How to bend people to your will using the Tarot

1. Which deck to use?

Before we start, I must comment on the diversity of Tarot decks available in this, the early twenty-first century.

The tarot deck you use for this work (and, later, you will be using more than one deck) should be one to which you feel a connection. It is also important that the iconography of the cards be clear and consistent.

Tarot cards appear around the same time as card making technology, which in the Western civilizations is around the fifteenth century. Cards are merely a useful technology to communicate a concept. The underlying concept is that of a twenty-two item set that is linearly independent and can be used to describe the Universe. There are twenty one items in a set that can describe the faces and edges of a cube. The six faces correspond to the six planets of astrology (with the outermost visible planet, Saturn, describing the center), and the twelve signs of the zodiac describing the twelve edges of the cube. The three remaining cards describe up-down, east-west, and north-south change of direction vectors, and correspond to the 'outer planets' in astrology: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The Builders of the Adytum do the best job of explaining this system and to their weighty body of written work you are directed for more details.

This set of vectors, the tarot, is well defined and corresponds tightly to astrology. One can use the nomenclature of either to define concepts.

In the past, practice was for initiates to make their own tarot decks. Before card technology, this involved making a set of amulets. Cards are easier, so that technology has taken over.

I suggest that you use the BOTA or Rider-Waite deck. I suggest that, in your travels, you find the time to either color a deck, or, even better, craft your own.

We will start by using the major arcana.

Rorschach bomber two

Wallow in the Diversity. The False Flag and conspiracy factions are gaining momentum. You can start your investigations with InfoWars, and follow with Networking.

How does one come to a conclusion? That is not the question. You will come to a conclusion; you can pick and choose amongst conspiracy theories, evidence, and state directives. You will come to a conclusion. However, you cannot talk openly about your beliefs amongst your friends, co-workers, and relatives. Those days are gone. You can only talk about what you believe amongst people you trust.

People no longer trust people outside their tribe. You really do not know what those casual contacts in your life hold dear. Those that think the Marathon bombing was a staged act distrust the state. But, who are these tens of thousands that log into that site every day? Did anyone at work question the wisdom of carrying off a guy with his legs blown off on a wheelchair? Very photogenic (and all those photographers in the media kennel so close by) that shot. I guess all the stretchers were busy and the trained EMS types decided to not do things the way they were trained to do. Blah blah blah.

People do not trust. They form secret combinations. They become skilled at concealment, and lying. Their minutes of listening to Rush Limbaugh are done in shadow. Just what alliances and associations are they making? You won't know until they decide to move openly, and they will not move openly until they think they can win.

I do not even know all the players in the game.

Horoscope for the week of April 21, 2013

The Age of Aquarius is upon us, eh what? But to complicate things, Neptune transits Pisces; Neptune rules Pisces, and Pisces is the age past. So, we have nostalgia, unfinished business, and the dead issues and problems rising from the grave and going all Zombie. This is the time of collective bad karma, you may have noticed. But it is also one of crisis averted, by heroic action, good experience, and red tape. Your future is written in the stars ... what does the after empire party of the Piscean Age have in store for you this week?

False Flag Sale

It is hard to get past all the false flag frenzy on the internet with this Boston Marathon event.

It is not so much the incompetence of the ability challenged media feeding these theories, but the fact that a majority of people (er, the subset that accesses the internet for information) have a predisposition of distrust of the state, and hence are fertile ground. We are in the situation where it does not matter what happens. Nobody much believes the media. Instead, based on preconceived notions, conspiracy theories arise to fit the narrative into a framework.

Some well crafted presentations can now be found supporting Theory A or Theory B. You can find what you want to believe on the internet. The Media is no longer the arbiter of truth, they are just swimming with the crocodiles like the rest of us. Except that nobody much likes them, the Media. How long will they last as hunted prey? Die, Media, Die.

Rorschach bomber one

Bomber two is dead, apparently. Or is it suspect number one? How disappointing, all those resources impotent to stop the evil doers before the fact, and so slow to grab them after. All those cameras, sniffing dogs, and trained eyes on the ground. Oh well, the reports for each other to read will be written, read, and recycled. I can be forgiven my cynicism: I am but one voice in a culture of a third of a billion people. If a few ones and twos get their legs blown off in the great struggles of the vote buying factions, the Diversity, the Downtrodden, the Never Workers ... what care they?

They do care. You can see them with menthol inspired tears as they are interviewed by their main stream media friends. Who cares about that? The salient realization is the fact that we are no longer a We, but a diversity of tribes. Did your tribe get their legs blown off in Boston? People care, in the way of reading newspapers or checking on sports scores, but, well, not even that. The expectation of terror now sits comfortably in our hearts. When I mentioned the Boston massacre to them, their first reaction was I do not attend large events like that. Not their tribe. What tribe attends public events, now a days? Travels in the ghetto? Leaves their door unlocked. Not you. Nobody you know.

The bad guys will get killed or caught. The usual causes will be marketed. The only way to stop pressure cooker bombers is to ban assault weapons, fund abortion, and implement gay marriage. The guy you voted for on a platform of cutting spending will raise taxes and increase spending. Why vote? There is an illegal immigrant amnesty coming. Why not dig deeper into the tax free black market. Why pay taxes to support never workers? Black is beautiful. Such is the reflections from the subconscious from the Rorschach bomber.

Rorschach bomber

I got up the morning expecting the vast bureaucracy and apparatus of state security would have this Boston Bomber crisis wrapped up. What? No arrests?

Instead, one is subjected to the Rorschach test of media. Just who does your favorite pundit blame for the outrage? Absent of facts, the resulting spew is just conjecture.

Occupy Mealtimes

I grow tired of the oppression of the working classes by the greedy one percent. I was sitting down to dinner. My nephews, Gluten Badwulf and Spud Badwulf, were at the dinner as well. As a family, we are activists. I looked down at my plate of food, then I looked at the fork and knife in my hand. A rage against the machine rose from my heart ...