special rare ~crescent~ pull in the motherpeace (which i haven't used in a while) because a package from my inimitable and lovely brother @burning-candle arrived with this altar cloth + frame + key wallet + bunny(!!!), so of course i needed to inaugurate it immediately. nearly all of these are reversed, indicating a pretty major blockage together with some prettty strong undercurrents (that are decidedly still undercurrents, especially as evidenced by whats in the root position..)

Significator - 9 o' Swords - Confronting fears to make them an ally!
Atmosphere - 4 o' Discs - Controlling who is allowed in my space!
Crosscurrent - 6 o' Wands - personal power.

Past - 9 o' Cups (sideways) - wishes fulfilled...
Head - Daughter o' Wands -
Future - Hanged One - suspension, passivity, release
Root - 3 of Swords - uhhh...... yeah that's true.....

Self-Concept - 10 o' Discs - "the circle is complete"
Hopes & Fears - 3 o' Wands - collaboration
House - Son o' Cups -
Outcome - Magician (reverse!) - starting projects with passion and verve

CONTEXT BEAMED FROM THE FUTURE, MERE WEEKS BEFORE THE END OF TIME:::

okay wow, this was drafted back in fucking JANuary... i just literally a few hours ago drafted a blog post for my last tarot pull on the new moon. i swear to you, i will not let the same fate befall that post

omg thank you for looking so closely!! what a good question.......

so, sapphire is responding to the image of my leg in this post , gonna ramble about the bricks and not the hand, but that's a good story too....
This one is actually my... 3rd most recent tattoo i think! my friend cassidy did it when i was visiting her in Graz like 2 years ago... this is really loosely based on the mom song Noneworld from 2, because when cassidy visited me in berlin and we were walking back from a little meet up at a bar i really sloppily sung the lyrics "but you still have to put each brick on each brick" and she like, finished the lyrics or something and it touched me really deeply. I had been thinking about bricks so much at the time and i wanted a tattoo of a brick but was struggling to figure out how to make a brick tattoo coherent.... I talked about it a lot with her and together we arrived at this! big huge shoutouts to her for making such a beautiful form (and making the idea make sense!) Yes we did listen thru the album (and a lot of other great stuff too) during the tattooing.

(also a little aside: the last page of my website's digression {the website's main secret} was written on the train back from that trip. I wrote it relistening thru the album... I'm kind of embarrassed to have done writing like that because it feels so derivative (and honestly that's why i don't feel comfortable directly linking it out in the open, it feels too vampiric..) but also like, i arrived somewhere insanely beautiful that i'm really proud of!)

i love talking about my tattoos tho and i do think i'll talk about some other ones! I'll add a link here when i do more...

ok this one is definitely pervert territory! nothing graphic in this roundup itself but the links are definitely 18+! Popping the read more up top for this one.

I'm not usually the kind of person to do these sorts of things, but January coincidentally marked a huge transformation of my life circumstances, which makes this year-return a very easy one to reflect on! First year in a while that doesn't feel like it's got mud all over the mirror when I try to look back on it...

I hate hierarchy but if u just wanna know my toptoptop, big surprise, it's

hey, this lil album art is all tiny and cute but you know nvhg's cover (by jemi gale) is way big and beautiful, right? Well, u can click any of the album titles to link over to the bandcamp page and make the picture bigger! You can even buy them there too! i don't wanna talk too hard abt bandcamp ok but it still works so 🤷 lol)
Anyway, there were a bunch more other great sounds I heard this year so scroll on !