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Modern Times

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There is no shortage of food on this earth, despite the manifold people living here, as We Feed The World has shown, what is lacking are means of distribution – If only! What is lacking is the will to distribute. Same with CO², or emission, or pollution of nature, or overconsumption. The means to stop each and everyone of them within the time of a year are there. The will to do so is not. If a single one thinks that by him/her stopping to run a bulb at night, a change is made, it is an illusion an it stays one even if his/her whole neighbourhood takes a liking to the idea. Even if the whole region is engulfed by the idea, it will not change. That factory over there will work at night nonetheless. By doing so, and be it only 5 days a week, it will consume more energy than an entire region of middle-sized housholds. Now, the thing which is treated by politicians all over the earth like it was an endangered spezies has a name: Consum. „We have to raise consum to avoid crisis“ It f...
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Virtue

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 Virtue is a sensible case to speak about, especially when she herself is adressed, not her harlequinesque counterpart, convention. To make things easier, there is something we may have a better grip on: virtuosity. It is something you gave your all to achieve. Then, virtue would be that what inspired you to give your all, as such, it is more related to endurance than to charisma. Following that narrative, virtue is something which inspires an individual to grow beyond, to thrive, to get in touch with the untouchable. Now it makes sense why a reader might profit from developing said headliner. Thesis is, it will get you in tune. Praxis, once again, looks quiet different, for the „how“ of how it will get you in tune is lacking closer description. Some observances may be made nonetheless: In the stage of the first encounter with the unencounterable, a system seems to be a must. Anything will do in the beginning, given two base components are united: Rigidity and a certain liki...
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Anything Goes

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 There is morals in reading cards, there's also convention, and by that, code of conduct is meant. Thing is, it applies to paid readings only – or rather, readings done under the watchful eye of what deems itself society . In reading for yourself, it does not apply. Anything goes, whatever it may be. Professionally, that stance can be kept by offering your readings not as a paid but free service, inviting people to donate. If you happen to have a place where people may meet you in a personal encounter, do make use of it. It is an entirely different world you will enter.   There even is an area where clinging to convention with the above mentioned emphasis will most likely do more harm than good, and it is an area which should not be neglected: It is your development as a reader. In order to truly know your cards, you will have to read on anything there is, including investments, health issues, impeding dead, politics, your neighbours house affairs, what's on the mind of your...
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Mhat is it?

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We went along the rails of traces laid out by those mysterious sages of the past – or were they? Yes, Oh! Holy men (why men?) packed their knowledge, which they saw would otherwise become lost (why are we so accustomed to the idea that „knowledge is lost“, like it is a base condition for knowledge to be lost or secret in the first place?), into mundane means, hence arriving at playing cards. The story was told, believed, debunked, reanimated, sprayed over with the holy water of science, and did not die. Oh, the story has not been told completely – replace men with man, add „Hermes“ (the universal delivery service for about anything, apparently), and stick the origin of the trump suit to the firmament, then the trumps predate the ordinary playing cards because those are like a lesser manifestation of their bigger origin up in the heavens, which needed more time to bring their form to life – or vice versa, the first principle was – of course – the numbers, hence, the first packs were ...
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Checkpoint Charlie

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Not too long ago, it was lively around the Tarot, very much so. The whole thing was unknown to many, the history unclear, its use, a mystery, its users hidden, and what you could do and to which lengths one could take it – unexplored. The egyptian hypothesis rose and fell, as did the revival of the Golden Dawn, and numerous packs appeared on the market, mostly clones of the Rider-Waite-Smith or Thoth packs, some in line with „la Marseillaise“, some daring to explore whole new areas, while others are done in alignment with the insights of their creators. The cartomantic endeavour rose into to the limelight, fortunetellers were en voque for some time, then a new notion appeared: Telling fortunes was not the way to go, rather, to read for insights into the psyche. To discover ones fate was still amongst it, but soon left out, as it became a trend to say that fate is in the hands of the individual. „I do not read your future“ is a perfectly fine thing to say nowadays as a reader. It wo...
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Ad Astra

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 In handling the cards, it has been observed that the cards will respond according to the users impression of them, which is summed up in what I call „Ingrainment“, a combination of the impression the cards picture makes on you, your experience of their dynamics when appearing in a reading, and the associations (suit, element, numbers) and their respective interpretations. In short, what I describe as „Ingrainment“ is the accumulation of your personal experience of the cards essence as perceived by you in encountering it during your life, which then serves as a seed sprouting from the cards on the table - in this analogy, they serve as a sort of ferment to your Ingrainment. For me, it is the main factor in readings and the reason to approach „the art of reading“ from the observation of the impact a certain picture on a card has on the reader, as it has shown over time that the cards in a pack align themselves according to the way the reader perceives them, in short: „Ingrainment“,...
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Nowhere Here

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This day and age, oblivious, we tumble along borders. Weapons sold, by none of us, Democracy gave orders. While trees go down, and earth does frown, growing hot with anger, tanks tinker turmoil. Players take, scorched fields all dry, remnants of manslaughter. No need to cry - go for monopoly on water. Oh Europe young, Zeus comes for you, bullheaded from beyonder if you survive – in freedom too – it can be classed a wonder. For human hands don't interfere where money flows abundant. So cruel its ways, so clean the coin, resistance long redundant. Where humans wake up, long for love, War lurks around the corner. „Now is the time, subdue them all, strike fear, and then march forward. When folk is gone, then peace will come, when no one rules the ruler.“ While forests burn, we lay the cards, and muse and watch, the whole and parts, discuss, indulging in our arts, such things like gaming, gender and diversity, see morals as perversity. Should and should...
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