?

2- The Seer (trad. The High Priestess):

It seems strange for the embodiment of clear sight to be the obstacle here. I’ve been thinking about Cassandra lately, cursed to See and never be believed. Maybe in this position, the Seer is not the culprit in and of herself, but whatever it is that makes us unwilling to listen to her. Maybe you’ve suspected, maybe you have nagging doubts about your situation that, if proven true, might be devastating. Our defense mechanisms exist to protect us from things that are terribly painful while the enormity of the implications are too much to cope with, but they can be terribly difficult to dismantle when the time comes. What voices are you listening to? Are they truly your own? Are they as helpful as they’d like you to think they are?

3. What do you do with it once it has been identified?

Page of Bows - Stoat:

A catalyst for change, the start of something new. Once you believe that you deserve better than to be stuck in your untenable situation, your bid for freedom becomes not only possible, but a necessity. The Page is wily and free-spirited, with a nose for the unexpected. If you’re looking for a sign, this is it. HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME. It’s time to get out and start over. Trust your instincts. Get sneaky. Look for opportunities, look for the truth, look for a way out. HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME.

[aceofaros]

Will my spouse be male or female

Well friend I’m pretty sure it’s up to you to decide what kind of person is going to make you happy, and it’s up to them to know what kind of person they are, but we’ll have a look.

The cards were a little unforthcoming in that regard but I am pleased to report that your future partnership is vibin’.

1. The Querent: 19 - The Sun

You’re a veritable powerhouse of radiance, friend. You have a lot of warmth and vitality to bring to the table, and when you’re ready to forge a life with someone, you’ll have joy and confidence in knowing who you are and in the future you’re building together.

2. The Querent’s Partner: Ten of Bows - Responsibility

You’re looking at someone who’s able to counterbalance your energy by being steady and supportive - someone who’s capable of seeing you both through difficult times and who takes their commitments seriously. Nice catch.

3. The Relationship: Ace of Bows

You’re quite the combination! If you’re looking for spark, keep in mind that people talk a lot about relationships having ‘spark’ with the assumption that it up and ignites right away. To roll with the metaphor of the bow-drill fire as depicted, it will take patience and skill to make that happen. The cool part is that you both have what’s needed to get it lit and keep it burning. Keep your heart open while you take the time to recognize the language of their dedication - you have a lot of potential to create some brilliant things together.

Thank you for your ask!

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[aceofaros]

May 20 - Timeline Spread

Past - Seven of Vessels - Mourning

I’d be more hesitant to interpret this as ‘the past’ if time were real, which is to say that time is cyclical and so is grief, and the moments leading up to this one have all manner of losses to give us cause for it. It doesn’t have to be at the forefront of your mind at every moment, but neither can we just skip over it. Whether you’ve lost a loved one, or a dream, your sense of safety, or the person you were before, it’s going to sneak up and catch you at inopportune moments. Don’t fight it off. It’s you, and it needs attention.

Present - Ten of Bows - Responsibility

We have... so much work to do. This, too, is cyclical. Caring for each other is part of who we are, and it always has been, even if the people who profit off of our infighting would like us to forget that. Any possibility for a better world is going to come from us making it for each other (and the obstacles aren’t going away as long as they’re profiting off our infighting). We have to take it in turns, and learn to recognize when others may need to care for us, but trying to abdicate from it altogether is just going to mess you up inside. If you’re reading this, I probably don’t need to explain to you that we’ve got to care about other people, but then our fear and disillusionment may keep us paralyzed from taking anything on, and that way lies madness too. You don’t have to carry all ten staves all the time, and you don’t have to let anybody tell you that that’s the only way to contribute. The point is that you have something to offer, and that this work is worth doing.

Future - Ten of Stones - Home

This is what we work for, but it’s also a feeling we carry with us. We’re little turtles like that. You ever stop in the middle of what you’re doing and get overwhelmed with a wave of ‘I want to go home!’ even when you’re actually just sitting in your own kitchen? That feeling knows what it’s on about. There’s probably a complicated German word for metaphysical homesickness, like the flipside of wanderlust. Follow that feeling. Don’t just tell it ‘I’m sitting in my kitchen! What more do you want?’ What you want is that wild-ass sense of contentment and belonging. Sometimes that’ll happen in your kitchen, and sometimes it’s going to happen in someone else’s. When you’ve got that feeling, you’ll be safe to hold your grief, or strong enough to shelter others, or simply able to permit yourself to put your burdens down and rest up.

Time’s not real. All these things are part of you at once. Do what you can.

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[aceofaros]

May 18 - Check-in Spread

1. What are you feeling? What is the issue that needs to be addressed?

9 - The Hooded Man (trad. The Hermit)

Just because we’ve been on lockdown doesn’t mean you’re getting rest and breathing space. You may have been burnt-out to begin with when it scorched you with new and hitherto untold varieties of stress - or maybe you did get a chance to breathe, and put down the weight you were carrying, only to discover that you can’t bear to pick it back up again. The Hooded Man signifies not only rest but solitude, contemplation, an incubation period - fields laying fallow as the soil replenishes. Maybe, for all that you wanted to learn a new language and read the books that have been languishing on your side table, you can’t bring yourself to do anything more than stare at the walls as the hours creep on. When’s the last time you let your brain go fallow? You need rest. We need rest. Demand it. Steal it. Hoard it. Guard it. You will make it so much harder for other people to impose their ideas of what’s important over your own.

2. Why are you feeling this way? What is the source or cause of this situation?

3 - The Green Woman (trad. The Empress)

Surprise! It’s not just new and hitherto untold varieties of stress that make you want to curl up and take a nap - turns out, you are positively teeming with untapped potential for growth. If it makes you feel exhausted just thinking about it, that’s the general idea. It’s in a dormant state, gathering steam while you’re in your aforementioned incubation period. You’re nurturing something, whether that’s your creative life, a deeper connection with others, a potted plant or maybe a literal whole-ass garden. Build ye a greenhouse. Give yourself the space to learn what you want to be, give yourself the space to let that version of you grow - feed it, protect it, keep it warm. It’s not ready to come out yet, but it’s waiting.

3. What are you going to do about it?

Eight of Vessels - Rebirth

The best we can hope for on the other side of our trials is not too shabby, actually. Between the enduring and the carrying on, the practice and the patience, the feeding and protecting and keeping warm, there falls the creating and the choosing and becoming. We work - and we rest - towards the sprouting and the blooming and the bubbling up of all that potential, the chance to have enough and more, to runneth over, fill each other up and flourish.

[aceofaros]

May 10 - What’s a Gender

1. What’s your internal experience of your gender? How does it feel when you’re the only one home?

14 - Balance (trad. Temperance)

A concord of polarized energies is never a bad place to start when it comes to things like this. Regardless of where you fall, on or off the binary, having the ability to draw on all parts and potentialities gives you a bigger world and many more angles from which to operate. That’s one of the secrets, really - even when you know you’re one thing and not another, you still have access to the entirety of possibilities to draw on when you need them.

2. What is your experience of presenting yourself, and being perceived by others?

Nine of Arrows - Dedication

Showing up in the world is a whole ordeal - hard enough when it’s the imposed expectations of your assigned gender when you identify with it in the first place. Then there’s trying to get people to see you as the person you are when you don’t match up to what they expect. Trying to dictate first impressions, trying to gauge whether someone is going to be receptive to changing pronouns in mid-stream, trying to figure out if you’re safe to be out to them in the first place. Sometimes it’s the good-faith conversations that are the most frustrating, because you hope they might be worth your time and energy, but first you have to weed through all the assumptions.

People will throw around the words ‘be yourself’ and tack them up in sparkles on t-shirts like it’s easy, like they have any idea what we’re really up against when we do that, like they have any idea of the courage and doubt and practice and trial-and-error and reworking learned behaviors that it takes to do that. Being true to yourself is an ongoing act of persistence, and you have every reason to be proud of every time you’ve managed to pull it off.

3. What might you need to do to keep these things in harmony with each other?

1 - The Shaman (trad. The Magician)

The whole work of the Shaman can be summed up in the idea of reflecting the intangible concept in the material world. That’s magic and gender in a nutshell, really, and that’s what names and clothes and pronouns and trying out that thing that you thought might be neat but someone told you wasn’t for you. They’re not exactly what makes you you, any more or less than the ones you started with, but saying something out loud or putting it into your physical space helps make things real for yourself in ways you don’t expect. You’ll learn to bounce back and forth between your inner and outer worlds (as circumstances and safety permit). Study up, pay attention, see how things make you feel - you’re so much more than what they’ve told you to be.

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May 9 - Pathway Spread/The Robert Frost

1. What is the issue or question at hand?

18 - The Moon:

It’s time to go deep. Take a flashlight. Lean into the mysticism, wear a cape, lurk in a graveyard - whatever you need to do. The Moon is for intuitive wisdom, journeys of transformation, going within and pulling things out. (Don’t try that literally. Your physical innards should stay where they belong.) You’re on the cusp of some new discovery, sniffing out the hint that there’s more to things than you initially expected. Work with the stillness and the wonder - our world doesn’t give us a chance to feel those things often, so you should make the most of it when you can.

2. What path should you best avoid?

The Guardian (trad. The Devil)

That’s... that’s too deep. Got a bear skeleton in your closet, pilgrim? Staring down the hollow eye-sockets of your most bone deep fears? Deep breaths. Sometimes it just be like that. The Guardian isn’t the danger itself but the fear: they pose as that looming sense of dread between you and the things you’ve shoved in the ramshackle garden sheds and attics and catacombs of your mind. Maybe you’re just stumbling upon the cave entrance and realized that bear skeleton is standing there.

Now, we know that trying to keep these things shoved under will just make them pop back up like psychological whack-a-mole, but that doesn’t mean you should face them unprepared. That’s why we have therapists, and spelunking gear. Now that you know what’s waiting for you, you take the other path back into the woods and work on leveling up - you’ll circle back this way another time.

3. What is the course best suited to your journey?

Five of Arrows - Frustration

Here’s what you’re working on as you’re leveling up: learning to identify the things that want to suck your attention, learning to stay focused on what’s important to you, learning to marshal your resources. Recognizing when someone’s baiting you, and refusing to give them the satisfaction of your time and energy. That goat that keeps dodging your arrows? He’s smirking at you. What a bastard.

This is the equally important but far more annoying broad daylight bit of your growth. So much of what we’re doing is learning to deal with distraction and misdirection. We’re in a nightmare scenario specifically tailored to keeping us on edge and lashing out. When you feel yourself getting harried or distracted, it’s a bad time to be persistent. Eat a snack. Stop checking the news. Have a good, cathartic screech. This part of the journey is going to feel aimless, and futile, and generally shitty, but the tools and habits you get from it will be indispensable no matter where you wander.

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