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Ants have been mentioned on the Covid Open Post a few times lately, in that people are dreaming about or encountering them in various "astral" contexts. A few times, I've had some synchronicities arise that align with comments made by others on the board. In this case, I read the comments and then had my own scrying session that centered around ants (specifically, being devoured by them after being staked to an anthill).
Oddly enough, this isn't the first time the "being devoured by ants" phenomenon has happened in my scrying sessions. Lately, they've been devoted to the Path of Shin in the framework of the magical cabala. Consumption of forms and transformation seems to be a theme on this path, at least for me (shin means tooth in Hebrew). This is something I encountered on previous workings of the same path a year or two ago (I may dig out my old scrying log and see if I can nail down when my initial "devoured by ants" vision occurred in case it is somehow relevant).
Another reason it may have popped up recently, for me anyway, is the release of a new Ant-Man film. I don't follow the MCU anymore and haven't since Infinity War (I know it's very perverse to watch all the way up to Infinity War and then skip Endgame, but what can I say, I skipped the last two seasons of Game of Thrones too). Despite having naught but contempt for new Marvel and Disney products, I do sometimes enjoy watching criticism of modern media if it's done well enough. I specifically enjoy the Critical Drinker for this purpose. In the same way I rely on JMG to read guys like Spengler and Toynbee so I don't have to, the Drinker watches hundreds of hours of content I don't really want to view to take it apart for my enjoyment. Hey, in this degraded and collapsing dumpster fire of a culture, I take my kicks how I can get them.
Anyway, I'm not sure this was really worthy of a post on its own merits, but I'm sort of collecting synchronicities and this might just qualify. I guess we shall see.
Oddly enough, this isn't the first time the "being devoured by ants" phenomenon has happened in my scrying sessions. Lately, they've been devoted to the Path of Shin in the framework of the magical cabala. Consumption of forms and transformation seems to be a theme on this path, at least for me (shin means tooth in Hebrew). This is something I encountered on previous workings of the same path a year or two ago (I may dig out my old scrying log and see if I can nail down when my initial "devoured by ants" vision occurred in case it is somehow relevant).
Another reason it may have popped up recently, for me anyway, is the release of a new Ant-Man film. I don't follow the MCU anymore and haven't since Infinity War (I know it's very perverse to watch all the way up to Infinity War and then skip Endgame, but what can I say, I skipped the last two seasons of Game of Thrones too). Despite having naught but contempt for new Marvel and Disney products, I do sometimes enjoy watching criticism of modern media if it's done well enough. I specifically enjoy the Critical Drinker for this purpose. In the same way I rely on JMG to read guys like Spengler and Toynbee so I don't have to, the Drinker watches hundreds of hours of content I don't really want to view to take it apart for my enjoyment. Hey, in this degraded and collapsing dumpster fire of a culture, I take my kicks how I can get them.
Anyway, I'm not sure this was really worthy of a post on its own merits, but I'm sort of collecting synchronicities and this might just qualify. I guess we shall see.