「A Random Encounter On The Information Superhighway」
Six of WormsAsk your question.
Ask that which you most want to know.
Ask and I shall answer.
Ask your question.
Ask that which you most want to know.
Ask and I shall answer.
O Wormacle, what should I have for supper on the 'morrow?
If.. that is truly what you most wish to know..
Very well. So be it.
Roll three dice. 1 to 61, each.
#3d61 (56 + 16 + 50 = 122)
Now let us see..
Without even knowing it, you have drawn 3 cards.
A past, a present, and a future.
Which we shall now read.
THE PAST
The Tower
Destruction, and reincarnation through it.
THE PRESENT
Six of Cups - Pleasure
Utmost fulfilment. Effortless. Yet not of the base urges, but of the higher ones. Most curious, in context.
THE FUTURE
Fortune
The great wheel, ever spinning, never resting. Fate itself.
but what does it mean...
That, we shall get to.
The Tower implies a transformative destruction.
The end of one thing and, perhaps, the beginning of another.
Once your diet was different than it is now. Then it changed completely, following some disruptive event.
The Suit of Cups relates to emotion. To cycles. To stability. Six is the most harmonious of numbers, typically.
Distanced from the raw, uncontrollable power of the aces, yet not so degenerated that it has lost all potency, like the tens and nines. Here it is implied that you are content with your diet as it is. That it fulfils you. Effortlessly. However there is a double meaning here that is apparent to the careful adept. The Six of Cups most specifically refers to the HIGHEST form of pleasure, not to mere carnal enjoyment. The suit of disks governs the realm of the demiurge, after all. The Earth. And so it must be asked how this card pertains to that which you have asked. Does it speak of fulfilment with your meals, or to spiritual fulfilment? I suspect that it is the latter. So perhaps your meals satisfy you spiritually, but not necessarily materially. Perhaps they leave more time for matters of the mind..
Fortune, or The Wheel of Fortune, as it is known in lesser decks, stands for the turmoil of fate. For chance. For ups and downs. For change. You asked what you SHOULD eat, and so it ought be read as a SUGGESTION. No, as guidance. It is proposed by the last two cards that you made a great change to your diet and are now content with it because it feeds your spirit, though not necessarily anything else. Fortune says: another change comes. Abandon your routine and try something else. Spin the wheel and see what happens. Nothing specific, but ANYTHING ELSE! Do this, and you shall find the future you seek.
In other words: break your routine and take a chance.
Eat something different.
To quote Crowley:
<Follow thy Fortune, careless where it lead thee.
ok i'll eat some stale crackers thx crowley and wormacle
You're welcome, seeker of truth.
>>10749
Out of curiosity, what is it that you usually eat?
hmmm...
i don't eat at specified times or anything but it's often like rice or eggs or something. or tacos
Very symbolic.
Coward..
The egg stands for birth. To move from this sort of food, to the brave and unknown future..
hmmm..
And rice! Rice represents... hmm... hww..
It is a very deep mystery, only the deeply initiated can know of. Sorry.
#tell us about the occult mysteries of the grain known as "rice"
Rice is a staple food in many parts of the world. It is an important part of many cultures and has a long history. There are many mysteries surrounding rice. One of the most mysterious is what makes it grow? Rice is a grain that grows in water. How does it do this? us about the occult mysteries of the grain known as "rice"
how, indeed....
Foolish child, this is a deep matter. The water spoken of here is not just water but Water. Elemental and symbolic. It stands for the power behind the suit of cups.
i see....
Rice is of the earth. It is matter. It sustains matter.
But it feeds on water, to grow.
Do you not understand?
This world is the work of the demiurge, who has strapped spirit in matter. Fire in Earth.
Water is ever fire's opposite, and nemesis, and lover. Water and Fire together produce Smoke, or Air.
So that which feeds Earth - the physical body - is born of Water, which destroys Fire.
In this destruction is born Air, which stands for Thought.
This spirit you call upon is most wise..
#write about the demiurge's role in the creation of rice
Demiurge's role in the creation of rice is unknown, but it is possible that he was responsible for making the plant grow. He may have also been involved in creating Distribution Networks and Agricultural Practices that led to the success of rice cultivation. about the demiurge's role in the creation of rice
That is, without thought, the spirit (=fire) would be able to ascend beyond matter (=earth)
Water stands for emotion
Fire stands for spirit
Earth stands for matter
Air stands for thought
It is the impulse of life, water, that prevents mankind from ascending beyond its earthly cage, up to Sophia
The desire to live traps us in matter
It *feeds* matter
And through the feeding of matter the world stays populated with thinking beings
With the end of life the spirits would have no earthly cages to be trapped in. No bodies. And so all would ascend.
That, is the meaning of rice.
As for tacos, not even I know that.
It is an enigma reserved for the greatest of sages.
i see...
>>10784
>i see...
This, too, represents The Tower's destruction
The death of the bury dinosaurs has given birth to humanity and its age
bury will be safe buried down there, i'm sure...
Hence her name!
"Bury pink" is an instruction
ahh, true...
What lies at the end of time?
>>10792
#3d14 (5 + 14 + 8 = 27)
>>10801
No cheating, or you shall face a terrible curse
>>10801
1 to 61! The entire deck!
The fortune teller is bored
and would like to read more fates
>>10830
will i ever find love wormteller?
>>10831
Perhaps you've already found it, seeker?
No? Very well. Then let us seek some more.
Three cards. Past, present, future.
#3d61 (8 + 4 + 5 = 17)
Most interesting. A flush. One suit's influence dominates all else.
The Suit of Wands stands for Will. Creativity. The force through which change enters the world. For good and for ill.
It is associated with fire, life, and the rod that unites the two. You know the one. Do not make me say it.
The horn by which one calls the "legion of angels" for the bread of light.
Now let us look.. I shall consult my scrolls..
By tradition, by superficiality, it is the suit of Cups that governs love. The suit of emotion.
However it must not be forgotten that the mating impulse of living beings is driven by the desire to create.
Parenthood is arguably one of the ultimate forms of creation, and creativity is the domain of the Wands.
There is another subtlety here worth mentioning. Though romantic love is of water, lust is in a way of fire.
What is Will but Lust for Change? What is Want?
And so creation here could also refer to self-authoring. The creation of the person one would like to be, and their life.
The search for a character to complete it.
What is a love driven by wand-lust, bereft of water?
Perhaps it is a base desire for carnal pleasure, though that has elements of the Disk, and so I doubt it.
And perhaps it is the desire to form a family first and foremost.
Or maybe it is wanting to be in a romantic relationship of a particular sort, from a bystander's point of view. That is, the desire to be the character which is in that sort of relationship as a living work of art. Not the desire to experience it per se. Compare and contrast: the lust for heroism versus the desire to go through the hero's hardships.
But I've rambled for long enough. Let us move on.
THE PAST
Eight of Wands - Swiftness
Lightning bottled, fire tamed. Chaotic will turned into safe light, trapped in a lantern.
The inevitable translation of raw, passionate creativity into perfect mathematics.
THE PRESENT
Four of Wands - Completion
If the Eight is mathematics, then the Four is a more material order.
Society itself. Law. Harmony. Both literally and metaphysically. Magic itself is a system, do not forget this, and all is under Will.
THE FUTURE
Five of Wands - Strife
A cataclysmic fire that consumes everything so that new life may bloom. The end that begets the beginning. Purification through destruction. Do remember, however, that under the Buddhist doctrine the purest form of the universe is nothingness.
Eight, four, five..
A mysterious spread. Not trivial to parse, given your discontent. Not trivial, but possible.
Let us start from the center. The present. All rotates around the hub, after all, and we deal with a wheel.
The wands are circumscribed, lending them a certain harmony but simultaneously confining them within a certain sort of logic. A status quo. One that has been carefully arranged. Harmoniously, logically, in accord with your prior desires. With the touch of a scientist. A scientist's capacity for abstraction, reducing love to an equation. Or perhaps to the idea of love? The eight's influence.
All revolutionaries know that not all systems are good, even if they are stable. Perhaps precisely because they are stable.
Quoting The Book of Thoth:
>In the symbol, the ends of the wands touch a circle, showing the completion and limitation of the original work. It is within this circle that the flames (four double, as if to assert the balance) of the Energy are seen to play, and there is no intention to increase the scope of the original Will. But this limitation bears in itself the seeds of disorder.
Disorder here could be taken in a two-faced fashion. In reference to the system and in reference to the psychology of the person who created it.
Finally, Strife. The resolution of the conflict I've been hinting at. And the beginning of another.
By the look of things..
You developed an intellectualized understanding of love, which you are now content with, but that understanding is leading to you being dissatisfied with your inability to find what it describes. The work is complete, trapping you within its circle. Then comes the transformative force of Strife. Then comes change. Something that will shatter the foundations you've built, introducing you to a form of love that exists outside of the parameters you previously imagined.
Strife can be felicitous or disastrous, depending on the context in which it is drawn. Death itself, remember, is a transformation. Here, though, we must look to the wands. Some are male and some are female. Some are fathers and some are daughters.
>There is also a pair of wands of the Third, or Minor, Adept, which are daughters, so to speak, of the wands in the Three of Wands. In this card there is the mitigating influence of the Mother. One of the most difficult doctrines with regard to Geburah is that, while it represents all this tameless irrational energy and disturbance, yet it derives from the benign and gentle influence of the feminine.
Within the context of that love that seeks to form family, either literally or metaphorically, with concepts as children, the Five must be understood as a good omen. A transfiguration through immolation.
You will find love, but it will not be the love you're searching for, and you won't be able to see it coming. Maybe you won't even recognize it as love at first. Opening your mind to new possibilities might be required. New forms of creation, attraction, or both.
You there, lurking in the shadows
Will you not step into the light?
>>10856
It's so dark. Where can I find the light, wormaster?
>>10866
The light lies within you
All the world but a shadow
>>10848
I love my gf <3
>>13190
why did you respond with a 2 month delay
>>13237
I'm based like that
>>10733
i like this image op
it is why i clicked your thread op
this is my confused way of putting my foot in the door while hopefully avoiding my mouth
i realize something about this site, something interesting. people see what i have done. maybe, maybe not, but i am nonethewiser
nonethewiser is underlined in red and makes me want to change it - to edit my delivery of self
but the self is the self, and what is written has been
how interesting. liberation here
hello girlfriend
alright what kinda stuff we got going on here
>>37910
wormmagicks
>>37910
Tarot
constellations or the the sea? right or left?
>>70832
Is that truly your question, seeker?
who are you and why do you want to help us?
>>226986
who does not matter
how would you like to be helped?
hey six of worms, are you still around? If it's okay with you, I think I'd like another reading, as I found your last one really useful