humanism, magick, oracles, shamanism, storytelling
Author: hgoei
Ik maak Happy Stones/Geluks-stenen om positieve intentie te delen in mijn omgeving.
Dit idee is geïnspireerd door The Kindness Rocks Project:
Beschilder een kiezelsteen met een positieve boodschap, en geef het weg of laat het achter op een gepaste plek voor de gelukkige vinder.
Bij het plaatsen van de steen is het van belang om dit te doen met respect voor de omgeving zoals natuurgebieden en/of heilige plekken.
Ping: Happy Stones 00 Goodyear – Dreamquest
Door met aandacht te wandelen door Tuindorp Oostzaan ontdekken we bijzondere inspirerende plekjes: een beeld, een boom, een huis, een tuin.
Elk seizoen geeft het dorp een eigen sfeer: lente-zomer-herfst-winter, ze zijn allemaal op hun eigen manier bijzonder!
Door elke maand te wandelen, ervaren we ook het specifieke thema dat de maan op dat moment toevoegt aan het geheel.
Iedereen, die in staat is om te wandelen, en zich aangesproken voelt door ‘zingeving in beweging’ is welkom!
Ping: Magische wandelingen in mijn wijk – Dreamquest
Rumors at school mentioning a group of other kids from another class going to Rogue Island:
A year ago, five students investigated the Islands, never to return!
Another newbie group investigated recently, coming back with wild stories:
The Island was really haunted….
We met the ghosts of the disappeared kids in the village, they were mostly incoherent moaning apparitions, but we also saw a shadow of a Lady in Blue.
Most houses had Rune markings on their doors, but were abandoned for a long time!
There were many strange trails of a long tailed two-legged thing with claws…
Following the trails, we arrived at a large house on the hill nearby the village.
In the cellar we found a great workplace for butchery: all kinds of large silver choppers, knives, hatchets.
During our investigation we were surprised by the return of the landlord.
Murderous mayhem ensued!
Cold Iron did not hurt the landlord, but silver worked quite well…
After receiving several wounds he disappeared in a cloud!
At last , the bound spirits of the dead were released, they followed the shadow of the Lady to the Otherworld…
Ping: Tricube Tales – Teenage Ghostbusters in New York – Dreamquest
The steampunk city-state GOTHAM is surrounded by the Mythago Mists since the nineteenth century, when the veils between the three worlds were lifted.
At that time the Wayne Estate founded the Scout Movement to protect the innocent.
Many adventurous youngsters have joined the movement since then.
Rudolph was one of them…
He run away from his constricting Mennonite village Hicksville to New York where he became a vagrant lost boy until Sister Bright took him from the streets to Candleville’s Our Lady Homestead for lost children.
The village baker Hilda taught him some bread-baking magic, but he was still unhappy with the rural life.
Meeting the weird girl Maggy really changed his life, she showed him several Portals.
His travel through the Machine Portal ended in him being captured till he was freed by his brother and some other friends from the Resistance.
Maggy showed back again to lead them to the portal back home, but she granted his wish ‘to go to New York’.
‘Be careful what you are wishing for’ were here last words before he entered the portal ‘Ye Olde New York’….
Rudolph ended up in a different New York!
Becoming a vagrant lost boy again, he was taking in by a patrol of Scouts…
Now this might be the perfect life for him!
Rudolph did not say much about the initiation rite of the Scouts; ‘it was weird!’
Follow-up on GT NYE 2022, updated with new input from a friend:
The row of the trio of deuces without ♥:
A balancing act between action, health, finances.
On the right side 2♠ immediately followed by 7♠ : some disbalance causing health issues.
On the left side 2 red ladies blessing love and money
Farthest left side 2 black ladies toil and trouble: it seems that Santa Muerte is receding but not gone yet.
Above the significator: 10♦ flanked by the black Aces ♣ & ♠ together with Jack Ketch ♠: risky business operations
Summary: I suppose I have to take care for my health and be careful with financial gambles!
Ping: Grand Tableau Newyear Eve 2022 – 02 – Dreamquest
Follow-up on GT NYE 2022
A friend pointed out the following pattern
Looking at this more detailed view, I see the following:
a complicated pattern of interplay:
the Good Godmothers & the Good Stars guided the way through the perilous roads till the thorny fork in the path towards
the possible near future accident caused by vicious Blackjack Jack Ketch)
OR
A better planned approach thanks to MerryMan Jack Flash
Ping: Grand Tableau Newyear Eve 2022 – Dreamquest
Originally I meant to consult the Oracle at midwinter, but I became afraid to confront portents of doom I saw in the oracle of 2020!
Nobody listens to Cassandra anyway…This shadow is to great for me, what can I do?
Last night I awoke with a beating heart, it seemed the Oracle was knocking forcefully at my door…
And now I cannot resist the call of the oracle, I have to channel the message, I will become the voice.
Question: What is the message of the oracle that I have to share?
For this grand tableau I use the basic card meanings of hedgewitchery cartomancy
I put the Joker as my significator in the complete deck and placed the tableau in 4×13, leaving the last card out as a overall theme for this spread.
To keep the first reading simple, I will focus on the significator and its surrounding cards, later on I will expand on other significant cards.
First impressions:
Overall theme: J♦: Jack Sheppard , beware of Ponzi!
The significator is at the bottom of the tableau, at the end of the last row, subject of many influences, unable to do much about it.
Vertical column:
10♦-A♣-2♠-JOKER: wealth-seed-duel-JOKER
The financial market is very volatile and rocky
Horizontal row:
10♥-9♥-JOKER-8♣J♥: happyness-wish-JOKER-business-Jack Flash
To keep the household happy it needs ongoing maintenance and openness for the Good Messenger
Conclusion:
I can only donate my two cents to the good cause, giving the Oracle a voice.
Ping: Grand Tableau yule 2021 – – Dreamquest
Rudolf was acting suspicious again, sneaking away after lunch….
Jeffrey gathered some friends to follow the tracks of his weird brother!
Arriving at a clearing in the woods they followed the tracks into a cave, finding some strange signs leading deeper inwards….
Rudolfs trail ended at a portal!
The curious kids followed the trail to emerge from the portal to find
themselves standing upon dark, viscous, slag-like material
which constantly shifts beneath their feet, the
smog around them is vert thick, they were just able to see a clearing with small huts…
Few people are on the streets, the inhabitants of the place looked very gaunt and listless, clad in gray worn clothing, obviously forced labor workers!
The kids approached some persons who told them to get the mandatory registration:
A tattoo on the arm
A badge
Of course, the kids did not feel like to get a tattoo, but a badge could be arranged!
They ambushed a few workers to get a badge, now the kids were able to leave the hovels unnoticed.
Apparently the smog caused some hallucinations, on the road they saw some weird visions:
A pyramid beneath a supermoon?
Giant jellyfish drifting away from a space shuttle?
A patrolling robot?
The latter was real and had to be neutralized quickly!
The kids arrived a the mines where laborers were listening to a passionate speaker…
“A ruler who oppresses the people, does not deserve to govern”
A revolt was brewing!
The kids joined the vanguard to storm the Palace…
Passing by the Foundry, they defeated some guardians and an officer!
They were even able to loot a few powerful weapons…
A lightning throwing staff!
A huge arm, fit for a titanic robot!
Hacking into the cyberware by mindlink, the cyberarm was ‘persuaded’ to crawl behind the kids.
The palace gate was guarded by a titanic robot who was still missing an arm…
With some lucky shots, the controller of the robot was neutralized!
Now the kids were able to take over the controlling device, turning the robot into an ally to smash open the gate..
Entering the throne room, they saw the ruler holding Rudolf hostage at knifepoint!
A climatic battle ensued…VICTORY!
The kids discovered behind the throne room another portal
Now at last they were able to return to their own space/time!
Ping: Tales from the Loop: Runaway kids having trouble at the orphanage in the countryside – Dreamquest
Being homeless teenagers in the eighties was very tough in New York:
government mismanagement caused near bankruptcy of the city, and the introduction of crack-cocaine unleashed an unprecedented wave of drug addiction and violence.
Somewhere in the worst part of the no-go area the Sisters of Our Lady kept a shelter for the homeless where they provided soup & bread for the hungry.
One by one the kids met Sister Bridget who picked them up from their hiding-holes (under the bridge, in the abandoned house, in the park).
She delivered them at the safe haven of Homestead, in the middle of nowhere at the border between America and Canada.
Ely, Jeffrey and Zeke had met before, and now they met some other newcomers like Chase and Randy….
The food and lodging at Homestead was very basic and healthy, surprisingly there was much opportunity to learn and practice new skills at the school, the kids became very interested in the following:
Performance: Storytelling, music, drama, dance, sleight of hand.
Physical education; baseball, climbing, dodgeball, jumping, runnning.
Tinkering: working with all kind of small machinery like computers, they even saw a presentation of the 1984!
During lunchbreak Jeffrey saw his long lost brother Rudolf talking with Hilde, the village baker who delivered bread weekly at Homestead.
After observing his brother, Jeffrey approached Rudolf as soon as Hilde left.
It seemed Rudolf had decided to stay at Homestead, learning baking magic instead of returning to their dysfunctional parental home!
Jeffrey became worried, maybe his brother was involved with a witchcult?
When Rudolf went to the village, the kids followed him to investigate his trail.
Rudolf went to bakery at the central square….
After Rudolf entered the bakery, two people went outside:
Hilde having a loud discussion with a man: ‘begone!’
She made a strange sign, pointing at him…
The man left immediately!
Ely, Jeffrey and Zeke experienced a deja vue…this man looked like their nemesis, Herr Claus!
While the kids were discussing whether to follow-up their investigation, they saw another lost kid they knew, Maggie!
When the kids saw her sneaking away, they followed her trail to the beach…
At the beach she took two small flags out of her backpack, and started signalling towards the lighthouse island on the other side, while somebody on the opposite side was answering with light signals with a mirror!
As soon as Maggie was leaving the beach, the kids tried to catch up with her.
One of the kids, a good sprinter, was able to overtake the running girl
At the moment he jumped in front of her, she crashed with great force into him!
The other kids also came running to hold her, a scuffle ensued.
While they wrestled her to the ground, her body felt armoured, it was a robot!
Trying to dismantle the robot, a self-destruct sequence started counting…
Just in time the kids threw the body in the water before it exploded!
While they were recovering, they discovered somebody was watching them at a distance.
The person disappeared into the woods nearby.
Following the trail, the kids heard the sound of a hunting horn and hunting dogs in the distance…
Somebody screamed!
Arriving at a clearing in the woods, they saw a black clad person hanging on the limb of a sturdy tree…
Immediately they took the person down from the tree!
Investigating the body, they discovered this was another robot.
This time they succeeded in dismantling the thing, taking away the head for further research later on…
Returning to the beach, the kids saw somebody rowing to the lighthouse.
Immediately they decided to follow the trail to investigate.
To avoid detection they rowed to the far end of the island where they entered the wooded part.
Apparently they were seen from afar, a small patrol left the lighthouse into the woods.
Luckily the kids had developed enough scouting skills to divert the patrol by using a false trail.
They entered the lighthouse and invaded the upper floor. The two clumsy guardians were dispatched after a short fight!
Investigating the upper floor, the kids discovered a enormous screen in the wall, and a large control panel nearby.
A communication hologram appeared….to avoid detection the kids hacked the control panel to disable the transfer of data.
In the meantime the returning patrol was just entering the front door, but with some lucky punches they were put down in no time!
Continuing their investigation, the kids went down the basement, where they found a portal in the process of transferring a large robot!
Another hacking attempt disrupted the transfer, but unlocked the self-destruct countdown!
Running for their life, the kids escaped the lighthouse just before it detonated!
Exhausted, the kids decided to call it a day and to return to the orphanage.
Ping: Tales from the Loop: interesting times in the countryside – Dreamquest
The village was in state of flux:
After the disappearance of Alderman Klaus the conservatives lost majority in council, the progressives started proposing to allow modern ideas like a bus stop and a shopping mall while the old leaders objected the influx of outsiders.
Teenagers running away from Hickstown before their thirteenth birthday was considered an early rumspringa…but now several started quiet early.
At the end of last summer Geoffrey and Stacy acquired a cheque worth a substantial amount of money….
Stacys mother traveled on her own to the great city to cash in the check, but during travel she came down with a stroke.
Geoffrey and Stacy were just in time at the hospital to hear the last breath, but the cheque had disappeared!
After the funeral Stacy disappeared from the farm, leaving many debts unpaid but taking her price pig with her.
Geoffrey felt lost without his best friend and decided to run away from home…
On the road he joined some other runaway kids: Moss the butchers son, Zeke the teachers son and Eli the marrano son..
They camped in the wood under the full moon…
Suddenly the moon was darkened by a large cloud, it seemed an eclips!
They heard sounds of a hunting horn, dogs, running feet…
Somebody crashed into Moss who immediately reacted with a punch!
The moon reappeared, the scuffle ended as soon as the kids discovered a girl confronting them…
It was Maggy, the cousin of village beautyqueen Daisy!
When the sound of the hunt came nearby, Maggy ran away, leaving the kids confused…
The hunt passed away, and after a while they heard Maggy screaming in the distance.
The kids decided to investigate…after an hour walking they found Maggy hanging from a tree!
Immediately they released her from her precarious position…
Maggy recovered quickly, getting up and starting a brisk walk away when she heard the hunt returning!
Quickly the kids followed her when she found a cave in a hill…
The corridor in the cave led them to the other side of the hill to a very different landscape in the distance:
On their left hand a castle
On their right hand a fortified abbey
Straight ahead a wood
At the end of the day they arrived at the castle where they were received for bed and breakfast according the laws of hospitality.
They were told that Lady Margaret passed by to travel to the abbey!
The next day the kids went to the abbey in search for Maggy…
Arriving at the abbey, they saw two guardian dog statues flanking the gate.
Above the gate: DOMINI CANES
The abbot said Lady Margaret passed by to go to the Maze in the Woods…
After some rest the kids followed the directions to the Woods that surrounded the Spiral Castle
Entering the Castle, they saw a spiral staircase going up and down…
Downwards they went…
Arriving at the bottom of the staircase, they saw the room of rituals…
Maggy chanting in a magick circle!
The kids ran into the circle to grab Maggy, but as soon as they touched her they were transported!
How will they survive in this strange city?
Ping: Tales from the Loop: interesting times in the countryside – Dreamquest
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