Today’s deck is the Soul Cards Tarot.
Beautiful deck with an even more beautiful dedication. The beautiful deck back… is asymmetrical.
Ironic considering how symmetric the card illustrations are.
Today’s reading is an almost Royal Flush of Passion telling me to not give up on those long term goals I’ve had.
Considering how frustrated I’ve been about not being able to have the prototype I wanted for TGS due to all the paperwork in my life, it is awfully fitting.
Today’s lesson in the book was about the court cards fittingly enough. It was a good lesson, describing how they can be about specific types of people but should be considered more like facets of yourself.
Then it brought examples like how you might be more like this court card playing with your kids but when they complain about their sandwiches not being cut into triangles this other card comes out more.
Again, not saying the Suburban Mom focus is bad, it’s just infinitely amusing to me for some reason.
The lesson also brought up how each member of the court is associated with an element and since each has a suit tied to them there’s a dual element factor going on and I didn’t make the connection until just now that it’s meant to give each one more specific nuance (element means X so dual element means it takes meaning from two sides). Before it just felt like gratuitous symbolism.
Today started as an “Onigiri and Tea” sort of day. Which means it’s a day where I don’t have time to do my early day routine normally and instead I buy a plain onigiri and a carton of Lipton tea while I rush to whatever task I have pending.
I got a 2025 calendar of pics of stray cats while at it though…
If you’re curious, it’s plain rice because my stomach is kinda sensitive, especially early in the day so I gotta eat something simple to “set up the stomach” as they say where I come from.
The reason for today’s rushing is that I need to go to the ward office and get a new insurance card. I have an appointment to refill my ADHD meds in two days and my insurance card expired in September.
Normally they would send me a new one when that happens but the problem is that my visa is technically not renewed yet so that means the renewal is frozen until I do.
I can, however, request an extension for a couple of extra months since my residence card has the stamp indicating that I’m just waiting for the renewal to finish.
“Gee Fer you sure know a lot about this” BECAUSE IT’S THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW IT’S HAPPENED.
I may only learn things the hard way but I’m a quick learner dammit.
The rest of the day is a blur. Though I do remember that I tried to take one of my usual shortcuts only to find out it was blocked with some construction work… this has happened a lot lately, but the novelty today was finfing someone else that also tried to take the shortcut only to need to walk back out.
I did dress up Yuuna and a new girl Yuuki in hopes of sneaking in a last summer set before fall sets in.
Recently Cherry Arai (the mangaka of Mikakunin de Shinkoukei) has been posting a LOT of fanart of different things like Uma Musume and Onimai, and that’s neat because Mikakinin de Shinkoukei recently ended so it has this vibe of them making up for lost time and consuming other media almost.
Oh, also today was Harvest Moon day. The literal Harvest Moon, I mean, the “September moon so bright farmers can still work at night before the weather gets colder” kind.
I was aware that full moon was on the 18th because I kinda wanted to do SOMETHING out in the full moon and recharge the lunalapi deck or something, but I didn’t know that today was also a moon day.
I love the moon, I always have. I remember as a kid when I was bored on road trips I would just stare at it, try to make out the outline of its dark side, be amazed at how it stayed in the same place all the time, or how it was just… surreal? Big orb in dark sky.
I remember when I first saw that one Dexter’s Lab episode about Saturn blocking the moon, that’s how I learned Cancer was a moon sign and it made the fascination I had with the moon feel all the more special.
Hell, I remember when I was out “partying” (read: “I don’t wanna be here but all my classmates wanted to get piss drunk on vodka on a closed community’s square and peer pressure is a bitch”) in high school and not only was I bored but I didn’t have any conversation with anyone, I would just look up and stare at the moon for minutes on end to pass the time.
The moon’s my friend.