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[libersomniorum]

New Year’s Eve Tarot

For the past few years my wife and I have chosen open-face tarot cards for our December altar to symbolize our hopes for the coming week, month, or year. This year we were kinda late to the game and only did it once, but this is what my cards symbolized.

1. The World (from the Wild Unknown Tarot)

I chose this card based on the art moreso than what The World card canonically represents. To me, those little flowers bent around the innermost circle represent seeds ready to burst forth and grow. The World is eternal yet ever-changing, ever looping in cycles of birth and growth and death and rebirth. Right now as a country, as a world, we are in a stagnant period of death and dying. My hope is that the seeds of science and creativity burst forth in the coming year. Let the vaccines get to the people they need to get to and slow this pandemic. Let an explosion of creativity and positive social change come out of this year of quarantine. Let our country's leaders finally address the climate crisis and take the big steps needed to counteract it. Let us plant the seeds for the next generations so that they can have a world to grow into.

2. The High Priestess (from the Spacious Tarot)

I don’t have much to say about this one, but then, the High Priestess is not a forthcoming presence. Suffice it to say that I want to work on my connection to spirit and spirituality in the coming year. These last few years have been very focused on earning money and surviving physically and I want to shift my priorities inward for a change.

3. Temperance (from the Modern Witch tarot)

This was more of a short-term goal for me, from the beginning of December until mid January. My job is requiring mandatory overtime, and even though I'm working from home now, it's a strain on my creativity, spirituality, and relationships. My goal is to not give my dayjob everything I got, not let it suck every spark of life out of me. This year I've been somewhat successful. I found time to put out a short Christmas EP (Just a Little Tree by Kathryn Hoss, wherever you get music lol shameless plug). I’ve also been exercising fairly regularly and tomorrow I’m starting a 30-day yoga challenge. This year I want to find balance among my personal, professional, and creative lives by moving with intention and compassion.

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“Our ancestors said to their mother Earth: ‘We are yours’. Modern Humanity said to Nature, ‘You are mine’. The Green Man has returned as the living face of the whole earth so that through his mouth we may say to the universe: 'We are one’.” ― Sharon Brubaker, The Blossoming

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[tea-and-antlers]

Just in case anyone was confused

[bekkathyst]

New Item Sale Item #14

$45 each - Free US shipping on orders over $30

Approx 1.5" amethyst bottle necklaces. These are functional bottles! They will come on a 20" 14k gold fill chain fixed with a clasp handmade by me. You can use this to store oils, herbs, perfume, and more!

One will be randomly selected for you.

*Only 15 pieces available*

To claim items and order, please read and follow the system I have set up:

Reply to this post (those who are unable to reply for whatever reason can reblog) saying “sold” or “sold (x amount to indicate quantity)”. It’s important you do this so we can see who claimed first in case anything sells out.

Keep a list of everything you claim. Once I’m done posting, please send me a message on the instant messenger.

Include the following information in your message:

Your email address for the invoice, the country you live in (for shipping purposes), the list of what you claimed including the item numbers.

All invoices will be sent tomorrow. Invoicing will be done through our website - it gets sent to your email and you get the option to pay with a paypal account or with a credit or debit card. You don’t need to have a paypal account to pay.

Payment is due before Monday (June 1st)

All US orders over $30 will ship for free!

[omniastudios]

Our complete set of Tarot Amulets. Also available in sterling silver.

[mynocturnality]

Venus is taking a bath,  Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy.

[libersomniorum]

Dream Journal 5/21/20

Had a vivid dream where I read an entire book about the Babylonian goddess Ereshkigal reincarnating into the body of a woman in modern day Russia. She wanted revenge for something, but had to go into surgery in America. The end of the book looked like this, pages and pages of calligraphy over an angry woman's body. I gave it 3.5 stars on Goodreads and said that I loved the premise, but it was weird that there were no characters of color.

Anyway, enjoy this image of a flaming angry Ereshkigal.

[halloween-addiction]

[the-lunar-coven]

*whole deck falls out all over the place*

[thefabulousweirdtrotters]

A water damaged copy of “Alice in wonderland” which grew fungi. Photo : Igor Siwanowicz

[sightofsea]

nothing is better than finding a walking stick

[sightofsea]

*out in nature* *sees a thick n smooth stick that’s as tall as me* oh fuck. oh fuck yes. i have magic now

[templeofapelles]

John William Waterhouse The Magic Circle, 1886 Tate Gallery, London

[free-parking-blog]

Francis Alÿs, Nightwatch, 2004.  

Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.

[libersomniorum]

That fox HAD to be a reincarnation of Queen Elizabeth I

[imawitchywitch]

May he go to jail after being impeached.

May the survivors of his abuse find justice.

May the thousands of innocents subject to hate motivated violence perpetuated by him find closure.

May he never know peace.

[anarcho-smarmyism]

likes charge, reblogs cast

[6-phds-and-no-sense]

sometimes people try to tell me that scientists are paragons of rationality and I have to break it to them that I have yet to work in a lab that didn’t have at least one weird secret shrine in it

[6-phds-and-no-sense]

new guy: why is all of the equipment in this room covered in toys?

me: dONn’t touch those

new guy:

me: they need the toys to function. if they don’t all have toys they get jealous.

new guy:

new guy:

me: when something breaks just take the wizard and wave it around for a while. they seem to like that.

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Science is rational, scientists are human. 

[eabevella]

In Taiwan we have a special brand of snacks named 乖乖 (literally means “well behaved” but in a casual way like when one’s compliment a child or a pet of being good) that has green package.

It has become the lucky charm in the IT industry because engineers believe it will make machine acting good (like the name of the snack) and stay in green light (like the color of the snack’s package) when a 乖乖 is put on top of a server.

It is the only food allowed in a server room and the biggest semicondoctor company in Taiwan (which is also the biggest worldwide) even commissioned the snack factory to make a customized version with blessing on the package.

This is how a server room is blessed by 乖乖. You put at least one on top of each server. It’s important that the engineers change them before the expire date because legend says the snack looses it’s power after expire date.

You’ll hear engineers swearing up and down that their server room crushed down the one time they forgot to change the snack.  Or some newbie ate the forbidden snack put on top of their server and caused a disastrous crush down.

The 乖乖 religion later spread to all people who want their machine to act nice. In the lab we put 乖乖 on ultra-low freezer (you really don’t want it to drop dead along with your 2 years’ worth of sample/data), mass spectrometer etc.

When Taiwan’s about to launch the first self made satellite in 2017, the develop team even put 乖乖 around the satellite model to prey for a successful launch (it did). This shit is real.

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Belchite Night by Carlos Santero - http://ift.tt/1HM1tzF