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Thor’s Helmet (NGC 2359) and Planetary Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Ray Gralak
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The Magician card is one that always makes me think about when I was a child, back when I was obsessed with magic and the idea that I could have access to some greater power than my own. I think kids are always obsessed with having more power, to be clear.
Interestingly, that is not how this card works.
The Magician card is not at all about spells. It’s about tapping into your own ability to create something out of nothing. It’s about the capacities of the imagination, about a power no one can give you and no one can take away from you, except, well, you, by turning away from it.
Getting this card in a reading says, everything you need, you already have. You just need to turn it on.
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In Which Blogging Teaches Me Something I Use Writing Novels
The other night I described this method to my friend Mike Albo and he said, “You jerk! Why didn’t you tell me about this ten years ago?”* So, I’m telling you now.
I keep a journal of my novel that is just about the novel–any ideas, questions, thoughts, lines, even just entries like “page 77 is still a problem!” or “return to page 13!” I make the entry, even if it’s just a few lines, every day of work on it as I close the day’s work, and I also put scraps in there, deleted sections and lines I want to save. If I’m working on an edit like I am now with a master copy, I include the page number from the master.
When I return to work the next day, I reread that entry first and I return to where I was and what I was thinking about the more quickly. This is in addition to the writing notes I keep on my phone.
The journal I call a “workjournal” and it is a MSWord doc, and each new entry is entered at the top of the first page, a method I learned from blogging actually, so that the most recent entry is visible immediately when I open the doc–the oldest entry is at the end. This is because a MSWord doc opens right to page 1 always, and this way I am not scrolling past old entries to get to the one I need to remind me of where I left off.
I also keep any outlines or structural thoughts here, I keep lists of themes, etc. It’s all in there. The one for The Queen of the Night is very long right now, almost the same length as the novel. Please, try it out. Tell me how it works for you.
*This is how Mike expresses affection.
You get work however you get work, but people keep working because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as everyone else if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.
I don’t think gay marriage opponents in the US get how things work. If your religion say you can’t eat chocolate, then that doesn’t mean you try to outlaw chocolate eating. It means that YOU cannot eat chocolate. I can eat all the chocolate I damn well please. If your religion is against gay marriage, that doesn’t mean you outlaw it. It means YOU cannot marry someone of the same gender. Basically, you don’t force your beliefs on others.
These religious zealots don’t understand that if we give them the unrestricted right to vote gay rights away, then at some point they’ve also given the same government the power to take their own rights away.
But then I’m sick of it. I want all the time back I’ve spent in this life on this bullshit. I’m so tired of arguing about gay marriage while the seas boil and the world burns.
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Queen of Discs.
My “space helmet as the new symbol for Discs in the Tarot” idea is really growing on me since I first played with it (Tarot of the Future next maybe?), and I especially like the idea of Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley as a Queen of Discs—she’s strong, tough, fiercely pragmatic as well as maternal. She’s a leader, she’s willing to make tough choices, and she’s willing to confront authority when it is corrupt.
Discs is often thought of as money, but it is also a commitment to the land, and to life. The idea in Aliens, of bringing back the monster to see how it can be used as a weapon, this is morally repugnant to her, it goes against everything she believes in, and she also thinks it is beyond humanity’s ability to manage safely.
Also, I think Discs are often underestimated. There’s a terrific humility to the suit, I think.
The imagery of the card focuses usually too much on the idea of a Queen as a cosseted female covered in rich clothes—and that can be one way she exists. But she’s a strong, resourceful woman, too, and a leader, and that should count also in any reading of this card.
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Kristen Stewart, smoking on the set of Snow White. Love it.
Also, Princess of Swords for sure, for the Reblog Tarot.
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One winter, I moved to Brooklyn to figure myself out. I was escaping a situation I didn’t understand, by which I mean a job and a lover and an apartment that when they were all together left no place for me. As I had made my life into something that I couldn’t fit inside of but was for me, this meant I didn’t know what I was, not even close, and this seemed like a problem literally the size of my whole life. I wanted to go somewhere I couldn’t hurt anyone while I fixed this, so I took a small apartment with a single window on the very last street in Park Slope, where the neighborhood was less gentrified by the middle of the block. I got a job waiting tables, work that wouldn’t bother me at home or call me or email me with last-minute changes. And I picked as my bar a small gay bar almost no one knew, not too far from the apartment or the restaurant, with dark wood and old-fashioned mirrors and a crappy pool table out back usually surrounded by plain-spoken lesbians playing for keeps. I never played pool, so this was fine. I left my phone off for the first month, as I didn’t know what I would say to anyone who would call me, and eventually was afraid to turn it on. But this also seemed fine as the only person I really needed to speak to was me.
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My Next Move — The Good Men Project
My story above here was selected as a Notable Story in the storySouth Million Writers Award—final results to be announced in June. Results are here.
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oh my god, rihanna burned the people i used to work for and work with
this is one of the greatest moments of my life and it doesn’t even affect me
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