Today’s deck The Housewives Tarot.
I love this deck so much. The aesthetic, the quality, the care put into the packaging itself. My only minor complaint is that it’s not the most beginner-friendly deck since the imagery is more concerned with following its aesthetics, but that’s a blip in the rest of it all.
So for today’s reading… I decided to take a break until at least Thursday and it feels like the reading is telling me “don’t back down now from that”.
By the way, The Hanged Man is a super interesting card because the modern version is attriuted to things like Odin hanging from the branches of the world tree in meditation and such, but the original meaning was that in Italy they used to hang traitors by the feet.
I love this detail because it really reframes The Hanged Man while keeping its theme of meditation into enlightenment. After all, if you betray a fascist regime that’s still being a traitor. You might’ve even betrayed them without knowing and that’s what makes you realize things. That’s also a good context for the decks where Justice is the 11th Arcana.
It’s also the second day in a row I’ve gotten the Queen Of Wands. I like the Queen Of Wands because she has a black cat and I love love love black cats. But also because she can represent the duality of introversion and extroversion, and the merits (or problems) with either.
As per the title and as mentioned earlier, I’ve been taking a small break until at least Thursday. The visa stuff finally ending plus finishing the Not-So-Secret task I was in has left me a mushy pile of nothing. I woke up with my right ear irritated which is a sign of stress I’ve had since college but also I’ve had my eye twitching for at least three days now.
Part of the process of de-stressing does involve cleaning my house for me, ironically enough. Today I managed to clear up the path to my shower room (otherwise it required a lot of maneuvering) and I’m finally sorting all the big trash like old glass panels into a single place so that I can dispose of it properly later.
Trash protocol in Japan is one of those things that’s kinda annoying but it’s better to be annoyed by.
The process of cleaning things up does involve putting everything into A Pile that will get sorted afterwards, but hey. Part of the process and all that.
Oh yeah! The Adobe stuff I mentioned yesterday.
So I opened up a corporate Adobe account and it went unused for a bit and the card that it was debiting didn’t have funds. Next time I try to get it to work it says I need to call Customer Support.
Customer Support tells me it should be fine, to just try and buy the whole thing again, but when I try it gets stuck in loading. At the last stage of the process when I have to pay it just starts loading and never ends.
I did all the usual tech stuff like clearing cache and trying in other devices, I even told our producer to check it and it was always stuck loading.
Long story short: That hadn’t happened to them before and we had to pay via bank transfer.
My man, we just QA’d your multimillion company’s storefront’s ass, you should be paying us.