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<p>#CONSOLE</p>
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<p>####xpub special issue xx</p>
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<p>Console is an oracle; an emotional first aid kit that helps you help
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yourself. Console invites you to open the box and discover ways of
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healing; Console provides shelter for your dreams, memories and worries.
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Face the past and encounter your fortune. Console gives you a new
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vantage point; a set of rituals and practices that help you cope and
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care; Console asks everyday questions that give magical answers. Are you
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ready to play?</p>
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<div id="acknowledgements">
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<p>##<3 this publication made possible thanks to:</p>
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<p>Lídia Pereira (ed.) Artemis Gryllaki (ed.) Manetta Berends Joseph
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Knierzinger Steve Rushton Leslie Robbins Michael Murtaugh Sébastien Tien
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and the Page Not Found team Anna M. Szaflarski Paul DD Smith Shana
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Moulton Bérénice Serra The Sun is its father The Moon its mother The
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Wind hath carried it in its belly The Earth is its nurse</p>
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<div id="toc">
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<p>#Table of contents</p>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#start-matter">start-matter</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Documentation of Games and Rituals, Kick off sessions">Documentation of Games and Rituals, Kick off sessions</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Documentation of Monday Morning Rituals">Documentation of Monday Morning Rituals</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#History of Tarot">History of Tarot</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Some Gossip on gossip">Some Gossip on gossip</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Holographic Oracle Deck">Holographic Oracle Deck</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#click-click">click-click</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Fruitual (fruit + ritual)">Fruitual (fruit + ritual)</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Long Time">Long Time</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Papa Louie’s Ghosteria">Papa Louie’s Ghosteria</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Sims Mod">Sims Mod</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Youtube Tarot">Youtube Tarot</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Tetris Fantasies">Tetris Fantasies</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Super(de)construction">Super(de)construction</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#The Wheel of Fortune">The Wheel of Fortune</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#The Wheel of Fortune">The Wheel of Fortune</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Oracolotto">Oracolotto</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Fiction Friction">Fiction Friction</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#SIXX license">SIXX license</a></li>
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<li class="toc-title"><a href="#Colophon">Colophon</a></li>
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<section class="section" id="Documentation of Games and Rituals, Kick off sessions">
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<h1>Documentation of Games and Rituals, Kick off sessions</h1>
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<p>#Introduction</p>
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<p>This Special Issue has been an attempt to understand the notions of
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games and rituals. Instead of an introduction, we will try to unravel
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this mysterious journey as well as keep questioning and collaging.</p>
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<p>We mapped the common characteristics and the differences between
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games and rituals in relation to ideology and counter-hegemony. We
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practiced, performed, annotated rituals that were connected (or not)
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with our cultural backgrounds while we questioned the magic circle. We
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dived into the worlds of text adventure games and clicking games while
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drinking coffee and talked about class, base, superstructure,
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(counter)hegemony, ideology, materialism. We discussed how games and
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rituals can function as reproductive technologies of the culture
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industries. We annotated games, focusing on the role of ideology and
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social reproduction. We reinterpreted bits of the world and created
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stories from it (modding, fiction, narrative) with a focus on community,
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interaction, relationships, grief and healing.</p>
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<p>The eventual outcome of this process is a console, a magical object,
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a wooden container, a promise of healing. How can the unpacking of
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games, rituals, ideology and superstructure in relation to witch hunting
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become the midwiferies of a healing box? How can practices of healing
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and care work as counter-hegemonic acts that can cure and liberate our
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souls and bodies from patriarchical and capitalistic fetters?</p>
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<p>We didn’t manage to provide you with comprehensive answers or
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conclusive statements. The truth is that this wasn’t our plan. Our
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intention was to create openings for debate or even conflict, to map a
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territory, to invite those who would like to join us.</p>
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<p><em>“What if you are playing tetris and the tetris gods give you
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something apart from the usual seven tetrominoes, like an unexpected
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pregnancy or the end of capitalism?” (Stephen)</em></p>
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<p>Starting with rituals, we claim that they can be understood as
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instruments in the struggle for the exercise of power. Organized by
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<em>repetition</em>, they (re)connect the individual to the collective,
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creating a vision towards a given perception of society. Participation
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in this creative act is determined by several factors: a ritual’s
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function, its relationship to hegemonic power, a collective’s politics
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and objectives, etc.</p>
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<p><em>“Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought to be in
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conscious tension to the way things are in such a way that this
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ritualized perfection is recollected in the ordinary, uncontrolled,
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course of things. Ritual relies for its power on the fact that it is
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concerned with quite ordinary activities, that what it describes and
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displays is, in principle, possible for every occurrence of these acts.
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But it relies, as well, for its power on the fact that, in actuality,
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such possibilities cannot be realized.” (Smith,1980)</em></p>
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<p><em>“Ideology talks of actions: I shall talk of actions inserted into
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practices. And I shall point out that these practices are governed by
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rituals in which these practices are inscribed, within the material
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existence of an ideological apparatus(…)Ideas have disappeared as such
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to the precise extend that it has emerged that their existence is
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inscribed in the actions of practices governed by rituals defined in the
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last instance by an ideological apparatus.” (Althusser,1970)</em></p>
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<p>Similarly, videogames create worlds. Often, those worlds mirror our
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own, reproducing certain ideals and values as norms through their
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narrative, game play, design. This trimester we explored world-building
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characteristics found both in rituals and videogames. We critically
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considered those worlds, identifying the key points and elements through
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which specific videogames and rituals circulate political, cultural and
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social values. While this world-building might be interpreted from an
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angle of implicit and explicit bias rooted in hegemonic values, we
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investigated the generative, creative possibilities of such
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characteristics.</p>
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<p><em>“The main task of mass culture is to create, reproduce, and
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manage particular kinds of subjects — workers, consumers, individuals,
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citizens — required for current conditions. To perpetuate their own
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existence, mass media must succeed at representing the violent coercion
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of capitalist systems as natural laws: Of course you have to pay rent to
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live inside; of course you have to buy food to eat; of course you have
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to work if you want to survive. The production of a fungible, disposable
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and migratory working class requires the alienation and atomization of
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communities into individuals, which involves destroying the village,
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kinship structures, indigeneity, and many other previous forms of
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meaning-producing structures, leaving a gap which ideology must fill.
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While the fundamental structures of domination — racism, patriarchy,
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heterosexuality, etc. — form the bedrock of this ideological apparatus,
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the complexity of the always expanding and changing capitalist system
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requires an equally flexible set of subsidiary tools capable of rapidly
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adjusting ideology en masse. In general, media emerge not to meet the
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demands or desires of individual users but to accommodate what the
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predominant mode of production requires.” (Osterweil,2018)</em></p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>Our intention was to look into rituals and their overlap with video
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games as a way to explore “forbidden” or otherwise lost knowledge erased
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by oppressive systems (e.g. witch hunts). Understanding games and
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rituals as gateways to alternative ways of relating to Nature, each
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other and (re)production of life, labour, etc, we played together by
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writing fan fiction and spells, developing rituals, analysing and
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creating games together.</p>
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<p>“<em>Sims as social reproduction: some values are certainly given by
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the game (make money to buy nicer things, progress in your career by
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doing tasks that improve your skill, charisma is a skill but not
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kindness) , but also ideology is put into the game by the player. The
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player chooses what to reproduce and often share in the “gallery” or on
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social media. Community being so important in this game then means that
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the crux of the social reproduction is happening when the choices you
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have made in the game are broadcasted. Did you create a heteronormative
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white thin nuclear family that made a lot of money? Or did you choose to
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play differently?” (Ada)</em></p>
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<p><em>“The Communist Party of Second Life (CPSL) aims to be a Marxist,
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internationalist and revolutionary organization for all communists in
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Second Life. The CPSL aims to spread understanding of Marxism among SL
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citizens, to organise support in SL for the class struggle in RL,
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including all struggles of the working class against imperialism and the
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bourgeoisie, its state and wars.” (Lídia)</em></p>
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<p><em>“The act of the modder’s appropriation of the pre-existing game
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is also similar to Michel de Certeau’s cultural ‘poaching’. De Certeau’s
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everyday bricolors make do with remixing the privatized spaces and
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products of consumer society that they find themselves inhabiting and
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using. Rather than being passive consumers, ordinary people invent
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varied subversive tactics for stealing back the given of everyday life.
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De Certeau writes, ‘Everyday life invents itself by poaching in
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countless ways on the property of others.’” (Schleiner,2017)</em></p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>Meanwhile, we went through the witch as a magical practicioner, as a
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resisting body, a border figure. <em>“Federici presents the witch”as the
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embodiment of a world of female subjects that capitalism had to destroy:
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the heretic, the healer, the disobedient wife, the woman who dared to
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live alone, the obeha woman who poisoned the master’s food and inspired
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the slaves to revolt.” Behind the witch hunt, she uncovers a joint
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effort by the Church and the state to establish mechanisms of gendered
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control of bodies that immanently resisted newly instituted regimes of
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productive and reproductive work.” (Timofeeva, 2019)</em></p>
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<blockquote>
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<p><em>“Sorcerers have always held the anomalous position, at the edge
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of the fields or woods. They haunt the fringes. They are at the
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borderline of the village, or between villages. But sorcerers not only
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exist at the border: as anomalous beings, they are the border itself. In
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other words, the borderline passes through their bodies.” (Deleuze,
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Guattari,1980)</em></p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>How does the understanding of the hunting of the witches that
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happened a few centuries ago in relation to the figure of the witch as
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marginal, rebellious entity shed light on the contemporary
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witch-hunting? How does this knowledge provide us with tools of
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empowerment, emancipation and resistance, and make us reimagine
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counter-hegemonic practices of collective care and healing?</p>
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<img src="wall.jpg" alt="Never stop questioning never stop mapping" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Never stop questioning never stop
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mapping</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<div class="centered">
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<p>Console is an oracle; an emotional first aid kit that helps you help
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yourself.</p>
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<p>Console invites you to open the box and discover ways of healing;</p>
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<p>Console provides shelter for your dreams, memories and worries.</p>
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<p>Face the past and encounter your fortune.</p>
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<p>Console gives you a new vantage point; a set of rituals and practices
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that help you cope and care for yourself and for others.</p>
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<p>Console asks everyday questions that give magical answers.</p>
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<p>Console invites you to self reflect, explore your subconscious, spin
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the wheel of fortune and pick a card, explore what is possible beyond
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what is obvious, guide yourself into the future and past, create
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stories. Are you ready to play?</p>
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</div>
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<section class="section" id="Documentation of Monday Morning Rituals">
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<h1>Documentation of Monday Morning Rituals</h1>
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id="documentation-of-games-and-rituals-kick-off-sessions">Documentation
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of Games and Rituals, Kick off sessions</h1>
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id="we-are-looking-at-rituals-and-their-overlap-with-video-games-as-a-way-to-explore-forbidden-or-otherwise-lost-knowledge-erased-by-oppressive-systems.">We
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are looking at rituals and their overlap with video games as a way to
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explore “forbidden” or otherwise lost knowledge erased by oppressive
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<p>On Rituals and Traditions What is a ritual? And tradition? What makes
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a ritual “ritual” and how does it differ from the traditions? Or are the
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two the same thing? What do rituals and traditions mean through the lens
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of culture, location and time? These and other questions we asked
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ourselves and one another during the first few collaborative sessions of
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this Special Issue. For hours, we kept talking and reading about the
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commonalities and differences between the two. There’s a lot to explore!
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We went down memory lane and shared a lot of memories, childhood
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recollections, and personal stories. Perhaps, dear reader, you have your
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thoughts on this too?</p>
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<p>But let’s enter a parallel universe!</p>
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<p>On Game and Play What is a game? And play? What makes a game “game”
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and how does it differ from the play? Or are the two the same thing?
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What makes a game? It is the rules, the limitations, or perhaps the wins
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and losses. Do you really need to win in order to play? Or were you
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being played? To try to answer some of these questions we read and
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annotate collectively the chapter “Defining Games” of the book ‘Rules of
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Play - Game Design Fundamentals’ by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. What
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we discovered was that games and rituals alike are the gateways to
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alternative ways of relating to Nature, each other and (re)production of
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life.</p>
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<p>We played together by writing fanfiction and spells, developing
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rituals, and analysing and creating games together. What emerged as a
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tangible result from all these discussions is this experimental
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publication you are holding in your hands right now. We named it
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Console.</p>
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<p>Transition to the weekly rituals: Another thing that came out of our
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first two sessions was the ONE SENTENCE RITUAL. Each week for 6 weeks in
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a row, we wrote down a ritual of our own and took turns in performing
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the ritual from the list. Coffee fortune-telling, Hard drive
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purifications, Collective eating, Sound meditations, and Talking to
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Worry dolls, made us reflect on the content of the week and on our lives
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also.</p>
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<p><img src="Candlestarotjoysticks.png" alt="Candles Tarot Joysticks" />
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<img src="Cookies-Questions-Tea.jpeg"
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alt="Cookies Questions Tea.jpeg" /> <img src="Game-ritual-graph-2.jpeg"
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alt="Graph" /> <img src="map.jpeg" alt="Map" /></p>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="History of Tarot">
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<h1>History of Tarot</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="History of Tarot">
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<div id="monday-rituals" class="has-images">
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<h1 id="documentation-of-monday-morning-rituals">Documentation of Monday
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Morning Rituals</h1>
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<p>*** For 8 weeks, students from XPUB prepared a ritual to perform at
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the top of Monday morning class. We explored cultural rituals such as
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the birthday cake and coffee-ground reading, but also more personal
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rituals such as ‘going to sleep’ rituals, a personal hard-drive
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purification, and the creation of worry-dolls.***</p>
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<h3 id="week-1-january-9th-2023-tea-and-cookies">Week 1, January 9th
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2023: Tea and Cookies</h3>
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<p><strong><em>Performed by… Artemis and Lídia</em></strong></p>
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<p>Artemis and Lídia introduced us to Monday Morning Rituals on the
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first cold, dark, wintery Monday morning. We shared cookies with tea as
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a way to open up the semester and get to know each other. The ritual of
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a hot drink and cookies is well-known around the world as a moment of
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gathering, peace, gossip, and self-care.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="Lidia_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Artemis and Lidia’s Preparations" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Artemis and Lidia’s
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Preparations</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3 id="week-2-january-16th-2023-coffee-fortune-telling">Week 2, January
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16th 2023: Coffee Fortune-Telling</h3>
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<p><strong><em>Performed by… Aglaia</em></strong></p>
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<p>For Aglaia’s ritual, we sat in a circle while the coffee was being
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prepared by the ancient Stove priestess who was placed in the middle.
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When it was done, it was served to the participants in special coffee
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cups. We drank our coffee while gossiping and eating cookies. When
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everybody was done, we swirled the cup counter-clockwise 3 times and
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turned the coffee cup upside down over the cup’s saucer. We waited
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patiently for 5 minutes for the fortune to be prepared. Everybody had to
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tell the Fortune of the person sitting on their left side by reading the
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coffee grounds until the circle was done.</p>
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<p><img src="Aglaia_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Aglaia’s Ritual" /> <img
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src="Aglaia_ritual_2.jpeg" alt="Overturned Coffee Grounds" /></p>
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<h3 id="week-3-january-23rd-2023-hard-drive-purification">Week 3,
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January 23rd 2023 Hard Drive Purification</h3>
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<p><strong><em>Performed by… Stephen</em></strong></p>
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<p>Stephen prepared a few zines with instructions to conduct a
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ceremonial cleansing of not only our browser history and cookies but
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also our trash cans/recycle bins. All operating systems were welcome.
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The zine was a reminder to ‘clean’ messy space up (for yourself) and was
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written in such a way that instructed us to recite sentences at the same
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time, with one person leading the group – a play on the magic
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circle.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="Stephen_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Stephen’s Ritual" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Stephen’s Ritual</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3 id="week-4-january-30th-2023-birthday-cake">Week 4, January 30th
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2023: Birthday Cake</h3>
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<p><strong><em>Performed by… Boyana</em></strong></p>
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<p>To celebrate Agalaia’s birthday, Boyana baked a cake and Ada made
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jellies. We sat in a circle, gathering around the cake. The person who
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had their birthday most recently sliced the cake, and we took turns to
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wish them our blessings. After going through a round, we ate
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together.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="Boyana_Ritual_Cake-jelly.jpeg"
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alt="Boyana’s Birthday Cake and Ada’s Jellies" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Boyana’s Birthday Cake and Ada’s
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Jellies</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3
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id="week-5-february-6th-2023-special-issue-prediction-ritual-sipr">Week
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5, February 6th 2023: Special Issue Prediction Ritual (SIPR)</h3>
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<p><strong><em>Performed by… Ada</em></strong></p>
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<p>For Ada’s ritual, Ada brought in a deck of tarot cards to read the
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fortune of the Special Issue you are holding in your hands right
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now.</p>
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<p>Her text made us laugh, and we have chosen to include it in full:</p>
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<p>“The priestess Ada will start the ritual by playing the ceremonial
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music on the sacred Spotify. Candles shall be turned on. Then three
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human sacrifices will be selected amongst the group through a collective
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decision. The three sacrificial people will then select three cards from
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either of the two decks given by the priestess. While they do so, they
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must think of the special issue. The priestess will then interpret the
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cards and together we shall rejoice in having found out our Special
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Issue’s future.”</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="ada_ritual.jpeg"
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alt="Unfortunately, we forgot to take photographs of this ritual. We were too distracted by our fortune. Here is a stock image instead." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Unfortunately, we forgot to take
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photographs of this ritual. We were too distracted by our fortune. Here
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is a stock image instead.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3
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id="week-6-february-13th-2023-guided-meditation-a-nighttime-ritual">Week
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6, February 13th 2023: Guided Meditation (A Nighttime Ritual)</h3>
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<p><strong><em>Performed by… Cara</em></strong></p>
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<p>Cara’s ritual is related to her history of having a hard time falling
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asleep at night. Over the years, she has found that music - especially
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quiet music with the sound of nature (field recordings) – really helps
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her fall asleep. She DJs outside of class and plays a lot of ambient,
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narrative DJ sets. For her ritual, she played a sound piece she had made
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of field recordings around Rotterdam (the sound of water lapping against
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a water taxi, the sound of wind, the sound of rain) and read out a poem
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about sleeplessness from a collection of literature about the Night. The
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ritual was meant to lull everyone to a moment of peace.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="Cara_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Cara’s Ritual" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Cara’s Ritual</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3 id="week-7-february-20th-2023-worry-dolls">Week 7, February 20th
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2023: Worry Dolls</h3>
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<p><strong><em>Performed by… Irmak</em></strong></p>
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<p>Irmak’s ritual was about how to ease our worries. We wrote down our
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worries on a pink piece of paper and shared them with a handmade doll
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that Irmak brought. These dolls are called Worry dolls (also called
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trouble dolls; in Spanish, Muñeca quitapena) and originate from
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Guatemala. There is one in each box of our special issue.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="Irmak_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Irmak’s Ritual – A Worry Doll" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Irmak’s Ritual – A Worry
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Doll</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Some Gossip on gossip">
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<h1>Some Gossip on gossip</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Some Gossip on gossip">
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<div id="historyoftarot" class="has-images">
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<h1 id="an-hypothesised-and-randomly-factual-history-of-tarot-cards">An
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hypothesised and randomly factual History of Tarot Cards</h1>
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<p>What follows is the story of a deck of cards and of all the
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more-or-less believable claims made about its origin. This brief history
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was compiled, following sources that attempted accurate historic
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recalling instead of the most commonly shared semiotic, occultist story.
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However, despite all efforts, the found sources told a convoluted story
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due to the misinterpretation of age, sources and authorship common in
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any ancient text on magic and mysticism (Dummett, 1993). As such, the
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following text will recall the disproven stories that were told about
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the origin of Tarot, some factual sourced material and a modern
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description of its usage.</p>
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<p>When we talk about Tarot cards we are talking about a deck of playing
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cards composed of ten numeral cards and four court cards (Jack, Knight,
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Queen and King) for each of the suits, Swords, Batons, Cups and Coins.
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Alongside these more common cards, Tarot includes 22 ‘trump’ cards with
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allegorical illustrations. The trumps form a sequence, usually numbered
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from 1 to 21, with the single card of The Fool being separated (Decker,
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Depaulis & Dummett, 1996). </p>
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<p>This specific deck of cards’ history begins at the bottom of a well
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in 1440’s Northern Italy, where we place its first appearance in
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history. From there we can easily find links to the common usage of
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these cards in Northern Italy; from Milano to Bologna e Ferrara (Steele,
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1900). These cards, initially called <em>Trionfi</em> and then
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<em>Tarocchi</em> are thought to have been intended for card games,
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regardless of their occasional usage in future-telling (Dummet,
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1993). This finding helps us trace a factual beginning of Tarot but
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leaves an open question to how these cards gained their place as the
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primary tool used in modern occultism and mysticism for cartomancy. </p>
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|
<figure>
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<img src="Visconti-Sforza-Tarot.jpg"
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alt="Image of the First Tarot Deck" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Image of the First Tarot
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Deck</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>While this is where the story began to get intricate, it can still be
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seen as the first wide spread future-telling performance appeared in
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France in the 18th century. At this point, the history of tarot began to
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be influenced by what each fortune teller imagined the history of the
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cards to be. To fully disclose this, I will first attempt to estimate
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the most notable occultists that used the cards and wrote historical
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notations about their deviance and then the stories they told about
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them.</p>
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<p>The first encounter we have between Tarot, magical theory and
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practice happens in the <em>Monde primitif,</em> an incredibly long
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essay about Tarot cards written in 1781 by Antoine Court de Gébelin.
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With this text, the pastor began what would be the endless repository of
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arcane esoteric wisdom within Tarot that will follow the cards for
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generations (Chisholm, 1911). In this text, Gébeling attributed the
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cards’ origin to ancient Egypt, a theory that is to this day, accepted
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as truthful. This belief was based on an erroneous link to “The Book of
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|
Thoth”, an ancient Egyptian text about magic that is believed to have
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been spread through Europe by Romans. This belief was then substantiated
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with a similar essay by Comte de Mellet (Decker,1993). Promptly, a
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Parisian fortune teller named Jean-Baptiste Alliette, professionally
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known as Etteilla, having found these theories, adapted the esoteric
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view of the cards to his own uses. He switched his own practice from
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traditional French piquet cartomancy to the use of a self-made Tarot
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card deck. This deck was based on the previously shared Hermetic
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ideologies and was named “The Book of Toth”(Decker,1993)</p>
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|
<figure>
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<img src="etteilla.jpg" alt="Image from Etteilla’s Deck" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Image from Etteilla’s Deck</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>The next fundamental spin that was applied to the cards’ background
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was done by Éliphas Levi, another French esoterist. Levi, repudiated
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Etteilla’s theory and integrated a version of the cards that were closer
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to the original than his own Cabalistic magical system. However
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historically mistaken was Levi’s understanding of the cards’ travel from
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Egypt to Judea into Jewish tradition, it nonetheless revolutionized the
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cards in ways that survived till today. His Cabalistic theory about
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signs being letters, letters being absolute ideas and absolute ideas
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|
being numbers can be seen in even modern iterations of tarot.</p>
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|
<p>From here on over, Tarot’s journey speeds up as the cards leave
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France and become absorbed into new esoteric movements like
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Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism and Spiritualism (Decker, Depaulis &
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Dummet, 1996).</p>
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<p>Before we make a jump through time to the next biggest relevant
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development of Tarot, I will share the last of the three false
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widespread theories about the origin of Tarot, the first two being Egypt
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and Judaism (despite its influence on modern tarot).</p>
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<p>This last theory is harder to trace back to one esoteric influence,
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but nonetheless claims a Chinese origin to the cards. Most likely, this
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is due to the similarity with the I Ching, a divination manual from
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around 1000 BC. The manual was grounded in cleromancy; the production of
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random numbers to predict divine intention. However, there is no
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traceable connection between Chinese cleromancy and Tarot divination.
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Modern analyses of Chinese Tarot divination draw direct correlation
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between Western occultism and Tarot divination, leaving little room to
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imagine any direct causation starting from China (Fu, Li, Lee,
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2002).</p>
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<p>For the purpose of this recalling but unsurprisingly for those
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familiar, the next big step will bring us to the late19th century in
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Britain, in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn was a
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secret society devoted to occult Hermetic Kabbalah and one of the
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largest single influences on Western occultism as a whole (Jenkins,
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2000). While the society itself had a wide curriculum including
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astrology, alchemy and geomancy (soil divination); our only concern at
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the moment is with their links to Tarot cards. In 1909, two mystics and
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members of the Golden Dawn, A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith published
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with the Rider Company a deck of re-made Tarot cards based on the
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society’s magic system. These cards, later known as the Ride-Waite Tarot
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(Dean, 2015). This deck was based on the Sola Busca deck, with symbolism
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being taken from Levi’s descriptions and Egyptian and Christian
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symbolism. This deck has become the paradigm and touchstone through
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which modern occultists think of Tarot. Between the distribution of this
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deck and the use of the cards in the Golden Dawn, it became axiomatic
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among followers many traditions of mysticism that the Tarot is an
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essential component of any occult science.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="Rider-Waite_Pents.jpg"
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alt="Image from the Raider-Waite deck" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Image from the Raider-Waite
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deck</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>Today, Tarot is emblematic and incredibly wide spread as the most
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common future-telling method and device. Tens and thousands of different
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formats exist, often falling under the category of Oracle cards and as
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such not having the clear formatting rules of Tarot but still
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implicating divination and self-reflection through the interpretation of
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allegorical illustration.</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Holographic Oracle Deck">
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<h1>Holographic Oracle Deck</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Holographic Oracle Deck">
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<p>:::::{#gossip .has-images}</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="image1.jpg"
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alt="Tittle Tattle; or The Feveral Branches of Gofsipping, British Museum Collection" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Tittle Tattle; or The Feveral Branches of
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Gofsipping, British Museum Collection</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h1 id="some-gossip-on-gossip-and-what-coffee-has-to-do-with-it.">Some
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Gossip on gossip and what coffee has to do with it.</h1>
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<p>Godsipp (God and sib (akin), godmother or godfather) was in the 12th
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century a word used for both men and women in fables and amongst
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society. The church recognized the word as well. It was used to name
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companions present at childbirth, just like the midwife. Sometimes, it
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was used to mention close friends. It represented the strong ties
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between women, which surpassed their relationship with their husbands.
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Was it witchery that strong and independent women preferred their gossip
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over their husbands? Well, that is something that hasn’t changed since
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the middle ages. </p>
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<figure>
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<img src="image2.jpg"
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alt="Tittle Tattle; or The Feveral Branches of Gofsipping, British Museum Collection" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Tittle Tattle; or The Feveral Branches of
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Gofsipping, British Museum Collection</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>“Godsipp” began its journey with nothing but good and emotionally
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strong connotations. Women bloomed and blossomed among each other and
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were autonomous in their existence. Men were never a part of this party
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women were throwing. By the 16th century, as things began to change, the
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traditional meaning lingered on. In 1602, the word was still used to
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signify female friendships. This can be seen in Samuel Rowlands’s
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<em>Tis Merrie When Gossips Meete</em>, a satirical piece describing
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three London women spending hours in a tavern talking about men and
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marriages. It implied that ‘women could create their social networks and
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their own social space’ and stand up to male authority(Federici, 2019).
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Solidarity and friendship amongst women were demeaned and
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female-exclusive parties were banned; women who met in public were
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identified as “witches” and women’s first duty was now to be obedient
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and quiet. The talk about husbands at taverns was too hurtful for the
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sensitive male ego that public, church and the law, forbid women to
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engage in “idle talk”. Centuries past, the sensitive male ego remains
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but now is attacking to mutilate women from many resources including
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cyberbullying, mobbing at the workspace and many more that tie to act
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violently in any sort. </p>
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<p>Wives who were seen as “scolds” and “witches” were forced under
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sadistic torture with a “scold bridle”. Looking back from today, I can’t
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help but see these sadistic, desperate acts as a meek scream of how men
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couldn’t get even close to satisfying women physically or mentally. If
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they spent some time working on female anatomy rather than these
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horrifying torture methods, we would be living in a different world
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today… </p>
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<p>Here is an excerpt from a song which portrays women in a tavern.
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These words on ale and wine are an ancient remedy for us to consider
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today when we are out drinking with our “gossips”:</p>
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<p>“In a 1630s song, Fowre wittie gossips disposed to be merry, a group
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of married women in a tavern debate the merits of ale and wine in
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relation to cost and value. They conclude, ‘If our opinions do not
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faile: / a quart twelve cups [of wine] containeth, / Its cheaper then a
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dozen of ale, / where froth and snuffes remaineth’. (‘Snuffes’ was the
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‘backwash’ left when, as was common, multiple people drank from a single
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vessel.) The wives also point out that the after-effects of drinking
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sack (a Spanish white wine) are much less injurious than those of
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drinking too much ale. In consequence, they will not suffer hangovers
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from drinking all night, as all their husbands are. (McShane,
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2016)” </p>
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<p>It was in this context that ‘gossip’ turned from a word of friendship
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and affection into a word of denigration and ridicule(Federici,
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2019).</p>
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<p><strong>So what does coffee have to do with it?</strong></p>
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<figure>
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<img src="image3.jpg" alt="kahvegibikahve.com/blog" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">kahvegibikahve.com/blog</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>Fortune telling over coffee stretches back to the 16th century when
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the beans made it to the Middle East and Ottoman Empire. The reality is
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that in the Ottoman Empire, concubines in Harem were banned from talking
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and “gossiping”. They had a great influence (although not officially
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recognized by men themselves) on sultans and therefore affected the
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political decisions and affairs of the Empire. Out of solidarity, women
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began to perform fortune-telling over the remains of coffee inside and
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outside coffee cups. This way they could talk about their fears and
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inner worlds freely. I can’t help but see the similarity with the
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oppression women went through of gossip. The striking difference is how
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fortune telling over coffee didn’t change its connotation in time.
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Today, it is also an act of solidarity or a chance to “gossip”, one
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might say. </p>
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<p>“In this painting, an Ottoman woman drinking coffee and her maid
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serving her is depicted. It is known that the painting is from the first
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half of the 18th century. The work of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, ‘Turkish
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Girl Drinking Coffee on the Sedir’ was based on this Ottoman woman, who
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is the main figure of the painting. The maid, who is positioned on the
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right side of the painting and serves on her knees, is noticed as the
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other interesting side of the painting. The large and ostentatious
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headdress on the head of the Ottoman woman stands out as another element
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that focuses attention on the work. It is also known that the headdress
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in question was inspired by the picture of a serpentine woman in the
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book of the Dutch painter Cornelis de Bruyn, who visited Turkey in the
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17th century.”</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="image4.jpg" alt="kahvegibikahve.com/blog" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">kahvegibikahve.com/blog</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>Whether with gossip or chatting over coffee, women have always found
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a way to express themselves regardless of oppression. These rituals were
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performed by women as an act of sisterhood and out of respect for both
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their inner worlds and each other. It is undeniable that gossip still
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brings people together and that centuries of oppression failed to change
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that. Through the centuries, as the word began to be weaponized against
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women and became a tool to turn against each other, I can’t help but
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wonder how unfair pop culture was to women. In any magazine or TV
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series, anyone can spot a gossip scene with negative consequences or
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aim. A woman is sassy, “bitchy” or evil when she gossips, but why do we
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still let our acts be defined by the misogynistic portrayal of men?
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Today, the word gossip or fortune telling may be used as something you
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wouldn’t want to be a part of because it could harm someone. Let’s
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oppose the negative connotation assigned to this word by men and use it
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as a joyful gathering. Reclaiming gossip and fortune telling as an
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intimate support system, a strong web, is the least we can do to honour
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the women who met at taverns and shared a part of their souls with each
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other.</p>
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<p>How to make the perfect Turkish coffee and some guides to
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fortune-telling:</p>
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<ol type="1">
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<li>Put two teaspoons of coffee in “cezve” the traditional pot. </li>
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<li>Add one cup of cold water to the pot. Mix once with the spoon. The
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ratio is one cup, and two teaspoons of coffee. </li>
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<li>Begin cooking at a low temperature until the top coat gets
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darker. </li>
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<li>Cook at a high temperature until the point where the coffee begins
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rising. </li>
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<li>Take the pot off the oven right before it overflows. </li>
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<li>Take the foamy part with a teaspoon and put it in the cup before
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pouring the rest. This will protect the foam. The foam is important for
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quality check 😊</li>
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</ol>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="click-click">
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<h1>click-click</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="click-click">
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<div id="holo-deck" class="has-images">
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<h1 id="holographic-oracle-deck">Holographic Oracle Deck</h1>
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<h2
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|
id="crystals-energy-is-a-holographic-oracle-deck-exploring-a-range-of-energy-sources-through-the-magical-mystical-nature-of-crystals-as-energy-storing-matter">‘Crystals
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& Energy’ is a holographic oracle deck exploring a range of energy
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sources through the magical (mystical) nature of crystals as
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energy-storing matter</h2>
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<p>‘Crystals & Energy’ is a holographic oracle deck exploring a
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range of energy sources through the magical (mystical) nature of
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crystals and minerals as energy-storing matter.</p>
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|
<p>Lidia and Artemis, Special Issue 20 guest editors, asked us to modify
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an oracle deck of our choice. We, Cara and Boyana, prototyped a
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holographic oracle deck where a type of crystal is coupled with a type
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of energy resource in a single card in an attempt to talk about the
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global energy crisis we are facing today. It (the deck) provides an
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educational experience through the use of a DIY prism and complimentary
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audiovisual materials, together serving as an immersive learning
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environment.</p>
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|
<p>After a quick research, we decided to couple Aquamarine and Liquified
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Natural Gas (LNG) which we thought would fit nicely as a first example
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of such a card.</p>
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|
<p>Why Aquamarine? It looks like water that has been crystallised;
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|
stored energy; compression; solidified; being put under pressure or
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|
exposed to a specific temperature so that it changes its state (from
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|
liquid to solid). Why LNG? It is natural gas that has been liquified;
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|
compressed; liquified; being put under pressure or exposed to a specific
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temperature so it changes its state (from gas to liquid); stores energy
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that can be channelled later.</p>
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|
<p>Then, we wrote a short poem weaving the two elements into the
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everyday narrative. Later this poem served as a script to create a voice
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|
narration (one-minute-long audio piece) that went into the video
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|
creation process. Although the final text is a slight deviation from our
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|
initial idea, we felt inspired by the conversation we had with Steve
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|
earlier that day. He talked about his childhood memories of collecting
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rocks in notebooks, perhaps similar to what geologists do when they
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document their discoveries. He also mentioned a few things about caverns
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|
and a mine (later turned into a museum) located near the city where he
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used to live.</p>
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|
<p>To visualise the card, we used a hologram video maker app. The
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process was easy and fun. All we had to do was simply find a hi-res
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image of the Aquamarine crystal on a black surface and upload it into
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|
the app. Lastly, we made a model of a pyramid prism so that we can
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demonstrate the prototype fully. To get the full holographic effect, we
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had to put it on top of a phone screen and play the video, which we
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uploaded on YouTube and embedded the link onto a website.</p>
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|
<p>We saw in this prototype a potential to provide new knowledge, create
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an engaging and fun learning experience around energy sources, and add a
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|
sense of magic to everyday life. By combining these different elements,
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|
we were hoping to create an unusual experience that can help people
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better understand and appreciate the importance of energy sources and
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sustainability. It will be interesting to see how our prototype evolves
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and what kind of impact it could have on people’s perceptions of these
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topics.</p>
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|
<p><img src="Aquamarine-Poem.jpg" alt="Aquamarine Poem" /> <img
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|
src="Diamond-holo.jpg" alt="Diamond" /> <img src="Earth-holo.jpg"
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|
alt="Earth" /> <img src="Jellyfish-holo.jpg" alt="Jellyfish" /> <img
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|
|
src="LNG-and-Aquamarine.jpg" alt="LNG and Aquamarine" /> <img
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|
|
src="UFO-holo.jpg" alt="UFO" /></p>
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|
</div>
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|
</section>
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|
<section class="section" id="Fruitual (fruit + ritual)">
|
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|
<h1>Fruitual (fruit + ritual)</h1>
|
|
|
</section>
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|
|
<section class="section" id="Fruitual (fruit + ritual)">
|
|
|
<div id="click-click" class="has-images">
|
|
|
<h1
|
|
|
id="click-click-the-clicking-game---a-matter-of-accumulation">click-click,
|
|
|
the clicking game - a matter of accumulation</h1>
|
|
|
<h2 id="clicking-game">clicking game</h2>
|
|
|
<p>A couple of months ago, I didn’t even know clicking games existed.
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|
|
When I played for the first time, I couldn’t understand why people were
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|
|
intrigued enough to devote themselves to clicking, and I still struggle
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|
|
to understand it. I wanted to create a clicking game that would
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|
|
highlight the act of clicking to the player through the interface of the
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|
|
screen. People would see a hand clicking on their screen and then at the
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|
|
next stage a person in front of a screen (with a hand clicking) clicking
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|
|
etc. My poor java script skills didn’t allow me to realise my initial
|
|
|
idea, so eventually I came up with really simple version of the
|
|
|
click_click game. People click on the click button that makes a “click”
|
|
|
sound. Every time they click, a new button is generated. The aim is to
|
|
|
click and accumulate bricks. A repetitive performance. You click you
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|
|
gain. The game ends when you fill your screen and build a wall out of
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|
|
click buttons. Then the screen clears automatically and a small victory
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|
|
message appears. What happens when the only function to be performed is
|
|
|
clicking? Nothing I guess.</p>
|
|
|
<figure>
|
|
|
<img src="click.png" alt="the click wall" />
|
|
|
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">the click wall</figcaption>
|
|
|
</figure>
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
|
|
</section>
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
<section class="section" id="Long Time">
|
|
|
<h1>Long Time</h1>
|
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
<section class="section" id="Long Time">
|
|
|
<section id="fruitual" class="has-images">
|
|
|
<h1>Fruitual</h1>
|
|
|
<h2 id="text-adventre-game">text adventre game</h2>
|
|
|
<p>Creating a text adventure game is no easy feat. It takes a lot of
|
|
|
time, creativity, trial and error. The key to creating an interesting
|
|
|
game is putting yourself in the player’s shoes and making sure there are
|
|
|
plenty of fun twists and turns along the way.</p>
|
|
|
<p>I decided to keep my game simple and tell a linear story. I used a
|
|
|
web engine called Twine (twinery.org, an open-source tool for telling
|
|
|
interactive, nonlinear stories) to help generate the game’s storyline,
|
|
|
and I adapted the script from a Bulgarian fairytale (“The Most Precious
|
|
|
Fruit”). But things didn’t always go smoothly. When the python script
|
|
|
started generating the wrong messages for players who strayed from the
|
|
|
script, I tried to find solutions on StackOverflow, but it was all too
|
|
|
complicated for me.</p>
|
|
|
<p>In the end, the game took me around 6-7 hours to make, including
|
|
|
writing, coding, mapping, editing, and lots of trial-and-error. It was a
|
|
|
great learning experience, but it also taught me that game development
|
|
|
can be tough if you don’t have much coding experience. I had to approach
|
|
|
it more from a writer’s perspective and figure out the coding later.</p>
|
|
|
<p>I learned that game development is an iterative process, and
|
|
|
sometimes your initial ideas might be more complex than what you end up
|
|
|
with. It’s all part of the journey. Before starting this project, I had
|
|
|
no idea text adventure games even existed, but now I’m happy to say I’ve
|
|
|
made one in just a few weeks. Lastly, I would like to express my
|
|
|
appreciation for the guidance and support provided by our prototyping
|
|
|
tutors in the development of these projects.</p>
|
|
|
<p>(“The Most Precious Fruit”,
|
|
|
https://fairytalez.com/the-most-precious-fruit/)</p>
|
|
|
<figure>
|
|
|
<img src="twine-map.png" alt="Twine" />
|
|
|
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Twine</figcaption>
|
|
|
</figure>
|
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
|
|
</section>
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<section class="section" id="Papa Louie’s Ghosteria">
|
|
|
<h1>Papa Louie’s Ghosteria</h1>
|
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
<section class="section" id="Papa Louie’s Ghosteria">
|
|
|
<div id="tetris" class="has-images">
|
|
|
<h1 id="long-time">Long Time</h1>
|
|
|
<h2 id="six-sigma-fortune-telling">Six Sigma Fortune Telling</h2>
|
|
|
<p>The future cannot be predicted with certainty, but our current
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|
|
understanding in various scientific fields means we can predict some
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|
|
far-future events, if only in the broadest outline. These fields include
|
|
|
astrophysics, particle physics, evolutionary biology, plate tectonics
|
|
|
and sociology. The far future begins after the end of the current
|
|
|
millennium, in 3001 CE, which is the start of the 4th millennium, and
|
|
|
continues until the furthest reaches of future time. This timeline
|
|
|
includes alternative future events that address unresolved scientific
|
|
|
questions, and is in fact not six sigma accurate at all.</p>
|
|
|
<p>This timeline (based on Wikipedia’s <a
|
|
|
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future">Timeline
|
|
|
of the Far Future</a>) claims to make accurate predictions far into the
|
|
|
future at timescales that are difficult to comprehend; beyond our
|
|
|
lifetimes, beyond the death of the earth, beyond the death of atoms. The
|
|
|
scientific method claims to have an intense relationship to the material
|
|
|
world which is “orders of magnitude” more accurate than other ways of
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|
|
interacting with and understanding where we are. The scientist often
|
|
|
pits themself as “against” the fortune-teller, the tarot reader, or the
|
|
|
mystic, and yet they make even bigger claims about our collective
|
|
|
future. Is there any way to disprove the scientist’s method in their own
|
|
|
mind?</p>
|
|
|
<p>This web-based game attempts to highlight the uselessness of this
|
|
|
approach. Sometimes a human can have no effect on the extreme truth that
|
|
|
science offers, or to put it more usefully, sometimes science has
|
|
|
nothing to offer humans. This timeline uses scientific and objective
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|
|
distance to avoid the most inevitable and obvious event in the future:
|
|
|
your own death. Death is non-relational: no one can die in one’s place,
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|
|
and we cannot understand our own death through the death of others
|
|
|
(Heidegger, Being and Time, 1962). Just like the scientist, the
|
|
|
philosopher doesn’t have much to offer solace here. So where do we go to
|
|
|
talk about death?</p>
|
|
|
<figure>
|
|
|
<img src="long-time-1.jpg" alt="The future" />
|
|
|
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">The future</figcaption>
|
|
|
</figure>
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<section class="section" id="Sims Mod">
|
|
|
<h1>Sims Mod</h1>
|
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
<section class="section" id="Sims Mod">
|
|
|
<hr />
|
|
|
<p>title: Fortnite author: Stephen</p>
|
|
|
<hr />
|
|
|
<div id="fortnite" class="has-images">
|
|
|
<h1
|
|
|
id="sometimes-the-world-as-it-is-and-the-world-as-it-could-be-are-devastatingly-close-to-each-other.">Sometimes
|
|
|
the world as it is and the world as it could be are devastatingly close
|
|
|
to each other.</h1>
|
|
|
<p>Is there any point in imagining something that is so similar to the
|
|
|
nightmare we already live in? The future is a dream but it’s just that
|
|
|
dream where you remember putting your keys somewhere, but where? You’re
|
|
|
wandering around looking for them for what feels like hours. Whether it
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|
|
was real or not isn’t important, you were still there. Why do we stay
|
|
|
here? What’s even here for us? If you don’t get them first, they’ll get
|
|
|
you. Then you wake up and you still can’t find the fucking keys. But
|
|
|
sometimes it’s sunny and you’re standing there and there’s something
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|
|
cinematic about the whole thing, is it worth it just to be there for
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|
|
that maybe. There’s really no difference between a dream about falling
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|
|
and a dream about flying.</p>
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
<div class="hide-on-web">
|
|
|
<p>You search the entire planet, all seven planets, drinking every last
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|
|
drop, and still no fucking keys. You’re just watching the whole thing
|
|
|
anyway so enjoy it, I guess. If you get the rifle you can use the scope
|
|
|
on it to see things in the distance, but then again, maybe you don’t
|
|
|
need to see that far. The start is always the best part. Maybe I left
|
|
|
them in the bathroom? Can I help them, even one of them? They are all so
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|
|
busy killing each other I don’t think they can hear. The forests are
|
|
|
beautiful here. One time I sat down with some of the bots and really got
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|
|
to know them. Until the players arrive they just sit there together,
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|
|
chatting. They’re really nice actually. And then a player ran up beside
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|
|
us, saw that we weren’t trying to hurt them, and left. Maybe they were
|
|
|
helped, or changed somehow.</p>
|
|
|
<p>The only reason I’m still here is because you’re still here.</p>
|
|
|
<p>🚶</p>
|
|
|
<p><img src="fortnite-10.jpg" alt="screenshot from Fortnite" /> <img
|
|
|
src="fortnite-9.jpg" alt="screenshot from Fortnite" /> <img
|
|
|
src="fortnite-8.jpg" alt="screenshot from Fortnite" /> <img
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|
|
src="fortnite-7.jpg" alt="screenshot from Fortnite" /> <img
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|
src="fortnite-6.jpg" alt="screenshot from Fortnite" /> <img
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|
src="fortnite-3.jpg" alt="screenshot from Fortnite" /> <img
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|
src="fortnite-2.jpg" alt="screenshot from Fortnite" /> <img
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|
src="fortnite-1.jpg" alt="screenshot from Fortnite" /> <img
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|
|
src="fortnite-0.jpg" alt="screenshot from Fortnite" /></p>
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|
|
</div>
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|
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Youtube Tarot">
|
|
|
<h1>Youtube Tarot</h1>
|
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
<section class="section" id="Youtube Tarot">
|
|
|
<div id="papa-louie" class="has-images">
|
|
|
<h1 id="papa-louies-ghosteria">Papa Louie’s Ghosteria</h1>
|
|
|
<h2
|
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id="papa-louies-ghosteria-is-a-comic-like-fan-fiction-written-by-us.">Papa
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Louie’s Ghosteria is a comic-like fan fiction written by us.</h2>
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<p>Following a discussion about the texts ‘Notes on Deconstructing The
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Popular’ by Stuart Hall and ‘Game Modding: Cross-Over Mutation and
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Unwelcome Gifts’ from The Player’s Power to Change the Game by
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Anne-Marie Schleiner, we started dissecting the ideology behind the
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games we have played as children. To do that, we utilised several
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prompts to help us examine the ideology that two popular video games
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enforce through their narrative and gameplay. The list of questions we
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needed to answer while playing the game includes:</p>
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<p>What are the win conditions? If the game is quest based, what types
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of quests are you asked to complete? What is the gameplay? What is the
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narrative? How much space is there for alternative ways of playing this
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game? What is missing? What type of relationships are you allowed to
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form? What is the role of non-player characters? What are the
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requirements for surviving the game? Which behaviours are rewarded? What
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real-world values are reproduced in the game you are playing? How are
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you situated in the hierarchy of the game? What change in status is
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promised? What are you being trained for? What fantasies are lived out
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or explored?</p>
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<p>Our team, Irmak, Ada and Boyana, worked on the famous Papa Louie:
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When Pizzas Attack. Soon after we started investigating the game, its
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elements and modifications, we discovered that other players had already
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written heaps of fan fiction about it. We were bewitched by the
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multitude of stories fans have written and the really good memes they
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have created about Papa and his businesses. Yes, plural. Papa’s
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Freezeria. Sushiria. Donuteria. Burgeria. PanCakeria. CupCakeria. Taco
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Mia. Taco Mia To Go. You name it.</p>
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<p>After spending some time analysing the ideology behind the game, we
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discovered a few elements that reinforce a capitalist narrative, such as
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the need to fight to survive and collect coins to purchase weapons. In
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response, we decided to create a new version of the game with a
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storyline that focuses on healing and coping as a response to grief and
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loss, rather than violence. To link the new storyline to SI20’s topic we
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added ritualistic elements as actions during the gameplay.</p>
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<p>What was changed was the topic, purpose and outcome of the game. Papa
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no longer fought to save his customers, but he dealt with his own loss
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and grief over what happened. Our version promoted rest and rituals for
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healing instead of revenge-seeking, violence and toxic pizzeria
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culture.</p>
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<p>We started by putting some keywords and suggestions on a blackboard
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about “How To Cope With Grief” and “How to Use Rituals and Ceremonies to
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Overcome Grief” to define what Papa Louie lost and what rituals could
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help him heal.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="papa-louie-story.jpg" alt="The Storyboard" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">The Storyboard</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>We then made a comic-like storyboard that visualised the new
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narrative for Papa Louie’s Ghosteria. To create a few scenes depicting
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some of the 5 levels we outlined, we used an app called Papa Louie Pals.
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The images turned out pretty nice! Playing around with the app was fun
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mainly because it allowed us to materialise our idea in just a couple of
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hours.</p>
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<p>The gameplay revolves around things Papa lost and the needs he needs
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to fulfil. Different types of losses are organised into the five levels
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of the game:</p>
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<ol type="1">
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<li>loss of safety (innocence, physical safety)</li>
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<li>loss of community (clients, belonging)</li>
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<li>loss of future (hope, dreams)</li>
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<li>loss of identity (dignity, making things himself)</li>
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<li>loss of labour (money, time, effort, pizza)</li>
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</ol>
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<p>To cope with grief Papa Louie performed various rituals, each
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unlocking a new stage in his grieving process and healing from that
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loss. Rituals thus are the actions players needed to execute at each
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level.</p>
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<p>And so our story went like this: The Onion ring mafia kidnapped Papa
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Louie’s clients, and he lost his Pizzeria. However, along with this
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external change, he lost his identity as a pizza owner/maker. He was
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full of grief and seeked ways to cope with grief and ease himself. He
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tried different rituals throughout this process, built his new identity
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and overcame his troubles.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="papa-louie-final.jpg" alt="The Comic" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">The Comic</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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<p>::::: ## Papa Louie’s Text-Adventure Healing</p>
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<p>Following this comic production, a small text-adventure Pyhton game
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was developed following the same storyline. The game was fundamentally
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an explorative game, in which the player could follow four levels of
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healing. Playing as Papa Louie and helping him heal his shattered soul,
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the player would go in each room and type “take” or “carry” to pick up
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possibilties for healing. The possbilities for each room were:</p>
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<pre><code>1. empty pizzeria: [closure,catharsis, anger]
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2. living room: [connection,understanding,support]
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3. study room: [expression,hope,new experiences]
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4. bedroom: [self-discovery,self-care]
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5. kitchen: [work,nourishment,purpose].</code></pre>
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<p>Once one had picked up enough healing chances, the game would end and
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thank you for healing papa. The following picture shows the introductory
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illustration.</p>
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<p><img src="healinggame.png" alt="The Game" /> :::::</p>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Tetris Fantasies">
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<h1>Tetris Fantasies</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Tetris Fantasies">
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<hr />
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<p>title: Peace, Monday Morning Ritual by Cara author: Cara</p>
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<hr />
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<section id="peace" class="has-images">
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<h1>Peace</h1>
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<p><strong><em>Peace</em></strong> is a mindfulness game Cara created as
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an in-class exercise in creating text adventures in python. The game can
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be broken at any time by saying “I am now at peace”, but will also break
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if you simply type “peace.”</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="dovecara.jpg"
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alt="Duif met kroon by Claude Mellan 1608 - 1688, courtesy of the Rijksmuseum’s Free Archive." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Duif met kroon by Claude Mellan 1608 -
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1688, courtesy of the Rijksmuseum’s Free Archive.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p><strong><em>Peace</em></strong> works less as a game per-se, and more
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as an exercise in reconnecting to your senses (smell, temperature,
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touch) by imagining oneself in imaginary landscapes. It takes on the
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text-adventure format by asking its players to respond “yes” to continue
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at each step.</p>
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<p>Here is an excerpt:</p>
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<pre><code>You are wearing thin cotton. Can you feel the warm ground through the layer
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Can you feel the warmth of the sun on your face?</code></pre>
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<p><strong><em>if yes, then…</em></strong></p>
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<pre><code>The smell of lavender and warm soil is thick in the air.
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The flowers are so full.
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When you just touch them,
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it feels like they burst with beads of lavender oil.
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Their nectar is sweet.
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The air is clear.
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The sky is blue.
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There are no clouds.
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There is only sun and peace and lavender.
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Would you like to explore another daydream?</code></pre>
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<p><strong><em>if yes, then… and so on</em></strong></p>
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<p>You can find the game on our website.</p>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Super(de)construction">
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<h1>Super(de)construction</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Super(de)construction">
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<div id="sims" class="has-images">
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<h1 id="the-player-is-the-author">The Player is the Author</h1>
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<p>In The Sims™ 4 some values are certainly given by the game; make
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money to buy nicer things, progress in your career by doing tasks that
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improve your skills, charisma is a skill but not kindness. But also
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ideology is put into the game by the player. The player chooses what to
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reproduce and often share in the “gallery” or on social media. In
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contrast with what has been said by game design theorists in the past
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(Aarseth, 2004), the narrative power and “richness of character” of a
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game like The Sims™ 4 lies precisely in the freedom left open to the
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players. “The positive potential of authorship” come precisely from the
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malleability and user control, once you see that the player is the
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author. Community being so important in this game then means that the
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crux of the social reproduction is happening when the choices you have
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made in the game are broadcasted. Did you create a heteronormative white
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thin nuclear family that made a lot of money? Or did you choose to play
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differently?</p>
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<p>The development of this community has also led to a strong culture of
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modding or rewriting the game’s actual code to change appearance,
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performance and behavoior.This brings the power of authorship even more
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into the hands of the players and users.</p>
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<p>In a spirit of respect and love for this community we have published
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Console as downloadable content for The Sims™ 4, find out more on
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issue.xpub.nl/20</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="sims.png" alt="Console in Sims" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Console in Sims</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="The Wheel of Fortune">
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<h1>The Wheel of Fortune</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="The Wheel of Fortune">
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<div id="worry-dolls" class="has-images">
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<h1 id="youtube-tarot">YouTube Tarot</h1>
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<h2 id="youtube-comments-as-tarot-readings">YouTube comments as Tarot
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readings</h2>
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<p>The question for me (Irmak) at the beginning was why people feel the
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need to know the future or their oracles that they go on YouTube and
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subscribe to a channel there. Knowing the future made me anxious when
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for many people it is something to look forward to or head towards. For
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Ada, the answer to that question was simple. Everyone needs some clarity
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and a sense of belonging and safety and it’s better and easier to
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believe when told by someone else. The problem we were facing was then
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about, how can a performance so intimate and personal be transferred
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online for thousands to see. Doesn’t that strip the whole act of the
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tarot reading of its authenticity or specificity to you? Once you have
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someone read your tarot online, you are exposed to advertisement and
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capitalism in a very ironic sense. The sole reason you are there is to
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have a peaceful and perhaps sentimental moment with yourself, however,
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you are interrupted by unintended messages.</p>
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<p>Moving from these discussions, we searched for the answers in the
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comments below certain tarot videos. Many commenters mentioned how their
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life changed after the reading, how their luck came back and their work
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life improved, or how the reading helped them get their life straight.
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This was a community that needed tarot and used it as a remedy. In the
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end, we decided to use some of these comments as the interpretation of
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some cards. The main themes in the comments were luck, love and work. We
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picked three comments for each theme and made tarot cards for them with
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a divination board. We modified the illustrations on existing tarot
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cards and renamed them according to the commenters’ names.</p>
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<p>The divination board: <img src="001.jpg"
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alt="The Divination Board" /> <img src="002.jpg" alt="Cards on love" />
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<img src="003.jpg" alt="Cards on luck" /> <img src="004.jpg"
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alt="Cards on work" /> <img src="005.jpg" alt="Cards on work" /> <img
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src="006.jpg" alt="Cards on work" /></p>
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<p>Part of the dictionary of YouTube Tarot cards: <img src="007.jpg"
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alt="The Cassandra" /> <img src="008.jpg" alt="The Bella Vita" /> <img
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src="009.jpg" alt="Vibing" /> <img src="010.jpg"
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alt="Help get gas price down" /> <img src="011.jpg" alt="The Jessica" />
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<img src="012.jpg" alt="The dhananjai" /> <img src="013.jpg"
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alt="The Hummingbird" /></p>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="The Wheel of Fortune">
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<h1>The Wheel of Fortune</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="The Wheel of Fortune">
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<div id="tetris" class="has-images">
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<h1 id="tetris-fantasies">Tetris Fantasies</h1>
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<h3 id="death-geometry-and-the-structure-of-the-individual">Death,
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Geometry and the Structure of the Individual</h3>
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<p>Tetris is a game where a single player is encouraged to organise the
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chaos given to them from above, a limited space for play of ten by
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twenty units leads to a limited ability to approach the perfection
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implied by the simple shapes that are encountered in the world (always a
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collection of four squares, in their seven permutations). The harnesses
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of time and gravity make perfection impossible in this world; instead
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the player can only attempt, approach, increase their efficiency. A
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life’s function approaching the limit, there is no way to win, only to
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get higher and higher scores, to live as long as possible through
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increased throughput. Death is inevitable in Tetris, and each passing
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block seems to come faster than the last. Why does it feel like
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everything just keeps getting harder?</p>
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<p>There are many squares to be organised in tetris, an infinite number
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apparently, but there is only one player organising them. Other people
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can only be seen by this individual in faint ghosts; their high scores
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that are there only to be beaten. And the current player can only hope
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to reach those people through leaving their own mark on the high score
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table. Employee-of-the-month, world’s-best-mom. But maybe there is an
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alternative, a world where there is more to each falling tetromino than
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simply an obstacle to be overcome, a problem to be solved. Maybe there
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is a story behind the fatal pixels, a bigger space than the 10 x 20 grid
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on the screen. Maybe there are humans out there with more to them than
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what they produce.</p>
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<p>This fanfic takes the form of a series of hand-drawn illustrations
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depicting fantastical tetris pieces, each of which is accompanied by a
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fragment of a story. The cards can be read and arranged in any order,
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intentionally removing the linear and framed limits of the original
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tetris, although the illustration and text on any one card have a
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relationship to eachother of some sort.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="tetris-documentation-1.jpg" alt="hand drawn tetris fanfic" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">hand drawn tetris fanfic</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<figure>
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<img src="tetris-documentation-2.jpg"
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alt="printed fanfic: imagined four-sided realities" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">printed fanfic: imagined four-sided
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realities</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<!--  -->
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<figure>
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<img src="tetris-documentation-4.png"
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alt="imagining a tetris without labour" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">imagining a tetris without
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labour</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Oracolotto">
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<h1>Oracolotto</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Oracolotto">
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<p>:::::{#Super(de)construction .has-images} # Super(de)construction ##
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text adventure game</p>
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<p>My text-adventure game was (first and foremost a struggle and) an
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attempt to dive a little bit into the world of python and deal
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peacefully with the potential trauma of coding. The first unsuccessful
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try started by making a map on paper with all the possible rooms,
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corridors, spaces and the potential inputs of the player. It was proved
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to be a too ambitious plan though. So this was the time when the
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super(de)construction game was born! My intention was to make a fan
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fiction text adventure game(!) of the marxist superstructure theory.
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There are three basic rooms where the player can navigate : the
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Base-ment, the Apparatus and the Megaroom. People can grab specific
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"objects" from each room and check their inventory (for example you can
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have unpaidlabour, church, mostlywhitemen from base-ment, apparatus and
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megaroom respectively in the same bag!). The aim of the game is to
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accumulate enough points in order to bring eventually the revolution and
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win. The fermentation and the radicalization happen only in the
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base-ment.</p>
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<p>Will you be part of the revolutionary class?</p>
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<p><img src="superdeconstruction.png" alt="Welcome message" /> :::::</p>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Fiction Friction">
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<h1>Fiction Friction</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Fiction Friction">
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<div id="wheel-of-fortune" class="has-images">
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<h1 id="the-wheel-of-fortune">The Wheel of Fortune</h1>
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<h2 id="a-tool-for-self-inquiry">a tool for self-inquiry</h2>
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<p>The Wheel of Fortune (not to be mistaken with the tarot card) is a
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tool for self-inquiry that you, dear reader, can engage in daily, weekly
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or at any frequency that suits you best. Beware: the game can be played
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individually or in small groups.</p>
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<p>The main components of the game are a virtual spinning wheel,
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accessible at issue.xpub.nl/20/wheel , a deck of 20 photo slides, a
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notebook, and a pen(cil) to store the potential insights you might find
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for yourself.</p>
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<p>To start the exercise, you need to visit the website and spin the
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virtual wheel. The Wheel of Fortune spins for quite some time, and then
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it gives you a random question. Take these questions as an invitation to
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have an explorative conversation with yourself. The list of 404
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questions is carefully collected, modified (where needed) and presented
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to you through a random web generator. Psychotherapists, philosophers,
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writers, and students from XPUB 2023 are among the authors of this long
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list of sentences ending with “?”.</p>
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<p>Another collection that can help you delve deeper into your inner
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world is a deck of photo slides. Hopefully, these captured memories of
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other people, paired with a random question on the screen, would evoke
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new emotions or prompt you to imagine possible futures.</p>
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<p>The use of collective resources in this piece highlights the power of
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collaboration in creating works that encourage people to engage in
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self-reflection and introspection. As such, it may contribute to any art
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publication exploring the human experience.</p>
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<p>Courtesy to: Casey Horner (https://unsplash.com/<span
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class="citation"
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data-cites="mischievous_penguins">@mischievous_penguins</span>)</p>
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<p>Excerpt from the 404 Questionnaire: What do you want? Why do you do
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what you do each day? What do you think you’re here for? What are you
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doing with this day, today? What are you searching for? What are you
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looking at? Have you learned something new today? This week? What
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filters would you apply to your mood right now if it was an analogue
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film frame? Is this what you really want to do or it is your way of
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delaying your realisation? What would your day look like if you were a
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pirate? If you could be any animal for a day, which one would you choose
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and why? If you could be any animal for a day, how would you experience
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the world differently? Do you speak horse language? (wild question) If
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you were Kim, who would that person be? (wild question) What does your
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body need today? What does your mind need today? What does your soul
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need today? If your life was a treasure hunt, what would you be
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searching for? What is your personality? What would a person that loves
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you tell you if know you’re suffering? If you were in search of a new
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identity, what clues would you need to find it? If you could see the
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world through the eyes of any animal, which one would you choose and
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why? If you were a pirate, what kind of treasure would you be searching
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for? If you were a pirate, what obstacles would you face on your
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journey? If you owned a boat, to which destination you would go first
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and why? Think of your favourite food. How does it make you feel when
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looking at it? And when eating it? What is one “yes” that you’ve been
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ignoring lately? What advice would you give to someone else who is
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experiencing loss? What emotions have you been experiencing lately? How
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has my relationship with others changed in the last 5 years? How have my
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thoughts and beliefs about life and death changed in the last 5 years?
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What positive memories can you hold on to about a person you’ve lost?
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What activities or hobbies bring me comfort in times of grief? How can
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you take care of yourself during difficult times? What were the 6 things
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you wanted to be when you were a kid? What is time? How can you describe
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it? What is beauty? How can you describe it? What is happiness? How can
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you describe it? What is love? How can you describe it? What is faith?
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How can you describe it? What is hope? How can you describe it? What is
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fear? How can you describe it? What is play? How can you describe it?
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What is a ritual? How can you describe it? What is a game? How can you
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describe it? How does your body feel when you are in pain? How does your
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body feel when you are in love? How does your body feel when you are
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anxious? Do you talk negatively to yourself? Are you mean to yourself?
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If yes, why? If not, also why? Think of all your past partners. What are
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some qualities and traits they had in common? Is sex usually the best
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aspect of a relationship or the worst for you? What do your friends say
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about your partners? Did you ever have any kind of unwanted touch from a
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friend, a partner or a family member? Did you ever have any kind of
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unwanted touch from a stranger? What does sex mean for you? How does sex
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make you feel? What words, metaphors or images do you associate with
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sex? What is your attitude towards your body? Do you have any tendencies
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for self-sabotage, procrastination or self-doubt? Have you tried to get
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advice, help or guidance from professionals? Do you sometimes feel like
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a victim? How much sex is normal for you? Were your first sexual
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experiences positive or negative? How did you learn about sexuality?
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What are your values around sexuality? What losses have you experienced
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in your life, and how have you coped with them in the past? What
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self-care practices can you incorporate into your daily routine to help
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you cope with grief? What self-care practices can you incorporate into
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your daily routine to help you cope with anxiety? What new perspectives
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have you gained about life as a result of loss in the past? What
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triggers your feelings of grief, and how can you manage them when they
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arise? How has your sense of identity been affected by a loss? How can
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you stay connected to someone you lost even though they are no longer
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physically present? What role does forgiveness play in your healing
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process after experiencing loss? What can you do to take care of your
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physical health during times of grieving? How can you create a support
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network that will help you through difficult times? What have your
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friends taught you about friendship? What have your friends taught you
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about life? What have your friends taught you about love? What have your
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parents taught you about friendship? What ideas have changed your life?
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What subconscious behaviours are keeping you from the life you want? In
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which direction has your life expanded in the last five years? Are you
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afraid of being who you truly are? Have you adapted to a certain way of
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thinking? Do you suppress your feelings? Have your thoughts been chosen
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for you? Who do you trust? Why? Have you forced yourself to forget
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something painful? What is art for?</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="wheel-wip.png" alt="Wheel website, work in progress" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Wheel website, work in
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progress</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="SIXX license">
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<h1>SIXX license</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="SIXX license">
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<div id="wheel-of-fortune" class="has-images">
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<h1 id="the-wheel-of-fortune-manual">The Wheel of Fortune — Manual</h1>
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<p>“Welcome, my dear! This exercise is all about healing, about
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reconnecting with what is essential and authentic within yourself. By
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understanding the true nature of our suffering, we can evoke compassion
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for ourselves as we move through uncomfortable feelings on the path to
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healing and peace.</p>
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<p>Prerequisites: Before you begin, there are a few things you will
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need. Firstly, you must have a strong intention to commit to this
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exercise for some time. Secondly, find a quiet room free of
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distractions, and finally, get a notebook and pen. Handwriting will
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engage your mind more actively and profoundly, help you connect with
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yourself, and enable the tracing of your progress over time.</p>
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<p>I will be guiding you through a series of carefully selected
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questions written by different authors, some are well-known, and others
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will remain unknown. To begin the exercise, spin the Wheel of Fortune
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located at issue.xpub.nl/20/wheel After a few seconds, a question will
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appear on the screen. Then, take a photo slide from the deck and hold it
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to the screen. Think about that question by looking at it and the tiny
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film together like friends. If you feel like writing your thoughts, you
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can use the tiny notepad made just for you.</p>
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<p>These photo slides are there to help you dive deeper into your inner
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world. Use them to explore moments in your life that you may not have
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fully processed or understood. As you reflect on these images and answer
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the questions, you may gain new insights and perspectives about yourself
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and your life.</p>
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<p>Enjoy the journey! Console”</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Colophon">
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<h1>Colophon</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Colophon">
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<p>:::::</p>
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<p><em>Those who dream of drinking wine may weep when morning comes;
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those who dream of weeping may in the morning go off to hunt. While they
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are dreaming they do not know it is a dream, and in their dream they may
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even try to interpret a dream. Only after they wake do they know it was
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a dream. And someday there will be a great awakening when we know that
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this is all a great dream.</em></p>
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<p><em>And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Zhuàngzi</strong></p>
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<p><strong>莊子</strong></p>
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<h1 id="preface">✧ Preface</h1>
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<p>Have you ever woken up feeling like there is a word on the tip of
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your tongue, in a language you don’t quite understand?</p>
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<p>It’s the feeling you feel when a dream leaves too quickly after you
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wake up, like a regretful lover. You grasp and reach out, but it’s gone
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and you forget something so fundamentally important that your stomach
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caves into itself.</p>
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<p>This deck of oracle cards invites you to go back into that cave, that
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pit. Back to the start of that word. Tarot and oracle cards are always
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tools for self-exploration, but the Oracolotto invites you to travel
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deep into the subconscious realm of your dreams.</p>
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<p>Oracolotto includes twenty-one cards and one guidebook. The cards
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follow the paved journey of Tarot’s major arcana, but do not be fooled
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by the numbers – they will not give you insight into the path. You do
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not need prior knowledge to use these cards, only the ability to dream
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and a soul – your own or the soul of another.</p>
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<p>The Oracolotto cards present illustrations of collective dream
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archetypes, as delineated by Neapolitan tradition. While the cards
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symbolically follow the traditional Tarot journey from the fool to the
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world (minus the Emperor), they are based on the Neapolitan art form of
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the Smorfia, intended not as the grimace but as a method for
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interpreting dreams.[steve notes: I don’t understand ‘grimace’]</p>
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<p>The Smorfia is an ancient art form in which symbols and archetypes
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from a person’s dreams are analysed and converted into numbers. To use
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the Smorfia, you would recall every event, person and object that
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appeared in your dream, and then use the extensive list of dream
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archetypes to find the associated numbers. This may be used to find the
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meaning of your dreams or, most commonly, to find numbers to play the
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lottery (Ricciardone, 1987; Zezza, 1835).</p>
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<p>In Oracolotto, the archetypes are used as a storytelling device, an
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exploration tool for imagination and self-discovery. You may choose to
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use these cards in the two ways I have imagined or create your own.</p>
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<ol type="1">
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<li>The first method, and the one I recommend, asks your soul to sit
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with the cards, ask them a question, read the answer in the following
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pages and find a language for new or old feelings.</li>
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<li>The second method requires you to keep the deck next to your bed.
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Once you wake up, while the dream is still supple and alive, reach for
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the Oracolotto and try and find the cards that most closely resemble the
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dream. This allows you to give language to the unformed and reveal the
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apparent truths the cards hold.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>If you have read this far, you may want to remember your dreams and
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connect to your subconscious, but feel unable to do so. You may never
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remember your dreams and think that they are random. If this is the
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case, I recommend you use the Oracolotto with the method I first
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describe. As the subconscious seeps into our daily thoughts and
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feelings, the deck will reveal hidden patterns.</p>
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<p>You may also choose your path, disregard what I said and make your
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own game, read old or future dreams or even play the lottery. The tools
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are in your hands.</p>
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<p>:::::</p>
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<div class="hide-on-web">
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<h3 id="how-to-care-for-the-oracolotto">✧ How to care for the
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Oracolotto</h3>
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<p>You may have grown up believing that objects do not have spirit. If
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so, I suggest you tuck the inner sceptic into bed and let the curious
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child out to play. The Oracolotto, like any Tarot or Oracle, does not
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believe itself to be an object. It thinks that no object is simply a
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thing, but also exists in a spiritual plane. All objects have a soul, a
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spirit that connects to yours.</p>
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<p>The Oracolotto has a playful and deep soul. It asks to be cared for
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as a living thing (more like a plant than a pet). It asks to be touched,
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used, cried on, and laughed with. Most importantly, it asks for a place
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to rest every night. I would recommend, at your discretion, to free all
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negative intentions from the cards. This may happen if you do a reading
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|
for someone with bad intentions, or a heavy, painful load to carry. Or
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|
it may happen if you use them alone in a moment of intense sadness or
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anger. In such cases, find a way to release these feelings from the
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cards, leave them out to breathe, or hold them in your hands and think
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positive thoughts.</p>
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<h3 id="how-to-do-a-reading">✧ How to Do a Reading</h3>
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<p>Set an intention at the start. You or the person you are reading for
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will ask a question, out loud or in your mind, as you shuffle the cards.
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You then have two options: either spread them out or fan them, and
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|
choose one card at a time with your dominant hand, or place the whole
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deck on a surface and run your fingers alongside it until you feel like
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|
splitting the deck and picking a card. Do it as you wish, it is
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|
important to let your intuition guide you to a card.</p>
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|
<p>Lay the card in front of you (the “How to Lay Out the Cards” section
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|
follows). Turn the card over and feel, hear, see, and intuit its meaning
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|
concerning your question. Refer to this guidebook for interpretations.
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If you give readings to others, always keep a record of your readings,
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|
because messages for others often weave into your own. Sometimes cards
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will “jump” out of the deck while you are shuffling. These cards are
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trying to get your attention. They are part of your reading, or perhaps
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the entire reading. They are important messages, take heed.</p>
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<p>Alternatively and if applicable, you may choose one card and place it
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on your altar or under your pillow at night to usher in a deeper
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understanding.</p>
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<h3 id="how-to-lay-out-the-cards">✧ How to Lay Out the Cards</h3>
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<p>.One Card Spread</p>
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<p>A single card can be used for several purposes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Draw a card in the morning for guidance about what you need to know
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that day.</li>
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<li>Draw a card after you ask a question. The one you pick is your
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answer.</li>
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<li>Draw a card to help further explain your dream.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>.Three-Card Spread</p>
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<p>A three-card spread can also be used in several different ways:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Draw three cards representing what you need to know in general
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terms.</li>
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<li>The three cards may represent the past, present or future.</li>
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<li>The three cards answer questions about three issues, such as career,
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love and friendship.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>If you want to arrive at a more fleshed-out narrative, you may choose
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to do a bigger spread. Information about those can be found in any book
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about tarot or online.</p>
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<h4 id="dream-well">✧ <strong>Dream well!</strong></h4>
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<h2 id="the-coffee-or-o-ccafè"><strong>✳ 42. the coffee or ’o
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ccafè</strong></h2>
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|
<p>.keywords: beginnings, unformed potential, taking a risk, answering a
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‘call’, trusting in the universe, overcoming self-doubt, embracing
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uncertainty.</p>
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|
<p>Coffee is brewing, waiting to be poured into the empty cup on the
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counter. A spiritual guide sits patiently, urging you to begin, while
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the sun shines outside a closed window. On the side, enormous snowdrops
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have blossomed, indicating the first tentative steps of spring.</p>
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|
<p>While the Coffee is number 42, this card comes before the others.
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|
Like an unhatched egg, it contains all the potential for the journey.
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The cup is empty, but you are urged to pour it, to drink it and to be on
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|
the journey. A spiritual guide urges you forward. Like the prophet
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Muhammad who was given coffee(قهوة) by the Archangel Jibreel, you are
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urged to begin.</p>
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|
<p>The Coffee upright in a reading tells you it is now the time to be
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naive and courageous. Set on a new adventure and do not worry about the
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consequences. It is time, the coffee is ready.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>If the Coffee appears reversed, it is a warning. The coffee will
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spill and it may burn you or others. Be careful not to disregard the
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consequences of your actions. Your eagerness for freedom and new
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|
beginnings may harm others or yourself. Now, you are being asked for
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consistency and patience. There is a time to be brave and to set off on
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new paths, a time to be reliable and patient. Wisdom lies in knowing the
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difference.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 0. the fool.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: all signs, the
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universe.</p>
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<h2 id="the-two-spinsters-or-e-ddoie-zetelle"><strong>✳ 66. the two
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spinsters or e ddoie zetelle</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: magic, manifestation, setting intentions, directing energy
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|
consciously, willpower, concentration, having all the resources you
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need.</p>
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|
<p>Two old women stand before a table, one pointing above, the other
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below. Their eyes glow with mystic power. If they appear in your dreams
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you will feel their power radiating. This is a particularly powerful
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card. While looking at it, reject what you have been told about the
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emotional loneliness of spinsters and focus on their ability to spin a
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magical web. These women appear to you at an important time, at the
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moment when you may choose your path. You are now fully able to manifest
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your desires. The Spinsters show you the power you hold and ask you for
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intense concentration. There is power in your focus and dedication, now
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|
is the time to channel all your resources to achieve what you wish.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>If the Spinsters have appeared reversed, it is a sign that you are
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ignoring your powers. You no longer see two crone magicians who have
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chosen the path of spiritual power, but two unmarried older women. Do
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not be fooled. The power is in your hands, your potential lays dormant
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beneath your doubts and lack of self-esteem. Trust in your ability, and
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trust the Spinsters to weave you back to an active role within your own
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life.<br />
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</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 1. the magician.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: gemini & virgo.</p>
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<h2 id="the-bride-or-a-sposa"><strong>✳ 63. the bride or ’a
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|
|
sposa</strong></h2>
|
|
|
<p>. keywords: intuition, subconscious, higher wisdom, knowing something
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|
|
you can’t explain, stillness, meditation, spell-work and ritual.</p>
|
|
|
<p>The Bride sits in silence in an underground cistern, two eyes closed
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and a third eye open. Upon her head, two crescent moons hold the globe.
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She is alone but does not appear to be waiting. The Bride is a figure of
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divine wisdom, feminine mystery and intuitive knowledge. She is the
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guardian of the unconscious and she is meeting you. By receiving this
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card you are being gently invited to go deeper. To artists, she is the
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representation of creative potential. The bride has little care for the
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material because her powers lay in the true nature of emotion. Let your
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intuition lead the way, quieten the chatter of the rational and
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logical.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>If you are facing a reversed Bride, it is an invitation to examine
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when you ignore your gut. Perhaps you have allowed your thinking mind to
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run loose, you have not been listening to your gut. You overvalue the
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opinions of others or act too hastily. Whichever it is, it is time to be
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still, reflect and meditate on your intuition.<br />
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</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 2. the high priestess.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: cancer & pisces.</p>
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<h2 id="the-mother-or-a-mamma"><strong>✳ 52. the mother or ’a
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mamma</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: maternal figure, familiar love, abundance, life force,
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strong protection, dignity.</p>
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<p>The Mother sits on a throne in the middle of the river of life force.
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A crown on her head, a sword in her hand. In this iconography, she is
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Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage and family. As such, she sits near a
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pregnant cow and a peacock eating a pomegranate. Nature thrives around
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her. She is the embodiment of femininity and the bringer of life and
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growth. Her energy is both nurturing and fiercely protective. She
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appears to indicate that she is looking after you and your growth. She
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is abundant and as such so will your expression be, both creative and
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sensual. Deep fulfilment awaits.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>The Mother has appeared reversed. Juno’s warlike nature is more
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active than her nurturing side. Your search for protection is keeping
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you from true love and joy. You were guarding yourself, and while you
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were right to do so, it is now time to let your shield down. Your
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emotional crops are thriving, you have put in the work. Let go of your
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war, lean into joy and love.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 3. the empress. </p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: libra.</p>
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<h2 id="the-church-or-a-chiesa"><strong>✳ 84. the church or ’a
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chiesa</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: belief systems, ancestry, study, tradition, conformity,
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learning about the past.</p>
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<p>A priest stands in front of you, one hand hidden and the other
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towards the divine. On his shoulders sits a church, with a black door
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highlighting a shining key. The Church card beckons you inside a
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mysterious, sacred place. In the Christian belief, a church is not only
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where the religious community meets, it is the seat of Divinity itself.
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I invite you to disconnect the Church card from its Christian
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associations. It stands in place of any established social structure,
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spiritual tradition or source of ancestral knowledge. It is a teacher, a
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leader, a guru of memory. If the Church has come up in your reading, it
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indicates a need for deeper meaning or knowledge. Will you use your key
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to follow the paved road and find out who paved it and who walked it
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before you?</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>The Church is upside down. Its integrity is questioned the status quo
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stumbles. The pressure of conformity weighs heavy, the belief systems of
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others hang above your head. This card is now urging you to move.
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Tradition can be a teacher or a jailer and in this case, it is trapping
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you. It may be time to shake your ancestors’ wishes away and start anew,
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upon a path you paved yourself.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 4. the hierophant.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: taurus, libra &
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capricorn.</p>
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<h2 id="the-upside-down-or-sotte-ncoppa"><strong>✳ 69. the upside down
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or sott’e ncoppa</strong></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>.keywords: love (of all kinds), making heart-centred choices,
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compassion, partnerships and relationships, equilibrium, harmony.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Two hands reach for each other, the space between them filled with
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light and eyes. Roses grow around their wrists. There is an obvious
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story being told, of two souls meeting in companionship. But this is
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also a card about balance and choices. The Upside Down is a reference to
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love and the two sides of a coin. When this card appears it speaks of
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love and strong bonds. It asks you to choose love, to make heartfelt,
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loving, compassionate choices. The Upside Down is a simple card, that
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asks you to choose. Listen to your heart and follow it.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>Due to the nature of this card, up is down and down is up. However
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you pull this card, it shows you both the Yin and the Yang. In this
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case, sourness is prevalent. The eyes look away, giving you space to
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identify within yourself why a commitment has turned sour. Your inner
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voice is unbalanced. Use your heart for your choices and seek out
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harmony.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 5. the lovers.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: gemini.</p>
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<h2 id="the-bird-or-laucelluzz"><strong>✳ 35. the bird or
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l’aucelluzz</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: focused <em>action, s</em>elf-belief and confidence,
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commitment, drive and determination, hard, passionate work,
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assertion.</p>
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<p>A chariot flies across a starry sky with two half moons. Inside it, a
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man dressed in Roman armour with the head of a turtledove looks straight
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at you. The dove drives through the sky, led by stars. This is the card
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of control and victory. The Bird has control of his fate but it will
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also help you with yours. It directs you to assert your will with
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mastery, careful practice and self-discipline. It reminds you of your
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courage and strength. It encourages you to direct your energies towards
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the stars.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>When reversed, the Bird is spinning further and further out of
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control. It may be due to an attempt to control too much, or an
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underdeveloped assertiveness. Loosen the reins. Redirect your chariot.
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Some things are beyond your power to change and others wait for your
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confidence and hard work. Assess which is which and begin riding.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 6. the chariot.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: cancer.</p>
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<h2 id="the-breasts-or-e-zzizze"><strong>✳ 28. the breasts or ’e
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zzizze</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: inner strength and courage, dignified resistance,
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emotional labour, heart.</p>
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<p>A naked woman covered in flowers looks to the side, she casually
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tames the lion in front of her. A natural landscape opens up behind her.
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Do not be fooled by her gentle appearance, she is not effortless. Her
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strength lies in her heart as this is the card for Breasts. Emotional
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weakness is discarded as a patriarchal concept, as the Breasts show you
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a dignified taming of the wild through your heart. Emotion can steady
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your demeanour and your powers of inner strength. This indicates
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positive emotional labour of your ferocity and expression of pure
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emotional strength. Go towards your chest, to the place of pain, anger,
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greed, and fear in your life. Acknowledge where these things live within
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you and own them, pour love over them.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>The lion is now overpowering as the Breasts appear upside down. This
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is an indication of weakness, your strength becomes feeble as your
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self-confidence lessens. Your emotions are no longer a power but an
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overwhelming force that you cannot control. Do not let anger or pain
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dictate your choice, find your strength once again.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 7. strength.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: leo.</p>
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<h2 id="the-crying-or-o-chianto"><strong>✳ 65. the crying or ’o
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chianto</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: introspection, solitude, retreat, working things through
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on your own, claiming space and time for you, self-guided or guided
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study.</p>
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<p>A figure cries in an underwater cocoon, wrapped in a cape of hair and
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seaweed. They are holding themselves, as their bright tears float
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upwards. This figure is in deep introspection. The Crying card is not
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negative, regardless of your view of tears. It indicates a need for
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comfort and solitude. It asks for a moment of introspection, the only
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thing that may lead you to true self-discovery. Once you have expressed
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your pain and truly felt it, you will gain a better understanding.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>The tears fall upon you as the Crying card is reversed. You have
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relied on yourself too much and become over-isolated. The cocoon has
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served its purpose. The time for solitude is over. You may let others in
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or leave your safe space altogether. The time for crying is over.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 8. the hermit.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: virgo.</p>
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<h2 id="the-set-table-or-a-tavula-mbandita"><strong>✳ 82. the set table
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or ’a tavula mbandita</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: positive luck, change, predictions and prophesies, feeling
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like something is ‘destined’ to happen, an interconnected bigger
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picture.</p>
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<p>A table is set with plates spelling out the ancient names for tarot
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and wheel. In the centre of the table, you can see water, soil, air and
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fire. Around the table sit the four fixed signs, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio
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and Aquarius. Three eyes, symbolising the three Fates oversee the table.
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This is an incredibly auspicious card to pick. Like the table, your
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destiny has been set, the tempo will crank up as your vision develops
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into reality. This card asks you to accept your fate, but also take
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responsibility for it. The table is set but it is up to you to
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serve.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>The Set Table has been turned the wrong way. This indicated elements
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outside your control, spinning your fate. Luck has not been on your side
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|
and you may have been unhappy with your circumstances. Take a moment to
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|
analyse what could have happened. Are the elements toying with your luck
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|
internal or external? Is there someone to blame, if so, who? Whatever
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you find, trust that the Table will be set again, and out of darkness, a
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new light will be born, informed by your discoveries.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 9. the wheel of fortune.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: aquarius, leo, taurus &
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scorpio</p>
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<h2 id="the-lament-or-se-lamenta"><strong>✳ 60. the lament or se
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|
lamenta</strong></h2>
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|
<p>.keywords: truth, logical thought, objectivity, binary thinking,
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|
justice, fairness, balance, accountability, social justice principles,
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|
intersectionality.</p>
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<p>A woman, Justice, walks the steps out of darkness, and a lament
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|
distorts her face. In the Lament, you see justice wearing white,
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carrying a sword on her waist and holding scales, with a heart on one
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|
side and a brain on the other. Her eyes are closed but the piercing
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|
light around her penetrates the truth. It is her cry for truth, her
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lament, that propels her forward. This card calls out to you. Every
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|
action has an equal reaction but it is often an expression of injustice
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|
that brings justice forward. It is the Lament that leads to balance.
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Believe that your expression of injustice is worth sharing.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>When the Lament appears reversed it indicates a flawed system, a
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hidden truth or a bias. This injustice may have been committed against
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you or by you. However it happened, the scales are not balanced, but
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soon they will be as someone faces consequences. It also begs for you to
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re-balance your perspective. Look at the issue from both sides and hear
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the Lament.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 11. justice.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: libra.</p>
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<h2 id="purgatorys-souls-or-llaneme-o-priatorio"><strong>✳ 85.
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purgatory’s souls or ll’aneme o priatorio</strong></h2>
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|
<p>.keywords: passivity, cost, holding back, patience, allowing events
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|
|
to unfold, meditation and mindful practice, inner peace,
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self-acceptance, overcoming ego</p>
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|
<p>A man dangles, his foot loosely tied with rope, his wings closed by
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his sides, his braids falling beyond sight. Next to him, others hang, in
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|
the same situation. We see Purgatory’s Souls, the souls of people in a
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|
state of temporary punishment and purification, in a state of grace but
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|
not yet ready to enter heaven. Let the souls be an inspiration to you,
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|
in their state of acceptance, as it is not their work that will send
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them to heaven. They are, just like you, ready for peace and joy. What
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you must do now is fully succumb to your situation, and release. If the
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soul trusts the flow of events and let’s go, he realises he has had
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wings all along. A brazen metaphor, a simple reminder that it is not
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|
time to struggle for control. Trust the universe, trust yourself and let
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go.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>As Purgatory’s Souls appear reversed, they tell a different story.
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They are not hanging but anchored to the soil. You are pulling yourself
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further down, digging your heels in on a decision that has to be made.
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|
Your inaction now is pointless, it will just delay the inevitable. The
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souls can already can, the punishment has been lifted and yet here you
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still are. You must face your inner turmoil to move on.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 11. the hanged man. </p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: pisces.</p>
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<h2 id="the-talking-dead-or-o-muorto-che-pparla"><strong>✳ 48. the
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talking dead or ’o muorto che pparla</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: the ending of a cycle, letting go and saying goodbye, a
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ritual to honour change, not resisting, honouring the seasons of
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life.</p>
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<p>A deer’s skeleton lays on a blooming prairie. Close by, another deer
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looks into the sun rising above the hills. The Talking Dead card is
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deeply sensitive and invites a gentle approach. It does not necessarily
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symbolise literal death but is a positive harbinger of change. Death has
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already happened, and the deer’s spirit is ready to move into the coming
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day. The Talking Dead tells you it is time to let go of old habits, ways
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|
of thinking and of the buried. This is the only way to allow for more
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rewarding patterns. Resisting change will not bring you joy, you must
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embrace transformation. There is no other way, a profound experience
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awaits you. Let the resting lead you.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>If the card is reversed it appears that the Talking Dead is being
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forced to be still. Changes frighten you and you may resist them. Your
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life is now stagnant, the sunrise is eternal as the sun never reaches
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|
the sky. Trust that change will lead you wherever you need to be. It is
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|
not a matter of avoiding what has happened, but rather of learning to
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live with what it brought in the hope that better things lay ahead.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 12. death. </p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: scorpio.</p>
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<h2 id="warm-soup-or-a-zuppa-cotta"><strong>✳ 68. warm soup or ’a zuppa
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cotta</strong></h2>
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|
<p>.keywords: balance, harmony, blending of dualities, seeking the
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|
middle path, not making extreme decisions, taking a non-binary attitude,
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|
testing the waters, self-care, grace, gentleness.</p>
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<p>A large, genderless, dark figure stands in the sea. On their forehead
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shines a triangle enclosed in a square, representing how humans are
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bound by the Earth and natural law. The figure takes water from the sea
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but as they pour it into the bowl, it transforms into a bowl of steaming
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soup. This card gives insight into the nuances of balance. Wherever
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something is taken, something else must be given. The figure is taking
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from the sea to deliver you the Warm Soup. See the figure as if it was
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|
keeping a close eye on how well you handle dualities. Keep to the middle
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path, do not make extreme decisions. You may be someone who tends to
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|
|
have a peaceful nature or someone who swings between extremes. Either
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|
way, now is the time to test the waters of gentleness, give back what
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|
|
you have been given and ask for what was taken.</p>
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|
<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>The Warm Soup now pours upwards from the ladle. Something has been
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thrown off balance in your life. The coming times require meticulous
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|
care of the balance. Equilibrium must be restored. The costs may be too
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|
high for what you receive from the universe. You must reconsider your
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choices, find the weak point that has thrown you off the balance and
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adjust it.</p>
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<p>A <strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 13. temperance.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: sagittarius.</p>
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<h2 id="the-devils-or-e-riavule"><strong>✳ 77. the devils or ’e
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|
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riavule</strong></h2>
|
|
|
<p>.keywords: bondage, addiction, materialism, destructive behaviours,
|
|
|
harmful cycles, choosing to get free, or choosing not to get free,
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|
|
confronting fear, committing to your freedom.</p>
|
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|
<p>Five little devils dance naked above a reversed pentacle. They hold a
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chain that leads to a circle of light containing a key. The Devils
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symbolise that which keeps us bound and trapped. It is a small circle
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|
|
containing you, a metaphorical jail to which you do not yet have a key.
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|
This card cautions you against finding blame and refers instead to that
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|
|
which is constrained by ourselves, our subconscious and direct choices.
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Do not let ideas, people or situations absorb you so intensely that it
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|
|
causes you to ignore other relationships.</p>
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|
<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>The Devil being upside down immediately reveals the bondage, you are
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|
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aware of your chains. The unhealthy dynamics in your life that keep you
|
|
|
trapped are finally emerging into the light. Caution, this does not
|
|
|
imply freedom but may entail further temptation which leads you to crawl
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|
|
back into your trap. This is a time that needs your complete attention,
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|
|
use your newfound awareness to break the chains and escape your
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jail. </p>
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|
<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 14. the devil.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: capricorn.</p>
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<h2 id="the-storm-or-o-maletiempo"><strong>✳ 83. the storm or ’o
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|
|
maletiempo</strong></h2>
|
|
|
<p>.keywords: revolution, disaster, shock, mourning, blowing apart old
|
|
|
structures, demolition of the status quo, toppling systems of power,
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|
|
potential, rebuilding after disaster, a blessing in disguise as a
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|
|
disaster, rehabilitation, regeneration.</p>
|
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|
<p>An ancient maritime pine tree towers in the night. Above, the
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|
all-seeing Storm is unleashing lightning, cutting the tree down as birds
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|
|
escape. The Storm, as the name suggests, is a complicated card to
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|
receive. It indicates a profound disruption, a complete reset of the
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|
|
known. The situation may seem grim at times, but you must understand
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|
that the change being brought is ultimately positive. You may find this
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hard to believe, but the event that this card indicates is the
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demolition and toppling of a structure that can feel quite devastating.
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However, new growth will come from this and the old cannot last forever
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lest it becomes decrepit. Remember well that when the Storm appears in
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front of you, you are not the tree but the doves escaping.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>In this situation, the Storm that topples the pine tree is coming
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from within. The issue is within your response to the situation and your
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worries within your head. Your perception is bringing you great pain.
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Take care not to become a vortex of negativity, be mindful of your
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feelings and take responsibility for how your responses affect you and
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those around you.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 15. the tower. </p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: scorpio & aries.</p>
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<h2 id="christmas-or-natale"><strong>✳ 25. christmas or
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natale</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: hope, love and support, coming home to yourself,
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self-care, healing, being true to yourself, being guided by your
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intuition, integrity, honesty, a positive new start or new vision.</p>
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<p>In a warm room, a candle-lit Christmas appears next to a window. On
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the windowsill sits a still, warm cup of tea. The comforting view of the
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room is contrasted by the magical view through the window, where an
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enormous star pours light on a snowy landscape. Christmas is a card of
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hope. A time of renewal, comfort and homeliness lie ahead. It is time to
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leave the hard times behind. The star shines alone through the window,
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filling the landscape with positivity and opportunity. Like this card,
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we all contain infinite possibilities, infinite capacity for beauty, and
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infinite wonder. When times are hard, Christmas reminds you of your
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ability for healing and magic. Know that you are a creature of this
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earth and of this universe, that you belong here, and that you are
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loved.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>When Christmas appears reversed, you may have lost your hope. Life’s
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challenges are overwhelming and leave you questioning everything and
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everybody. When this card appears reversed in a reader it is a beacon
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over your disconnection. Your faith in the possibility of a comforting
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and fullfilling life is weaning as daily routines become dreary. It is
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an important alarm, a light shining on the parts of your life that do
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not align with your joyful purpose. Now is not the time to push harder
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or you may deplete your energies even further. It’s time to nourish
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yourself and your life at a deeper level, and rest.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 16. the star.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: aquarius.</p>
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<h2 id="blood-or-o-sangue"><strong>✳ 18. blood or ’o
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sangue</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: shadow work, getting in touch with your wild nature,
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listening deeply to your intuition, secrets, signs and symbols,
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non-rational, witchcraft, magic and spell-work, lies and deception,
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deceiving yourself, wearing a mask.</p>
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<p>A wolf drinks from a pond filled with blood. Close by, a wild dog
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turns away from the pond to face the moon that illuminates everything
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around them. Away from them, a crab floats on a leaf in the pond, rising
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from the subconscious. The Blood tells you that all is not what it
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seems. Unsettling as a nightmare can be, this card allows your inner
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wildness to be seen. The Blood represents witchcraft, spell-work and
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occult arts of any kind. Do not be fooled by the blood, nobody in this
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figure will come to harm. The moon shines its silvery light on the
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elements within a reality that are dishonest and manipulative.
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Uncomfortable questions must be asked and someone may be just mad enough
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to think of them. Things are strange, it is usual to feel disorientated.
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Now is not the time for answers, but for wild magical practice.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>When reversed, the Blood shows a moon shining in the front. The inner
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confusion is clearing. However, you may find yourself deprived of a mask
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you are not ready to let go of. Manipulation has been exposed, whether
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you were the victim or perpetrator. Things will soon be lighter, but
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first, they will be heavy. Mental health struggles as the truth emerges
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and you initiate a process of complete honesty with yourself.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 17. the moon.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: pisces.</p>
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<h2 id="laughter-or-a-resata"><strong>✳ 19. laughter or ’a
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resata</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: positivity, saying yes, joy, practising gratitude,
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success, things coming together, life’s simple pleasures, allowing
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yourself to simply be, connecting to a dynamic life force.</p>
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<p>Two children on a horse laugh in harmony. They hold each other’s
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hands and wave a flag. The sun shines on them and sunflowers grow around
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them. Laughter is undoubtedly a positive card. It represents enthusiasm,
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growth and victory. Your good choices will pay off, you will soon laugh
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again, victory is so close you may already taste it. Joy will fill your
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heart and life will once again seem light-hearted and effortless.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>Laughter is reversed, but do not panic. Victory is just not as close
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as you thought it would be. A setback has brought you back into a
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quieter place. There is a key element missing before you may achieve
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that state of perfect joy. The effort will now need to be given to
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finding once again things that make your heart swell up with joy, the
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things that make you walk so light you feel you may just fly away.
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Follow them and soon Laughter will come back.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 18. the sun.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: leo.</p>
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<p>keywords: hope, love and support, coming home to yourself, self-care,
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healing, being true to yourself, being guided by your intuition,
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integrity, honesty, a positive new start or new vision.</p>
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<p>A Christmas tree sits lit by candles, next to a window. On the
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windowsill sits a still warm cup of cocoa, framed by the view of an
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enormous star that illuminates the snowy field. Christmas is a card of
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hope. A time of renewal, comfort and homeliness lie ahead. It is now
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time to leave the hard times behind. The star shines alone through the
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window, filling the landscape with positivity and opportunity.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 16. the star.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: aquarius.</p>
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<h2 id="the-gossiping-woman-or-a-donna-o-barcone"><strong>✳ 43. the
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gossiping woman or ‘a donna o’ barcone</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: liberation, freedom, casting off shackles, laying down of
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old baggage, total accountability for self, integrity, honesty,
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forgiveness, allowing yourself to move forwards.</p>
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<p>A woman with rollers in her hair stands on a balcony, looking down,
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where a flock of ravens emerge from the darkness. This is a lofty card,
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as, like Lament and the Set Table, it carries the theme of
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accountability. In this particular case, it talks about being honest and
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thorough about yourself. The Gossiping Woman sees all of you and calls
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you to do the same. It is holding a mirror to your entire life,
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successes and failure. You must face the Gossiping Woman to liberate
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yourself and fly towards freedom. Moving forward unencumbered requires
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acknowledgement of the present moment and everything that it
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carries.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>Now the Gossiping Woman can not see you. This is an indication that
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you refuse to acknowledge the hurt or pain that was caused to you and
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the pain that you have caused yourself. However, you must own your
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mistakes and let them be. When the Gossiping Woman is reversed, it asks
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you to find forgiveness, for yourself and others. It will be hard work
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and may take a great amount of time, but the Gossiping Woman watches and
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is rooting for you to be able to free yourself of this burden.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 19. judgement.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: scorpio.</p>
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<h2 id="the-good-wine-o-vino"><strong>✳ 45. the good wine ’o vino
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</strong></h2>
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<p>.keywords: completion, a sense of wholeness, knowing who you are in
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the world, having a sense of place, feeling deeply connected to all
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things, reaching your goal, celebration, jubilation.</p>
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<p>Three friends are celebrating, drinking Good Wine and dancing on the
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world, surrounded by a crown of vines, representing victory. One holds a
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flag and another a wand, bringing your journey to a close. This is the
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end of the road, the last card in this deck. The spiritual guide that
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brought you Coffee now brings you here. The completion of the cycle and
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the celebration that comes thereafter. You have changed and grown and
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now the energy of wholeness shines. Soon it will dissipate as life
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shifts into a new beginning, but for now, the Good Wine urges you to
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relish in your successes. One day you will surrender again to the flow
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and remember that you are the same person that started this journey,
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filled with infinite possibilities.</p>
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<p><em>Reversed</em></p>
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<p>The Good Wine may not be drunk yet, completion is not yet within
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reach. The end seemed in sight but you tried cutting corners and there
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is still work to be done. The result will only bring fulfilment if the
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effort has been thorough and earnest. Keep dreaming, keep working and
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soon the Good Wine will be yours.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> tarot correspondence: 20. the world.</p>
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<p><strong>✳</strong> zodiac correspondence: all signs.</p>
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<section class="section" id="Colophon">
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<h1>Colophon</h1>
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</section>
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<section class="section" id="Colophon">
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<p>::::: # Fiction Friction ## storytelling tool</p>
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<p>The Fiction Friction cards are made by two wanderers who spent a fair
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amount of time thinking about healing, witchcraft and (contemporary)
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witch-hunting, rituals, and Tarot culture. This approach can be seen as
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a way to create a ritual or a (personal) journey into a collective
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representation. The cards are carriers of our identities, individual
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past, memory, momentary frictions and fictions. We intended to reclaim
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the tarot reading ritual and reconsider the relation between the given
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card interpretation and the figure of the fortuneteller by reversing it.
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A group of players is invited to explore each card and reimagine its
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meaning as a collective. We are keen to see how similar or completely
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different experiences can be shared and new insights learned through
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each round of exercise. This game serves as a tool that gives to the
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group the possibility to write together, meet, connect, talk about
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unspeakable things, share, interpret or even get into conflict. Each
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card is a starting point, an interface for an opening, a promising
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healing, a collective moment.</p>
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<p>Fiction Friction is a tool for (hyper)textual conversations on (via)
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abstract/symbolic/surrealistic collage cards. We based our collaging on
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political events that we have experienced or have been part of our
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memories, mythological figures from our cultures, collective memory
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moments, literature that has inspired us, musical references,
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individuals etc. The main components of the game are a deck of
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illustrated cards, dice with different methods of interpretation, an
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empty deck to host the new potential stories along with a a deck of
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questions created by the players.</p>
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<p>How to play:</p>
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<p>-One player picks a card from the illustrated card deck along with a
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question card and places them in the middle. The card is the starting
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point of a collective story.</p>
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<p>-Everyone takes an empty card.</p>
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<p>-In turns, players write their own interpretation of the collage card
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having in mind the revealed question card that works as a navigator for
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the story. (There is the possibility to use the dice in the process so
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as to specify the method that a player should use to “write”)</p>
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<p>-At the end of the round a small story will be created out of the
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interpretations of each player.</p>
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<p>:::::</p>
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LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
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PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF
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THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME
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THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.</p>
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<p>*6.**. Limitation of Liability.*</p>
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<p>IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
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WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR
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CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
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INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
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ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT
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NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES
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SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE
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WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN
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ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.</p>
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<p>*7**. Interpretation of Sections 5 and 6.*</p>
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<p>If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided
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above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
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reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates an
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absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the Program,
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unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a copy of the
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Program in return for a fee.</p>
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<p>END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS</p>
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<p>:::::</p>
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<h1></h1>
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<section class="section" id="">
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<p>:::::</p>
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<h1 id="colophon">Colophon</h1>
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<h3 id="photography-and-illustration">Photography and Illustration</h3>
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<p>Unless otherwise stated, all photography, illustrations and other
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type of visualisations in this publication are created by the same
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authors as the text. That which is below is like that which is above and
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that which is above is like that which is below, to do the miracle of
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one only thing.</p>
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<h3 id="digital-tools">Digital Tools</h3>
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<p>This book was created with the help of a collection of not-so-small
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and extremely sharp open source tools, to name a few: paged.js, pandoc,
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pdfimpose, pdftk, and our darling demon Inkscape. So was the world
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created. From this are and do come admirable adaptations where the means
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is here in this.</p>
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<p>###Printing and Binding Just lil old us.</p>
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<h3 id="typeface">Typeface</h3>
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<p>Work Sans by Wei Huang. Consolation by us.</p>
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<p>That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished
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and ended.</p>
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<p>:::::</p>
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<p>:::::</p>
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<h1 id="colophon">Colophon</h1>
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<div id="publishing-notes">
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<p>Co-published by Experimental Publishing, Willem de Kooning Academie,
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Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam and Page Not Found Space for publishing as
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artistic practice Boekhorststraat 126-128, 2512 CL Den Haag</p>
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<h1 id="console">CONSOLE</h1>
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<p>####xpub special issue xx</p>
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<p>Console is an oracle; an emotional first aid kit that helps you help
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yourself. Console invites you to open the box and discover ways of
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healing; Console provides shelter for your dreams, memories and worries.
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Face the past and encounter your fortune. Console gives you a new
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vantage point; a set of rituals and practices that help you cope and
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care; Console asks everyday questions that give magical answers. Are you
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ready to play?</p>
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<div id="acknowledgements">
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<p>##<3 this publication made possible thanks to:</p>
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<p>Lídia Pereira (ed.) Artemis Gryllaki (ed.) Manetta Berends Joseph
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Knierzinger Steve Rushton Leslie Robbins Michael Murtaugh Sébastien Tien
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and the Page Not Found team Anna M. Szaflarski Paul DD Smith Shana
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Moulton Bérénice Serra The Sun is its father The Moon its mother The
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Wind hath carried it in its belly The Earth is its nurse</p>
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<h3 id="photography-and-illustration">Photography and Illustration</h3>
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<p>Unless otherwise stated, all photography, illustrations and other
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type of visualisations in this publication are created by the same
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authors as the text. That which is below is like that which is above and
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that which is above is like that which is below, to do the miracle of
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one only thing.</p>
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<h3 id="digital-tools">Digital Tools</h3>
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<p>This book was created with the help of a collection of not-so-small
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and extremely sharp open source tools, to name a few: paged.js, pandoc,
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pdfimpose, pdftk, and our darling demon Inkscape. So was the world
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created. From this are and do come admirable adaptations where the means
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is here in this.</p>
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<p>###Printing and Binding Just lil old us.</p>
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<h3 id="typeface">Typeface</h3>
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<p>Work Sans by Wei Huang. Consolation by us.</p>
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<p>That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished
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and ended.</p>
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<p>#Table of contents</p>
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