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!