Today’s deck is the Jim Henson’s Labyrinth Tarot.
I don’t know enough about the movie aside from it’s existence to comment on accuracy but it’s otherwise fine.
Today’s reading reflects an exhaustion on too much passing by while you look and… yeah.
I mean waking up to a gazillion tsunami warnings because one of the strongest quakes in registered human history happened in the middle of the sea is one hell of a thing to wake up to even if the effects here were thankfully less.
There’s something to be said about getting my phone updating me like “first wave of half a meter hit this one prefecture just now” while I’m out and about paying bills.
If the once-in-a-lifetime historic bad things could stop for one moment I’d be happy. Less “A disease from the 1500s just came back” and more “AIDS is almost erradicated”, thank you.
It’s kinda funny that I was thinking before sleeping “Ah man, the one day I could go to the beach and I didn’t do any prep” and then every beach got on high alert.
While running errands and whatnot I’ve going on a book about Daoism and it’s super interesting that apparently the whole “Dream of a butterfly” story is completely different in the original, where there’s no “man remembers the dream”.
The book explains a bunch of interpretations for the story, from existentialism to how change begets certain hard boundaries in the before and after to be effective, but the most interesting detail is how and why it was localized differently.
Because yeah, it was localization. At around the time it was localized, it was… basically in the elightment era and something like “dude what if your dream was reality” is the exact sort of exotic provocative question you’d hear around that time.
I’ve said it before, but on principle I prefer things that give an answer and make you grapple with an answer instead of something that just asks questions and leaves it at that.
That’s… a whole can of worms I can only talk about given time to sort my ideas.
I will, however, point out how funny the precedent of this sort of thing is with European fuckboys specifically, like the one that conjured up a whole story about Tarot being an egyptian creation because fuck it who’s gonna double check? And then the Rosetta Stone got decoded right after.
I did clock in a bit of work, but it’s either nothing too exciting or nothing I can talk about just yet.