Rider Waite Suit of Wands

Dusty’s course had a set of files of images of all 78 cards. I downloaded them. I used them to create the grids you see on other blogs but this way I did the work myself, so I can’t be accused of copyright violations.

On New Year’s Eve 2020, Dusty White taught a free Zoom class to let anyone who wanted to study his Easiest Way to Learn the Tarot.  My jaw dropped.  To learn the Minor Arcana, (pages 15-16) one can project his/her mind and STEP into the card just like you see in many stories and a TV series. For a list of such examples click on this link:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PortalPicture

The best depiction of what Dusty instructs his students to do is found in this scene from Looney Tunes: Back in Action Painting Scene starring Brendan Fraser who is now famous for no longer looking like a heart throb.

The idea of stepping inside a Rider Waite card and talking to the elements painted by Pamela Colman Smith was so cool I LEAPT right in.

In Dusty’s latest class he delved into Smith’s life, so in case you never heard of her, watch this:

With that introduction, let’s flash back to New Year’s Eve 2020 and what I wrote about page 15.

If you were standing inside the Ace of Wands picture, how would it affect you?

I would be freaked out BECAUSE of the wind which might be a GIANT dust devil or a storm rolling in off the hills.  The landscape is not unlike my yard with a castle like ruin? – to the left in the distance – not unlike the estate house on Shadybrook that I can see from my deck.  The disembodied huge white hand could be Vayu-dev’s hand. Not so much Aeolus.  The sapling with sprigs of leaves, some falling off remind me of my poor crab apple that is only half able to produce leaves.  The gray background is like the skies here or back in New Jersey on a raw overcast day where my arthritis hurts and I want to hide in my room.

This card gives me a terrible sense of foreboding.

Reversed is even worse.  It’s like the thumb’s down of the hand of a Roman emperor with the wand about to hit you on the head.  The storm cloud now looks more like billowing hair or smoke and not a storm cloud.  The world turned literally upside down.

Dusty writes that this card is connected to Aries – fire.  It is the catalyst that brings the world into being.

“Aries energy is the will itself so forcibly on the universe, that it simply springs into being”.

This makes sense.

If you were to stand next to the man in the Two of Wands, what would you ask him?

The man reminds me of Christopher Columbus contemplating sailing around the world.  He thinks the planet is much smaller than it is.  He is holding the left wand in his left hand and it only has three sprigs.  The one on the right is somehow standing upright on the castle rampart anchored to the outer wall.  I’m drawn to his red hat.  I can’t find a match in Google images but it’s more of a cap and t reminds me of a cardinal’s hat for some reason.

The white lilies and red berries(?) are also drawing me to look at them.  The landscape looks like an Italian shoreline.

Reversed it looks like he’s just letting go of the globe but it has yet to drop.  The criss-crossed white lilies and red roses seem to jump out now that they are in the upper right hand corner.  His cloak has yet to fall down as well.  Losing everything – money dropping out of the pockets.  Loss of status – the hat that indicates his status will also fall.

In the Three of Wands I feel reluctant to step into the scene because the man feels like an emperor who has either just been defeated or one in exile. His clothes look battered but not yet tattered and his hair is blowing just a bit. The land is barren and reminds me of the road to Reno or the highways of Texas with nothing for miles with just distant foothills.  The yellow background – eww – thought just jumped in that the air is polluted either after a great war or dreadful pestilence.

Never mind – Taking off my glasses I can see he’s standing on a hill overlooking a sea at sunset so the water appears golden and there are at least three ships sailing off out of the bay assuming the bay is surrounded by mountains.

He still seems weary, but Dusty writes that this is an auspicious sign of a job well done and the merchant’s goods are off to be sold.

I guess living in the desert makes me see everything from dry land!

Reversed, I feel like he has a terrible headache and the band around his head is tightening as the ships transform into sigils or Hebrew letters.

I really like the Four of Wands!  It reminds me of either a wedding or harvest celebration at a winery in the Burgundy wine country of France that I saw in a documentary.  The castle looks fairly new and well maintained.  The couple look like Roman gentry who are facing guests in the distance yelling hurry, welcome, come enjoy the party.  It exudes happiness and wealth and joy and abundance.

I think once I learn how to make affirmations with cards, I will use this one!

I don’t get much from this card reversed other than the bounty is weighing down the supports and the hosts are overly giddy and about to sway and drop their fruit bundles.

Dusty writes that this is a “Prime Empire Card”.  Celebration, happy homelife.

Reversed Dusty writes misfortune, being disowned, counting chickens before they hatch, financial misfortune possible

Yikes the Five of Wands looks like 5 brothers who have taken a training session with French batons or quarter staves and turned it into a brawl over petty grievances. The “youngest” in the blue tunic has just blocked a blow from his older brother in red.  The one green may be protecting the youngest or he has a beef with the one in red as well.  The one in yellow and the one in the striped dark blue tunic look like their fight is more vicious.

I don’t feel that these are just young men unrelated to one another.  The sky is a clear blue and the ground looks a bit rugged.

Animosity.  Bitterness.  Jealousy or envy.  Built up hate over injustice.  Hurled insults that can no longer be forgiven.

Reversed it looks like a free for all of chaotic negative energy.  A real brawl.

Dusty- madhouse, devolving into a circus, flaring egos, run away from this mess

Reversed it traditionally means a truce but Dusty also writes beware of political maneuvering, bruised egos, opportunities to find vengeance

6:18 pm., Thursday, December 31, 2020 – I want my piano fixed so I can play these pieces in the Haunted Piano Playlist!

Phone call – Resumed Friday, January 1, 2021

Six of Wands reminds me of Alexander the Great or a beloved leader returning home victorious.  There is a wreath on his staff one man can be seen looking up at him and anther looks off to the side at what the man on the horse might be viewing.  The sky is blue and the white horse looks at the viewer.  I feel like I am riding alongside him.  I like him but I am pensive as he looks concerned at whatever he is seeing.

Reversed I feel that it was a Pyrrhic victory.  Upside down the horse looks like he’s going to vomit.

Dusty – check the surrounding cards – victory or rallying troops

Like me, Dusty writes reversed – UGH – defeat, stolen valor, someone taking credit for your hard work

NOTE this card symbolizes the stolen 2020 election – – I know don’t insert politics but I think it was.

Seven of Wands looks like the epitome of frustration.  Is he standing on the edge of a cliff?  He holds the staff as if he either wants to throw it down in disgust, or he’s getting ready to swing it at the army about to ascend the cliff.  Sky is blue and he doesn’t look like trained warrior by his clothes but he’s fed up and ready to fight.

Reversed – losing footing, attack from beneath, unable to hold on.

Just got a Riesen chocolate covered caramel to celebrate.  It is a cliff! Dusty writes that the man knows he has no choice left but to fight!  Nailed it!

Quotes Sun Tzu – Holding the higher ground in battle in order to be victorious!

Remain calm while whipping your opponent

Check surrounding cards to see if the man is more powerful and better than the attackers

Reversed – don’t expect an easy victory – possible defeat, retreat to solid ground

Could mean weakness or paranoia

The Eight of Wands looks like a scene from Vighnaharta Ganesh when weapons are hurled at the same time towards an enemy.  I cannot tell if they have just been thrown up towards the left or they are about to fall down towards the right.  There’s a building of some sort on the hill in the distance and a lake but no town or city so is this a battlefield in the middle of no where?

Reversed it feels like the weapons have just been thrown possibly by accident at no particular target.

Dusty – quick, sudden burst of energy or action.  Unified sources of action

Reversed – stagnation, missed opportunities, reckless action, scattered or wasted energies

IF PAIRED WITH THE SEVEN OF SWORDS = ambush or call to retreat

The man in the Nine of Wands looks distrustful, leery, angry, possibly with a head wound (white band on his head).  He’s either been sent to a remote outpost to stand guard or he is trying to defend something – maybe a fort or a field or ammunition dump.  To me the wands look like stakes in the ground making a fence, but the ones on the left are too far apart.

Eww.  Reversed it looks like the man has fallen asleep at his post.  His head is pounding.  The fence posts are not firmly supported nor serving their purpose.

BINGO:  Dusty – bandaged head.  Veteran.  Standing guard despite his wounds.  Tired and worn out but watchful.  Conserving his energy for a fight.

Dedication, trustworthiness, sense of duty with the will to carry it out.  Loyalty to a cause.

Reversed – weakness of character, shifty, fear of standing up.  Escapism. 

Ten of Wands looks like me trying to do household chores with a bad back and too heavy a load (bag of kitty litter or dog food or wood).  Trudging forward in pain and weariness toward home.  Duty must be done.  Fight through the pain.  The house isn’t that far, but it seems far if you’re in pain.

Reversed – the wands are about to slip through his arms as the weight is too much.  Back pain or shoulder pain is too much to bear.  Can’t see the destination anymore.

Dusty – fulfillment of a lifetime of efforts and energies.  Be careful what you wish for.

“All that we have said and done catches up with us”.  Luxuries we crave are a burden in turn.  Success has a price. 

Reversed – release of burdens or responsibilities  Shirking responsibilities

11:19 a.m., Sunday, January 3, 2021

Page of Wands – I like this card.  Despite the man looking up towards the top of the wand, I don’t get the sense that he’s arrogant.  He has curly blond hair with a feather in the front of his hat, a hat that looks rather normal even if he wore it today.  Blue sky.  The mountains resemble the pyramids at Giza.  Barren landscape.  His head might be a bit tilted in puzzlement.

I can’t make out the motif on his tunic.  The cape looks new or that of a wealthy person.

Reversed:  I don’t get a bad feeling from this reversed.  Not sure I get any feeling at all.

Dusty:  royal court’s yellow tunic – so I guessed right he is wealthy

Dusty writes that the feather is just a lick of flame!

CARDINAL – instigator, initiations, arrivals

If the Page of Wands shows up with the Ace or Queen – portends the birth of a child or a baby in one of the fire signs!

Reversed – unhappy news, arguments, unruly children, impotence, miscarriages

Knight of Wands – again the feeling of Sir Lancelot but this knight looks like he’s not in control.  Horse looks a bit startled as it rears up.  The foot in the sabaton or solleret looks like the toes are hanging on for dear life and the heal is pointed as far down as it can in the stirrup.

The same three mountains that resemble the pyramids at Giza are in the distance but this time on the left. 

Upside down I get a terrible feeling of the Knight falling while being on fire.  I feeling like the back of his cloke and the plume are on fire and the horse’s mane is on fire as well.  The horse’s body is singed.

Dusty- complete opposite of what my gut feels.  Knight is in complete control rearing the horse to charge into battle. 

Paired with the 6 of Swords or the Chariot – travel

Reversed – charging head without forethought.  Impulsive

Queen of Wands – I watched a video by Dusty’s students and I agree this is woman is either a BLEEP OUT (I used a politically incorrect label – don’t dare use it in public) or a guy.  Truly ugly mannish woman with her legs spread apart.  The Black Cat looks right at the viewer and has an evil look to it.  The creepy stone lions look outward.  There are the same three hills in the background.  There are lions (heraldry) from a coat of arms facing each other in battle above her head.  She looks pensively or peevishly to her left.  She’s holding a huge sunflower.  I think the clasp is a fox head pin.  I would not want to speak to this woman if she is indeed a woman.

Reversed:  YICK  An immediate sick feeling.  Stomach upset. 

Dusty – tomboy, courageous, assertive yet open and friendly

Reversed – impatient, demanding, drama queen, bossy, tyrannical

King of Wands – Do not like this man.  He is facing to the left and it looks like there’s a lizard on the raised dais on the right.  I do like the green part of the cloke.  Not sure what he might have in his left hand if anything.  The lions in the herald banner are whirling with lizards.  His green clad feet are firmly planted on the dais and he looks like he could stand up in an instant.  I have no desire to talk to him at all.

Reversed – I get an immediate headache feeling.  Back crawling feeling with a shiver down the spine.

Dusty – the description on page 144 fits the late Harry Leo Duran to a T except Harry wasn’t a red head.

Reversed – tyrant, rude, bully, domineering boss, violent criminal, self-obsessed megalomaniac

Possible misfortune  NEGATIVE in any reading

STORY TIME

Long ago and far away, the God of Wind thrust out a tree branch into the wilderness. No one was there to take it, but years later a merchant found two similar wands and he stood on his parapet and searched the horizon on the sea for the flags on his ships that would give him insider trading tips on what the trade expedition was bringing to market. He is confident his investment went well and he’s comfortable with his business acumen. As time passed, the merchant’s steward has set off to sell all the wares. He stands watching the ships sail away and he’s just watching the sun set.

The riches from insider trading filled the merchant’s coffers to the point where he was able to buy a castle for his daughter’s wedding venue with the dowry going to his new son-in-law with a catch. The catch was that the son-in-law would have to fight off any business rivals. The young man was so victorious, he was able to get the admiration of everyone in the city as he rode victorious through town. Alas, all good things come to an end. The son-in-law made some bad investments and he had to start farming the land himself. Accusations were hurled at the family and eventually, wounded, the son-in-law had to stand guard just to keep his creditors from getting his harvest. At long last, his fortunes improved and he trudged to town with his harvest.

While in town, he went to a gambling hall and won! With all new clothes he found the wand the God of Wind had dropped eons before and he contemplated a journey. That journey was cut short as he was conscripted and sent off to war in Egypt for a queen of dubious character and a maniacal tyrant. If I get the time, I have to flip each image upside down and create a grid of reversals.

THIS IS A LOT OF WORK DUSTY! A LOT OF WORK. But it’s way cool.

FOR FURTHER READING AND VIEWING:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-easiest-way-to-learn-the-tarot-ever/id403912558

Promo: I will NEVER read for anyone else. I just want to learn this for myself. BUT if you DO want to read for others, I recommend Dusty’s courses.

https://sites.google.com/view/tarotprofessionalcourse/how-to-get-clients

https://www.houseofwhite.net/

Since this is MY blog and I get to write about ME ME ME, I begin with a true story of when I was four years old. My parents had taken me to Florida to visit my mother’s mother’s sister and her husband who had retired there to one of those “villages” on a pond. I remember it well. Alas, no photos. I destroyed all the photos I had of my life – there’s no one to share my memories with nor to pass on to another generation. PLUS, it’s one of those techniques to severe attachments.

BUT, I do remember fishing in the pond behind my great aunt’s house. Didn’t catch anything. Heard my first tales about alligators. In fact, my parents took me to an alligator farm and when I leaned over the small fence to pet them, I can still hear her screeching in my mind to this day and getting yanked back and spanked. Spanked! She also had a fit when they took me a couple years later to a now shuttered fairy tale theme park in upstate New Jersey with deer and goats and petting zoo animals roaming around. My parents were not particularly paying attention and when they turned around there I was surrounded by deer and a goat was eating the big bow off my Shirley Temple style dress! Kids used to get dressed up with patent leather shoes and nice socks, and I had to wear a petticoat and fancy dresses and little hats to go anywhere outside of the back yard. The deer and I were fixated on each other and I don’t think I liked the bow. Anyway I digress.

The best part of the trip to Florida, was my parents had us stay in a motel right on the Atlantic Ocean. We ALWAYS tried to get an oceanfront room or lake front room whenever we traveled. We ALL loved water. Living in the desert hurts my spirit sometimes. I have the mountains but I really need to get to the marina each day.

My parents used to go fly fishing at the beach in New Jersey long long long before I was born. They dated for SEVEN YEARS – pretty much from the time my dad got back from Germany and fighting Nazis up until 1951. THEY LOVED fly fishing. Had all the poles and lures. My mom’s grandfather used to take me fishing at Echo Lake Park or Mindowaskin in Westfield, New Jersey. Bought me a child’s pole. I used to catch minnows.

Anyway, we had beach chairs – mine was child size, and my dad was a few feet away with his pole so he wouldn’t kill me when he swung it, and I had mine – I think it was his because it was the ocean after all. Lots of people were fishing. It would have been 1959 and that’s what people did for fun back then.

Well, I ruined EVERYONE’S day that day. I had no sooner grabbed onto the pole and looked out into the waves when a 12 inch plump shiny POMPANO was tugging. I pulled, my dad was behind me and just like in this next video, the fish flew up into the air and my parents and everyone else screamed. My dad helped me get the fish into my pail and I filled it with water and ran off to talk to my new best friend!

I was only four, so I have no idea how long I “played” with what I would later discover was my DINNER! At some point, my mom would tell the tale, they managed to distract me and she gutted my new best friend, and fried him or her in a pan and served up an amazing dinner. After dinner I went to play with my friend.

Have you ever seen a kid throw a tantrum and accuse their parents of MURDER? It was not a good night for my parents and I had my first lesson on betrayal. For me it was like some sick plot in a Shakespeare play where the protagonist is served his beloved’s liver or something.

Never do that to a child. At some point, it’s time for THE TALK and not the THE TALK about sex, but about where our food comes from. And about life and death and survival. Mr. Chicken, and Floppy Ears may end up as dinner some day and little kids need to know that.

I never got a chance to eat pompano ever again. It was very expensive and I have never seen it on a menu. If my book becomes a best seller, I’m going to order one. Great taste. I can remember that about my best friend. He/she tasted amazing!

But back to my initial point. I do not think it was luck. I remember distinctly causing a lot of the adults on the beach to bitch and moan about why they hadn’t caught anything and this little kid did. They did not congratulate me. They were visibility pissed off. I simply had looked into the waves and immediately caught the fish. DID I become the lure? Was it qi? I can do the same thing with deer and apparently, I did the same thing with a juvenile Bigfoot.

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Harry Leo Duran, MD, Ph.D., MPH had a chance to go directly to heaven, so it appeared. Harry had received teachings and possibly an empowerment (he never elaborated) directly from the Dalai Lama in 1989 in New York City when he was working as a neurosurgery resident in Newark, New Jersey. He had “taken hand” with the Pir of the Nematollahi SafiAliShahi II when Harry flew to Delft in the Netherlands to attend a special dzikr in November 1998. Harry had studied sufism online with a sheik (never learned his name) who named Harry Ali. I was named Aliya by Sherif Baba in January 1998. We both had read EVERY SINGLE book published by Idries Shah. He read several tomes by Rumi. Bought dozens of books in ARABIC. Taught himself some Arabic, so he told everyone. He claimed he had read the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Harry had multiple Bibles, several Qurans, dozens and dozens of Roman Catholic prayer books and missals. He left behind two copies of the Horologian and several Eastern Orthodox primary texts. Several hagiographies and writings by the early Church Fathers. He had been baptised Roman Catholic by his parents and he had a full immersion baptism in a horse trough by Father Justin Havens in February 2012 at the Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in Salt Lake City.

Harry had given alms. No doubt about that. He had supported Father Mark Kerr for almost three years. He always put money in the collection basket and when I was with him, he always bought candles – usually with my money, but when he finally started earning wages, he did open his own wallet. We both traveled to Rome with then Father Paul Tague (alas, he gave up the priesthood) with a small group of seven women from Jesus and Mary Chapel. We did the Way of the Seven Churches ON FOOT for three weeks. We sang in the chapel choir. Well, he sang, my vocal cords are shot, so I was the choir director.

BUT, BUT, BUT he tossed all those merits into the toilet – literally and fell into a life of unspeakable debauchery. Didn’t matter that he had received the Kalachakra empowerment directly from His Holiness Penor Rimpoche. He had also studied with other lamas. He received special blessings from Sheikh el-Haj el-Fakir er-Rifa’i Mehmet Sherif Çatalkaya and a group blessing from Pope John Paul II!

So, I wonder HOW he got across the River depicted in Buddhism and Hinduism, and in Greek Mythology, and in accounts of the afterlife by many who had near death experiences.

In the TV series Vighnaharta Ganesh, Gaynari didn’t get to ride in the boat because he had NEVER done a single good deed. Harry had done some good deeds, HOWEVER, every teacher I’ve ever encountered, (and every book I’ve ever read) insists that IF you are taught HOW to behave and HOW to live a virtuous life, and then you turn your back on everything you were taught and succumb to evil, those merits are negated. In the video I cobbled together, you will get to virtually experience what happens to those who sin. DO NOT start the popcorn maker. This is NOT that kind of fun video.

FOR FURTHER READING AND VIEWING:

https://www.thehinduportal.com/2017/08/what-is-naraka-hell-and-where-it-located.html

https://aratta.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/the-boundary-between-earth-and-the-underworld/

https://majeliswalisongo.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/tariqa-nimatullahi/

Khaneghah Safi AliShahi Nsso

Hello my dears, the following text describes the characteristics and practices related to the behavior of Dervish and the principles of monotheism and mystics. I hope that each of you will write this text on a page of paper and read it every day. The truth has helped us and God willing. It has become the queen of our minds and become a part of our moral characteristics and deeds. O Ali help:

I insert here an article about who Ali is. You might think the above is a typo. It is not. Note, also, that Harry Leo Duran was given the name Ali and I was named Aliya by Sherif Baba.

First in practicing, there is the observance of eating, that is, do not eat a lot with drunkards and insane people. Do not sit on the table of the stingy and arrogant people intentionally do not eat what brings sugar, drunkenness, weakness, cruelty of the heart and superstition of the mind.

The second is the observance of sleep and sleep. Do not sleep with untested people in the same place. Do not sleep in the place of dishonest and accusations and the place of mad people and animals.

Third: It is the observance of words, useless words, rudeness, sarcasm, ridicule, purpose, flattery, lies, insistence and arguments. Do not say more than the value of the mind and what people do not believe. Do not listen to accusations, backbiting, sedition and condemnation of others. Don’t blame anyone for any reason, don’t talk about anyone’s hatred. If you say Ajmal and Abbreviatedly (sic), you should say:

In Sufism, the principle of deeds is to serve the elderly, and the respect for the rites and the payment of rights, maintaining the trust and durability of purity and trust in the matters of compassion with the people of politeness in the words of Ata in the position of meditation in response to sacrifice the poor, humility, with the elders, guilt in lust, in the size in the salary, opposition to self-sufficiency, progress in greeting.

Patience in problems and troubles, honesty with friends, loyalty to promises, dignity in ways, speed in goodness, stopping in revenge, insistence in obedience, seeking sincerity, wisdom in deeds, honor with guests, consoling with strangers, kindness with children, humility with the needy, preference over yellow, passion for kindness, gratitude for blessing, contentment for blessing, contented

This is the best way to go of truth, the one with remembrance, the sprain of chaos, orderly relief, banadan gentleness, rarely humor, kindness and kindness with children, escape from greed, abstinence of request, abundance in thought, fear of pride, remembrance of death, truth in account, silence of banadan, checking the sick, pity the weak, Supporting the oppressed, wanting to fast (fasting), consulting with the wise, praying in private, regretting of sin, trust in livelihood, timely reservation, advising the obedient, modifying the judgments, kindness with the partner, fairness with the one, staying away from the liar, forgiving the defeated, grudge against the oppressor.

If a person is always remembered about his humanity, no point of his goodness will be left behind. Never look for these qualities in others. The purpose of this writing is to transfer everyone to his humanity not to others. If you find yourself, you can do it to others. Yaft.

Baba Heidar, Pir Hai of Razavia Dynasty, Nemat Elahi Safi Alishahi Mahdia

https://www.tripchinaguide.com/article-p409-fengdu-ghost-city-facts.html

I had to use Rumble because YouTube does not honor Fair Use. The algorithms kick in and the video is blocked.

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Benebel Wen is an expert in cartomancy. Her research is impeccable and her vast knowledge astounds me. The other day, I decided I needed to find a better way to do Yes/No Tarot readings beside pulling just one card and reading it. I believe that reversals are part of the essence of tarot, although Eva Owsian who taught a class here in Spring Creek, Nevada told us she never uses them. I googled Benebel’s blog and found that she had already written a post about the three pile method.

What I did learn from Benebel was the source, or at least a source for what one can find all over the web about how to do a three pile Yes/No reading. HOWEVER, it did not, pardon the expression RESONATE with me.

What hit me while I was experimenting was to do the following. Keep in mind the Rider Waite deck has 78 cards. You need to pull 13 cards as fast as you can until an Ace appears OR the Magician! Out of the 78 cards there’s only one magician and four aces. As soon as an Ace or the Magician appears when drawing 13 cards, stop and start the next pile. When you reach the third pile, if none of these cards appear, read the meaning of that last card in relation to your question.

For example, did you ask about a relationship, career direction, financial situation, pregnancy, major purchase, of if you should move, etc.

Should I marry XYZ?

Two aces are a YES and the Queen of Cups represents a FANTASTIC partner – nurturing, in tune with your needs, loving, and caring. MARRY the person by all means. (By the way, I drew the Queen of Cups – I didn’t intentionally use her for the example. I asked which card would make a good example to use for the blog. Pretty amazing I think.)

If all Aces – GO FOR IT. Two Aces and the Magician – JUMP AT THE CHANCE

But Two Aces and any other card – read what nuance of the yes and WHY

NO Aces and no Magician – NO NO NO and forget it.

One Ace and two other cards – Not a great idea. Read the meanings of the other two cards.

I tried this with all the cards upright and it went faster. It doesn’t matter if the Ace is upright nor if the Magician is upright. Those are yes cards. It will matter if you want to add more complexity to the last card in the third pile to clarify why it’s a YES or MAYBE so use reversals if you want to.

FOR FURTHER READING

Benebel Wen’s Blog Post

Tarot Lady’s Blog Post

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Netflix is a company a lot of people hate for good reason. BUT even an evil conglomerate can sometimes be an unwitting tool of the divine. On December 9, 2022, Netflix started airing the Hindi dubbed version of Kāntāra. The film was both written and directed by Rishab Shetty who also portrays the main character whose name is Shiva – that’s like people naming their sons Jesus, but in this case, it has a lot more significance. Kāntāra was produced by Vijay Kiragandur under Hombale Films. It was not expected to become a global blockbuster.

If you do not know this about me, now is the time for me to confess that I am a HUGE fan of foreign made supernatural themed films and TV series, preferably with subtitles. I can’t stand dubbed films and avoid them, but in this case, the actors are speaking a language called Kannada – the official language of the state of Karnataka in Bengaluru, India. I love to see characters from other countries and time periods and scenery and architecture and food. When I logged into Netflix and saw the ad for Kāntāra, I clicked with delight. I NEVER expected a film to have so much power, nor did I ever expect to get blasted on an etheric level from a film! I took several nights breaking it up into 30 minutes at a time because it was that intense, and I wanted to stop a scene and look up to find a background story to help me make sense of what was happening. The film is VERY VERY fast paced and the subtitles fly by. I rarely have a problem speed reading subtitles but the action-packed acting plus reading forced me to stop and replay a scene just to catch my breath.

HOW fast paced is it, you ask? Shiva hanging on to water buffalo tails in a race called Kambala blew my mind. There are slow motion segments of the race where you feel the mud getting in your own eyes. And then there are the fight scenes – a lot of fight scenes.

And a scene that at first gave me pause and when I went to research it made me REALLY pause.

In it the character Mahadeva, portrayed by Prabhakar Kunder as a blacksmith and a seer, steals the scene. He and Shiva are seen smoking something and getting “high”. What I did not expect to learn was that they were grinding up ANTS – yes, ANTS.

Now you might ask, so what? Well, Lord Shiva, also called Mahadev (see the names of the characters above), has long been associated with

HALLUCINOGENS

And this is where the Notorious Doc pops back up. The late Harry Leo Duran, MD, PH.D., MPH, was a board certified Addiction Medicine Specialist AND a drug user! He boasted about using LSD and DMT and mushrooms. And he used to yap about Lord Shiva ingesting mushrooms boasting that he was a SHIVA devotee – NOT!

AND, it gets weirder, trust me.

The Notorious Doc had a boar tattooed onto his torso, paid $5,000 for a taxidermic boar’s head at Stitched inside the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, paid Chris Ihle to create a boar in LEGOs for him which cost $3,500, and boasted on Grindr that he was a BOAR who was into pig play.

And it is a BOAR that appears in the film, but this boar is a supernatural boar and it protects the villagers. This boar is like the avatar Varaha. For a CGI depiction of how Vishnu manifested Varaha check out Episode 1005 of Vignaharta Ganesh! Lord Vishnu emits an essence that is then inhaled by Lord Brahma and exhaled out as Varaha as Vishnu’s third avatar (I’m still working on the series – don’t worry, I’ll resume work on the avatars).

I was surprised to find Sadhguru talking about the film!

Here is some context

Each village has a bhūta for whom an annual kōla is held, each household is also associated with its own bhūta, and even some castes have their own tutelary bhūtas.  The numerous bhūtas are closely related to and also embody the wild, dangerous, and fertile aspects of divine power — originating as apotheosized local heroes or the spirits of wild animals dwelling in forests — which eventually came to be grounded in the larger umbrella of the Hindu pantheon centuries ago through their association with the gaṇas and bhūtas of Lord Śiva or Īśvara or absorbed into the tenets of Śakti worship or mahātmya traditions.

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The ceremony mainly involves two central participants, the vaidya and the patri, wherein the purpose of the vaidya is to rhythmically beat the dakke (drum), and sing and dance, in order to completely attune the priest-mediums or oracles¹ to sublimate his/her personality and permit for full possession by the spirit being invoked. When invoked in the prescribed manner, accompanied by all the ritual offerings and other arrangements, the patri or mānye or māni moves into ecstasy and gets “possessed” by the concerned divinity. Priest-mediums, belonging to the Nalike, Parava, Pambada or certain other prescribed castes conduct the ritual, with the patrons often being local landlords.  (https://brhat.in/dhitiblog/cinemareview-kantara/)

BUT never fear, this rabbit hole is DEEP – so DEEP, I almost couldn’t climb back up!

I only just found The Ranveer Show when I went searching for videos about Nagas. The interview I was watching ended and because I was still researching Kāntāra, this next video was recommended. And now to send the readers on a FULL hard U-Turn back to where I started. Mind you Rishab Shetty did his own stunts in the film, so watch it and your stomach will already be flying around when you watch this next clip!

And it is in this interview with Shri Rajarshi Nandy, a Sadhaka and an adherent of the Sanatan Dharma, a speaker, columnist, and author of Hindu spiritual practices, which confirmed that the deities REALLY did come through in the film! Listen to the presentation. Nandy minces no words. THIS was REAL tantra!

Nandy firmly believes that “some shift” has happened. Both Ranveer and Nandy feel that this movie could not have been made up until a few years ago and Ranveer said he felt he never would have even dared conduct such an interview until very recently. Nandy saw that people in Calcutta, after watching the movie ORGANICALLY started putting their hands together in pray.

AND he then says

THERE IS SOME SHIFT THAT IS HAPPENING AS IF SOME OF THE OLD GODS ARE WAKING UP!

SO, it’s not just me and handful of friends. I have friends who insist they SEE deities and speak with them. Squirm if you will, but that’s what they tell me. And mediums who see spirits – of dead people, fae, dragons, you name it.

To continue Nandy goes on to say that if a deity blesses a creative endeavor, out of the ordinary success happens through the transmission of the shakti of the deity and THAT is what I felt when I finally watched the last 20 minutes of the film. I felt the SAME jolt I have felt when I’ve received darshan. The same HI – I’m HERE kick inside my mind and the same SEEK and YEA Shall FIND feeling. A sense of URGENCY to dig up everything and immerse myself and connect the dots.

Watch the movie. In January 2023, it’s supposed to be dubbed into English if you can’t stand reading subtitles but I urge you to watch this version. It’s awesome. It’s SPELLBINDING, and it’s got a lot of teachable moments squished between martial arts scenes and life in a forest village. A MYSTICAL forest village – hence the title kāntāra

FOR FURTHER READING

https://www.gqindia.com/entertainment/content/kantara-ending-explained-what-really-happened-at-the-end-of-the-drama-thriller

https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/kantara-movie-review-rishab-shetty-bats-for-folklore-and-native-culture-in-his-latest/article65954798.ece

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-kambala-race/articleshow/92783379.cms

https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/youth-smoking-ants-to-get-high-1.228542

https://gulfnews.com/general/teens-smoke-crushed-ants-to-get-high-1.1466609

https://psychedelicsangha.org/paisley-gate/2019/9/29/iva-amp-shrooms

Kantara: That Sublime Submission To The Disappearing Spirits…

PANJURLI

https://www.livehistoryindia.com/story/living-culture/the-divine-deities-from-kantara

https://starsunfolded.com/kantara-cast/

https://jhmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Kantara_(film)

Mantra Chanting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6m8T9QYBUU

Cast

• Rishab Shetty as Kaadubettu Shiva and Shiva’s father
• Sapthami Gowda as Leela
• Kishore as Muralidhar, a Deputy Range Forest Officer (D.R.F.O)
• Achyuth Kumar as Devendra Suttooru
• Pramod Shetty as Sudhakara
• Shanil Guru as Bulla
• Prakash Thuminad as Raampa
• Manasi Sudhir as Kamala, Shiva’s mother
• Naveen D Padil as Lawyer
• Swaraj Shetty as Guruva, Shiva’s cousin brother
• Deepak Rai Panaaje as Sundara
• Pradeep Shetty as Mohana
• Rakshith Ramachandra Shetty as Devendra’s Henchman
• Chandrakala Rao as Sheela, Sundara’s Wife
• Sukanya as Ammakka , Devendra’s Wife
• Sathish Acharya as Tabara , Leela’s Father
• Pushparaj Bollar as Garnall Abbu
• Raghu Pandeshwar as Raghu, Forest Officer
• Mime Ramdas as Naaru
• Basuma Kodagu as Guruva’s father
• Ranjan Saju as Lacchu
• Rajeev Shetty as Rajeev Bhandari
• Atish Shetty as Devendra’s specially-abled son
• Radhakrishna Kumbale as a native resident
• Naveen Bondel as Demigod Interpreter

Cameo appearances

• Shine Shetty as Devendra’s father
• Vinay Biddappa as the King
• Pragathi Rishab Shetty as the King’s wife

https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/binge/the-soul-is-back-kantara-wins-plagiarism-case-varaha-roopam-song-to-return-on-ott-very-soon-586685.html

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