The Gang Goes Through A Haunting.
Today’s reading basically screams to not resist change, and you’ll see why this is an interesting reading in a bit.
The started SUNNY, first time since I arrived where the early summer vibe was strong.
So I dragged my ass out of bed while there was still sunlight because I had photos to take.
Mission accomplished, Luna and Sol finally have swimsuit shots.
While taking the second set I actually saw a guy basically filming himself while playing the guitar on the edge of the water, really cool.
I saw the same dude again later during a conbini run, incidentally. Guitar on back, and woman on arm.
I was also asked to take a pic of a travel group of old people and I hope the photo turned well because when I wanted to make it less dark it just shot a pic again.
So at this point I’m feeling like killing time so I decided to take a walk through the temple again, you know, like I’ve been doing the last two nights.
This is where today’s real story begins.
The moment I cross the initial torii I get full of… dread, and anxiety. I initially dismissed it because being Venezuelan I’m used to being EXTRA wary of… not even dark corners but just lone places in general. It’s a minor anxiety I get especially in new places but it soon passes.
Except it did not, so I make it to the other end of the temple, cross that torii, and I calm down, I go “sure, I was being silly and overthinking it”. I calm down and walk back.
EXCEPT THE MOMENT I CROSS THE TORII AGAIN THE ANXIETY IS BACK, THE DREAD IS BACK, IT’S EVEN STRONGER NOW, I’M SEEING MOVEMENT ON THE EDGE OF MY VISION, I’M SEEING MOVING SHADOWS EVERYWHERE.
I cross the torii again and it stops, and I sit down because at this point my legs are trembling.
It just didn’t make sense, if I’m gonna get these anxieties, these fears, it makes sense for them to happen ON MY FIRST DAY RATHER THAN THE THIRD.
After a few minutes regaining my composure I start walking back home and I hear a dog barking. This small medium dog (it looked like a mix of Collie with something else) barks from a hotel’s lobby, walks up to the automatic door to open it, but when he goes out he stops barking confused, kinda like “Wait, I wasn’t barking at YOU, where’s the one I was barking to?”.
I stare at the good boy for a solid minute, it’s docile now. I decide to walk back and the dog decided to walk back into the lobby it was staying at for some reason.
Did I mention this is my third night walking at around the same time and it’s my first time noticing this dog or said dog barking at me?
Did I tell you all how the day I left my apartment for this trip both my bathtub and vacuum cleaner turned on on their own for no reason?
There’s probably a very reasonable, understanble, rational explanation for all of it, but also assuming it’s all angry spirits has the same end result and gives me easier means to comfort myself.
In fact, imagine my surprise when I remember I hadn’t done today’s reading and the cards basically tell me how I cannot move forwards by just adhering to that rationality.
Needless to say I was done for the day. I was originally planning to check a different temple you get to by walking around 20 minutes after Meoto Iwa, but fuck it, I’m making the priority going to Ise Jingu and getting some charms and a cleansing if possible fucking hell.
I leave you with 80 seconds of cicada sounds until then, though.