“No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you."
– Book of Job 12:01
12:2 “No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.”
Not to go all biblical n’shit?
Excerpt From
The King James Version of the Bible
Pink Cake: The Quote Collection – Kramer Wetzel
Pink Cake
Pink Cake: A Commonplace Book
– ISBN–10: 1434805751
– ISBN–13: 978–1434805751
In my “Every Day Carry” tarot deck, the Thoth Deck, the Leo Cards I plucked out?
Always start — and finish with “Lust” from the Major Arcana, Number 11. In that Rider-Waite deck? This is strength, still a majestic Leo lion.
The Full Moon is near noon on Monday, a Full Moon Monday, with the moon, as expected, on a Leo/Aquarius axis. However, the The Leo Cards tell the story, slightly rearranged.
This Full Moon is bringing some “closure” — look at my order for the cards, “Strife” followed by “Valour” leading to “Victory.”
There are two elements in heavy play, way I interpret this. One is the mystical side of the intellect, symbolized by Aquarius, the Moon is in Aquarius. There’s an intellectual component one must acknowledge, and balance that against the raw emotions of the fiery Leo.
There is a small — or large — victory, as foretold.
“It’s in the cards!”
Or not.
Strife is about what’s been going on, globally, locally, in a damn near every person’s life, seems like.
Valour is about valiantly facing that strife, taking it as it comes. Since the Suit of Wands deals with the element fire? An impassioned approach serves; show that heart-felt desire for an answer. Or whatever it is we’re seeking?
Victory comes from working towards that. Overcome strife with valor.
Lust — strength — depends, but as I used to explain, over and over, “Faith and Good Works” are no comparison to Lust.
Lust moves mountains, while “good intentions” is still trying to find the coffee maker.
Enjoy that Full Moon. Follow the passions, as dictated by the mind of the cool, rational Aquarius Moon.
Mars is currently in Aries, with Mars being in Aries for an extended run, as noted before. Saturn and Jupiter are Capricorn, and although not technically a conjunction, the essential flavor is there. This is a rerun of 1960.
I keep waiting on somebody to quote back to me, “We’ve never seen this before!”
Historically, we have. In part, the plague in Western Europe, hundreds of years ago. Or, even the Spanish Flu, now cited ad nauseam. It’s part of a predicable pattern of Saturn and Jupiter, which, as seen above and below, shows up in The Leo cards.
Leo Cards
The elements that spin up for this kind of a Full Moon event are the heated fires of passion fed by the cool wind of Aquarius Air Intellect.
Best way to win? Be passionate and innovative.
Oddly enough, I had to spell that out in response to a question. This isn’t a condemnation, nor a critical response, but more along the line of passive observation. Again, this is, warnings apply, an observation, not something I’ve done myself.
The last four or five months left a lot of people scrambling, like, on a permanent vacation mode without a lot of income. I lost upwards of three-quarters of my subscribers. Filled in with a number of new and mostly returning phone clients, or formerly in-person, now over the phone. While I’ve done some Zoom stuff, I don’t use Zoom, Skype, or even native Face-Time for readings. I’ve used a headset and phone line for 30 years, no reason for me to change what works for me.
However, what I’ve seen, two, maybe three people have started to thrive in the sinking economic times.
Part of this is the “If I only had some time, I could write that novel I wanted to write.” Been a couple months, I know, Mercury Retrograde bookends, but the rest of the time? Anything?
There are a ton of variations on the theme, but it’s all about a side-hustle, a Do-It-Yourself idea.
Any plan, any idea, and the usual, “If I only had enough time,” and that excuse doesn’t work.
During the last few months, a couple of my patrons have done well, quite well. Maybe not huge financial successes, but a solid footing for a future, and cash income is always a good way to know what I’m selling has value.
One person, the retail front collapsed. In a heart-beat, there was a shift, and change, and the delivery service opened up. That’s a simple pivot that worked. Great example. Then, too, looking at what generates a positive cash flow, then accentuating the positive about that particular area.
“We’re not doing ‘in person’ events right now….” So I’ve done a few ‘online-styled’ events. Not my choice, but it works, after a fashion.
“Do what you love and the money will follow,” while it’s ultimately true, adjusting, and mitigating, then making further adjustments, as need be?
“If I only had enough time, I would….”
Guess what?
Need help with timing, for a front-facing launch?
Image is from a recent New Yorker Magazine, so no copyright infringement. The notion, though, is simple. We’re not talking in person, not as long as this corona-virus, whatever is going on. Nope, not in person. That noted? Best way to reach me?
Phone? If I don’t recognize the number as an appointed call? I might not answer at all.
Text? Too much comes in, and I don’t get around to answering.
So when the demons come a-calling?
Yeah, e-mail is best.
“But I don’t like using my e-mail!”
Fastest, most reliable way to get my attention.
Co-Starring Ray Wylie Hubbard and friends.
Noted previously, a character in a book suggested that “Ray Wylie Hubbard is the greatest living country singer/songwriter.”
In my best thug-life, street voice? “True dat.”
Proto-blog from 25 years back.
That’s just a few days short of the official release date separated by a quarter of a century. New CD, first on major label in a long, long time? Dropped July 10.
I would call Ray Wylie an overnight sensation, but more than three or four decades on this road? Yeah, that’s not overnight. As always there’s that touch of sly, wry — I’d say Scorpio wit — where he makes it seem like he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Funny puzzles, amusing wordplay, minor key? He is a master craftsman, at the top of his form, with his long, storied canon behind him, and the new album is stunning.
The David Letterman story is wonderfully telling, the anecdote, apocryphal at best, is that after doing a song on national TV, Letterman asked him to do one more, and then mixed it down. Available on YouTube, &c. — David Letterman stage, Ray Wylie doing “Screw you, we’re from Texas,” which was, is, a national anthem for the ever-rising Texas music scene. A little south of Austin, below the 30th parallel.
A traditional four-four beat, deceptively simple yet thoroughly evocative, with a finely-tuned poet’s ear. “Lean,” “Spartan,” and “Muscular” are terms that come to mind when working through his lyrics, the songs he writes, but there’s also a mystical sense of mirth. Throughout a great number of the Texas Music singer/songwriters, there seems to be a certain kind of engagement with gospel, or even just simple hymns, and Ray Wylie is open about his spiritual connections.
The idea of a hymnal, or a Sunday choir in church, that plays within this music. Shows up in other local artists, thinking REK, Lyle Lovett, &c. Yet, this latest offering from Ray Wylie takes this tone to a new level.
While Ray Wylie is, at best, just another raconteur with a guitar, but then he’s so much more. He defies a single category.
Might’ve inked a deal with the devil at the crossroads, after midnight, but I doubt it.
The sword is always bloodier than the pen
And everyone one turns a bad trick now and then
Ray Wylie Hubbard, Judy Hubbard
(© Snake Farm Publishing, 2018)
I bought the CD, and wrote a review before the physical CD ever landed in my hands. For starters, most of the music was released as YouTube video versions, and that answered much of the questions. Then, too, most of the Ray Wylie “records” in the last dozen years have been self-published, and that’s always more gratifying to buy from the artist him or her self.
This was a major label release with a long run-up to the release itself. Teased over a period of months, almost years, and then? To see images of Ray Wylie sitting down to sign the CD covers, made it worth the wait.
Think I figured out part of his magic. It isn’t that Ray Wylie “gets it,” whatever “it” is, it’s that he gets it then gets it into his lyrics.
Damn: I wish he taught a song-writing class. I would take that. I want to learn how to tell the story with fewer words, like he does.
Can’t find the lick, and I know there’s a local lyric with that tag-line, something about Comal County and “blues,” or “the blues,” or something.
Sunset, repurposed.
Comal Sunset
Some things just never change. Different lake, different fishing pole, but a super-similar set-up. I guess the Number 2 hook and the stick bait gives it away.
From an undisclosed but readily apparent location in the fabled Texas Hill Country, and from a safe distance, in accordance with all Federal, State and County guidelines.
No kissing the fish this time.
