Today’s deck is the Rose Tarot.
It’s cool, it’s one of those decks where the artist reinterprets the cards ever so slightly without necessarily reinventing the wheel. One detail that caught my attention was that the rose on the back of the card is symmetrical, and I noticed it because the Waite deck I use for the start of month reading and such has a rose on the back that isn’t.
Today’s reading feels like it’s checking in on me, on if I still feel like I’m entirely on my own when it comes to doing things… which I still kinda do, but I should clarify that I’m perfectly aware a lot of it is cognitive distortion, that it’s a complex I have rather than the undeniable reality and I do have a tendency to “not bother others” that feeds into the problem.
Objectively speaking there’s an argument that I haven’t had enough reassurances to fight against the complex, but that’s a completely different conversation irrelevant to right now.
God my throat is killing me today.
While things aren’t dry, I figured I should whip out the humidifier because it’s also an air purifier and it even has a “throat” setting, like, “my throat hurts do something about it” sort of setting.
It has a water tank that you fill, in winter it lasts about… 8 hours at full speed in winter I wanna say? I bring it up because the filter in it needs to be replaced so badly, it has so many calcium deposits in it.
I went to Yodobashi to get the replacement but I didn’t have the number so I returned empty-handed… then I realized I could’ve googled which number of filter it uses and that’s how I realized I hadn’t taken my meds for the day.
Ah well
Speaking of calcium, I’m always reminded when hard water comes up of the water heater at my parents’ place. Unlike the heater I have here where it’s the kind that heats up water as it passes, that one is the kind that’s a tank and when you shower you gotta open both valves just right and if you take too long showering the water gets cold because the tank ran out.
Sometimes we’ve had to open the tank because the resistance dies and we gotta replace it and when we do rocks fall off.
Calcium rocks.
The water has so much mineral residue that the heated water just makes them coalesce into pebbles. They always reminded me of coral stone for some reason.
On a sidenote, I was remembering when I was a kid that my grandpa made a clothes hanger with some metal pipes and because it was a but unstable he was like “I put a thing and if you touch it you’ll be shocked”, and because I get charged with static super easy of course I try to touch it and get shocked.
ANYWAYS, back to my day, today there was a full moon and I decided to take some photos from my balcony, but when I tried to get more creative with the tripod and stuff I decided instead to go in front of the building and take some photos from there.
While taking photos an ojiisan asked me if I lived in the building to which I nodded.
Now, this is a very sensible question to ask when a gaijin with a telescopic 200-800mm lens is sitting on the ground taking photos in front of an apartment building, however, may I remind you I’m a really petty bitch so all I could think was “sir, I bought my apartment, not only do I live here, there’s a high chance I own more of the building than you do”.
Anyway, check these sick photos.
I might’ve missed the blood moon last month but not this one.