At the end of this month, we start a new decade. The twenty twenties. The century is out of it’s teens, drunk and staggering around looking for purpose. Trying to decide what to do with the rest of its existence. Where have we come from to get us here? Basically my whole life we have…
The ace of swords is the birth of a warrior, clutching his sword with strength and criminal brilliance, representing justice and artistic sharpness, all of which and more are readable on the face of the card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/swords/1-swords-ace/
The Pentalien King represents interpersonal stability and honest environmental discipline, a natural knowledgeable credible king indeed.https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/14-pentacles-king/
The Pentalien Queen represents happiness and liberalism and prosperity and activism and feminism and sexism. Lots of isms. And also a firewall of childbirth. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/13-pentacles-queen/
The Pentalien Knight is the twelfth Pentacles card, and represents mysticism and elegance, perseverance and studious avocation, as well as many other things written in the world-cloud on the card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/12-pentacles-knight/
The Page of Pentacles presents it’s coin to it’s masters. The card represents over-achievers, indoor business, bookish knowledge and many other things that can be easily read from the face of the card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/11-pentacles-page/
On the tenth pentacles card, Wealth, the Pentalien examines the contents of his treasure chest. It has gems and untold worldly prosperity, richness and glory and jewels. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/10-pentacles-wealth/
Sometimes a small sum can lead to a larger sum and lead to a larger sum, this is “Gain”, and is about wealth and richness and abundance, gratitude and a plethora of bounty. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/9-pentacles-gain/
Caring, reasoning, quality learning can lead to rational savings and debt, as you could guess by reading just a few words from the eighth card in Pentacles, known as Prudence. It features the Pentalien, saving his money prudently in a piggy bank.https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/8-pentacles-prudence/
Here’s the Pentalien lifting aloft a prize for he has succeeded, and this card is success. It’s also wealth and beneficence and exchange and riches and selflessness, all of which can be read from the card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/6-pentacles-success/
On the fifth Pentacles card, worry, our Pentalien bites his nails, concerned about the loss of his coin, hard-luck and bleakness and loneliness and self doubt and many other things written onto the face of the card in plain English. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/5-pentacles-worry/
On the fourth Pentacles card, our Pentalien holds aloft a fist, signalling power for that is the name of the card. It also signals humanism and savings and consumerism and rigidity and foundation as you can read from the wordcloud behind it. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/4-pentacles-power/
The Pentalien is set to work, digging in this case. He is filled with resourcefulness and exceptional perseverance and efficiency leading surely to success. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/3-pentacles-work/
The second card in Pentacles is called change and represents revolution and polarization and new endeavours. The card features the Pentalien with newly grown butterfly wings, representing metamorphosis. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/2-pentacles-change/
The Ace of Pentacles shows the birth of the Pentalien, born with a silver coin in his mouth, we see him chewing the cash creatively and successfully. The achievement will surely give the magic baby the power of alchemy and many dollars. https://wordcloudtarot.com/pentacles/1-pentacles-ace/
The King of Cups is a councilor, wise with skilled spiritual teaching and a nice seat. https://wordcloudtarot.com/cups/14-cups-king/
The Queen of Cups represents emotion and psyche and cultivating intellect and metaphysics, as anyone can read from the face of the card. https://wordcloudtarot.com/cups/13-cups-queen/
The Knight of cups, astride his horse, raises his cup in cheers at big ideas, attraction, art and idealism. He’s a thoughtful compassionate realist, and many other easily read things. https://wordcloudtarot.com/cups/12-cups-knight/
The page of cups presents his knight with his prize, a carefree, idealist, witty perceptive alien as you can tell by reading the words surrounding his form. https://wordcloudtarot.com/cups/11-cups-page/
Once Cups has had his fill, he rubs his tummy and licks his lips from satiety. He’s thinking about durability and positioning and gratitude and privacy and all the other things associated with this card which can easily be read from the card’s face. https://wordcloudtarot.com/cups/10-cups-satiety/
Our Cups alien is jumping for joy in “happiness”, he’s also jumping for ecstasy and fulfillment and effort and achievement and many other words easily read from the face of the card by anyone literate. Have moved the whole project over to blender 2.8 so it’s using Eevee now. Faster rendering. Better-organized layout. Improved the…
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The 8th cups card is Indolence, and a lazy alien lounges napping on a couch, his drink spilled. The card represents disinterest and laziness and giving up and gloominess and a lot of other things easily read from the card itself. https://wordcloudtarot.com/cups/8-cups-indolence/
When our indulgence grows too much and we end up in the world of debauchery, we may find fantasy and erotic dreams but we will also find paranoia and delusion and immorality and malfeasance. All of this is easy to know in my wordcloud tarot pack, as any tarot beginner can read for themselves. https://wordcloudtarot.com/cups/7-cups-debauch/
Turns out, the key to the Fib Retracement indicator is to turn off the garish horrible colours and, more importantly: set it to be log-scale if you habitually use a log-scale graph. When you turn on that button it all starts to make sense. After the 2012/2013 rise in price, the price rapidly spiked down…
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The six of cups is called Pleasure, and Cups the alien is pictured pole-dancing. The card represents ecstasy and euphoria and decadence, but also romanticism and innocence and joy. All of which and yet more can be simply read from the card in my amazing easy to use tarot pack.
Back from #Glasto2019 which was enormous fun and remains basically the best party on the planet. Bjorn Again opened it brilliantly, being funny and playing Abba tunes makes for a great show. Tankus The Henge were groovy and funky and I still love his smoking piano/climbing-frame. Tim off of the Charlatans has even more stupid…
Poor old Cups has gone and spilled his drink. He’s very disappointed. He’s also suffering form heartache and lethargy and anguish and despair and unhappiness as you can see at a glance at his poor face, and also by reading the words printed handily on the card.
Ah, that’s the life, just luxuriating with in luxury with a cup of wine under a parasol on a beach somewhere. The card signifies a good spiritual reappraisal, passivity and meditation as well as sorrowful tedium. As you can tell at a glance if you can read.
Look at him, he’s got such an abundance of wine it won’t even all fit in fit in his cup. His cup it runneth over. He also has festivities and celebrations and innovation and plentiful adoration and all these other meanings that can be easily read from the Three Of Cups in the revolutionary Wordcloud…
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The Two Of Cups, called “Love”, features our alien on bended knee pledging his love with a rose. But he’s also pledging companionship and amusement and interpersonal balance, as you can read written on the words around him.
Aww, look, it’s a little new-born baby of Cups, symbolizing joy and playfulness and birth and eternal spirituality and all the other things written on the card for easy reading without any memorization required.
Excepts from a day’s arguing on social media….. It’s voting day! These EU elections are more democratic than the UK elections, and are based on a much more fair voting system. They are certainly way more democratic than the WTO elections since those never ever happen. These EU elections are fairly proportional, and you don’t…
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Last night I made a story-timer for my improv group based on Dan Harmon’s ranting about story structure. I hope they like it. https://dalliance.net/storytimer/
The final card in the major arcana is often known as “world”, but the trouble with that is that you immediately start to picture it as the Earth from space. But that isn’t what the final major archana card is about. It’s not about a single pathetic little planet floating in an infinite sky. It…
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The 20th trump card in my wordcloud tarot deck is Aeon. A departure from the more traditional deck and following instead the lead of the Thoth deck. More traditionally called “Judgement”, that word is still emblazoned bigger than any other in the background here along with era and tine and change and phoenix and atonement…
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The 19th card in the major arcana is the Sun, and our alien strides into a sunset. Or is that a sunrise? Images are so hard to interpret. Thank goodness that my Wordcloud Tarot also has things written on it in plain English so you can see at a glance the card is about enlightenment…
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What would our super-evolved alien do as he approaches the spiritual heights of the subliminal clairvoyant confusin deceptive disorderly moon? Why get down on all fours and howl at it of course. What else can you do? The clues to the conscious emotions in this card are written on the front in plain text for…
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The Star is a card representing the alien’s home. Here here we find him pointing back homewards. The card is about optimism and inspiration and happiness and beauty. It’s about horoscopes too, and divination, but you won’t need to memorize meanings if you can read and own the marvelous revolutionary wordcloud tarot deck.
The Tarot’s “Tower” card is about the collapse of the tower, so it appears as falling with the alien screaming in fear. But you don’t need to remember why he’s screaming with my Wordcloud Tarot Deck, for it’s written there for all to read that the card is about breakdown and destruction and ruin and…
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I take my seat as Sam says to sit down and stare at an object. Concentrate on it and let it be the focus of attention he reckons. Then to turn attention on itself at look at the thing that’s doing the looking. No problem. There’s my glass of water, shining in a sunbeam. What’s…
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Spent my birthday this year recording an arrangement/cover of a Leonard Cohen song, “Everybody Knows”, and I’m pleased with how that went.
The Devil comes down to my wordcloud tarot deck filled with lies and doubt and fear and materialism and spanking, as any literate person can see at a glance in my revolutionary new deck which will surely monopolize the entire tarot deck market.
I’ve been meditating again this year. A third of the time with Sam Harris’s new app. I got it for free since I got in early. Ages ago and regularly I’ve donated to his podcast. You should feed the media you love. It seems way more expensive than warranted otherwise to me otherwise. A tenner…
I’ve been suggesting we’ll have a “Joni Mitchell Brexit” for months. Nobody will believe the “project fear” stuff until it’s happened. We don’t know what we’ve got till it’s gone. Got around to producing the song that those words imply yesterday. So here’s the song I call “Joni Mitchell Brexit”
The alien evolves again as it passes from “death” and is reborn as “temperance”, a card representing the art of alchemy and synergy and juxtapositions and synthesis, as any literate verbal thinker can tell at a glance without memorizing obscure meanings in my world-changing world cloud tarot deck.
The 13th Trump Card in my Wordcloud Tarot Deck is Death. Also nice things like renewal and breaking-habits and possibilities and expectancy and awakenings… but mostly death and failure and endings. Even the most verbal of thinkers can see this at a glance without taxing their terrible memories with my amazing revolutionary wordcloud tarot deck.
Next up in my album about my bookshelf is “What Bokononists say when they commit suicide“, A song about Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle“. Vonnegut’s brilliant short and simple sentences describe a world-destroying military invention, delivered with his curt Kurt style. Great book. The song is a jazz musical scene from the book, featuring someone else’s…
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The 12th Trump Card in my Wordcloud Tarot Deck is the Hanged Man. It represents delay and sacrifice and understanding and transformation, as any literate person can see at a glance from this revolutionary tarot deck for verbal thinkers.
No more sleep in 2018. It’s all over bar the last bit of drinking. I’ve spent the last few days of the year pretty lazily until I got some “Bob” in me yesterday and wrote and recorded this song in the hope of getting it out. Next year: More stuff! More meditation! More fasting! More…
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Justice is about balance but also about vengeance and so carries both a scale and a sword. It’s also about fairness and karma and duty and belief and humility and obligation, all of which is pretty obvious if you can read and you use my revolutionary tarot deck for the literate.
