I keep thinking this is a super jacked Chad Harbach.
Gareth Thomas for Attitude Magazine’s annual Naked Issue
(Source: alexorue)
Most of the time the Priestess Card is a good deal more, well, ‘staid’ or something than this. I like this because there’s a certain Amanda Palmer thing happening in it—-like, if Amanda Palmer was called in to Game of Thrones to play another priestess, maybe for one of the old gods.
The Priestess card is a card of inner listening. It’s a call to listen to yourself, to your higher self, but also your unconscious, your past, your sense of the present and future too—to all of it. Listening to yourself can actually be very complex.
What do you know you should be doing that you’re not doing? What signs, omens, etc. have you received that you’re not listening to? This card is a reminder, in that case. Because it can be good or bad news—the card is neutral, in that sense—it is neither a card of great good fortune nor bad. It’s simply about taking that time apart to meet with your gods, whatever it is that you find holy—ancestors, yourself, others—and say “WHAT IS GOING ON” and then listen. Also, at the most literal, this card means ‘advice from or attraction to a wise woman’.
One alternate and random meaning I’m remembering: A lover that needs time to commit. This would be revealed contextually, of course, in the reading.
more…
Remember.
(via nudebeat)
Stephanie Anderson, aka bookavore, has accepted the position of Head of Readers’ Advisory at the Darien Public Library in Darien, CT, one of the most respected libraries in the country. Stephanie has been Manager of WORD in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, for over three years. WORD owner Christine Onorati: “Stephanie has been crucial to the growth of our business these last three years. While I’m sad to move forward without her, I’m so grateful for the immense dedication and hard work she’s given this store. Knowing how excited she is to take on this new opportunity makes us all very excited for her and we wish her only the best in her new role.”
WORD is now accepting applicants for the position of Manager; Stephanie will stay on through June to help with the transition. Qualified individuals with prior bookstore experience and preferably management experience can email a resume to info at wordbrooklyn dot com.Best job in the Western hemisphere. Godspeed, brilliant booksellers.
Go Stephanie!
Way to go viral the wrong way, Mitt. Keep it up!
(Source: amerciaiswithmitt)
The Hanged Man in the Tarot is usually a man pictured upside town. It’s often considered a card of limitations and negative consequences, but in recent times has come to be about the transcending of limitations. I seem to remember that Crowley even invoked Yoga as part of the understanding of it in his version of the deck.
Yoga is actually a good way to understand this card fully: A practice that is about first committing to understanding your limits and working within them, and then any transcendance of those limits happens out of that work.
If you find learning your own limitations to be negative, then you will experience this as a negative card.
(Source: yogadudes)
The Tower Card in the Tarot is one of the more feared—it often comes with an unwelcome jolt. Something you have pushed from your mind and pushed from your mind suddenly takes a monstrous form, rises out of the ocean and rushes at your factories, all laser eyes and firebreath and knocks all your toy soldiers into the ocean.
It’s sometimes deserved, but not always. This card is also the card of sudden accidents, or of forces beyond your control. In the now-famous Miss Cleo segment on Mad TV, where she gets asked if she maybe ‘saw something’ on September 10th in the cards, it would have been, well, this card.
There are deep prohibitions against describing such things in readings, among Tarot readers. A friend recently showed me a deck his aunt gave him, after she gave up reading cards in the aftermath of a suicide. She’d given the man predictions of hard news, and felt responsible.
Sidebar: From my own experiences with the cards, I always look for context. A troubling card is rarely on its own, and doesn’t have to be. If you pull one of the potentially bad news cards—the Tower, the 5 or 8 of Cups, the 3, 5, 8, 9 or 10 of Swords, Death—it’s a good idea to first look at the cards around them. What is the context. If there are no answers there, then I draw two more cards and lay them atop the troubling card, like a hat of a kind, indicating at least two aspects of the card, and between them you can usually figure out what is being addressed.
If you draw this card, the best thing to do is to figure out whether or not you have something in a blind spot, something repressed, something you think you can’t face, something you let someone else take care of and haven’t checked up on. It’s better to let the cards work with you as a call to action and awareness (realization: I actually now hate this terribly over-used word). Look at that and see if something is wrong, if there’s a way you can take action before it falls apart, falls down, breaks, blows up, etc.
The key to understanding the Tower also is that it is about a truth of some kind that has been hidden, and often because there’s some power structure that requires it to be hidden. In that sense, it can also be a good card—the release of something that had been imprisoned unjustly.
(Source: jockohomo)
What I guessed the New Yorker Editors were saying around the offices during the creation of the Sci Fi issue (I actually just typed ‘episode’!).
I would live for a New Yorker offices edition of Laser Cats. As iPad extra content.
Game On
Pixel Nintendo Zapper illustrated by Holly Green via flickr.com
Laura Miller on the first fictional aliens in the New Yorker SF issue. With a special illustration (above) by Edward Gorey, from War of the Worlds.
So many good things there… click on the Alien above to go see.
Interestingly, she begins with an account of how the suggestion of even an alien microbe can excite the scientific community, and ends with the War of the Worlds’ climactic conclusion—the aliens die due to a lack of immunity to our diseases.
