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I haven't had much to say lately (obviously, as I haven't posted in some time). I'm continuing to build my astrology skills, and really kicked myself for not delineating and posting a New Moon chart for this most interesting month (I did an informal one for myself; woof). I still keep up with the Open Posts on Covid, and none of my opinions on the situation have changed much, although I think a fair amount of the censorship and narrative management is probably due to what our fearless leaders would call "national security" as opposed to pure elite bungling or unlikely WEF eugenics programs. Having read a few official government manuals on counter-insurgencies, psyops, propaganda distribution and the like, my eyes have been opened even more about the nature of our elite classes. Granted, all of the official manuals note that it's illegal to use any of those methods on US citizens, but since they regard half of the country as being their enemies, I'm not sure that would deter them.
With that update out of the way, what led me to my keyboard today was something else entirely. When I'm not fending off attempts by a portion of my government to force me to participate in medical experiments without my consent and explicitly against my will, I practice magic. I'm no Gandalf, but I am slowly getting my sea legs. I decided to do a divination on what to focus my magical efforts on next. The answer, to my surprise and dismay, was to build community.
I guess this shouldn't be a shock. I intellectually realize that community is important, especially with the cascading crises shaking the entire western world at the moment. It's certainly something that has come up on JMG's blogs, in fact the Open Posts are apparently shifting in that direction. The problem is, I don't socialize and I don't really "do" community. I'm a reclusive curmudgeon, and if I didn't need a day job at the moment, I'd probably be totally checked out of society. I'm sick of politics and the culture wars, in fact, as one famous wizard says, "It seems this damnable conflict has claimed everyone's passions of late. Me, I prefer my books, and my spells". Unfortunately for both Farengar Secret-Fire and me, there's really no opting out at this stage in the game.
I'm also uniquely unqualified to build community due to my social deficits; as someone with the condition formerly known as Asperger's syndrome, I can mask well enough to get by, but it's pretty draining and I'm fairly content to keep to myself. Still, the oracle I used wasn't at all ambivalent about what I need to do, even though it didn't tell me how to go about it. Maybe I should try doing the opposite of what I'm naturally inclined to do in any given situation, since social isolation is more or less my default!
With that update out of the way, what led me to my keyboard today was something else entirely. When I'm not fending off attempts by a portion of my government to force me to participate in medical experiments without my consent and explicitly against my will, I practice magic. I'm no Gandalf, but I am slowly getting my sea legs. I decided to do a divination on what to focus my magical efforts on next. The answer, to my surprise and dismay, was to build community.
I guess this shouldn't be a shock. I intellectually realize that community is important, especially with the cascading crises shaking the entire western world at the moment. It's certainly something that has come up on JMG's blogs, in fact the Open Posts are apparently shifting in that direction. The problem is, I don't socialize and I don't really "do" community. I'm a reclusive curmudgeon, and if I didn't need a day job at the moment, I'd probably be totally checked out of society. I'm sick of politics and the culture wars, in fact, as one famous wizard says, "It seems this damnable conflict has claimed everyone's passions of late. Me, I prefer my books, and my spells". Unfortunately for both Farengar Secret-Fire and me, there's really no opting out at this stage in the game.
I'm also uniquely unqualified to build community due to my social deficits; as someone with the condition formerly known as Asperger's syndrome, I can mask well enough to get by, but it's pretty draining and I'm fairly content to keep to myself. Still, the oracle I used wasn't at all ambivalent about what I need to do, even though it didn't tell me how to go about it. Maybe I should try doing the opposite of what I'm naturally inclined to do in any given situation, since social isolation is more or less my default!