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Benebel Wen’s Spirit Keeper Deck Reading for September 1, 2025

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If you can manage to save up the money and purchase Benebel Wen’s Spirit Keeper Deck do so. When I still thought I had money to spend on non-essentials, I got on a waiting list and bought it. The deck scares the crap out of me.

Today is the beginning yet again of some really wild astrological alignments leading up to a lunar eclipse on September 7. People are reporting that things feel ODD – the spirit world is unusually quiet or that the night sky is unusually dark despite the fact it’s not the new moon.

So I got the deck out and did a reading. The first thing Benebel suggests is shuffling the deck and asking who is “there” to assist with the reading. Buy her books. She explains all that.

So I did. And sure enough I got one of the cards that shows up OFTEN. OFTEN! VERY OFTEN

I got sued by Armstrong Steel in Colorado and you can read all about that nightmare on my Substack site. https://armstrongsteelsuedme.substack.com/. Seeing Baphomet, I felt that awful realization that this deck has an uncanny ability to be spot on almost all the time.

“represented by the serpent with the head of an ox, goat or dog, in ancient theogonies. It is the dual serpent of the caduceus . . . the Goat of the Sabbath and the Baphomet of the Templars . . . the Typhon of the Egyptians; it is the Hyle of the Gnostics.” is not for someone with week knees.

The Demon is “that blind force which souls must overcome if they would be freed from the chains of earth; for, unless their will can detach from this fatal attraction, they will be absorbed in the current by the force which produced them [i.e., what Eliphas Levi calls the Great Magical Agent]. 

Benebel writes “
You know you are advanced in your progress when you encounter adversarial forces and antagonism. When The Demon comes, it’s time to dig in your heels, harden that resolve, and fight your way through. You must confront the Demon and not hide from it. If you try to run away, the direction you’ll be running is backward. What you really want is on the other side of this Demon. 

To fully possess your rightful power, you must first know how it feels to be disempowered. You know you’ve begun the final prong of your spiritual journey when you’re thrust into a battle with the Typhon (son of Gaia and Tartarus), the serpent who challenged Zeus. 

The Demon can also be appearing to warn you that someone is lying to you or concealing important information from you. You don’t have all the facts, so proceed with caution. 

GGGREAT. So I need to be beat down untilI can rise up and defeat Armstrong Steel! No wonder no one else wanted to take on this mission.

The next card – what is going to happen was

I have lost count how many times this card has shown up in the past two years! The very fact that Hypatia was one of my heroes since junior high and I have been obsessed with the Library of Alexandria and the Muses just bites when this card appears over and over.

The Captor. Eight of Swords: You are feeling bound by the Threads of Fate. You’re being pulled in so many oppositional directions that now you cannot move in any direction at all. The themes here are having to

confront the evils of oppression,

aggressions of those in a superior position to hurt those who are helpless and ,
feelings of isolation,

but also, having to learn how to overcome one’s own victim mentality.

You see yourself as the captive, but that you are not; you, my dear, are the captor. This is a first-person view of the situation. What have we been doing to falsely imprison logic, reason, free speech, higher ideals, morality, ethics, and the flourishing of the humanities? The setting is Hellenized Alexandria. You are seeing the Great Library of Alexandria; adjacent to it, the Musaeum, or research institution dedicated to the Muses. 

The woman pictured here is Hypatia of Alexandria, a Neoplatonic philosopher, teacher, inventor, political advisor, and mathematician. The mob persecutes her because she reminds them of the Light, of the Reason and Truth that they are not yet capable of. When the Eight of Swords comes up, take heart knowing this will be the final outcome: degeneres animos timor arguit—fear betrays ignoble souls. 

The next was the Hallowed Flame

Hallowed Flame. Ace of Scepters: A switch inside you has turned on your creativity, productivity, and ingenuity. Fire is alchemizing in your world, materializing as a creative project, an innovative new venture, a birth, entrepreneurship, or the spark of inspiration for a passion project. This is also a new direction in career development. This is the Awakening stage of your Path. New knowledge is attained. Divine Reason is the light in your eyes. Take the necessary beginning steps to transform a dream into your reality. Start a new journey and a new chapter of opportunities will unfold. 

And the final piece of advice was the Outlaw


Key 12: The Outlaw. Examine your situation from a different perspective. Be the outlier. This is the spirit designating how we break from establishment to serve a higher purpose. This is the heretical, the eccentric, the dissident. This is the rejection of authority and rebellion against establishment. The Outlaw appears to you when the answer is to operate outside of orthodoxy and institutions. Do ut des: I give that you may give. This is also an omen of self-sacrifice. Here we see a human incarnation of Heru (Horus), whose right eye is the sun and left eye the moon. Coram Deo: you are in the presence of God. Across the skies is Psalm 102 (KJV 103) from the Latin Vulgate. The butterfly has just emerged from its chrysalis, resting its wings before it takes flight—an omen revealing the influence of Psyche, goddess of the soul, yearning, and personifying the breath of life. When The Outlaw appears, it prophesies that the challenger will beat the incumbent.

Well, my favorite characters at the moment are Wednesday Addams and Lidia Poët. And Horus hangs on my wall. Bought a papyrus back in the 70s and he’s been with me ever since.

Pray for me I’m fighting Armstrong Steel and trying to appeal the court which confirmed the award of arbitration without looking at all the fraud. The Anti-SLAPP as far as I know at this moment in time is still under consideration in 2025CV31315.

I am representing myself because I cannot afford an attorney and no Legal Aid can’t help at all.

And my Go Fund Me page hasn’t gotten any donations so I’m on my own.

https://www.gofundme.com/manage/armstrong-steel-sued-me-need-an-attorney-to-fight-back

In this history of court filings, I cannot find any cases similar to mine at all. OUTLIER – Oh that describes me alright!

The Color Purple and Lidia Poët

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Netlfix is airing Groenlandia‘s “The Law Accorinding to Lidia Poët” and it’s outstanding.

Lidia Poët’s life is a must read, although Susanna Menis in her essay” The untold story of the first Italian-Turinese female lawyer: Netflix’s The Law According to Lidia Poet“ disagrees. If you love to read footnotes and track down primary sources, Ms. Menis links to some outstanding research including a doctoral dissertation.

I find the acting to be so intense you get sucked into each scene. I don’t like graphic sex scenes and there are a few. There’s not much left to the imagination at the morgue either. The costumes are gorgeous. There are some intense scenes of drug use which are very graphic and disturbing.

The Duke’s ball rivaled any historical drama depicting an aristocratic waltzing.

What I find inspiring is that Lidia Poët is able to argue before the court and not lose her composure. Having been sued by Armstrong Steel and clamming up during the American Arbitration Association’s Evidentiary Hearing held on February 4, 2025, I wish I had strengthened my throat chakra beforehand.

But what is most impressive is a scene in which Lidia is drapped in this gorgeous deep purple suit riding a bicycle. Netflix has enhanced its Digital Rights Management (DRM) and copyright protection so you can’t record even so much as a clip nor a screenshot. However, someone managed to post on YouTube so I was able to make a 16 second clip from a clip to focus on the suit! Oh, I want this skirt suit!

Besides the color, notice her belt and how she has tiny bags hanging from it. It’s like Steampunk only it’s not. The story begins in 1883. Costume designer Stefano Ciammitti is a genius. I wish he’d make clothes for those of us who wish to wear real linen and dress like this! Women’s clothes today make us look like zombies in comparison. Hell, young people even buy denim jean’s that already have the knees slashed out!

But what if the color purple was picked because Hekate was letting us know that Lidia is an icon in the realm of liminal space and time!

“Liminal is from the Latin word ‘limen’, which means threshold.  A liminal space is the time between ‘what was’ and ‘next.’ It is a place of transition, a time of waiting and not knowing the future. Richard Rohr describes this space as, “where we are betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown. There alone is our old world left behind, while we are not yet sure of the new existence. That’s a good space where genuine newness can begin.” Most people feel completely overwhelmed and confused when going through a major life change.  They feel raw, vulnerable and uncertain.  And most of us, if we’re honest, will take just about any answer to get out of the discomfort that comes with a liminal space”

Does that not perfectly describe Ms. Lidia’s effect on everyone in the film?

READING LIST

1880s Fashion History – Dresses, Clothing, Costumes

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The Color Purple – No, Not the Movie

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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field 
somewhere and don't notice it".  excerpt from Alice Walker's, The Color Purple (Dialogue between Shug Avery and Celie, Pages 194-196)

My mother was obsessed with African violets which she kept in the bay window in the house we lived in until she developed Alzheimer’s they died.

My favorite color has been purple since I was a toddler. My late aunt Dot’s favorite color was purple. We loved to color dark purple Easter eggs. I often wear purple. I love lavender. I have several items I bought over the years that I wanted because they were purple. What I If did not know until the other day is that PURPLE is Hecate’s favorite color!

Amandeep Singh sent me an image to try to work on, but I didn’t have the right software. It’s one he uses for meditation.

Google Violet Flame Meditation and you will find more videos than you can watch in a day.

I wore Joshua P. Warren’s purple pendant based on research by Nikola Tesla to Berlin to Wooga’s studios.

Wooga’s logo is PURPLE!

One of my favorite gifts they gave me in Berlin is this logo on a keychain I hang now from my crossfit bag.

So now that I got all that out of the way, I was scrolling through TikTok and this video started to play. My jaw dropped. I couldn’t believe it. Watch this video. This is one of those WOW “THEY DO EXIST” moments. Everyone seems to be encountering Hecate in one or another but to MEET her in person, watch the video. There is a lot to unpack.

Then PLEASE comment!

https://www.tiktok.com/@unclebirch/video/7534824181620411679?_r=1&_t=ZP-8zKKjrGKzTa

Uncle Birch’s sacred grove store link doesn’t work and most of his videos seem to be about politics. This was the only one I could find about Hecate.

Sorry if you read this, I was writing to Uncle Birch and Delta Burke popped into mind. OMG!

DELTA BURKE in Designing Women wore PURPLE often! In trying to picture Hecate in that witch’s shop, an older version, possibly plumper Delta Burke!

Literary Allusions in Season 2 of Wednesday

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Netlfix blacks out the screen so you cannot record even a clip. BUT I was able to take screenshots at least!

So far I have not enjoyed Season 2 of Wednesday. I hate gore and it has a LOT of gore. BUT it has one of the most clever scenes I’ve ever seen! It’s funny. Flawlessly acted. Just the right pacing for suspense. Perfect setting. Great makeup and costumes.

I loved the use of the old 1940’s typewriter! I learned on one of these! Typed my high school term papers on my mother’s old typerwriter! I did. I really did!

Edgar Allen Poe – there is a reason why Poe’s work is in this scene.

DANTE! Who doesn’t love Dante Alighieri!

Shelley! Did you ever read her work? Mary had a wicked imagination!

Dickens – not JUST the Christmas Carol!

BRILLIANT – this scene was BRILLIANT!

Oh, how I wish I lived near a university with a decent library!

Look this up if you can read Russian! I read it in translation.

Did you ever read La Divina Comedia? I tried. Ended up reading an abridged version. But the 20 Aerial Tollhouses. Now THAT’s a disturbing trip into your soul!

When I got out of high school I bought all of H.G. Wells’s book and read through all of them on semester breaks. I was not your average 20 something.

If I were back in high school, I would probably identify as Wednesday. Not the shoes, though. Probably Victorian boots. And not her diet either. But she’s a kindred spirit that’s for sure.

New Moon in Leo, Sideral Time, and an Oops back in 2023

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Back in August 2023 I wanted to see if I could get my stolen gold, silver, jewelry, and a rare Tibetan kapala skull back by programming Joshua P. Warren’s Wishing Machine at precisely 13.5 or 1:30 Sidereal Time. Alas, I got messed up and keyed in 15.5 and missed the moment. Two years later I am still waiting for the sheriffs to get the thief to work with them. The thief has had nothing but bad luck including being hit by a car and tossed up into the air and into a boulder smashing his hand. Then his hand got smashed in a car while he was driving it through the AVIS car wash in Reno, Nevada. He has been mugged, beaten, lost more jobs than he can count, and has been sick and in and out of the hospital. BUT he still doesn’t believe that stealing the gold put a curse on himself.

Experiment for August 24, 2023

The corporate attorney for Armstrong Steel misrepresented the police report during the American Arbitration Association’s Evidentiary Hearing on February 4, 2025 so I submitted it as evidence in my Motion to Vacate the Award of Arbitration Procured by Fraud and Undue Means in 2025CV161 filed in the Arapahoe County Courthouse. If nothing else, the police report will now be public record for perpetuity.

Today at 12:11 pm shortly after HIGH NOON in Elko County, Nevada the New Moon enters Leo. But 12:11 pm is 5 hours 39 minutes Sidereal Time so that precise moment is fine for regular Moonology manifesting, but if I wait until 8 pm and 45 seconds, it will be the perfect moment in time to program the Wishing Machine with my New Moon check. It’s been programmed with a New Moon check since April and it came through because out of the blue I got an offer for my vacant land in Tennessee that I needed to sell to pay down debt so I could stay in my house and be protected by Nevada’s Homestead Exemption against any kind of judgement liens so Armstrong Steel can never take any more of my money from me!

VitaminCJJ’s experiment with a regular deck of cards is well worth watching!

Her abilities are quite extraordinary to begin with but her abilities increased by 66 percent! I’m just trying to take advantage of programming the Wishing Machine on the New Moon. We shall see.

By the way, I fast forwarded the video to the point I wanted to watch where she starts the experiment, got a wrong text number which is one of those scams where you text, wrong number and they try to then engage you in a conversation to prey on the elderly, glanced at the time and it was precisely 11:11. Magical numbers have always been part of my life from the time I got my first digital watch or started driving and paid attention to my odometer. Now that almost everything is digital it’s so common place I tend to just sigh and move on. Maybe I should start “listening”.

“Listening”. I finally ordered a set of tuning forks to use for sound therapy. Most everything got packed and is in storage so I don’t have the singing bowls, etc. and my piano is in a warehouse in Las Vegas because I thought I was going to be moving to Tennessee and it was only going to be temporary.

So, since there is no such thing as a coincidence you might want to watch this video by CJJ.

And if you pray or do spellwork or just wish to send me energy to fight Armstrong Steel in the courts, please continue to follow and leave a comment. I hope to get my life back soon. From now until the Lion’s Gate, the energy is off the charts.

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