Today’s deck is the Tarot Disassembled.
I am pleasantly surprised with this one, so much so that it’s going into my regular rotation. I’ve used minimalist decks in the past but they tend to miss the point and strip too much meaning or make the meaning too obtuse. This one not only keeps it legible but literally strips down the important part of the cards, it’s almost like a guide.
For example, The Fool always has a dog, this dog is meant to represent your more primal instincts, and depending on the way you read the cards the dog is warning The Fool of the cliff they’re walking to by being distracted. I see too many decks go for the “first step of the journey” ignoring the “you’re walking into a cliff” part or the dog part, which doesn’t even have to be a dog specifically when you get down to it.
Today’s reading celebrates a release from fears causing a surge of new feelings. While this is probably related to all the mental breakthroughs I had a while ago and how I manage to spend a week doing nice things for a change, it’s funny to get that sort of meaning when I just talked yesterday about feeling paranoia for no particular reason.
Today’s deck WAS gonna be this one, but enter their website and they talk about using AI so into the trash it goes.
I hate the fact that I gotta double check decks that don’t put artist credit nowadays…
Befitting today’s reading though, I woke up ruminating on what to do today, what creative thing to do for myself, what treat to give myself this weekend.
Ultimately I decided to write for the Uma Musume Blog, finally finishing the next part of the current set of posts.
Between my post of Chapter 2 and that one there were 452 days, and it’s insane to think how much has happened in my life. It’s been a really REALLY hectic year but at least things have finally piped down to the point where I can go back to doing stuff I wanna do.
Hell, this blog happened in the interim and there’s PLENTY of personal breakthroughs that have happened in that time too, but those are for this blog’s anniversary, which should be on the… *checks dashboard* On the 22nd? Huh…
Could’ve sworn it was later in the month, maybe because I’m associating it with when I went to Aomori.
Back to the post for the Uma Musume blog, one of the things I like about writing for that blog is that it allows me to let the hyperfocus take the reins in a focused manner with an end goal, where I can be like “I’m gonna go ape shit with this specific topic and pull it back when I’m done”.
The result is that after 5 hours that didn’t feel like 5 hours I was done with screenshots and research and I even got sidetracked enough that I had to separate things into a different post.
Every time it happens I hit publish and every bodily need hits me at once. I goota pee, I gotta eat, I GOTTA BLINK. I wonder how common it is for ADHD people when hyperfocus kicks in to just not blink for some reason, because it happens to me a lot.
After a while I decided to go out. Whenever I don’t have specific plans I go to Yodobashi because it’s kinda close and I can just play with the cameras for a bit.
While on the walk I finished some book about the history of Marvel and man, I hate Stan Lee. Hearing biographical stuff about that man even from himself legit triggers me. I’ve met plenty of people like him in my life and he’s like the endgame of what it looks like when those types are rewarded for it.
I’ve heard the story of when he love-bombed Jack Kirby out of nowhere in some radio show like three times in different books, and I swear to God it remains one of the creepiest things I’ve heard.
I immediately started Danny Trejo’s biography and he reads the audiobook. His gruff voice is slightly tricky to get used to at the start but you get used to it quick and when you do? Honestly there’s no better narrator for that book. Hearing him giggle to his own anecdotes adds so much.
It’s been a good week on the whole, I might take Sunday to clean up the house some, though.