tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33066808213986527212024-02-22T09:23:48.731+00:00Madame Hypatia's Tarot DoorsVisit the Steampunk Tarot blog, written by Madame Hypatia Tetrakys herself....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-37059166549207008042013-03-23T15:31:00.001+00:002013-03-23T15:31:42.433+00:00Making Connections: Pairing Cards<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">On behalf of the Imperium Ambassadorial Delegation, Madame Hypatia is delighted to announce that the winner of our draw for a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Steampunk Tarot: Gods of the Machine app</i> has been won by Constable Brass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many congratulations, Constable! Please contact me so that we can arrange to have your app sent to you by Teslerian transfer. The Imperium salutes you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Those not so fortunate as Constable Brass can obtain their copy <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by applying to <a href="http://www.oceanhousemedia.com/products/steampunktarot/">http://www.oceanhousemedia.com/products/steampunktarot/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">The wonderful virtue of the app is that the cards can be viewed at a higher magnification and so the many details can be appreciated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also, of course, entirely portable and so very suitable for expeditions, dirigible journeys or for enlightening your leisure hours during long periods aboard your submersible. Whether at play or at work, the Imperium’s tarot can guide your way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">MAKING CONNECTIONS <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Let us begin examining the technique of story making which begins with being able to relate one card to another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This basic pairing of cards lies at the heart of making connections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As soon as you lay one card next to another, a dynamic reaction begins. In a pictorial tarot like this one, it is either easy or challenging to make connections. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can make a storyboard step by relating one card to the next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">For example:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain of Engines + Ten of Engines (Wands). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Here the Captain of Engines sits in his own hover-bubble, supreme over the robotic army he has manufactured. He has a certain easy superiority, even arrogance to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By contrast, 10 Engines reveals the overthrow of machines of oppression, while the surviving humans of this civilization are streaming away alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story we could derive from just looking at these cards is: ‘despite his superior engines, the Captain cannot overcome the will of the people.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">But if we read the cards in the context of a well-framed question, such as: ‘what will help me during this persecution at work?’ we can immediately derive the advice we seek from these cards: ‘the management may make you feel like a machine but remember you are a human being who can leave this situation to fight another day.’ OR ‘you are not just a cog in the machine but a living person with rights.’ OR ‘the human spirit is more than the machine/work system.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Try pairing cards for yourself now by using the Ladder Spread: this is a descent to the truth by means of three rungs or pairs of cards. You read each pair and then consider the two sets of three cards that make either side of the ladder, so you can extend your pairs into triplets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">1. Shuffle your cards while considering the question or issue that concerns you now and cut the deck into two equal piles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In both piles, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you draw a card for each rung of the ladder until you arrive at 3 pairs of cards:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">2. What is your birth day? – count down through the cards that number of days and select a card from each pile. Cards 1 + 2 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">3. What is your birth month? – count down that month number in the remaining cards <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and select a card from each pile. Cards 3 + 4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">4. What is your birth year? – add up the last two digits of the year (e.g. 1969 is 6 +9=15) and select a card from each pile. Cards 5 + 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">If at any point you run out of cards in either pile, then treat each pile as circular and, as with a discard pile in gaming, turn the pile upright and start again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read the pairs as below and then read cards 1 + 3 + 5 and cards<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 + 4 + 6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">6. Add the numbers of the cards 1, 3 and 5, and add the card numbers of 2,4 and 6 to create a number under 22 which accords with one of the Major Arcana. If your total on either side goes over 22, add the resultant numbers together e.g. 59 = 5 + 9 = XIV Spirit Gauge (Temperance).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cards<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5 + 6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>= <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real state of things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Here is an example for Marjorie Macclesfield-Sterne, wife of Captain James of the Imperium dirigible, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Argonautica</i>: her issue concerns the safety of her husband while he is on a long tour of duty in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Mystarian</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Ocean</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her birthdate is 4<sup>th</sup> November 2176: which is 4 days, 11 months and 7 +6 = 13 years down the piles. These are the cards that she draws:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Birth Year cards: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5. Messenger of Airships (Page Swords + 6. VI Explorers reversed. (Lovers)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">On the surface of things, Marjorie keeps firmly in her mind the safe operation of her husband’s submersible and the day when it resurfaces so that they can be happily reunited.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Beneath the surface it looks as if Captain James is worrying about the survival of his crew in dangerous circumstances, but that he has not shared his worries in any despatches he sends home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">What has happened to Captain James is that during the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Argonautica’</i>s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tour of duty, there have been losses among his crew; he keenly feels their loss and may be dwelling upon this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A sense of over-compensation and a conscientious responsibility, may be causing him to cut corners and take more radical decisions than he normally would.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Cards 2, 4 & 6: XX Regeneration Machine + Messenger of Leviathans + VI Explorers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">The action that Marjorie can take about this: her task will be to recover and restore her husband after this voyage. In the meantime she could send him messages about her life at home to give him a sense of the little daily things of everyday life which could practically ground him. Although he is away from home, they can share their love by this means, keeping their affection nourished, so that James experiences Marjorie as a fellow traveller on this voyage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">The XVII Comet shows a research-technician collecting samples from the comet’s tail, while the XII Suspension Tank shows a escapologist demonstrating his resilience and skill. Reading these two together, we get the sense of Marjorie’s undiminished hope that nourishes the Captain while he is away undergoing these trials.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">CELEBRATING LIFE WITH ANCIENT CARTOMANCY</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Clymela asks the tarot: ‘I am interested in celebrating my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Show me my path out of this dreary <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place> reversed period back into the flow of life.’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Dear Clymela, I respond with </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a ninefold spread <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which is a Petit Lenormand usage. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">So I invite you to see how we play tarot by the rules of ancient cartomancy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">ONE: 4 Leviathans<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TWO: Navig. Submersibles<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THREE: 2 Engines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">E. THE MIND & HIDDEN MOTIVATION:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your thoughts lead you to be careful of how your pave your path, and you have a strong defensive sense that has contributed here to your sense of being stuck just out of the main flow of things. Your own instinctive path is the destiny that can lead you now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">FINALLY. Because there is one reversed card in this spread, I randomly add a card to augment and support it. This card is II Aviatrix (High Priestess), the card of the lone woman with a strong ethical and educational trajectory guiding her wings. What do your dreams, visions and innate intelligence reveal to you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Examine these and you will find your way forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Albertus Medium;">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place> launch of Steampunk Tarot: Gods of the Machine was held at Watkins last month. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can view the talk that I gave with 124C and Major Jack Squares. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa91LuFZT_k&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-family: Albertus Medium;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa91LuFZT_k&feature=youtu.be</span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Albertus Medium;">Several interesting questions arose during the question-time afterwards, including the challenge that some of the cards were somewhat dark in their subject matter. This is undoubtedly true as they depict the affairs of the Imperium where war and conflict have frequently arisen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Albertus Medium;">In an era when tarot packs now depict topics as various as breeds of dogs to ghosts and spirits, there has been a steady trend for tarot art to become less challenging and more fluffy, comforting or psychologically supportive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we look at early tarots, like the <em>Sola Busca</em> or Tarot of the Emperors, the earliest tarot with a pictorial minor, we find quirky, macho images of men at war, serving men at leisure and martial rulers of nobility: they are pretty intimidating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we examine early tarot meanings, we find a variety of challenging cards that have become muted over time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Swords are largely challenging, the Wands can be disputive or oppressive, the Cups can have an emotional blight and the Coins can be downright hard work.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Every month for the last year, I have sat down and written this monthly blog, but each entry has received few comments and the followers have not been many. Part of this is about the fact that this tarot has not yet published in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and that people are as yet not familiar with it, yet I thought I would check this for myself. So I decided, as this is the challenging month February, time of Lupercalia, when cleansing and self-examination are necessary, to ask <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Why is no-one reading or commenting on this blog? ’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">They are saying, ‘You could chose to abandon this association or transform what you have. The spirit messages at this juncture cannot be received while people are overwhelmed. Stay with the challenge of this and find intelligent ways through it.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">When you draw difficult or challenging cards, the temptation is to slide them back into the pack and reshuffle. But by staying with the cards<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we first drew, we often find new illumination. So, in the interests of teaching how we might do this, I kept these same cards and reshuffled them, now setting them upright. I also chose, unseen, three new cards to mix into the shuffle. As you can see, the chief tool of this method of staying with your challenging cards is to ask the right questions. Questions are the key to everything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">9 Airships (9 Swords) shows the dreams of an airman of a dirigible disaster, but this card is reversed. Looking at fears and imaginings in the light of day, with the help of dialogue, enables the message to be joyfully delivered. While we entertain fears, we have no dialogue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Reclaiming wisdom from fear by dealing directly with the needs of the readers, so we meet on the same footing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Last night before sleep, I was reading one of the wise books of our people, comparing the esoteric understandings that connect the Imperium with our world: ‘Occult tradition teaches us that entering the astral level allows us to create reality out of thought, even to leave behind artefacts for others to find. Beyond the doorway waits the lantern, a gift from previous hermits who have made this journey before him…’ (Rachel Pollack, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Shining Tribe Tarot</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">I was moved to draw three cards representing this figure to understand this wisdom better, L’Hermite from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marseilles Tarot</i> by Alexandre Jodorowsky and Philippe Camoin The Inventor from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Steampunk Tarot</i>, the Hermit from Rachel Pollack’s original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shining Woman Tarot</i> (now retitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shining Tribe Tarot.</i>) I give these comparisons for the benefit of all who are not yet fluent in the Imperium’s tarot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conventional lantern of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marseilles</i></st1:city></st1:place><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Hermit has become the glowing sphere of the Inventor in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Steampunk Tarot</i>, while the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shining Woman’s</i> Hermit has a Thoth-headed being with a staff who has to go within to find his lantern. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">For all in the Imperium, the Hermit/Inventor is one of the ultimate creative Gods of the Machine, the one whom the ancients of both our worlds understood as Thoth/Tehuti/Hermes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kindling of the lantern happens only in the darkness and silence of meditation, which is why the Inventor is shown within his study. All creation </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">This commentary upon the Hermit card reminded me forcibly of the Guild of Artificer’s Manifesto that governs the whole of the Steampunk Imperium. Parts of this manifesto are read out in the intervals between our work, to keep us mindful of the wisdom that guides us:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Albertus Medium;">The perfection of knowledge collected from the book of nature has ever been at the heart of all professors of the arts and sciences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pursuit of whatever gives a clearer light and unmystifies the truth is the lantern by which each lady and gentleman has made their way upon the path to wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever gives promise of a greater or purer light has drawn inventors, engineers and practitioners of the many arts and sciences to expend their skills and energies to perfect a better beacon by which all beings may walk without stumbling. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Artificers and creators within the Imperium believe implicitly in the ongoing sacred path of technological and artistic discovery, for what we each create builds upon what has gone before us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea that what each of us creates can become a beacon to others who are not yet born is a very potent one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The continuity of what is truest within our creative imagination is the very cave we enter when we seek to give of our best for this new year that is beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What lantern of truth burns within you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s turn to the source of wisdom to guide us onwards into this year. I asked three questions arising from this passage above, on behalf of us all:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Drawing one card from the Gods of the Machine (major arcana), one from the Leagues (minor arcana) and one from the Legates (court cards), I continue the comparison of cards. The top line are from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Steampunk Tarot</i>, the second line are from Rachel Pollack’s original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shining Woman Tarot</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marseilles Tarot</i> by Alexandre Jodorowsky and Philippe Camoin.</span></div>
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Caitlín Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061112347793263359noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-12514953782267333852012-12-01T15:38:00.001+00:002012-12-01T15:38:45.785+00:00INTO A NEW STAR CYCLE<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
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Caitlín Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061112347793263359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-77268310046406982632012-10-31T16:39:00.001+00:002012-10-31T16:40:56.085+00:00ANCESTRAL WISDOM<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';">Throughout the world, November is the month when many remember the Ancestors. From the Irish Samhain festival that opens the dark or winter half of the year to the Mexican Day of the Dead. In the Imperium, we also remember our teachers and forebears, all the guildsmen and women who created the vehicles of a bygone day, all the technomancers and engineers whose skill and ingenuity envisioned this day. In all the guild houses, the eternal flame burns for them, but not only during this month. We regard them as a power forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The title of these writings is Sempiternam or ‘Forever.’ This word typifies the Imperium's sense of the Ancestors as an eternal source of wisdom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thing that any Apprentice is expected to do on entering the guildhouse as a beginner is to ask questions and to attend to the answers. The more skilful the question asked, the more he or she learns. Accordingly, this month I have decided to ask some questions for all of us so that the Imperium’s idea of ancestors may teach us, by allowing the cards to speak wisely in response we have a path for our feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';">2. What do the Ancestors have to bequeath to us?</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';"> 6 Leviathans shows some ladies and gentlemen sharing a delightful tea beside their wonderful leviathan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their joy in each other’s company is apparant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gladdening of any community is based upon our sharing generously with each other. Acts of kindness, the apportioning of resources in a wise way, the service and support that we lend to each other is the maker of community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';">3. How can we honour them?</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';"> I Technomancer invites us to become part of the machine, as he has done, suggesting that we see ourselves as a link in the chain of power that fuels life itself. By including those who bore us and taught us, we maintain our links with a line of wisdom that creatively brainstorms solutions to present problems. By making Ancestors central to our lives, we too share<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the innovative engagement of ideas that will support those who follow us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';">4. What happens when we ignore the Ancestors?</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';"> Ace of Leviathans shows the protection of a great leviathan over a village community. When it is reversed, as here, it means that we become consumers who mismanage the resources we inherit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This short-termism kills community and steals its assets. It devours the material and intellectual wealth that ancestral ingenuity has acquired without acknowledgement, leaving nothing left for those who follow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';">5. What happens when we invite them back to our hearth?</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';"> Navigator of Airships sits in front of his directional instruments in the cockput of his dirigible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He suggests that this invitation and inclusion of Ancestors helps us acquire a sense of direction once again. We see proportionately and contextually, we have clear ideas of what is possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, he shows us that we can ask for help for he has, clearly displayed on his cockpit window, an AA or Automobile Association logo which helps drivers repair vehicles during their journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ancestral championship of our cause underscores our journey indeed! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';">As an ambassador of the Imperium, Madame Hypatia has been giving thought to the estate of Europe which seems to have lost its vision of itself. As some countries consider whether they want to stay in the union or depart from it, this spread looks at the viability of its continuance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';">The 8 Leviathans signifies hard work coming to a conclusion. The necessity that the Advocate cards reveal is for re-envisioning and a working together to reveal the possibilities. So many countries of the union have financial difficulty at this time that the shared wealth and concerted effort is beginning to count for little. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';"><strong>7 Submersibles</strong> shows the vessel discovering an underwater city. This seems like a direct reference to the myth of Atlantis which underlies the European dream and acts as a continual warning against hubris and illusion. There is no way that Europe is an ideal union, but to behave as if this were the case carries with it the seeds of its own destruction. Civilisations like the Mycenean island of Santorini came to grief.(Indeed, in the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>next card of the submersible sequence, we see the underwater city's destruction!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';"><strong>Lady of Airships</strong> brings a strong mental focus that reminds us to use our streetwise stratagems In order to survive. What is the trajectory of the union?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';">Advocates added together 1+ 8=9 or IX The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inventor who becomes the shepherd of this union. He suggests a need for a 'back to the drawing board' approach, when all the blueprints of this union are reexamined and rethought in a considered way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the spread stands, we have all the seeds of destruction, all the warnings are on the wall clear to read. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Albertus Medium';">I see few cards here suggesting a working together, unless the vital VII Triumph can steer its way with better integrity or a sense of deep consideration and insightful planning can be brought to bear, we are set for an autumn of things pulling apart. The jury is not out yet. It's time for all European citizens to consider the fate of Europa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Albertus Medium;">The tetraktys (from the Greek<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> tetras</i> or four) was an emblem sacred to Pythagorus. Based upon 1 + 2 +3 + 4 = 10, it expresses the whole universe in one symbol. Here Madame Hypatia Tetraktys uses the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Steampunk Tarot: Wisdom From the Gods of the Machine</i> to look at the turn of the aeon and what the world may be dealing with until early Spring 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Caitlín Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061112347793263359noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-44951997510729478002012-08-01T16:17:00.000+01:002012-07-24T22:14:04.194+01:00Sempiternam | August 2012Dear Readers, <br />
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Apologies for the lack of a forecast during July. My extensive sojourn in the Imperium necessitated a leave of absence. This forecast arrives earlier, as I shall again be away on ambassadorial business during much of August. <br />
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The ambassadors of August are VI The Explorers and 8 Submersibles:<br />
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Choices and reassessments are the twin features of August: you may need to commit more strongly or to revamp your commitments. Given that this month is one in which is hard to settle to anything and often a difficult one to begin something, mergers, contracts and agreements are not well situated, and you would be best advised to reconsider your options. If others are slow to reciprocate to your ideas or if you feel ambivalent about engaging, it is worth asking yourself, where are your energies best bestowed? However, for getting away with your best beloved, this is a good month to seek alternative locations.<br />
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1-8 August - Lady of Engines encourages you to engage more deeply with your joy of life. Rather than seeing life as puzzle, begin to write your own life script with enthusiasm. What is arising in your book of life? Run with it now.<br />
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<br />9-16 August - Messenger of Airships is good in tight places, and is standing ready to assist you. She gives you the necessary bravado to deal with any challenges you meet this week. Keeping good balance requires intelligence and poise; in times of difficulty, daring and agility of mind will enable you to land on your feet. If you sitting on the fence on a dilemma, how would it feel to land and stop having to carry that problem any further?<br />
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17-23 August - V Horologer teaches us that by honouring the spiritual aspects of mundane life, you can lift the whole way those around you live. There is something this week that needs your mentoring. How do you bridge what you have to offer and what the world needs?<br />
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24-31 August- XIII Spring-Heeled Jack comes to carry August off on the last week. Endings bring change and transformation. The overturn of outworn ideas or situations or the disruption of old patterns brings you relief from worry. After clearing the way, you can make a new beginning.<br />
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The guardian of this month is XIV Spirit Gauge, which is where August finds its harmonious centre. Neither complete rest nor complete busyness are the answer, but a good balance of both. As one of the primary Gods of the Machine, the Spirit Gauge is the place where opposites meet and combine: it is a gateway of great power in its own right. If you are looking for the narrow gap from whence help flows or a gap of opportunity into which you are aiming to launch your life, then the Spirit Gauge reveals it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-51721600273339018642012-06-22T15:15:00.000+01:002012-07-24T22:14:51.765+01:00Sempiternam | 22 - 30 June 2012<div style="margin: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">22-30
June </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Captain of Submersibles trains his glasses upon the light of an arctic
dawn as a whale rejoices in the sunlit waters. This person is compassionate, a
diplomat, someone who can bring support and a generous outlook after the
depredations of the Cyborg’s reign. This feels like a counsel headed up by this
person. For yourself, this may be experienced as a need to make space or a wider
toleration in your life. Who is depending upon your support? What is your
loving duty here? Who needs to be included?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">The
Advocates prepare the way for the II The Aviatrix who guards the mystery of the
Machine. Like the </span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Isis</span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> of the ancient world, she spreads
her protective wings over the mystery of life. She heralds a transition that
will make us all look more closely at the nature of life itself. Behind the
veil of consciousness lies a deeper knowing. What do dreams, intuition and your
innate intelligence show you? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-66634507873416204202012-06-15T15:14:00.000+01:002012-08-28T13:57:46.822+01:00Sempiternam | 15-21 June<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">15-21 June </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">The reversed XV
Cyborg is the way you would generally wish to see the Devil card, upended and
revealing a freedom to break out of restrictions. This moving card, with its
fusion of flesh with technology, reveals a refocusing upon what’s essential,
upon what is the true image and likeness. Something that’s been hanging on in a
manipulative way is about to fall. This midsummer week sees the overthrow of a
tyrant, regime or network that has been spreading its shadow too far, making its
subjects literally slaves. The loss or lessening of humanity in any situation
denotes the temporary loss of common sense, which here is regained. What are
the chains that bind you? What are you throwing off?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-29726650746497017222012-06-08T15:13:00.000+01:002012-07-24T22:15:54.411+01:00Sempiternam | 8 - 14 June<div style="margin: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">8-14
June </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Messenger of Airships is steering her dirigible on the edge of the winds,
with daring and agility. This week needs determination, a way of thinking the
whole plan through or solving dilemmas intelligently. Your intelligent analysis
brings clarity. How can you engage flexibly with the situation? This week may
well see the advent of a new piece of technology that analyses and guides us to
treat the earth in a better way.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-18435378606625998982012-06-01T15:12:00.000+01:002012-07-24T22:16:24.656+01:00Sempiternam | 1 - 7 June 2012<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">1-7 June </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Lady of
Leviathans is tenderly repotting her plant specimens. How you manage things
wisely or create better growing mediums for your plans is essential. The
collective task is about appreciating the earth’s resources. This may include
preserving things of cultural value as well as providing amenities for those who
do not enjoy a full share of the world’s resources. On the collective level,
this may manifest as an environmental team surveying the state of play and
implementing procedures in areas of particular vulnerability. How can you
improve standards or make things better this week? </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-25959705786376315122012-05-31T15:11:00.000+01:002012-07-24T22:17:00.416+01:00Sempiternam | June 2012<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Dear
Readers,</span>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">June’s
forecast brings us a line-up of court cards, revealing this to be a month where
big personalities dominate but where we too have our parts to play. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">7 Leviathans and Lady of Airships
reversed are the two ambassadors for June. They show a combination of the
prosaic and the dynamic, for while the ground-crewman directs the bulky
leviathan into its hanger as part of his daily routine, the Lady of Airships is
about as confrontative, with knife between her teeth, as it can get: she is
upside down, which makes her look as if she’s hanging onto her craft by her
fingernails. She means business but it’s almost painful to watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">This pairing of cards shows us that
the themes of this month are about trusting the process and keeping up the
impetus without giving into the mind-games that cause self-sabotage nor to the
manipulations of others. Trusting the process enables resources to find their
own growth points. What continued effort or encouragement do you need to
maintain your impetus, so that you don’t fall into inertia? By allowing the
process to unfold and develop, you can see the possible gear-changes your plans
may need to undergo. It’s not a matter of giving up but of keeping up the good
work, which will help compassion to come into play. When everyone around you is
losing their head, what brings clarity to the situation? What help do you need
to accept or ask for? What straightforward approach is needed here? How do you
cut through the tangle?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-83066601283464535122012-03-02T17:00:00.000+00:002012-07-24T22:17:48.582+01:00Sempiternam| March | Spread for the Common Good<div style="margin: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Dear
Readers, apologies that my monthly forecast wasn’t up yesterday, but urgent
calls took me into the Imperial city to meet with an esteemed mentor of my
arcane studies! Here is my forecast for the major influences, opportunities and
challenges we can each be aware of during the month of March.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">The Advocates for this month are II
Aviatrix reversed and XIX Solarium with an overall essential numerical value of
3 (2 + 19 = 21 > 2 +1 = 3), which is the number of our Queen Empress! This
combination has a strong sense of secrets being revealed or hidden things coming
to light. At a time when so many institutions are trying to fill up the cracks
appearing in their foundations, this one seems to do with a large scandal to do
with spiritual institutions in particular and generally about the silliness of
diving into shallow knowledge, guess-work or the obfuscations of esoteric
speculation. The Aviatrix reversed has gone to the bottom of the sea to dredge
up something well hidden. The Solarium, where the sun shines so strongly, is
having none of this hiding away this month. It’s going to reveal whatever is
hidden for the good of all.</span></div>
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into 4 equal piles, I count down 3 in honour of the Empress of the Imperium, and
reveal the following keys to the doors of March:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">The
Key to the Door of the first week of March is 2 Leviathans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">The
Key to the Door of the second week of March is Navigator of Airships</span></div>
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Key to the Door to the third week of March is 5 Leviathans reversed</span></div>
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Key to the Door to the fourth week of March is 1 Leviathans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Three
sets of Leviathans (Coins) makes this is a very money- and resource-oriented
reading. 2 Leviathans shows that some flexibility and juggling of finances is
necessary. Deciding just what to spend your resources upon is a concern for
everyone right now. Because the essential number of the Advocates is under the
guidance of the Empress, there’s a sense that we’d like to be a little more
expansive and generous, but we keep an eye on the road ahead to cautiously scan
what life may throw up. This card asks you ‘what needs to be handled more
playfully?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Navigator of Airships looks through
his navigation screen for the second week. He is a champion who defends and
upholds beliefs, for himself and for behalf of others. His clear views and
opinions, make him a good advocate for those who have no voice or no sense of
direction. More and more, the groundswell of public opinion is making clear how
we want to be governed, with good ethical direction, and he appears as a
advocate for those very issues that make a difference to our lives. He asks you
‘what do you need to stand up for?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">5 Leviathans reversed shows that we
can all make new affinities and friendships in adversity. This making of common
cause is one of the features we are seeing on many levels, for example the
creation of food cooperatives in areas which have lost their local grocers shop.
For some people, this may mean accepting part-time or unfamiliar employment in
order to keep bread on the table. We know that our ancestors survived hard
times, because we are alive to speak of it: so ‘what enables you to
survive?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Ace Leviathans offers us a new
opportunity, a recognition of our skills and talents in the workplace, a sense
of support and resources that we share with others which makes everyone feel a
little more secure. ‘How can you make more of your innate resources?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">The underlying support of the
Empress shows that the abundance that we crave is not always in money and
resources that others give to us as wages or rewards, but in working with our
own skills and talents, and never forgetful of the human ability to use
resources wisely, not intemperately like consumers, so that our cherishing of
the world makes it a wonderful place to live for everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Brought to you from the co-creator
of Steampunk Tarot: Gods of the Machine, coming in Autumn 2012</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306680821398652721.post-45844356757459305622012-02-01T15:00:00.000+00:002012-07-23T14:39:28.717+01:00February Adventuary<div style="margin: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">Looking into the Adventury for
February, I have drawn four cards:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">X The Time
Machine:</span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> Ideas,
projects or relationships pass into their next phase. Taking the chance while
it’s offered means never regretting. Fortune’s changes come in quick succession.
Things are on their way up or about to surprise you. Be prepared to adapt or to
be flexible or versatile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Messenger of
Engines</span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">advises</span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> us that the pressures of
responsibility or over-commitment may need us to delegate responsibility to a
team or sharing power. Beware of continuously placating others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">9 of Engines
reversed </span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;">suggests that
diminished resources make it hard to hold out. Check your opponent's intentions
carefully. Discretion is the better part of valour. If you have to lay down the
fight and allow others to continue, I t is no shame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">The Empress of
the Imperium</span><span style="font-family: Lydian; font-size: 14pt;"> says,
‘Creativity is a pleasure where you can concentrate on the growth or fulfilment
of something dear to your heart. You are in the process of nurturing or giving
birth to something. Abundance and fertility are lined up to support your plans.
You can both give and receive tenderness or compassion. Material and spiritual
wealth help you feel prosperous. You have the chance to bring
harmony.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0