Today’s deck is the Badass Tarot.
It’s SO FUN. I’m a sucker for collage type compositions and this one revels on it.
Today’s reading is telling that [due to things I don’t wanna write about] I should trust my gut feeling. That’s a kind of thing I take seriously because I spent most of my life NOT doing that and still somehow being called “perceptive” so there was a point where I basically went “man, imagine if I tried to be like that on purpose…”.
Self-skepticism is a healthy thing to keep oneself in check but I can overdo it sometimes…
Day started normal except for the fact that I still had the UI drafting stuff in my mind so I headed early to my office.
I was working on it when a friend messages me asking if I’m fine because of the earthquake, so I check NERV (the disaster app) and there was a strong earthquake to the north… then I notice my family tells me there WAS an earthquake and they were assessing the damage around the house (Venezuela has less than zero seismic-proof infrastructure) and there was nothing major and no injuries but a lot of dirt and such everywhere, so I’m like well damn, that was a lot.
Then the news start coming in.
7 magnitude, lasted a combined minute and a half, a lot of buildings in the northern side of the country by the capital outright collapsed.
I make no exaggeration when I say this: It is 100% the worst disaster that has hit the country and please consider I say this as someone that lived through a lot of political turmoil AND the Vargas Tragedy.
That said I will not say anything beyond that. My loved ones are safe and I’m not in the country, if you’re interested go look at the actual sources on the ground and support anyone that comes in with a crowdfunding effort.
Please understand that if I’m otherwise quiet about the matter it’s because I cope with things better by focusing on what’s in front of me instead of getting swept up by everything else at once. It’s how I learned to keep myself sane growing up in Extremely Interesting Times.
One interesting detail is that the only other earthquake to have left such a mark happened over 200 years ago and it prompted Spanish forces to retreat.
Part of me hopes this earthquake will also lead to yet another power shift, but that hope is cold comfort for all of those affected.