happy new year! every Jan 1st I have a tradition of doing a "year ahead" tarot spread, but this time I decided to do one for the entire world

the middle card is the overall theme of the year, and January is the 6 of Swords reversed, continuing clockwise

interpretations follow Theme of the Year - 6 of Pentacles

money, economics, welfare, generosity, giving, or in the reversal the lack thereof or overextension are likely to be central themes this year. the gap between the wealthy and the poor, class divides, the have vs have nots and tensions b/w them

I don't think of planets as archetypes so much as PRINCIPLES of reality

they're not just psychological or abstract; they run through our entire experience of reality

Mercury is turning retrograde and tech problems flare because its principles are networks, connections, language as Mercury the planet moves through the zodiac, experience on earth and it our own lives synchronistically evolves to match

when you've learned how to identify what things are what planets, you realize that they are *constantly* reflecting the current state of reality

divination can be interesting but tricky because the way it speaks changes depending on where you are in the path and your level of understanding and emotional readiness a common experience when first learning is to have a lot of "wow!!" card draws / dice rolls that bang right on topic with resounding loudness, almost to make a point and prove themselves to you

but they're also simultaneously teaching the basics

so here's the thing: I hate dating and I've refused to do it. yet I've had my fair share of deeply affecting and fulfilling relationships and am now happily married.

this is a thread on "not dating", or trusting serendipity, focusing on your values, and core relational patterns I should preface this by saying that this strategy did lead me to a 5 year lonesome stretch, but I'm a loner by nature, and I had stuff to work on. YMMV. my hope is this thread can help you not waste your time just going through the motions, or feel bad for not doing it

kind of want to do a thread on how to not date. would that be valuable by which my inscrutable ass means, how to not put any particular effort into attempting to interrogate potential life partners and instead live life in a way where you naturally find the right people. granted, this strategy had me single for like 5 yrs but I'm a loner and ymmv

you ever watch two people attempt to interact and think, "hm. poor API contract negotation here" this is a stupid tweet

I might buy the $29 flavor-enhancing spoon there's prior art on this ok this is *science*
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- you are your attention
- all things tell on themselves if you know how to listen
- any worldview that is all-encapsulating/unfalsifiable is interchangeable with any other, so choose a fun one
- dualities that imply you can only pick one are often false (and miss a third thing)

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1498175001194754053

- nothing happens in a vacuum and everything in our lives is connected to everything else
- nihilism and hedonism are powerful jailbreaking tools but are often used to obscure trauma and emotional wounds
- most of the time most problems are actually just one core problem or theme

I've been RTing @taalumot's powerful encounter with astrology today because this is exactly what it is and why I do it. when you look at the events in your life as they correlate to your transits, the idea of ✌️ coincidence ✌️ evaporates irrevocably.

you cannot unring that bell.

https://twitter.com/taalumot/status/1493314194380316678

@taalumot it's also the sort of thing which is so deeply personal, profound, and so obvious (and even when you know *just* the basics) as to become a reckoning with everything you thought you knew about how life, the universe, and what we're doing in it works.

https://twitter.com/taalumot/status/1493346376926863365

man local astro twitter is lit today I swear I've had like 5 "a s t r o l o g y" moments already today

one thing I've learned exploring my spirituality in tandem with astrology more deeply is the effects of transits are almost entirely about your level of consciousness.

with awareness, transits move from happening TO you to happening THROUGH you: you can express or channel them

https://twitter.com/saul_mondriaan/status/1492868167713976323

example: in November the Mars/Mercury-Saturn square w the Sun & Pluto *very* closely aspected my natal Sun, Moon, AND Ascendant. I remember the feeling very well, because this was a peak of my meditation and awareness practice, and knowing astro I was concerned I'd get injured

while y'all know my stance is "NFTs are fine (meaning have plenty of both value and problems) on SOME chains and from SOME participants", the furor around them is a lovely little preview into the future of Pluto in Aquarius in ~2025: control of, by, for, about the masses

https://twitter.com/RAC/status/1490431018792226817

we are moving from a world of isolated individualism facilitated by corporate/governmental/religious ego feeding in exchange for capital and energy to one where one has to decide where they stand and where their energy goes amongst literally everybody else in the world

one of the most valuable ideas I learned from @nobuhojimichaan is "ase", which I understand as the accumulation of connective, energetic attachment between all things, especially the mental and emotional. it changed how I relate to pretty much everything

https://twitter.com/nobuhojimichaan/status/1490551987737448452

it implicates that wherever you put your attention of any form, a charge of some form accumulates, whether you want to call that "energy" or another conception. it's neutral, but it points out how attention creates a glue between us and the observed

I've given up trying to explain to people that astrology/tarot can repeatedly, concretely used to predict and reveal information you couldn't know otherwise because it just doesn't go into people's heads. you can repeat yourself til you're blue in the face, it doesn't matter you can shove an entire list of people using astrology to make money on the stock market every day in public, something many people claim is a "random walk" (lmao) and they won't get it
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