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Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

robinade

In conversation with multiple posts going around discussing technical literacy and typing skills…

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 Words Per Minute

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I'm on mobile/ vanilla extract option

Voting ended onJul 20

➡️ Take a typing test here (and you need an actual, physical keyboard for this):

The industry-standard benchmark used by employers and typing certifications worldwide.

➡️ 'Typing classes' refers to computer skills classes you might have had in school; you can also count games or other related typing training your parents might have had you do.

➡️ Across 3 different typing test websites*, the (english language) world average typing speed is 40 WPM.

*typingtest.now, typingtestgo.com, typerworld.com

artikgato

I learned to type on a typewriter, and then later I also had touch-typing classes which I breezed through.

phoenixyfriend

Some people on the metlife walk topic are like "Americans, you're being trolled and you don't even realize"

babe do you know how many European tourists regularly almost die because they overestimated themselves

Not everything is as extreme as the death valley Germans but European tourists FAMOUSLY do this shit everywhere that isn't Europe. Some people may be trolling, but history says that a non-zero quantity are deadly serious.

phoenixyfriend

Americans are saying this because. It. Happens.

"I can walk that" no you can't "I don't need water" yes you do "It's just a few hours" it is not

"They're just trolling you, none of us are actually going to--" people do. Every damn day. Maybe not this exactly. Usually it's in the national parks. But something similarly dumb. And it's VERY OFTEN Europeans.

Europeans in particular are just so used to everything being Small, and the idea that Americans in particular are too stupid to live and that they, as Europeans, are inherently smarter... and honestly, I agree with that person who said that it's a little bit of white supremacy happening.

The idea that someone in another country just needs to be shown the way, that you can manage their land and culture better than they can, that you are smarter and more resourceful, that's the supremacy talking. Doesn't have to be white, really, but if it's Europeans.... yeah, babe.

The National Parks have a death toll and it's not because all Americans are inherently stupid; the assumption that it is leads to more Europeans getting in trouble than otherwise might have.

American roads have a death toll and it's not because all Americans are inherently stupid. We can assume here as well that history will repeat itself, and that Europeans will assume that it is, and get in more trouble than they otherwise might have.

phoenixyfriend

Also the general irony of saying that, of all Americans, it's the NJ/NYC folk that don't know how to walk.

If every other city isn't commenting about their local stadium, but Manhattanites are telling you that you can't walk somewhere, maybe. Maybe sit down and listen.

I considered walking to Met Life once, at least partway, from Manhattan, because it's Just Across The River from where I work. And then I checked. And I decided to do the sane thing and take the train.

phoenixyfriend

#I have worked in the tourist industry and can confirm #Europeans can do dumb touristy shit #the most common is underestimating the distance of things in America #and not understanding the weather#so everything about this is very believable to me #also can confirm they suck at national parks #I am not going into details but I’ve seen some people massively dismiss the challenges of American terrain (via @spockwithacat)

glarawelmagolben

My ex-husband, when we went to visit friends and they took us camping in the Wisconsin Dells, saying out loud with his whole chest “but why would we bear proof anything, we don’t have bears in England”.

whitepeopletwitter

commandtower-solring-go

There are a lot of really dog shit things in the world of tech that can be solved with a bit of time, some stubborn googling and maybe some special hardware and piracy is only the tip of the iceberg.

Printers are notorious for claiming they’re out of ink when they haven’t come close to the suggested number of prints, and their cartridges literally still have ink in them. So after a bit of googling I found out how to ‘reset’ a cartridges automatic stopping system (its literally 1 physical wheel on the cartridge that you gotta turn back). The only downside is that I don’t get a digital ink monitor, but since it told me it was empty when still half full, I don’t mind.

Like, you can just jiggle with some shit and solve one of the biggest money making scams in the post-industrial world and I don’t think people realise its that easy.

Or, like, repairing your own technology. A few months ago, I swapped out my sister’s laptop screen. Did it myself, I removed maybe 4 screws, no vital parts were exposed and it cost me $40. I even got a choice of matte or glossy.

My point is, any walls that capitalist technology presents you with will be a false one. And one already broken by a dedicated community of interesting people working hard for free to break down that wall.

buckskinblues

kids these days will be all “be gay do crime” and dont even know how to watch a cartoon without paying for it smh

thedreadvampy

IN FAIRNESS

piracy was definitely leagues easier a decade or so ago when thepiratebay was functional, megaupload was still running, and YouTube and Google made only the most cursory attempts to block copyright content. like let’s not pretend that the internet hasn’t got a lot more corporatised in the past decade or so. piracy is still possible and you can and should do it but it’s a LOT harder to do safely and reliably than it was.

thebroccoligoblin

^thank u

theoutcastrogue

Sorry, this is all wrong.

1) ThePirateBay is still functional. (It’s not the same pirate bay that it was back in the day, but let’s not get into Theseus’ ship territory. It’s still here and it still works, that’s all that matters.) There are plenty of torrent sites around, more than there were 10 years ago – although overall traffic has plummeted. Now as then, it’s a whack-a-mole game.

2) Why was it “leagues easier” a decade ago? Some countries, not all (not north America, for example), now mandate ISP blocking of torrent sites, but this new complication can be bypassed with one (1) step: a google duckduckgo search for proxies. No government agency or ISP can possibly keep up with proxies, it’s yet another whack-a-mole game. So yes, it was technically easier before, but I don’t see “leagues” anywhere.

3) It was safer before? Are you shitting me? Have you lot forgotten that the legal departments of MPAA and RIAA sued torrent sharers (not even uploaders) and asked for millions of dollars for damages? AND GOT THEM? (By which I mean they didn’t actually get millions since the people they sued didn’t have any, but said people were convicted and ruined and that was the goal in the first place. It was a deeply amoral and cynical scare tactic.) Well they stopped doing that at some point, and focused on hunting P2P and torrent sites. Running a site is certainly less safe today. Using one, though? Depending on where you are, the ISP may be allowed to block you after repeated instances, and that’s it. You’re not getting in trouble with the law or into crippling debt. And either way there’s only a minuscule chance that any of this will come to pass, which becomes zero (0) with a VPN. (Safety of course depends on the country, and in some cases piracy is the least of your concerns. Let’s not get into that.)

4) Ten years ago there was no Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis was in its infancy. If today it’s harder to find PDFs on google, it is orders of magnitude easier and more reliable to find them elsewhere. People just have to unstick their minds from the notion that stuff is either on google or doesn’t exist at all. Geez.

5) P2P still exists. IRC (the sharing channels in particular, #bookz and the like) still exists. Torrenting functions like it always did. All these methods are exactly as easy to use as before, i.e. not necessarily a piece of cake, there’s a learning curve. But it’s the same learning curve it was 10 years ago.

6) So what have we lost? Only YouTube (meh, the film/tv quality was appalling anyway, and music is still there) and direct downloads (at least the permanent ones: there are plenty of them still around, but files expire and you need to keep track of what goes up when. So this goes beyond knowhow, it’s about internet communities. Let’s not get into that either, it’s a huge subject.) It’s a loss, sure, but I wouldn’t call it a terrible blow.

7) And in exchange for that loss, we got streaming sites. This is piracy, too, and it’s much much easier than torrents, and tons of people do it. Any “piracy has declined” narrative either implies that we’re excluding streaming from the discussion for some reason, or is flat out wrong. Ten years ago, grandpa couldn’t possibly torrent a film, and it’s debatable if he even knew how to open the file you helpfully sent him. Now, as long as someone has set up kodi or similar, grandpa can watch it on his tv and it just feels like cable.

8) On why torrents in particular have declined in recent years, see here. It’s a big subject and I didn’t cover all of it, but the main reason is that people had access to easier methods to get what they wanted (some legal and affordable, some illegal and free), so they didn’t need to learn how to torrent. Ergo, they never did. There’s more of course, and there’s definitely a cultural shift too, but that’s a very long story so let’s not get into it. The linked post also includes some thoughts on why torrents aren’t dead and doomed just yet, and ooh, I forgot a very important one: you can’t stream photoshop.

To summarise, internet piracy is NOT more difficult, unreliable, and unsafe today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. For reasons why people (young or otherwise) seem less versed in it, please look elsewhere. I have thoughts on that too, but this is already a very long post, so I’ll just leave you with the best kind of thought. I’ll leave you with a doubt:

ARE people less versed in piracy? Are they really? Or is it simply that 20 years ago, internet users were computer geeks by definition, whereas now everyone’s online? Perhaps the percentage of skilled pirates in the general population remains more or less the same, and the only thing that’s dropped is the percentage of skilled pirates to total internet users. I can’t be sure without statistical evidence, but it’s a possibility.

pulchrabelle

You can literally google “watch _____ free online” and find most movies but the third result just download Adblock or popup blocker and you’re golden it truly couldn’t be easier

chickenmcnuggies

I’ve been meaning to make a piracy masterpost for awhile and what better time than now?

Materpost: A curated Githup tutorial of links to more torrent sites, software, VPNs, uBlock origin filters, ect. Basically everything you could ever want starting out. Do be warned though it doesn’t appear to have been updated in awhile so a few of the links are dead.

GAMES:

Vimm’s Roms: NES era->ps3 era roms and emulators to play them. Has user ratings on games. Cons: slow download speeds.

NxBrew: Switch roms/game updates/dlc

nsw2u: More switch roms. Check here if nxbrew doesn’t have the game you’re looking for.

Hshop: 3ds games/updates/dlc. Very well organized and sorted by console region. Bonus ability to generate QR codes to scan with homebrew to begin download directly on your console.

Oldgamesdownload: Old 90’s-2000’s PC games and some gamecube games. Technically, all of the games here are abandon ware, meaning the original company/creator doesn’t sell nor make money from the games anymore period. If you’re into that.

Fitgirl repacks: Heavily compressed PC games, and other various consoles. Small downloads and faster speeds for the size of the games. Somewhat limited game selection.

Steam unlocked: Steam games with easy-to-use installers. Check here if fitgirl doesn’t have what you’re looking for.

Steam Underground: A user forum for piracy support, usually about installing cracked games. Does have some scattered PC game downloads.

Google doc of Skyrim SE creation club content.

Amiibo life: Amiibo bins, can be loaded with some homebrew to load in games without any external source, or, if you buy writable NFC cards, you can make your own free amiibos.

Books:

Library Genesis: a good all-in-one ebook finder. Has books, magazines, scientific papers, ect. Well organized and able to sort by Author, Genre, ect ect. Almost all books in .epub format

Calibre: Not piracy but a free software for reading said .epub files, and other ebook formats. Good for sorting your books.

Sci-Hub: Research papers, academic books, pdfs, ect. Helpful for collage students.

IT ebook: eBooks about learning programming languages.

audiobookbay: Audiobook downloads.

Booksonic: Audiobook streaming.

5e.tools: Dnd player’s manual, guide, ect.

Books on learning various languages.

Mangadex: Manga, Doujinshi.

Headspace sleep audio.

Various books and manuals.

Streaming:

ustvgo: Free streaming of live tv, has most US cable tv channels.

tutturu: Spiritual successor to Rabbit, allows you to stream your screen with friends.

Yes movies: Movies

Kimcartoon: Cartoons/animated movies

aniwatcher: Anime

animedao: Anime

Computer software:

getintopc: Wide selection of pc (mostly windows) software of all sorts, and different versions. Can personally vouch for the site, I’ve gotten Photoshop, Maya, and Sony Vegas from here over the years.

Other:

the eye: An archive of old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect. Cons: No search function and slightly hard to navigate.

1337x.to: Torrent site for movies, shows, games, comics, ect.

ThePirateBay: The classic.

Recorded broadway musicals. Verying quality.

unyanizedcatboys

Finally someone actually posted links instead of just bitching or saying “it’s easy”

zoanzon

Ok just want to plug the eye a bit more considering I lost a few hours in their yesterday.

the eye has been up since 2017 and in the last four years have accumulated 140TB of data (according to their own reports). Part of their growth is just their own work, part of it is absorbing other archives/open directories that were having issues: I know rpg.rem.uz used to be its own archive - gave way to The Trove, which is having its own issues right now unfortunately… - but now most-all of their content can also just be found on the eye. Same with a few dozen other archives.

And they have ‘old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect’, but massively more than you might think just based off how this sounds. Like…

They have it all.

If you want to try and homebrew alcohol, go check their stuff. If you want to try and read books that are out of print or otherwise in public domain (and some that aren’t yet in public domain), go check their stuff. If you want to run a campaign and can’t pay for expensive print tabletop books, go check their stuff. If you want to fuck off into the woods to live off the land (or research how that would work for a writing project), go check their stuff. If you’re trying to learn shit about drugs - any drugs, almost - go check their stuff.

Hell, if you want to go read what looks like literally every research paper on coronaviruses from 1968 up to Feb 2020, you can do that too!

As chickenmcnuggies said its a mess and a half to navigate through their collections, partially with how large it is and the fact quite a few folders were once whole other archives since absorbed by the eye…

But goddamn you can lose an afternoon just going through all the stuff they have.

bigbadowlet

The subreddit r/freemediaheckyeah is a great resource and their index: https://fmhy.net/ has A LOT of stuff with a pretty straightforward UI. Its got free resources for pretty much anything you could want on the internet, both fully legal and dubiously legal.

The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

i-might-be-vanny

@isuggestalibraryofthings

isuggestalibraryofallthings

i have a suggestion

isuggesteatingtherich

me too

ms-demeanor

I just want to point out that most inkjet printers these days come with/require ink subscriptions and you can’t fix it by jiggling a gear because they use a chip in the cartridge to tell it when to stop working (and to force you to use branded cartridges) HOWEVER laserjet printers *do not* have this issue and are better about accepting 3rd party cartridges. They also last a long time and the printers are easier to fix and don’t end up with the clogged nozzle problem that inkjet printers have. (They are more expensive to purchase and the cartridges are more expensive but you get a *lot* out of them)

If you’re looking for a printer that sucks less, you may want to look for a used/refurbished laserjet and if you’re looking for a printer and it says it comes with a year long ink subscription, no you aren’t, fuck that printer, don’t buy that printer.

ms-demeanor

Also all the piracy advice on this post is 5+ years old and probably very little of it works please don’t use random torrent sites you read about in Tumblr posts that’s like trying to get free gum by licking it off the sidewalk.

abbiistabbii

You know those videos that talk about things in Japan that are "mindblowing" (often they're not that common or just small little touches). Well fuck it, here's a load of things that I think will blow people's minds about the UK that are just common knowledge here.

If you find a road that's oddly straight out in the countryside, chances are it was originally a Roman road. Several Major roads and sections of motorway follow the route of Roman Roads. There's a Roman Road that goes under the end of my street, part of it is still in use.

Every hour, on the hour, BBC radio 4 plays a series of beeps that tell you when it's exactly on the hour so you can set your clocks and watches.

We have a TV show made for Amateur Astronomers that has been going on since 1957. They cover major events and discoveries in Astronomy.

We have a Gameshow called Countdown wherein people take semi random letters and try create the longest word they can from it, and then take semi random numbers and try to use them to get to a random number. It is one of the Longest running and popular daytime gameshows and is a national treasure.

In Scotland, a lot of our chip shops were/are opened by Italians or people of Italian descent, so you can also get pizza there. Haggis pizza is a common menu item and it slaps.

The controllers in charge of the power grid have to watch every major soap opera and sports event because when the event ends or goes to commercial break, so many people get up to go make a cup of tea it risks a blackout, so they have to use Pumped storage stations to generate more power. There's one of these power stations near Wales's Highest Mountain and one at Loch Ness.

Every major channel rehearses for the death of the current monarch so they don't fuck it up. Under the news desk at the BBC, there's a black tie for the men and a black cardigan for the women that they put on if a major royal dies. You can see this happen if you watch the footage.

The government announces tests of the EAS system in advance so people know that A) it's a test, don't panic and B) so people with hidden phones (like abused spouses) can turn them off.

Our lifeboat and lifeguard service, The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, is completely volunteer run and funded through donations. Volunteers have to have pagers on them that ring if they're called up so they can run to the boats and rescue people. They're often in remote areas, and they're a common charity to raise money for because everyone agrees that they're not just heroic, but based as all fuck.

Most major supermarkets deliver, and by that I don't mean "you can send a gig-worker to do your shopping", I mean Tesco, Sainsbury's, Iceland and ASDA all have fleets of official trucks where you can do your shopping online, a supermarket worker picks your stuff for you, and at a designated time someone comes and delivers your shopping. They're even a common site in rural areas.

It's a Christmas tradition to go to your local theater to see a Pantomime, which is basically a retelling of a fairy tale done by drag queens aimed at children, but with jokes for the adults and modern cultural references. Famous actors will often take part in these shows. It's a beloved Christmas tradition that's illegal in Tennessee.

BBC radio 4 Broadcasts a Special Weather Forecast for people who work at sea or even on the water. It's very technical and concise and people who do not work at sea or even live near any major body of water listen to it because it is very, very relaxing.

elodieunderglass

Ohhh good point @sweetlyfez , a thing about pantomime is that there’s specific call-and-responses. Children are trained to shout things at the actors at specific points, like if someone is creeping up behind a character, the audience all go “it’s behind you!” in a slightly creepily unified chorus. Like, the tone and cadence are always perfectly consistent.

But a thing about the UK is that people a) will show up to the opening of an envelope, b) will make the HELL out of a tradition or ritual. If it happens three times, it’s an official local ritual.

Rituals always contain a tremendous reliance on everyone’s willingness to participate and suspend cringe. Like the panto call-and-response, people are often surprisingly willing to do it.

So you can get a surprising number of people to do bonkers unified things like “hold hands with strangers and dance around a person dressed as a Green Man”. There was a “clap for the NHS” thing in lockdown (cringe, annoying) but people were willing. There’s a local ritual that involves stomping around a local apple orchard, wassailing it, and hanging toast on the branches. Everyone is tremendously engaged and serious about this. Crowds are generally quite willing to turn up and shout unified chants. During right-wing property vandalising outbreaks there were far more people turning up in anti-fash defence than there ever were fash, but what was most amusing about it was that anti-fash brought bands and snacks. Like within thirty minutes of people being outside systematically, there will start being self-organised predictable small Behaviours. When the shed blew down on my allotment, a collection of elderly people righted it and repaired it and brewed tea about it in about 30 minutes, including the time it took to stand around congratulating each other.

You can genuinely say, “turn up at 3 pm to a muddy field, we’re all going to scream at the sky. No, that’s it, literally that’s all I’m offering” and get 100 people in frigid winter to race willingly to a muddy field in awful weather with flasks of tea, alcohol, picnics, an impromptu cricket game, several more guests than you expected, and a really startling total willingness to scream like fools at the sky. Like YEAH SKY SCREAMING TIME. Let’s do it every Thursday at 4!!! And the thing is you’ll find yourself being like “oh man. I love Sky Screaming Time actually.”

Oh and the milk floats are electric

thebibliosphere

So, after being beaten over the head prodded and poked by my lovely, gentle friends on Discord, I have added a goal to my Ko-Fi page to help with the cost of fixing the leaking gas lines in the basement.

I'm getting more quotes soon, but the initial quote we received was $12k, with a secondary quote of $15k. Yeah. Not looking too hopeful.

We'll be taking out a loan to cover it like we did with the furnace at the start of this year (yes that was this year) which we are on the brink of paying off, but we need to come up with a deposit so we can get on a monthly installment plan.

I've set a hopeful goal of $5k with no expectation of meeting it. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, but please, please, please, take care of yourselves first.

Become a supporter of Joy Demorra today!

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If you already own the book but would like to give a copy away to a random person on Tumblr, I also have a donate pile. I'm setting up a similar pile for the audiobooks in the other tab as I type this.

I am in the process of adding printable gift cards to the store for those of you who said you would be interested, as well as photographing some of the physical art/merch that I keep saying I'm going to get around to posting.

Some of the drops will include some of the (lightly dented) copies of the limited edition Hunger Pangs hardback books, as well as a handful of signed paperbacks that I managed to unearth from my office this morning.

I have no idea when I'll have those photographed and uploaded, but I am working on it every spare moment I have.

If you've read this far, thank you, and again, please, please, please, if you're thinking of donating to the Ko-Fi, please take care of yourselves first. We'll be okay waiting a few months while we try to figure this out.

Although I have zero guilt over people wanting to buy my books or the merch. You should do it. It's great. And if you've never heard of my book before, you should read about it here, and if it sounds up your street, grab a copy or tell a friend about it. Word of mouth is what keeps authors afloat. Never underestimate the power of flailing to your friends about books. It's the stuff sequels are made of.

If anyone has had totally irrelevant posts sent to them by me, I do apologise.

Apparently the way I scroll is now incompatible with me using the Tumblr app and not accidentally swiping some invisible button that sends whatever post my finger was near at the time to a randomly selected person I follow. Most of the time I manage to hit the undo button in the three seconds before it disappears but I fear, occasionally, I have failed that particular perception and reaction test. Please forgive me!

#tumblr problems #tumblr fuckwittery

glarawelmagolben

Mags talks Tarot: Turning of the Year spread

I created this spread to provide insight into what the outgoing year brought to my life, where I stand now, and what the coming year will bring.

I do mine on 31st October each year but it works equally as well as a New Year’s Eve spread, or a birthday spread, or at a personally significant point of the year. A proviso of mine is that I will not do this reading twice for one person within the same twelve months and personally feel that it would lose something if it was used more often, however YMMV.

This is a large spread and it usually takes me at least an hour to complete a reading, so you’ll want to make sure you’ll not be interrupted for a while if you choose to do it.

1. Where I am now in respect of my professional life. 2. Where I am now in respect of my personal life. 3. Where I am now in respect of my inner life. 4. What the past year can teach me about my professional life. 5. What the past year can teach me about my personal life. 6. What the past year can teach me about my inner life. 7. What the coming year will bring me in respect of my professional life. 8. What the coming year will bring me in respect of my personal life. 9. What the coming year will bring me in respect of my inner life. 10. Month 1 (starting with the month following the day of the reading – so for a New Year’s reading, this would be January) 11. Month 2 12. Month 3 13. Month 4 14. Month 5 15. Month 6 16. Month 7 17. Month 8 18. Month 9 19. Month 10 20. Month 11 21. Month 12

The first nine cards need no explanation as to what they are there to do, however I would say that you are at perfect liberty to change the focus of this spread if the professional/personal/inner life is not the best fit for you. I’ve also read this spread using emotionally/physically/spiritually, financially/physically/intellectually, and body/mind/spirit – it’s all about what’s important to you. Use it to look into the three things that what you want to focus on in the coming year.

The final twelve cards are intended to elucidate on the themes provided by cards 7, 8 & 9 and to give a flavour of what each month may hold. They benefit from being looked at as a group rather than taking each card in isolation. Read them as a story about your journey through the coming year!

I also recommend taking into account the balance of the spread as you read:

Major vs Minor arcana; which are there more of?

If it’s major, then the coming year is going to be a very significant one. If they are clustered in one part of the year, then it’s giving you a much more specific timeline pointer, if they are spread evenly then it may be that the whole year will be important.

In relation to the minor arcana alone …

Which suit appears the most? Which suit appears the least? Is there a suit that doesn’t appear at all?

This will give you an indication of the theme of your year and indicate which areas of your life might be neglected unless you make an effort to focus on them.

Number wise, are you getting mostly low numbers, mostly high numbers or a mix?

These can give an indication of the stage you’re at with whatever element of your life is being highlighted by the cards and give you pointers as to where you need to grow.

Are there more court cards than number cards?

If so, it may be that your life is being strongly influenced by specific people, or it might be that these represent elements of yourself that will come into play at that time, or elements that you need to focus on.

If you have a card you use as a significator* ….

Did it appear? If so where?

One interpretation is that this is the point in the year (or element of the year past/ present/ to come if it turns up in cards 1 to 9) that is going to be particularly pertinent to you. When my significator turns up in this spread I usually draw an additional clarifier card (after I’ve finished drawing the rest of the spread) for that position to identify what it is about that point in the reading that is so personal.

On that note, please don’t be afraid to pull a clarifier card if there is an area of the spread that doesn’t make sense. However do make sure that you’ve thoroughly thought about the cards you’ve drawn before you start doing so. If you look at the spread and your gut reaction is to pull a host of clarifiers please be honest with yourself as to why you’re doing it. If it isn’t that you don’t understand what the cards mean but instead that you don’t like what they’re saying, it’s better to face up to that element of the reading (and possibly set aside some time to do a separate, focused reading specifically to work through that issue) than to draw another card in the hope that it will make the problem go away.

And finally … please also remember that this reading a snapshot of the year ahead at the moment you pull the cards – not a set in stone prediction that cannot be changed. This is going to give you an idea of what may happen so that you can get ready to meet it, allowing you to seize opportunities the year may bring and prepare/guard against the not-so-good things (forewarned is forearmed, after all!). It’s a spread to help you make the best of whatever comes your way and is not supposed to create anxiety or become something to beat yourself up about.

If you use the spread, please do let me know if it helped and if you tweak it (which you’re obviously more than welcome to do) please share that too!

*A significator is a card chosen from the deck that represents either you (if you’re reading for yourself) or the questioner (if you’re reading for someone else). Some people, myself included, have a card they identify with most and thus the appearance of it can be used as an additional element in readings. If you don’t have a significator, please don’t feel that you need to choose one!

glarawelmagolben

In case anyone is looking for a tarot spread to do this New Year’s Eve

#turning of the year tarot spread #tarot spreads #tarot reading #mags talks tarot

everythingfox

Discussing baby’s future

melodiusfaux

They are both doing the "I want" chitter. They very much want to get up, but they have a sleeping baby cuddling with them. They must endure, but they will not be silent about it

pb-dot

Well well well, kitties. Looks like you want to get up but there's a little cat on you so you can't. Very frustrating situation there, can't imagine the burden of being held down by a little adorable kittycat. Couldn't, as the kids say, be me.

#cat #cute #animals #wholesome

faeree-layne

Lennart Helje art

#winter solstice #lennart helje #longest night #nisse #fox #blessings #pagan #witchblr #foxy whiskered darlings

hjhb-the-hdgp

dalkenstarbyne

Hey OP this is awe-inspiring and all but like...you good? Do you want some gloves or something?

virtualgirladvance

its part of the process

glarawelmagolben

The price for beauty is blood

breelandwalker

General Advice for Beginner Witches

A brief masterpost of some of my advice posts for beginner witches and the episodes of my podcast dealing with the same. (There is UPG here, particularly where marked, as I base a good deal of my advice on my own experience and observations of other witches.)

Hex Positive Podcast Episodes

Hex Positive, Ep. 04 - Advice for Beginner Witches (July 2020)

Hex Positive, Eps. 6-7 - Come In For A Spell 1 & 2 (Sept 2020)

Hex Positive, Ep. 12 - Witching From The Broom Closet (Jan 2021)

Hex Positive, Ep. 24 - Warding A Witchy Home (Dec 2021)

Hex Positive, Ep. 27 - When Inspo Takes A Holiday (March 2022)

General Tips & Advice

I Feel Like I Might Be A Witch...But I Don't Know

I Have Mental Health Issues - Can I Still Be A Witch?

Can I Still Be A Witch And Use Magic If I Take Medication?

How Do I Teach Myself To Believe In Magic?

How Does Magic Work? (upg ahoy)