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Tuesday Techniques

Divination 102
Cartomancy
Elements of Tarot

Our final week with Elements through divination for this walk is to determine through tarot is to determine if we can see with our Witches Eye what Element we needed to call on, or connect with as our Element guide for the last week, Purification. As this Lesson continues, it should give you pause to look at a bigger picture as you divine. As you know, things are not always what they seem. Communicating with the human species can be difficult at times and Spirit will be repetitive if the message is not coming through clearly, or not being “heard”. Hence, repetitive tarot or oracle cards.

Yes, repeater cards are valid if you are asking the same questions, but not if you are asking something different and receiving the SAME card. There is a message there. Have you been listening? Your gut, if you have been honing your Intuition all of this time, will tell you.

Do not hesitate to draw a follow up card or ask ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions with your pendulum or another form of divination for clarity. Sit with that which has communicated. Write. Talk to self out loud. Clarify that the message is FOR YOU, not your parent or child or friend, or pet. Quite often others cross our paths throughout the week and the message seemingly fits more to them than to us, as it is not always for us but we are the conduit for energy to freely flow through and for Change to occur. Continue to consider your Magick and Medicine and determine how to align them for the Work in that Element … or its counter… depending on what is revealed. Even if you feel like what is coming through is not “for you” per se. Aligning your Work with what is coming through for another, as we are all effected by others at different times in our lives, quite often Protects it from something that is about to happen that may thwart it.

Think of aligning your Work with the Element needed as “being in the correct lane” while driving. Have you ever “just missed” an accident? Or crossed the road while walking “just in time”. Pay mind to the card you see. Many Practitioners feel that there “are no coincidences” in the Universe.

For the Element represented by the card drawn, consider where you are in Spirit, Practice, Life, etc. — RIGHT NOW. THIS WEEK. Time has elapsed, and we all know by this point in our Practices that Change is CONSTANT. Contemplate where everyone around you is. Again, is it trying to shine light on something you are overlooking? Is it whispering to you a way in which you will gain your Intent for your recent Craft? Look at many aspects. If something does not come to you immediately, write about what you see and let it mull.

Continue to use your prescribed method for divination to draw a card for today. (Even if you cannot write about the card today snap the picture. You and the Universe KNOW if you drew it on Tuesday … or Sunday. The card you draw is going to be aligned with the Element you MOST need to work with anew or continue to Work with as it is not done sharing with you. Be open to this Intent BEFORE the draw.

Contemplations 102
”Aether ac Abyssus”
Reverend Richoz - Book of Shadows

I will share this snippet of divination with you from about 30 years ago. I will begin by saying, it was not all of ‘my’ divination directly, but this cleared the message for me and mine with time.

When I was younger, I had a spiritual magnet as I had some SERIOUS unresolved Shadow Work to do that I had not done. I continually had Practitioners of various Paths coming up to me in public and telling me things they had seen or dreamed or drawn, etc.

One day, I was at a book store — as it was a place I could usually be found — in the metaphysical section of course. I was always aware of my surroundings as a young adult because by this point I had already been assaulted several times in my life and I virtually stayed on high alert. Did I mention Shadow Work? Anyway, I noticed out of the corner of my eye a little boy, around ten years old, walking back and forth past the aisle I was on. Then I heard this woman’s voice from the aisle over ask this young man, ‘is it her’?

Whoa. Alarms went off. I kinda knew they were talking about me. I could feel it.

I immediately left the aisle I was on and headed for the register to complete my purchase when I noticed they had come out of the aisle next to where I was. Shhht. The cashier could tell I was bothered and asked if I needed help. I did not really know how to answer, so I stated, ‘no’, took my change and quickly walked towards the door.

Now, I do not know why I was briskly walking away from these two. This was in the days before cell phones, so their was not “urgent call”, nor did I always carry a pager. Looking back, these two were non-threatening, smaller than I was and … we were in the middle of a ton of people. But, I knew I had to go. RIGHT THEN.

Turning to walk away from the store, I feel a gentle tug at my back. Bracing myself for a confrontation, I turned. The woman had broken away from her son whom she left at the register collecting their items and had run after me.
In a matter of two minutes this exchange occurred, yet it changed my life forever. It was a fork, a choice, that was subconsciously presenting itself at that moment, Yet, I was not yet clearly seeing it in my Journey.

The woman proceeded to quickly disarm me with her words, her tone, introducing herself, speaking quickly, handing me her business card and trying to position herself between me and my path of exit. All the while I hear her son running up to us speaking loudly, ‘mom, no’, ‘leave her alone mom’. Wow. Youth had me in a naive moment. As now the Elder I am becoming, I would have calmed the son’s fears and heard the woman out. Anyway, he arrived at our spot and began attempting to move his mother. ‘Come on, mom, she doesn’t want to hear this stuff.’ She just looked at him and then back at me. ‘You/re not going to the desert,’ she said. My eyebrows clearly went up. Now she knows she speaks the truth. My face just confirmed it. I stopped trying to move away from her and her son continued to move her away from me. ‘You’re going to have a baby,’ she said. I said nothing in return. I just looked at her. Standing there holding her card, turning it over and over in my hand. Feeling the edges. There print of the ink. Her picture. I noticed she sold real estate. Okay. She was a well known real estate agent from the area, I recognized the name.

The son won out.

I began backing away and watching the two of them as they walked away, too. I knew what she was talking about.
I was looking for answers, confirmation, and not hearing them. In all honesty, I feel like my Path was set long ago. I just wasn’t listening. As I have learned, even in the most trivial of times, we play integral parts, or cogs, in the wheels of life for other beings. Humans. Animals. Plants. All of it. This was a point in my life that I divined, but I did not meditate as I should have. I wrote, but did not explore as I should have. I did all the things a Practitioner of the Arcane Arts does — but it was driven by Ego. (Now, there is a time for Ego, but not when something needs to ‘change’ cosmically. We can’t control that energy alone with our Ego. But that’s another story.)

In that instant the lady told me so much, but I did not hear her. I shipped out for the Middle East that January with the Marine Corps.
Or so I thought.

There are others whose Paths I am a part of. That other being was my daughter. That other being was my father. That other being was a pair of siblings that I was yet to meet. So much I did not understand.

What I had divined was coming to fruition. Before it did, I was set for completing entry into the United States Marine Corps. I was one of four going that quarter for Georgia. The war in Iraq was full swing and they were excited to have a soldier of my caliber, no pun intended. (No Ego in that statement either, a ton of Shadow thought! I simply had been trained for “battle” of some sort MY WHOLE LIFE.) But to the Corps, I was educated. I had already begun technical school. I had been raised by a Navy man, around guns. I cross trained physically. I was ready. Physically. I had no value on my life as I had been shown no value by others and I was not grasping it spiritually. (SHADOW!!!)

I did not acknowledge it.

Long story short, this was the summer before I shipped out that following winter. A friend of mine asked if I wanted to go have “one last good time” with the group as they had comped his Mom a bunch of tickets to a tattoo expo and concerts through the summer She worked for a major utility company in the south so this happened regularly in the summer. ‘ I replied to him, Sure’. So, off we went. As my father always said, ‘the curtain feel and time passed’ and by the end of that summer I had met someone. By fall, I was having to write a formal resignation letter to the USMC as I had conceived the beautiful soul that would become my daughter.

Hmpf. The exchange that occurred with the lady and her son did not resurface for me until I was sorting through my things preparing for this child and finding the business card. Did I call her? No. Ego was still my bedfellow.

I was busy beating myself up because this was one of those situations where I trusted the word of patriarchal science again. I had ‘no cycle’ for quite some time and was told I couldn’t likely become pregnant due that and PCOS, both by civilian and military doctors. That this was a common condition amongst the females of our species. This was also on top of them finding endometriosis, which I had already endured two surgeries for and was wavered into the Corps by a Navy doctor for!

Yeah. Gunney was mad …. but this life meant more to me than my own.

Time went on. I held on to that woman’s card for years, never getting up enough nerve to call her. I still had not done that Shadow Work either and was afraid at my young age of what else I was going to Experience as life progressed — that she seemingly knew, but did I really want to know? No. Not then. Not at that moment.

Not knowing how to move forward and be a mother now, as I had none worth their while to model after, I sealed myself off Spiritually.

I felt it was the safest thing for me to do before my daughter came into the world — June 3rd, 1998 at 10:58AM.

Thank you for reading this. <3
~Reverend Richoz, RN

Tuesday G24

General - Journal - Book of Shadows

SUBMISSION: G24 TUE FINAL ELEMENT TAROT 1 AND 2 (Due by Sunday)

1

Draw a card to garner where you stand with the Elements.
Try to determine if you need to continue working with the same Element,
or if a new one is coming through.

What Element keeps revealing itself to you?
Was this the Element you chose for your Final Craft?
Did you feed your Work via this Element? Should you?

ANSWER QUESTIONS IN ONE PARAGRAPH MINIMUM

2

With the same card, answer the questions below in ONE PARAGRAPH MINIMUM.

Submit ONE PHOTO of card drawn.
Name of deck, card, YOUR INTERPRETATION a
s well as the BOOK MEANING written/typed out. NO PHOTOS
Determine the connection between what you see and what the artist’s Intent was.
Name the Element this card represents.
Is this the same Element OR CARD that keeps appearing?

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