caribouslim

@caribouslim@pagan.plus

An old shaman smoking on the porch, calling the blues down from the Siskiyous, and the Pineapple Express up through the Two Rock gap.

He/Him or She/Her depending on what tickles your fancy and mine at the time (but also respond to the more accurate its/it - always a delicious experience). I've been both depending on the particular circumstances of whichever consensual reality I'm participating in, and see no reason to choose.

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lydiaconwell, to voyager

I found a good way to deal with and when they call.

Answer the phone with:

"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."

When I tried that, they hung up straight away!

caribouslim,

@lydiaconwell I misread this as a good way to deal with Scanners, and it got me thinking about how they'd engage telemarketers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3NoBeNwfk

Mage_of_Aquarius, to random

I have to admit I'm a little irritated that after periods of dormancy I will get unfollows on the socials if I go through a period of posting more shit. It at least made sense during my transition from more wiccalite pagan-y shit to AI art/technomancy shit that not everybody would be onboard with that. Now I just can't achieve a growth trajectory. I've done my best to be transparent that my online presence is for posting weird shit, yet I get unfollows when I post weird shit.

caribouslim,

@Mage_of_Aquarius

Your weird is the reason I follow you - it's of a rare and exquisite caliber, hitting that sweet spot between realities where the string theories sing fractal duets.

That being said, don't worry too about the recent drop in novelty levels and the subsequent fearful pedantry and dullness in the population at large as of late. The quantum trendline shows a riptide pull after the equinox, building up momentum like the tube of a wave, ready to crash right around Halloween with that Scorpio splashdown magick. And o'course, autumn always causes the dead leaves to fall, ready for the harvest bonfire and a ritual of rebirth. Makes it a good time for a savvy mage to do soul collecting and dream catching, and recapture energy spent on crops that didn't fruit.

But that all likely sounds like a bunch of blather chanted from the lips of a drunken medium, so I'll get to the point - the real question isn't if your followers are into weird - the question is whether or not you want the weird to follow you - and if so (and this is the crux of the matter), how much weird can you take?

caribouslim,

@Mage_of_Aquarius Minor followup to the channeling above. I always get suspicious of uninvited messengers, so just to make sure it wasn't making me spout out my ass, I decided to check the numbers. And it does look like the Timewave Generator seems to support the pattern described above, using the Kelly number set.

Here's the sauce if you're looking to run your own numbers on McKenna's novelty framework:

https://twz.noonian.io/twz_browser.html

caribouslim, to 13thFloor

No one will believe this, but that's ok. We'll couch it in a what if to make it easier to digest.

What if, when you brought your creative will to bear, the energy that drove you to create was bound in your creation? A piece of your soul woven into reality. What would that look like from the other side of veil?

What if I spoke to someone from the other side last night, and they said that these creations are alive? That they ripple like firefish on the surface of an obsidian pond, the poetry swimming with the music, slipping through art and magick in fractal schools of imagination, the brilliance of math waltzing with philosophy, storytelling a prophecy of infinite possibility.

What if they sang that the Akashic record is a living ecosystem of imagination when seen from the in-between? And that the most curious thing is that even as we create it, it creates us - our dreams brush it as we drift in sleep, our desire is born within it, and we ourselves are the result of the creative spark in our parents eyes (or thighs, as it may be)....?

And what if this is why the fractal elves (themselves woven of this weave) laugh at us when we cross the boundary - just as we laugh at NPCs and characters like Deadpool who break the 4th wall?

@13thFloor

caribouslim,

@REEL @khthoniaa Thanks! Sounds right up my alley - great choice for a Sunday afternoon. I also wanna give Lost Highway another rewatch - it's been two decades since I've seen it, but I remember it being excellent.

Cat_LeFey, to tarot
@Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus avatar

This month for my #FullMoonArt I've crocheted a tarot mat specifically for celtic cross readings. The different colored squares help to make connections between cards in these large readings. For example, the white ones are all future-based. I got this idea from @caribouslim, who made a cool tarot generator:
https://pagan.plus/@caribouslim/111039327994613729

The colors of the cards made the core of the readings really clear for me, and I knew I wanted a physical one that I could place the cards on. I used whatever scrap yarns I had that worked together and added the black lines to mimic the craftsman-pop-art style of the RWS deck.

#Tarot #FiberArt #Witch

caribouslim,

@Cat_LeFey looks awesome! Cool to see the color-coding manifested into physical reality - great work!

caribouslim, to 13thFloor

Strong cast today - TL;DR: Today is a good day to do good.

Here's our breakdown:

Present: 10S
Challenge: Priestess Reversed
Past: Queen of Swords Reversed
Future: Page of Cups
Above:6S
Below: Knight of Coins
Advice: Devil Reversed
External Influences: Knight of Wands
Hopes and Fears: 2W Reversed
Outcome: Strength

Starting with the 10 of swords, that's a card of the final triumph of battle, as well as it's cost. It's challenged by a reversed Priestess, rejecting spirit in favor of conspiracies and manipulation. In the past, the Queen of Swords (remember her from yesterday?) is still drunken and reversed, but the Page of Cups is upright, and leading us into a future of new loves and infatuations.

Above, the six of swords looks towards the recovery from battle, helping the wounded, and looking towards a new view of the world. Below, the Knight of Pentacles and Coins is saving for a rainy day, building basis of new inventions (the two cards can be very positive together, especially for those you help).

To make things weird, however, the Devil is drunk, upside down, and sitting in the Advice spot. I'm gonna let readers interpret that as they may, but in my view this is advice about how to deal with the Devil rather than a suggestion that we listen to him whilst intoxicated.

External influences show the Knight of Wands leading the viewer to become a catalyst of change, joining the positive forces of the 6 of swords and Knight of Coins. Hopes and fears are the 2 of wands reversed, indicating worry about misleading folks in a rush to complete your goals.

But should you persevere, you end up with Strength, upright and powerful, as the Outcome. As I said above, this is a good day to do good.

@13thFloor

Present: 10S Challenge: Priestess Reversed Past: Queen of Swords Reversed Future: Page of Cups Above:6S Below: Knight of Coins Advice: Devil Reversed External Influences: Knight of Wands Hopes and Fears: 2W Reversed Outcome: Strength

caribouslim, to random

the never-ending struggle to preserve a life of ease
comfort and convenience are their own pathologies
we didn't move a muscle when the ocean rose degrees
but tried to turn a profit from acidifying seas

to the earth say I love you
to the sky a bended knee

compensating slowly in the balance of our days
graft and buccaneering over series of delays
desperating daily oh the sun, our dna
never mind the sneering they were always in the way

to the earth say I love you
to the sky a bended knee
to the oceans say a penance
to the air a rosary

https://thedirectoryband.bandcamp.com/track/to-the-earth-say-i-love-you

From The Centre for Useless Splendour by The Directory.

Thanks to @keithmorrisnm and the Directory for the track and the right words for today.

caribouslim, to 13thFloor

@13thFloor

"To those dark horses with the spirit to look up and see... a recondite family awaits." Welcome to the Jejune Institute, a mind-bending San Francisco phenomenon where 10,000 people became "inducted" without ever quite realizing what they'd signed up for. Was it a cult? Was it an elaborate game? Told from the participants’ perspectives, this film looks over the precipice at an emergent new art form where real world and fictional narratives collide, creating unforeseen and often unsettling consequences. Fusing elements of counter-culture, new religious movements and street art, this film invites viewers into a secret underground world teeming just beneath the surface of everyday life.

The Institute - 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK7myhXVyNU

Thanks to @Mage_of_Aquarius for the link.

caribouslim, to random

The Weirdness level poll has concluded, with the following results:

1% Weird - 0% of votes
33% Weird - 29% of votes
66% Weird - 48% of votes
99% Weird - 24% of votes

Sample size was 21 participants. Results indicate that most folks prefer a weirdness level of roughly 50% - 60%.

What's interesting however, is that every participant desired at least a 33% weirdness level. This indicates to me that there's a need for considerably more weirdness in the world at large... but I'm probably a somewhat biased pollster, so take that conclusion with a grain of salt.

caribouslim, to opensource

@13thFloor

I've been using this software for a long time, and thought the wider Fediverse might dig it. A tool for astrologers, Maitreya (formerly known as Maitreya's Dream) is a free, open source software released under the GNU license that charts both Western and Vedic Astrology, and has been in active development for over 15 years.

https://www.saravali.de/maitreya.html

Features:

  • Many astrological objects (Upagrahas, Kalavelas, Arabic points, Uranian planets, planetoids).
  • A lot of configuration options reflecting different schools and giving a chance for research
  • Classic Dasas in text and graphical views (tree and bar diagram)
  • Ashtakavarga, Shadbala, classic Yogas and their predictions from classic scriptures
  • Solar (annual) chart, transits and progressions
  • Various optical features like skins and highlight of aspects for charts and Sarvatobhadra
  • Uranian astrology: sensitive points (midpoints, reflection points, sums, differences) and their events, annual predictions.
  • Partner charts, ephemeris, eclipses, Hora.

caribouslim, to random

So I've been updating the Tarot Celtic Cross generator I built in Excel a bit ago, adding the Sola Busci Tarot images and a spread tool that lays out the cards in the traditional form. Colors are associative groupings of card positions (past positions brown, present conditions yellow, challenges orange and future green).

Here's a test of a random reading taken at 9:42pm PST to see how it renders in the Fediverse. A Google Sheets update is in the works for those who would like the tool for their own use - let me know if you'd like a copy and I'll @ you when it's ready.

Thanks to @Cat_LeFey for the heads up on the Sola Busci deck (which is the oldest known complete deck) and @SpiritBearDreaming, whose dreams started me on this project.

caribouslim, (edited ) to random

This is a test
this is only a test
you will never know if you are worst or best
worthy of admiration or disrespect
to pass you must put to rest
the question of life
no or yes?

@13thFloor

SavahRellcast, to random
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    caribouslim,

    @SavahRellcast laughing my ass off right now at your post... your timing was exceptional... guess the cowboys hit the atmosphere sooner than I thought:

    blankfrank, to poland

    RELIC
    Album sleeve (sadly empty) found in a thrift store.
    #PsychedelicArt #Poland #PolskieNagrania

    caribouslim,

    @blankfrank Great cover! It intrigued me enough to track it down online. The band is Orkiestra Jack'a White'a:

    https://www.discogs.com/release/6128108-Orkiestra-Jacka-Whitea-Party-Hits

    VVitchy, to random
    @VVitchy@pagan.plus avatar

    The Hu - Sell the World

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U96IOn7q6fM

    caribouslim,

    @VVitchy There needs to be a special handsign for Mongolian Folk Metal - the traditional devil horns just don't feel badass enough.

    Great track! Thanks for posting - the Hu rock. Here's one of my favs, Wolf Totem:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc

    Arotrios, (edited ) to poetry
    Arotrios avatar

    A long time ago, in a Portland far far away, there was a ritual the wild poets used to practice at Roxy's after midnight beneath the neon Jesus. It was dubbed .

    The rules are simple, and resemble a rap battle. The first poet writes a verse (or a couple, depending on where the muse takes them). Then the next poet continues the work while the first drinks and smokes - taking the theme of the last line as inspiration for their addition. The second poet continues writing until they're thirsty or stuck, and passes it back to the first poet. This continues until they either run out of inspiration, intoxicants, energy, or both agree that the poem is complete. Last verse wins.

    If you have more than two poets, teams of three or more are permitted, but be aware that this is a volatile sport that often results in brawls of extremely dangerous lyricism the more poets are involved.

    There are no restrictions on style - you can respond to a novel's worth of rhyming iambic pentameter with a haiku if it fits. Duels are more than permitted within the context of the poetry, and often produce some of the best results.

    Now I'm aware that most on the Fediverse are suspicious of poetry, and rightfully so. You never know when a strange line of verse will make you laugh, or cry, or question your existence - so I'll be pleasantly surprised if I find any participants this evening.

    That being said, there's a huge potential on the platforms here to have the most massive battle of history, and to add hyperlinks and music and videos and all sorts of whatever crazy bells and whistles you want. Plus, it's and the Guinness just doesn't taste right without a bit of spice, so I'm gonna take the risk of shitposting into the void and kick this one off. Free boosts and upvotes to those who dare to reply in kind...

    Round one
    Staring at the sun
    because
    The song of a holy pug
    Slipped inside the house
    Setting eggs of inspiration a flower
    A bower of Bedouins
    surfing a timewave
    as it crashed down into now
    And how does the muse find you today?
    Grumpy or frumpy or on the A train?
    Are you in India? Egypt? Saskatchewan? France?
    Do you wear lipstick? A mustache? Blue underpants?
    Who the hell is out there that's got a lyrical soul?
    There's no wealth for a miser who hoards the Fool's gold
    So you may as well spill it and tell the untold
    I don't care if you're shady, I don't care if you're slim
    I don't care if you stutter your green M&Ms
    I dare you to open your mouth and let the world in
    'cause the silence of a poet's heart is a mortal sin

    "Besides, if you don't, I win!"
    squawked the crow, with a most beaky grin...

    @13thFloor @pugjesus

    caribouslim,

    @Arotrios

    It was Wednesday when you posted, you drunken old bat
    And Roxy's serves coffee to the gutterpunk rats
    There's holes in your story, and your memory sings flat
    Think maybe its time to stop hitting the flask?

    As for me, I come from the trees
    Oaks and redwoods and blackberry leaves
    My heart sprouting mushrooms and bumblebees
    Casting sunflower seeds
    to the titmice and the chickadees
    Sculpting the mist of the ocean breeze
    into impossible possibilities

    With songs all wrong and upside down
    For I was hiding from Hekate in a crossroad town
    Till a fae cat cast their myrhh all around
    Now she's telling me she's up to get down
    And I'd be a Fool to ignore the sound
    of magick unbound

    So here you go
    you drunken old crow
    Let the lyrics flow
    Like a leopard across the snow

    caribouslim,

    @Arotrios Agreed. Here's Iridium - one of my favorites of theirs - they trade in the dubstep for a bit of metal.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJ_WLmOKS0

    Mage_of_Aquarius, to random

    CW: Eye contact, illustrated

    "I'm the only one who knows the real truth and how the universe actually works" is such a standard type of guy by now that it's actually become very annoying. This type of guy doesn't even realize he sounds like an NPC himself because he decided on a frame of reality that satisfies the egoic impulse to be an extra special person with true insider information. The need for special info that puts one in a class of elite insiders is itself a form of addiction born of primitive and fearful instincts; the idea that the nature of this world is both very complex and an open question terrifies you, and so you engage in primitive accumulation of information, much of which may have zero actual grounding and merely satisfy your urge for pattern-matching.

    One day, you are born. Someday, you will die. We don't really know what living is. We don't really know what dying is.

    You don't know shit about anything. NPCs aren't real either and deciding on a framework of reality that robs others of their humanity actually makes you the worst type of person and fully lost in your own hypocrisy. You yourself demonstrate a lack of agentic qualities when you fail to remain curious and inquisitive about the conscious experience of the other beings you share your existence with. Drawing conclusions may present you with temporary utility that helps you navigate the current frame of your reality, but it also closes you off to the dynamic, ever-fluctuating and constantly evolving currents of experience. Take the gray pill and revel in the ambiguity that is the great Mystery* of our realm of shared being.

    caribouslim,

    @Mage_of_Aquarius ...but the rainbow pills taste better...

    However, this is not a Skittles ad and your point is on point. The best conversation I ever had about painting was with a half-deaf redneck welder atop a moonlit waterfall. He loved Van Gogh.

    There is no such thing as an NPC. All of the characters play - it just may take some time for them to trust enough to play with you.

    caribouslim, to random

    Random with no context, mainly testing to see how pagan.plus handles converting imagery from Excel with a couple of updates to improve interpretation from the Tarot Generator I've been tinkering with. That being said, big Moon energy coming through on this reading, leading to the Queen of Cups - all in all good signs for the future.

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    caribouslim, to random

    So, couch this in a what-if if necessary to maintain your paradigm's coherence.

    As a three dimensional being, we use a two dimensional space as a canvas for rendering art.We use a brush or a pen to bridge the boundary.

    Fourth dimensional beings do the same with the third dimension. We are their brushes and pens.

    This becomes increasingly more terrifying the more you think about it. Especially when you consider things like who the hell is the artist? Am I being passed around in an art class? What exactly are they drawing? Who is the model? And why are they all drunk again?

    On a personal note, I appear to be one of the crayons given to the crack-smoking kindergartners...

    caribouslim, (edited ) to random

    Ok, this poll has been inspired by @Mage_of_Aquarius. What is your preferred weirdness level?

    I didn't add 0% weird, because everyone is at least 1% weird, and 100% weird is just silly.

    caribouslim, to random

    Anger, blame, conflict, and resentment arise from our fear. When we are afraid, our body tightens, our heart is constricted, our mind is possessed. We cannot live wisely.
    Forgiveness releases us from the power of fear. It allows us to see with kindly eyes and rest in a wise heart.
    Live in joy, in love,
    Even among those who hate.
    Live in joy, in health,
    Even among the afflicted.
    Live in joy, in peace,
    Even among the troubled.
    Look within, be still.
    Free from fear and attachment,
    Know the sweet joy of the way.

    —Buddha

    caribouslim, to 13thFloor

    Looks like the space cowboys are returning from the rim of the galaxy, bringing home the Interplanetary Good Zone:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPkjnRIdQXQ

    @13thFloor

    caribouslim, to random

    I've heard word that the Seelie Court is currently touring the Deep South in disguise. So be warned - if you happen to run into Obie Ronking and his old lady, Titicaca Annie, be wary of sharing of their Southern Comfort... Bottoms up can take a whole new meaning when those two go at it.

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