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Bonnie Cehovet
April 8, 2011 at 10:02 am
Jordan –
Reading your blog while listening to late night saxophone music! š Great to see you getting a blog going!
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
April 9, 2011 at 5:51 am
I love the combo, Bonnie! I used to play sax & it is still one of my musical faves. š
Bonnie Cehovet
April 8, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Jordan –
I love this story! And I really loved it when you explained the window concept of the back of your cards. Incredible!
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
April 9, 2011 at 5:49 am
Thank You Mucho, Bonnie! You make me smile.
Jupiter’s Blessings,
Jordan
Bonnie Cehovet
April 9, 2011 at 10:31 am
Jordan –
You definitely have the mind-set to play a great sax! It takes a certain kind of soul. š Right now I follow Charley Langer – hoping that he does well!
Bonnie Cehovet
April 9, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Jordan –
All I can say is – we are so Blessed to have your imagination in our little world! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
April 9, 2011 at 7:11 pm
š Big-time, Bonnie! Thank You!
TROY L CURRY
April 9, 2011 at 6:57 pm
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Bonnie Cehovet
April 9, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Jordan –
Kudos! I love the Tarot birth cards , and love the way t hat you have presented this!
BTW – The scans (always my personal nemesis!) look great!
mystereum
April 10, 2011 at 11:37 am
Thank . . . YOU, Bonnie! Much appreciated on the kudos for content AND format. I am still getting the hang of what happens when pasting in from my original files. StuuuRANGE things happen from original to Preview. . .why the heck did those 3 words turn invisibly black?? kinda thing. I will get familiar with the whack-a-mole commands soon enough. ;-D Mucho thanks now, though.
Diggin’ the sould comment for sax, too.
Bonnie Cehovet
April 12, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Jordan –
You are sneaky! The Strength/Justice switcheroo never crossed my mind! Very conventional Tarotist here! You open up the process! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
April 12, 2011 at 8:47 pm
š Hiding in plain sight? or, in and quick and no-one gets hurt. ;-D
Bonnie Cehovet
April 15, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Jordan –
Yay – I made it through a PP presentation! š This is quite an involved … and evolved … spread. A great beginning for showing people how to use this deck, and how to grow as individuals! Bravo!
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
April 15, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Awesome, Bonnie! Thanks, and I am glad you feel it fits The Land of Mystereum! Looking forward to publishing more of my Mystereum spreads here. I have . . . well, quite a few. ;-D Here’s to natiralizing inner inheritances perenially with Mystereum!
Jupiter’s Blessings,
Jordan
Bonnie Cehovet
April 15, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Jordan –
I sense the stirrings of an e-book here! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
Jordan Hoggard
April 16, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Yes Yes, Bonnie! Gotta get Schiffer on board, or see if they’ll let me simply do it myself.
cazadoradesignos
April 16, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Thanks for sharing your work. Love the way the spread is developed like a garden and like a poem. You are a tarot poet!
Jordan Hoggard
April 16, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Wow, Aurora! Thank You! That makes my heart soar and sing!
Bonnie Cehovet
April 16, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Jordan –
My eyes are drawn to the diamond – perhaps it is the Hope diamond? š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
April 16, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Niiiice! The (eternal) Hope diamond? The nexus of Self? ;-D
Jupiter’s Blessings,
Jordan
houseofnale
April 17, 2011 at 12:53 am
“Lucy in the sky with diamonds” I like it! =)
Bonnie Cehovet
April 17, 2011 at 2:26 am
Jordan –
You have now brought hope into everyone’s life! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
April 17, 2011 at 2:46 pm
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Bonnie Cehovet
April 17, 2011 at 2:36 am
Jordan –
It is interesting to me – the original Nine of Pentacles is rather sedate – which I would expect it to be. The Land of Mystereum Nine of Pentacles, which is a “gentled down” version, almost looks sinister to me! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
April 17, 2011 at 2:47 pm
That’s really interesting, Bonnie. Tell me about that.
Aurora DĆaz
April 17, 2011 at 3:50 am
I see the yellow expansive star glow filling my heart with warm friendly feelings of joy and gratitude.
mystereum
April 17, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Big smiles, Aurora! š
cazadoradesignos
April 20, 2011 at 4:22 am
Thanks, Jordan!
Sharing your story, the spread and your drawing is a gift. The Fool arquetype really resonates with the bridge. From now on I will never see a bridge as before…
mystereum
April 28, 2011 at 1:07 pm
So glad your enjoyed it, and I appreciate your comments a great deal!
Beth
April 20, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Jordan!!! How did I not realize that you are NOT going to be there next week? Oh no!! It just won’t be the same.. I am truly sorry to learn this.. You will be hugely missed! Sending tons of extra magical energy your way! – Beth
mystereum
April 28, 2011 at 1:07 pm
:-(, Beth. Thanks for the sentiment. I will miss your smiling energy!!
Amber
May 6, 2011 at 7:56 am
You got great points there, that’s why I always love checking out your blog.
My blog:
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mystereum
May 14, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Thanks Amber! Much appreciated. Looking forward to checking out your blog!
Bonnie Cehovet
May 14, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Jordan –
I have never thought of the Hermit in this way before. And it is one of my Birth Cards! š I will have to think about this – way cool!
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
May 14, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Thanks Mucho, Bonnie! I am liking that simply taking a walk and having a thought from Mystereum is systematically expressing the originality of my ideas. Finding it more and more a wonderful catalyst for my own work. š Look forward to your Hermit thoughts as it is in your Birth Card DNA.
Bonnie Cehovet
May 18, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Jordan –
Excellent post! I think that I would add the other two Queens, and perhaps see the presence of the High Priestess on different levels (or perhaps as a spiral?).
Kudos! I see a webinar here! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
May 18, 2011 at 5:08 pm
š Thanks, Bonnie! I will add the Queen of Pentacles and Swords when their gigs come up. Was sticking to the presence of the (High) Priestess character in this one, and the other 2 Queens are one and the same + she appears in a King or two’s head, also.
Webinar rue simmering once the other two Queens come out to play. š
Bonnie Cehovet
May 18, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Jordan –
Have to love the Magician! That gentleman can be called in to help us do some really great tings! š It is important to know that the Magician works in concert with others, such as the Page of Pentacles, to spark ideas, and to make things happen!
Blessings,
Bonnie
Bonnie Cehovet
May 18, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Jordan –
Yay! Looking for the other two Queen’s to come out to play, and keeping a close eye out for upcoming webinars! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
May 18, 2011 at 10:52 pm
They have unleashed themselves from their embroidery. ;-D
Bonnie Cehovet
May 19, 2011 at 8:10 am
Jordan –
Way cool! Going to look for myself – the Queen of Pentacles! When I find her, I won’t be lost anymore! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
Bonnie Cehovet
May 19, 2011 at 8:23 am
Jordan –
The Queen of Pentacles loves this! Especially the connection with the Kng of Wands! I love what you said her about enjoying the world on whatever scale we see it at. Life is not stagnant – it is moving, reshaping, morphing all the time – we see what we want to see, we see what we are expecting to see, and then … if we are lucky, and we are blessed, we see a glimmer of the big picture!
Blessings,
Bonnie
Bonnie Cehovet
May 24, 2011 at 4:56 am
Jordan –
Wow! Where to start! I loved the literal relationship (sister, brother) between the cards, the thought that each card shares its gifts on the journey of life with the other cards, and the tempering aspects of a well honed sword/Sword.
Kudos!
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
May 24, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Much appreciated, Bonnie. Thanks! The Ace of Swords felt to tell a good Tarot yarn to introduce a full excerpt from Tarot in the Land of Mystereum.
Bonnie Cehovet
May 24, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Jordan –
Wanting more stories! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
Chanel Bayless
May 29, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Jordan! Wow ! I really enjoyed reading this and want to see more! That’s what I love about tarot.. the story..the way it transports me somewhere else so I can have an otherworldly view of life. You fed right into my passion.
Thank you much! š
Chanel
mystereum
May 29, 2011 at 2:57 pm
You are full-on welcome, Chanel! I am starting to think Tarot boxes should physically have a hyperspace button on them ;-D as I love the otherworldly right IN this world places they take me, always refreshing perspectives. Look forward to casting a couple more stories, messages from the Land of Mystereum, into our great tarot ocean in the near future.
Have a great weekend! š
Jordan
Chanel Bayless
May 29, 2011 at 3:17 pm
I couldn’t agree more! Look forward to reading more stories and messages from the Land of Mysterium. Have a LOVELY weekend! š
Bonnie Cehovet
May 30, 2011 at 2:23 am
Jordan –
Into writing short books are we? š I love that none of us are getting out of this alive! š There is a difference between the unknown, and “not knowing”, and there is a lot of that which occurs naturally in life.
BTW – It will be interesting to see how people go through this post and “pick paragraphs” for perusal and digestion. Things will be missed, or not seen in depth, IMHO, for those who do this.
Death and not-knowing to me is more like a six lane highway, with lots of hectic movement in all directions. I think I am looking at/feeling multiple universes here – different levels on the same timeline, as well as the past/future aspects of each timeline.
I do agree that our imagination is the basis or our survival system. I also agree t hat failure is a huge part of our learning experience. I feel that the evolving of the Mystereum Tarot into Tarot In The Land Of Mysteruem was/is a natural progression. Taking it out for a test drive, using it in some very important ways. Not so much a balancing act as evolving it, moving it forward.
BTW – IMHO, good stories do have a tendency to meander. š
Can’t say that I agree with you about channeling. I do get out of my own way to bring things through in a reading, in journey work and in visualisation. Go more intensely into the now is a completely different thing.
It is not unusual for you to be thinking more about death now that the Mystereum Tarot is a living being. It has come to completion, and you need to experience its death (in its current form), and move forward with the next phase.
Good questions to ponder!
To make it easier for people reading this post, I would suggest that they print it out. In that way, they can read it at their leisure, at will, in small chunks, and reference back to the first paragraphs easily. There is a lot of good stuff here!
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
May 30, 2011 at 3:14 am
Great commentary, Bonnie!
I appreciate your point and disagreement on channelling a great deal, and think there are different experiences of it. Mine stems most probably from my Mercury and Neptune being 4 degrees from one another exalted way deep into Scorpio. . .a foot on both sides kinda thing where to me psychic contents are pretty much like looking at art in a museum. They have always been a very present and actually mundane and normal part of my creativity. Like one hand IS a muse, in the other a pencil so to speak. And, as an astrologer once told me, “Jordan, that’s normal to YOU! But, that is so NOT normal!” š Have a great Memorial Day / Decoration Day!
Jupiter’s Blessings,
Jordan
John Michael Allen
May 30, 2011 at 4:41 am
Magnificently blessed you are! I trust that piece of basalt is kept in a hallowed place as a life-affirming talisman. We can all say with absolute confidence, “Not even a 14-er can keep Jordan down.”
mystereum
June 1, 2011 at 1:53 am
Amen, Brother!
mystereum
June 2, 2011 at 4:13 pm
It’s my 5th Ace, Man! Immortalized as one of the primary voices on my wand, it lives in a place of reverence.
Bonnie Cehovet
May 30, 2011 at 6:34 am
Jordan –
I totally agree – there are different types of channeling. I love the museum analogy! You ae right, too, in that what is a normal, everyday occurrence for you is something that I have to open myself to … i.e. it seldom occurs without intent (although it certainly can). Love your astrologers comment! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
Bonnie Cehovet
June 1, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Jordan –
Kudos to Garnet! May the 5th Ace rule!
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
June 2, 2011 at 3:49 pm
May the 5th Ace rule! Jupiter’s Blessings, Jordan
Bonnie Cehovet
June 2, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Jordan –
I do love the way you separate cards with the “window” of the card back! So elegant! It took me a long time to not fuss when Judgment hit one of my readings. When you look at where it is in the cycle, it is where it “needs” to be.
Seeing kindness in your tags. š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
June 2, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Thanks, Bonnie! Felt it gave people a place to hop into the roller coaster and take it off in their own way.
Bonnie Cehovet
June 3, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Jordan –
I see the scans, but no text. š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
June 3, 2011 at 7:15 pm
:Simply my wand reporting for duty flanked by centers either side constructed from Night and Day. š Guess it took me a month to have a wordless post on WordPress. My 5th Ace silently and dutifully and magically reporting for duty. 3 visual words. . .or is that 3,000 words. ;-D
Bonnie Cehovet
June 3, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Jordan –
Love the new background! š
This is a very deep thought, the prescient painting. Whenever imagery repeats itself like this, there is a reason. In each of these time periods, something was kicked in that was/is connected tot he other time periods. IMHO, anyway. š
The energy moving into wand at this point in time is necessary. It as come to a point where is can now be used to activate other things in your life.
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
June 3, 2011 at 7:29 pm
You are right on the money, gloriously with no need of humility, Bonnie! What has kicked in is an absolute celebration and reverence for my multiple so-close-to mountain experiences AND a dispensation with the residual hangers on of rationing and going without just to make it through the experience. Time to treat those like a dog swimming, and shake off, tail UP and trot away from them. I served myself well to live through those experiences. The memories served me well to express the power of life, of my life, the power of presence in experience. But, their directly present time has passed, and that is what my noticing of the pattern is indicating to me. . .that art talisman tokens as trailheads of my experience resurged forth graciously to simply step into view to marshall forces. Three, the number of the first shape, the triangle the smallest module of a potential structure. Three stand for me to flex my temples in a far-seeing smile knowing indomitable spirit, and now more feeling an Emperor step by step where I am realigning my pace and direction. . .step by step. . . realigning the whole system in a sungle step. . .step by step.
I thought I was through those experiences, and recently I began to feel a bit too dead-man’s eyes about them. . .like I was in the wrong gear with them. And, I now feel I anesthetized parts of me to get all of me through them. Perennials and gardening and Death and Master Gardener. . .I have been poking up my perennial nose in my garden it seems. Rise and Shine Me! š
Bonnie Cehovet
June 4, 2011 at 12:19 am
Jordan –
I agree! Shake off the residue from those experiences, and use the wisdom to do far greater things. You are on track and movin’ fast, my friend!
Your wand has magickal qualities that you are not yet aware of. What I do know it that you will respect both the wand and its abilities. Garnet does not mess around! š I think we do have to have the dead man’s stare to get through some of life’s experiences.
Now it is time to “Rise and Shine YOU!” š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
June 11, 2011 at 9:40 pm
And, shakin’ like a wet dog on a sunny day! š
Bonnie Cehovet
June 10, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Jordan –
Love bypassing copyright violations! š Those were great pics!
One of the things t hat resonated with me here was the Queen of Wands seeing through the mirage of her blind spots, then forgetting (consciously, although I am adding that word) what she saw, while remembering the clarity of her vision.
Thanks for linking to Christine’s article! The two play well together! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
June 11, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Love your adding of forgetting consciously, Bonnie! That’s the way it is! & . . . That’s the way it is, this day, June 11, 2011. ~ Walter C. ;-D
Jupiter’s Blessings,
Jordan
Christine Payne-Towler
June 11, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Hi Jordan —
Thanks for the shout-out! And you got it, bull’s-eye, the reason why I included the Balbi Page of Swords in the illustrations to that article, even though nowhere did I directly state why. There he stands on his dramatic red and black checkerboard, which is imposed on the gently rolling landscape with artificial precision. The figure he cuts is all graceful curves and flashing colors, and he seems to be dowsing with his sword on the chessboard grid. I have always loved this card for the way the “Pythagorean” curves and colors contrast with the “Aristotelian” flooring. We need the one to set off the other.
This principle is actually operative right through to our inner senses. I’ve learned the hard way that when a person’s inner gyroscope is weak (inner-ear issues), the eyes overwork, trying to make up for that by seizing onto the verticals and horizontals of the landscape to steady one’s balance. My astigmatic self used to think “I don’t like all these 90-degree angles that civilization produces everywhere.” It’s true — from our architecture through car and clothing design to the standard shapes of our reading and computing surfaces, so much in our culture is cubic, far beyond the demands of efficiency or convention. But now I understand — the curves and colors of the Pythagorean world define beauty for the high-performing sensory net, but the nervous system defaults back to black-and-white Aristotelian logic when depth perception fails. Just so in society — if we cannot produce leadership of and by Philosophers, then we have to default back to being a nation of laws.
Keep it coming! I believe that the future of Tarot is it’s deep dark past. The more work we do “cleaning out the closets” so to speak, the more treasures we’ll unearth about this wonder-tool we all love so much.
Toward the One,
cpt
mystereum
June 11, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Right on, Christine!
Bull’s–eye is acceptable. ;-D I love the literal visual of your astigmatism example. My similar vein of experience comes from having 20:20 vision in my weak eye and 20:15 vision in the other. And, fluidity of clear sight in motion whether eyes open or closed, off-the-cuff or planned. . .but, i remember back, decades ago when for years I trained in the martial arts. Remembering back to the first month or two, the first days, and forms. . .step 1, 2, DANGIT what’s 3?! And, I smile as like water dripping on a rock, over and over across time the 1, 2, 3 was beautifully lost in the effortlessnes of motion like dominoes set up and staccatto-clicking at speed moving through their falling down. Fractals in motion, always perceiving the angles of curves, the generative formulas and lines constructing ellipses, or a simple flowing curve splined in tangent to flow into the next line, curve, square, shape, or simply its next place. As I read I was not looking for direct expressions of that Ace of Swords dowsing on the checkerboard, but was feeling its identity flow through the entirety of your article. . .where what was left unsaid was as generative as what you did say. Feels to me to be the natural way, though in Philo classes and such the dead-end of one or the other often boringly takes precedence, and many do not take that whole world of an Aristotelian expression and a Pythagorean one to “1, 2, DANGIT what’s 3?!” and take their thoughts creatively and lifefully forward from the forms of basic beginnings. . .like The Hermit sensing, about to see his own footsteps, his own footsteps as he completes a circle in a familiar place about to be experienced differently. . .presaging, prefiguring The Wheel of what is then “1, 2, 3, DANGIT”. Over and over through life, and it rarely becomes boring. And, more so the continual mastery, Aristotelian-Pythagorean antinomy in each motion, leads to further discovery.
Really glad your article was revealed through Bonnie Cehovet! Great to talk to another who gets it, celebrates that, and at one and the same time simply finds it very much a natural mode of being in the world. Though sight and seeing always differs, amazing how vision powerfully brings together connections! Great to connect with you!
Hail the deep-dark past of Tarot and most all things continually meeting the future in the perpetual present!
May Chthonic Numinosity Inherent in Self Always Depthfully Inspire You,
Jordan
Bonnie Cehovet
June 11, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Jordan –
Beware of those wet dogs! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
June 12, 2011 at 12:50 am
;-D it goes everywhere!
Bonnie Cehovet
June 14, 2011 at 6:36 am
Jordan –
Interesting that you picked up on my statement. I was just thinking out loud, because I am not sure jus “how” disruptive thislunar eclipse is going to be, but I do have a feeling that quite a shake up is in order. Eclipses of all kinds make us step back and look at things, and a total eclipse in the sign of Sagittarius (the wanderer witht he very questioning mind) begs to bepaid attention to. Can we thank the heavens that the Rapture was not “scheduled’ for this time period?!!
I feel that in looking at the role the “Mystereum Tarot” played/is playing in your life, it is a compendium of your experiences, while at the same time “being” a learning experience. Cool that you brought the Empress into the mix, because while the eclipse rides on the tails of the Sun and the Moon, we are seeing/experiencing it fromt he perspective of soeone on the Earth. The World, of course, is actually where all of this happens. (We won’t get into parallel worlds for now!)
Too bad that we won’t see the eclipse here in the U.S.!
I like t he Pallas Athena reference. When I first entered the service, and t he Women’s Army Corp was separate from the men’s army (this changed while I was in basic training), Pallas Athena was our “representative”, or symbol. Great poem!
Dark into dark is an interesting concept. Being in the dark, then letting go and going that much deeper into the dark.
Blessings,
Bonnie
Bonnie Cehovet
June 15, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Jordan –
Very cool! Making people responsible to themselves. š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
June 15, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Thanks, Bonnie! Simply my pro-active way of making imagination and divination actionable for people so they can get some Frank-Sinatra’n informing their own decisions as they do it THEIR rockin’ way.
Corrine Kenner
June 16, 2011 at 3:51 am
You are irrepressible, Jordan. Keep up the great work!
mystereum
June 16, 2011 at 4:06 am
Thanks Mucho, Corrine! Much appreciated! Irrepresible is SO much better than being a weed. Have a great full lunar central eclipse!
Idun aka Lisa Frideborg Lloyd
June 19, 2011 at 8:39 am
Cool post. The 5 of Wands is the central card in the Celtic Cross I did for myself this morning. Love what you said about the Sun in your video. My second card is the 3 of Swords…
mystereum
June 19, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Thank You Idun! It gives me a big smile that you loved what I said in The Sun vid! š And. . .drum roll, you wonderfully tipped the scale of the cards I was deciding between for my next blog. . the 3 of Swords is getting ready for its performance. xoox
mystereum
June 24, 2011 at 5:14 am
Many Thanks!! Wonderful review, and you have a great blog!!
Bonnie Cehovet
June 23, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Jordan –
Thank you for putting this blog out there. I love this deck, and would like to see more people considering the Marseille style decks, either through this lovely deck, or through the decks that Jean-Claude Flornoy restored.
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
June 26, 2011 at 10:30 pm
š You are welcome! A big ole simplicity towards complexity I have, that I guess I overlooked for decades until it unfolded to reveal itself. . .and I fully trust in it doing so when it did and not a moment before. . .is that I have always been able to sight-read any deck put in my hands or on the screen. . .and as I minded my temples flexing last time I looked at a Marseilles deck. . .your blog post reminded me of that. Reminded me of my own decptive simplicity towards myself and Tarot and basically most everything. . .where I can almost miss my own valuable statements and actions and miss capitalizing on them for myself and to further provide a service to others. Call it a Mystereum Knight of Wands AWAKENING moment, and your block on a Marseilles deck that lightly, subtlely, has shade rather than wholly and deceptively simply hiding its allusions in plain sight as is traditional for Marseilles decks struck a symphony of chords to resonate and focus me to look at my own process with “looking at a Marseilles deck” eyes. Cheers Bonnie!
Bonnie Cehovet
August 19, 2011 at 10:14 am
Jordan –
People tend to forget – Tower moments do lead to Star moments! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
August 20, 2011 at 2:31 am
Thanks, Bonnie. Thought the transition, even personally after this past 5 years and especially this past Spring was worth an expression or so.
Jupiter’s Blessings,
Jordan
Cheryl Ryder
November 4, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Thank you!
mystereum
November 4, 2011 at 3:05 pm
You’re very welcome, Cheryl!
Bonnie Cehovet
November 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Jordan –
Short, to the point … great work! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
November 6, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Thanks, Bonnie! Best n Magic to Ya!
tarotpic8ynette Packer
November 5, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Hey – Jordan – Excellent – Loving the fact a big proportion of Aces are popping up in my personal reads at present. Allllllllllll good …Warmest Lynette
mystereum
November 6, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Thanks, Lynette! Best n Magic to Ya!
Bonnie Cehovet
November 8, 2011 at 5:15 am
Jordan –
You done good – you choose t he card that I would have chosen! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
Bonnie Cehovet
November 11, 2011 at 3:15 am
Jordan –
Great post!
Blessings,
Bonnie
Jen_GGI
November 15, 2011 at 3:53 am
nice blog
Family Vacation Ideas
November 16, 2011 at 1:21 am
These are impressive articles. Keep up the noble be successful.
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November 27, 2011 at 5:50 pm
All ’round great article.
Bonnie Cehovet
January 9, 2012 at 3:10 am
Interesting series here!
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
January 9, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Thank You, Bonnie!
mystereum
January 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Thank You, Bonnie!
Jupiter’s Blessings,
Jordan
Sophie Falco
January 16, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Great post, Jordan. As someone with 3 planets + Chiron in Pisces in the 11th house and my north node in the 12th house, I understand all too well this swimming Neptunian boundarylessness… I like the image of the sponge, it works for me. I find that I draw on the Jupiterian side of me to counterbalance the excess of Neptune: wisdom, learning, gravitas, and the Martial to help with the boundaries and some sparks of energy. But I also see those Neptunian elements as useful – I get instant feedback from a querent, I ‘know’ if and how what I’m saying is touching them, so I can adapt, repeat, or move on.
mystereum
January 16, 2012 at 10:28 pm
Thank You, Sophie! I really dig your Jupiterian counterbalance statement to the Neptunian aspects.
Adapt, repeat, or move on” Yes!, as if without thought or will, and fully comprehending the components . . . like seeing an eagle fly across the road in front of one’s car, inspiring driving, the journey, rather than interfering with it. . .yet often not chasing it like a butterfly. I rather not see those when I am driving. Their lifespan is short enough already. š
Bonnie Cehovet
January 23, 2012 at 2:22 am
Jordan –
Kung Hei Fat Choi back attcha! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
January 23, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Kung Hei Fat Choi, Bonnie! š
Blessings,
Jordan
cazadoradesignos
January 24, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Thanks, Jordan! After my meditation session this images are a GIFT!!!
mystereum
January 24, 2012 at 5:47 pm
You’re welcome, Aurora! They resonated with me as well. Sharing them smiles them to expand further, differently in others’ eyes. Glad they came as a GIFT!
Bonnie Cehovet
January 25, 2012 at 5:57 am
Jordan –
A great way to get people to think! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
January 25, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Thanks, Bonnie! š Blissings, Jordan
Lisa
January 25, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Again you managed to make me feel better about the Hanged Man. I really like the succinct explanation of my birth trio at the end of the post and it pulled it all together. Very nice post!
mystereum
January 25, 2012 at 8:23 pm
I am so pleased, Lisa! Thank You. He can be a squirrely and quirky bit of a card, and I appreciate you resonating with how I am flipping perspectives to other facets of focus. Thank You for your rockin’ comment!
Lisa
January 29, 2012 at 7:37 am
I hear you about different perspectives, Jordan. Each card has many voices. Repeating cards is something I’m thinking about a lot lately. In the solar return reading I did for myself on my birthday earlier in January, Temperance showed up three times! “How is this even possible?” I hear you asking. I did a 12 Houses spread and used three cards from three different decks to give a fuller picture of the energy of each house. In my reading, the Temperance card first shows up in the central theme position in the 1st House. In the 3rd House it shows up as the ‘shadow’ and in the 4th House it shows up in the spiritual guidance position. Talk about food for thought! This is one of the reasons I love doing multiple deck readings – Allowing for repetition this way provides the Universe to ‘flag’ development themes and makes dig deeper for meaning.
mystereum
February 2, 2012 at 12:59 am
Food for thought, Lisa? You just now gave me a whole buffet! Thx Mucho!
Bonnie Cehovet
January 29, 2012 at 7:43 am
Jordan –
This happens often enough to pay attention to! š It gives weight to the Seeker’s question, but the reader needs to also look at what place the card(s) have in their life.
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
February 2, 2012 at 12:58 am
Thanks, Bonnie! Nice to feel valued! Blessings, Jordan
mystereum
February 6, 2012 at 5:33 pm
and as well, I really resonate with your “look at what place the card(s) have in their life.” Questions that come to mind are:
~ Describe the movement of the card into and through different areas of your life?
~ Do the cards live in that area for now? Do they cycle around? . . . like the moon and sun to the earth?
~ How are the cards or card included? Welcomed? Difficult?
Looking at this alone directly, at the repeating card(s) placement(s), can bring a clarifying perspective to the focus of the tenor of the identity of the reading for self or clients.
. . . enough prepositions just there. Felt like I was Family-Tree diagramming the sentence . . . microscoping closer and closer . . . EverReady Bunny sentence? Ode to Ellipses Expressed. š
Louise
January 31, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Love that you have cat-ear-seeing! Great niche to sell yourself with, JJ!! Blessings this Imbolc!
mystereum
February 6, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Blessings, Louise! I responded to all these comments and they disappeared, so apologies for the belated reply. Thank You!
Carolyn
January 31, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Greetings, Jordan! Oh, I see that one must come prepare to mediate a bit upon your offerings here! “I see with cat’s ears.” & the 9 folds over on itself. It’s all giving me a new perspective. Good to be part of the Blog Hop with you. Be well, Carolyn
mystereum
February 2, 2012 at 12:57 am
That I was able to gift you a new perspective from my psychic sandbox brings a smile, Carolyn. Thank You!
Joanna
January 31, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Love this, Jordan! Especially the Seeing-with-Cat’s-Ears (shall we start calling you by that name? š I appreciate your gifts of the Merc/Neptune conjunction because, as a triple earth sign (tho’ w/Venus & Merc in Sag) I am always looking for ways to ground mystical experience in our bodies and our earthly lives. 9 of Pents rocks!
mystereum
February 2, 2012 at 12:53 am
We shall! With a crazy French aksent! SWCEJJ = SWISH. Thank You! I smile enjoying that my Merc/Neptune gifts are SO resonating with your “Journey through the Gaian Tarot.” It gives me wonderful resonances and teaches me more how to expand my down-to-earth spirit. It is causing some great and simple realizations, deceptively simple in the breadthy ways they are enhancing my expansion into my role yet in very grounded ways . . . flying higher with a new lease on life, as high and higher as my roots expand depthfully and deeper. Thank You for hopping by, Joanna!
Arwen
January 31, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Brilliant! Seeing-With-Cats-Ears aka SWCEJJ (swish?) I truly loved this piece. Grounding the woo-woo in the here and now is truly important.
mystereum
February 2, 2012 at 12:46 am
SWISH with a crayzee Franch aksent it is! Thank You! You’ve got me laughing as when new clients raise an eyebrow after their reading and express how THAT was different! Never had a reading like this before! I smile and express back, “I’m not woo woo, simply Woo.” š
Zanna Starr
January 31, 2012 at 5:22 pm
“He Who Sees With Cat’s Ears” has spoken! In contrast to your hip beat, I find myself humming a Cole Porter tune. Can you guess which one? Thanks for this excellent hop stop.
mystereum
February 2, 2012 at 12:44 am
da DUN! LOL Thanks for hopping by, Zanna! I can only guess them all as I don’t know the names by heart. Cole Porter grooves a room. Great Sunday afternoon hanging around the house music. You’re welcome, Zanna. I am looking forward to hopping all the way through them myself now that the links are hoppable. š
october
January 31, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Omg, I love your tone!!!
This was an amazing, fun and refreshing blog post. You’re so lucky to have Neptune conjunct mercury in the 10th house, and in that case, I’m glad you do! It helped write this colorful post! š
mystereum
February 2, 2012 at 12:40 am
Thanks, October! I feel music are what emotions sound like, and your comment about my tone plays wonderfully. Thank You!
Donnaeligh
January 31, 2012 at 9:47 pm
This is wonderful. I especially loved this part:
“Reasons can be unreasonable, often a kind of looking back.”
That taught me alot.
mystereum
February 2, 2012 at 12:39 am
š You make me smile, Donnaleigh. Thank You! Glad that resonated with you.
Claire-Marie Le Normand
February 1, 2012 at 6:20 am
…unlit candles in the dark…..very nice.
mystereum
February 2, 2012 at 12:39 am
Thank You, Claire-Marie!
Bonnie Cehovet
February 6, 2012 at 9:19 pm
While the pit crew does not drive the race car, the car is able to race well because of the decisions and actions of the pit crew. Listen to your pit chief – he has experience that you may not have.
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
February 6, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Yes, and yes, and as well the driver is also the one who challenges the engineers by pushing the car. With a great team, there is a tandem double-slingshot where both behind the scenes and those on stage work seamlessly as one . . . and may bark here and there at one another. LOL I know Ayrton Senna’s team would try and hold him back with, “You are doing things way beyond, that that car isn’t made for.” He’d bark, “Give yourself some credit. I haven’t broken you car . . . again . . .yet.” š They really worked together to get all the goody out of their experience.
mystereum
February 6, 2012 at 9:35 pm
And, yes and yes, we are on the same page from my perspective, especially with the “ignored . . . or did I?” Teamwork can be a beautifully double-eged sword used to carve and tune and tailor excellence . . . as Senna most always did.
rootweaver
March 7, 2012 at 8:15 am
Yes! How fantastic! Thank you for this marvelous tale, where can we get more? More, more! We want more! xxx
mystereum
March 7, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Thanks Much Rootweaver! (Jera?), I will have a couple more samples here next month. The come from my book + Tarot deck set, “Tarot in the Land of Mystereum: An Imagination Primer,” published by Schiffer in 2010. You can order it at http://www.jordanhoggard.com .
Loving how it resonated with You! xxxx’s
Zanna Starr
March 19, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Thank you for a fascinating journey! Love the psychic snapse!
mystereum
March 19, 2012 at 4:09 pm
You’re welcome! Thanks for the magic!
Lisa Frideborg Lloyd
March 19, 2012 at 4:30 pm
head-spinny reading, full of twilight magick… love it!
mystereum
March 19, 2012 at 9:34 pm
:-), Lisa! Thanks for hopping by and also being a BlogHop neighbor!
Arwen
March 19, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Wow. I will come back to read this one again. Made me think. For now, I’m just going to stand in the middle of the bridge and snatch hugs from everyone who goes by. š
mystereum
March 19, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Hugs! š
Claire-Marie
March 19, 2012 at 8:35 pm
Love the idea of spring as dawn twilight. wonderful.
Claire-Marie
mystereum
March 19, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Thanks for hopping by and for enjoying spring as dawn twilight, Claire-Marie!
Amanda Donnelly
March 20, 2012 at 1:40 am
Twilight is my favorite time of day. The veil is thin then, ripe for this kind of magical work. Love yur post, Jordan!
mystereum
March 20, 2012 at 3:34 am
:-), Mine, too! Many Thanks, Amanda!!
Joanna
March 20, 2012 at 3:03 am
I’ve read this three times now . . . once this morning and twice just now . . . there is magic here, magic to make the head spin and encourage us to dance across the twilight bridge. Will be lovely to take this imagery into the dreamland. And I’m with Arwen; I think I’ll snatch hugs too.
mystereum
March 20, 2012 at 3:35 am
You make my heart sing, Joanna! Thanks for appreciating the magic! Dream On . . . to steal a line from DL’s fave. š
Arwen
March 20, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Joanna, we can stand back to back and be the two Silly Girls Not-So-Gruff Who Live On The Bridge.
Joanna
March 20, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Sounds good to me, Arwen! š
mystereum
March 21, 2012 at 1:25 pm
š
mystereum
March 21, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Magical hugs for all! Standing in the middle, though . . . The Moon/High Priestess’ 3rd eye might blink . . . as you float-stand on her forehead. š
LisaM.
April 16, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Hi Jordan~I wasn’t sure how to respond-so I pulled three cards from my Mary-El deck and this is what I got: Page of Wands, 3 of disks, Ace of Wands.
I asked: “How do I dance with an idea? Fundamentally or Patriotically?
My sentence: Strength of heart, grounded with action, will be creatively expressed.
Now, I’m not sure if this expresses fundamentalism or patriotism, but I did enjoy using key words to make a sentence.
mystereum
April 16, 2012 at 7:09 pm
What a great response! You caught me in a Jordanism where the warm-up is often not part of the performance — patriotism/fundamentalism. lol Glad you enjoyed using key words to make a sentence. That’s a great Turbo Reading sentence you put together! š The technique comes from one of the Imagin-Action Tools I am putting together to couple with spread groupings in upcoming eBooks. Thanks for playing, Lisa!
Bonnie Cehovet
April 27, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Jordan –
Each time someone uses this deck, they will see something different. The “Transparent Tarot” (Emily Carding) comes to mind, for some reason. Both decks can be put together in so many different ways! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
April 27, 2012 at 6:01 pm
:-)!!
Zanna Starr
May 1, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Love this, Jordan! Love the Wands cards you shared and your interpretations, the quotations, etc. You’re on Fire! (um… figuratively of course)
mystereum
May 2, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Thanks, Zanna! HAWT! š
Arwen
May 1, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Fun, clever and entertaining. Thanks. š (post was good too. HA!)
mystereum
May 2, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Great comment, Arwen! And, I like it anyway. lol
Claire-Marie Le Normand
May 2, 2012 at 1:17 am
Wandy Dancing. I love how that sounds.
mystereum
May 2, 2012 at 3:05 pm
š Much appreciated, Claire-Marie!
psychic readings
June 14, 2012 at 2:09 am
Thanks for sharing. Always love reviews and articles on tarot. Love that there are so many to choose from as well, they all speak in their own language.
Karen Sealey
June 15, 2012 at 11:59 am
Hi JJH – love your work. I use your deck for a lot of personal work – it has inspired me greatly and I have made and implemented some very creative changes to my life – so if that makes me a fluffy bunny – well kiss my tail !! I like the energy of your deck – it makes be laugh a lot and when I’m laughing… then that is when my ideas start flowing – so thank you x
mystereum
June 15, 2012 at 4:34 pm
You are very welcome for Mystereum, Karen! And, thanks much and Amen on the ‘kiss my tail’ if it’s fluffy bunny, and ideas flowing when laughing. I find that fun and laughter are the higher octave of most eveything. Heck, if I was having fun with experiemental astrophysics, playing with it, that expresses an expertise past getting good with the steps. And, that’s when ideas flow, that’s when breakthroughs happen. Great to hear your story of how you are using Mystereum! Reminds me of a quote about this, “Look! We’re dumbasses. We work HARDER!” lol Laughter is SO not that.
Great to hear from you about how you are using Mystereum!
Karen Sealey
June 15, 2012 at 10:01 pm
Hehehe š I’ve only just dipped my toe in at this point… I’ve got a few ideas creeping in that will be hopefully taking me on a bit of adventure and I’m thinking of taking your deck as my guide… It’s up in the ether at the minute but when it starts to come to form and manifest on earth… well then I’ll keep you posted…
Karen Sealey
June 20, 2012 at 10:48 pm
‘Keep sight of what you brighten’ thanks JJH ~ sound advice š x
Christiana Gaudet
June 21, 2012 at 12:24 pm
You are so creative! I love the spread and the poem. What a great way to celebrate the Sunrise!
mystereum
June 21, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Thanks Much, Christiana!
Chloe
June 21, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Hiya Jordan,
I agree with Christiana – what a lovely spread and poem, too. I especially loved your phrasing for card 3 – really beautiful. As for the poem, that last bit made me laugh out loud – more garlic, please š
mystereum
June 21, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Thanks, Chloe! Laughter and garlic. Who knew the Vamps had a sense of humor? š
Arwen
June 21, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Intriguing questions and I like they layer on one another. Fun post as always.
mystereum
June 22, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Many thanks, Arwen!
Alison Cross
June 22, 2012 at 12:20 pm
oh noes! Did my comment not get accepted?! Can’t remember exactly what I wrote, Jordan. I love the poem – so creative. I never looked at Gargoyles that way before – the equivalent of Angels….and I’ll keep eating the garlic!
mystereum
June 22, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Hey there, Alison! Thanks! Couldn’t find a comment hiding in the pending or spam. ?? Thanks for re-commenting!
ivy
June 22, 2012 at 4:39 pm
That was very…..sexy.
mystereum
June 22, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Why thank you, Ivy! š
Sharon
June 23, 2012 at 12:28 pm
That’s a fantastic poem, darkly beautiful and compelling. I love your spread too! I especially love the way you focused on the skeleton as that which supports us, and on light as something that brings clarity, and freedom of thought and movement.
mystereum
June 23, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Much appreciated, Sharon. It’s one of my fave poems playing with the directness of a character’s voice. . .and in a wonderful revisionist history kind of way as their fictional character was “actually” there. Thanks for spending some time here.
Bonnie Cehovet
July 22, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Jordan –
This is fantastic!
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
July 22, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Mucho Thanks, Bonnie!
phhhhzzzzzzzzzz, š
Jordan
Karen Sealey
July 26, 2012 at 8:43 pm
III Empress … qu’elle surprise! Toyota Previa !!!
Bonnie Cehovet
July 27, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Jordan –
Great blog … fantastic video! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
July 28, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Thanks Much, Bonnie!
Thank you for your continued support!
š
Chloe
July 28, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Fascinating seeing how you put this technique into effect. It was interesting, too, when you said to actually put a card distance between the cards, I did so in my mind, and saw an actual card to bridge the gap – a different mental way to draw cards š
Love the effect in your video of turning yourself into drawings – v cool!
mystereum
July 28, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Many Thanks, Chloe! Glad the literal space between the cards technique worked as a connective bridge of the space between. :-)’s on the video effect. I can thank Carrie Paris for that.
Arwen
August 1, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Thank you. I enjoyed the pull of this post. And the video…wow. How convenient indeed. š
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:37 pm
You’re welcome, Arwen. I enjoy the choice of the word “pull”, like natural orbits. Thanks for the nod. š
John
August 1, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Excellent post and video! I didn’t know that about the multiplication tables! Thanks for sharing!
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:37 pm
You’re welcome, John. Thanks for stopping by!
Kerry
August 1, 2012 at 4:25 pm
I love how many of us came to community in our pentacles explorations. Not surprising, I guess, but still pleasing. Another thing with the nine and multiplication – the two digits of the answer add up to 9 – 18 (1+8), 27 (2+7) etc. I always loved that, too š
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:40 pm
I am digging how many of us came to a confluence in our Pentacle explorations as well. Glad you posted the 9’s addition component of the multiplication tables. Thanks! 9’s are pretty dynamic and special. Solid. Fluid. Simply a finished engine needing to be dropped into the car of the 10’s?
Thanks to another 9-lover, Kerry! š
alisoncross
August 1, 2012 at 4:32 pm
The 9 is very special in multiplication – it’s the easiest table to teach small boys when they are fed up and just wanting to play Minecraft! I tend to forget that Pentacles is about community, I must remember that!!! Another great Blog from you Jordan š
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:42 pm
Thanks Mucho, Alison! And, heck, if 9’s are the easiest to teach to small, fed up boys with gaming on the mind . . . 9’s are the new 1’s! lol Thanks for your perspective, Alison. Always appreciated to flesh things out in gerat ways. š
Joy Vernon
August 1, 2012 at 4:44 pm
very stream-of-Jordanciousness
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:44 pm
stream-of-Jordanciousness. I like that better than The Silver Surfer. Very neologistically Jung at heart. Like Carl Jung happily plopped in South Park? š
Teresa
August 1, 2012 at 6:57 pm
cool! Love the 9, love the stream of consciousness, love the video & effects, and love this community-building blog hop!
Hugs and butterflies,
~Teresa~
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Ditto and hugs and butteflies to you, too, Teresa. Hugs and butterflies. I rather like that . . . caterpillar up to the hug and open your arms to butterfly(verb) be inspired.
Hugs and butterflies,
~Jordan~ Oh, the ~ ‘s on either side are butterfly wings!
Koneta
August 1, 2012 at 7:54 pm
There is no spoon… š Love the Mirror/Mirror concept. Excellent as always!
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:48 pm
There is no spoon, or Spoon Is Dead . . . should be on the cover of Time Magazine? š Thanks on the Mirror/Mirror concept!
ivy
August 1, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Well said. Thank you š
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Thank You, Ivy, n Your welcome. š
cosmicfaery
August 2, 2012 at 8:46 am
I’m certainly having fun with the “9” now, Jordan š Never realised the 9x table flips over after 45…fascinating…love your connection with the hieroglyph, too. I learned so much from your post. Thank you š
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:50 pm
You’re welcome. Great that you stopped by! Best to the 9’s cascading in their dynamically orderly dna way for you. š
Christiana Gaudet
August 3, 2012 at 2:10 pm
This is like one big multi-media poem! So creative and meaningful. Love it.
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Thanks! And, funny, Christiana, I kept oscillating between writing in verse and paragraphs as I was putting it together, and the personlaity of the 9’s seemed to laugh at having one or the other or the need to combine when a fluidity in more of a proetic form would be more to their liking/style. Thanks!
Freespirit
August 3, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Very interesting and original post, you see many layers beneath the mundane veneers. Thank you for this. Brightest Blessings – FS x
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Thank You, and happy you can enjoy the lasagna or baclava of the layers, FS. Magical Blessings, Jordan x
Karen Sealey
August 3, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Yay !!! Love this Heirpphant !! Plus bonus feature… just discovered carousel when you click on pictures… happy happy joy joy š
mystereum
August 3, 2012 at 6:28 pm
š
Joanne
August 13, 2012 at 6:11 pm
This was a fantastic idea and very entertaining! Thanks!
mystereum
August 13, 2012 at 6:16 pm
You’re welcome! Fun Fun.
mystereum
August 14, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Thanks, Joanne!, and you are very welcome!
Bonnie Cehovet
August 13, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Jordan –
Way too funny! However, it does not entice me to open my spam folder! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
August 13, 2012 at 10:25 pm
š
Karen Sealey
August 15, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Hahahaha !!! Mr Hoggard – you are singing to the choir !!! I very much enjoyed your merry game … full on groove on lol š
mystereum
August 15, 2012 at 9:40 pm
full on groove on, Silver Surfin’ celestial groove. š
Bonnie Cehovet
August 17, 2012 at 11:39 am
Jordan –
Great article! I like the new template too! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
August 17, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Thanks, Bonnie! š Much appreciated.
Karen Sealey
August 17, 2012 at 7:48 pm
See with your catās ears the whole worlds behind you without even moving your eyes. – Now that, I especially like š
mystereum
August 17, 2012 at 7:56 pm
meow.
pdblizzard
August 20, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Very cute – an enjoyable read š I’ll never look at my inbox the same way again.
mystereum
August 20, 2012 at 1:39 pm
š Thanks pdblizzard!
Karen Sealey
August 20, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Fancy missing my Queen of Pents out…. š
mystereum
August 20, 2012 at 5:39 pm
She must’ve been the 5th that I didn’t see and thus made a Fill-In. Ironically, she appeared in Sunday Services: http://jordanhoggard.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/sunday-tarot-services-ace-and-queen-and-major/
Karen Sealey
August 20, 2012 at 6:49 pm
Ah… yes did read that š
‘Oh, my email is filled with sheep, pigs, and cattle? ‘ that is really too funny !!! You know Hoggard is ye olde English word for shepherd…? Lol š x
mystereum
August 20, 2012 at 6:53 pm
And Norse for Hog Guarder, though our swine-mind wasn’t so hot at spelling, piggish even in our ways. š
Karen Sealey
August 23, 2012 at 9:09 am
Thanks Jordan! It was on my ever expending list of things to do…sit down and find all the cards with this symbol… so you have done my homework for me š Though Please explain MVP … I am worried about hanged man and the health risks of being upside down in a tree with a Mitral Valve Prolapse !!! š x
mystereum
August 23, 2012 at 1:06 pm
LOL. MVP was intended to mean a Most Valuable Player. š
Karen Sealey
August 23, 2012 at 1:14 pm
xD I know !!! My imp is on the loose and I thought you would find that LOL š x
mystereum
August 23, 2012 at 2:46 pm
š
Christiane
August 24, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Love the video, Jordan, and your idea to make mind movies with the cards…awesome! š
mystereum
August 24, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Thanks Much, Christiane! š
moderndayruth
August 28, 2012 at 12:54 am
Awesome, wise and witty!!! Not to mention that Kn of W is one of my favs from your deck <3
mystereum
August 28, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Thx For checking it out, and I appreciate your great taste in that Knight! Have a great one!
Karen Sealey
August 30, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Love the bonus exercise… way too good to resist… š x
mystereum
August 30, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Thx for picking it up! š x
mystereum
August 31, 2012 at 1:34 am
:-)) x
pureblessedtarot
September 3, 2012 at 1:37 pm
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
mystereum
September 3, 2012 at 6:47 pm
I like having Douglas Adams as a neighbor. Very helpful to taunt the committee.
pureblessedtarot
September 4, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Me too š
Christiane
September 3, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Thank you for another entertaining post! Tarot and Spam, what a great combination š That’s why I have awarded you the Super Sweet Blogging Award š http://news.cosmictarot.co.uk/2012/09/super-sweet-blogging-award.html
Wishing you a magickal week!
mystereum
September 3, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Well,THANK YOU, Christiane! š + š
Karen Sealey
September 9, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Perfect exercise for the day I have had… my 4th is 6 of cups… š
mystereum
September 11, 2012 at 3:50 pm
š Best to your 6 of Cups making fulfilling exchange through your cards and life!
Karen Sealey
September 12, 2012 at 12:09 am
š why thank you … and the same to you š
moderndayruth
September 9, 2012 at 9:48 pm
What a catchy title! š
mystereum
September 11, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Thanks! š
gold account
September 10, 2012 at 8:54 am
TARA GREENE http://www.taratarot.com http://www.sacredartscentre.com I am a professional Psychic, Intuitive, Tarot Reader, Astrologer, Transformational Psychotherapist, Energy Healer, Dream Worker, shamanic healer, artist, writer, singer, dancer, women’s spirituality workshop leader, ritual creator and Ceremonialist. I was born this way. My life’s work is to assist people to more consciousness, healing,awareness using my innate intuitive skills. I am a teacher and inspirer. I remember being a High Priestess for many lifetimes. I love magik, the Great Mystery, my children and husband. I love travelling, music, writing, doing radio.
silver account
September 11, 2012 at 1:42 am
TARA GREENE http://www.taratarot.com http://www.sacredartscentre.com I am a professional Psychic, Intuitive, Tarot Reader, Astrologer, Transformational Psychotherapist, Energy Healer, Dream Worker, shamanic healer, artist, writer, singer, dancer, women’s spirituality workshop leader, ritual creator and Ceremonialist. I was born this way. My life’s work is to assist people to more consciousness, healing,awareness using my innate intuitive skills. I am a teacher and inspirer. I remember being a High Priestess for many lifetimes. I love magik, the Great Mystery, my children and husband. I love travelling, music, writing, doing radio.
Karen Sealey
September 13, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Cool … so now I can go into the kitchen and shout I’m doing the PotSS and everyone will keep out as they think it is housework hahahaha š
mystereum
September 14, 2012 at 3:09 am
š Lol!
pureblessedtarot
September 19, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Oh… and here’s the best part… I’ve still not read the book… So who knows what will happen when I actually work out how to use it…. š x
mystereum
September 20, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Pretty dang awesome! The Imagination Primer is like a 4-cheese Tarot white sauce of a picnic of a novel or Tarot play. Glad to see the cards literally speaking to you. They do in the book, though somehow all in the cards has a Mo Betta facet to it. š
Karen Sealey
September 20, 2012 at 9:38 pm
OK… so there is a reason I have not fully read the book…
Basically I have a two pronged theory to approaching decks:
a. You don’t learn anything while you clutch the LWB for back up…
b. I’m looking for intelligent design – so my reasoning is… a deck is an intuitive tool… so… if the creator has done the job properly… it should hit the ground running straight out of the box…
So… w.r.t. that theory – well I slap a ‘ Vorsprung Durch Technik’ bumper sticker on your ass š
However…
for personal development work… yes – I have dipped into the owner’s manual… particularly to further my learning from the Treasure of the Stones readings. And well… let’s just say that I could wax lyrical ad infinitum … š xx
Kerry
September 23, 2012 at 6:34 am
Well, that’s a road trip and a half š
mystereum
September 27, 2012 at 3:22 pm
all for the price of one, huh? š Thanks!
Christiane
September 23, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Wow! I’m dazzled….in a good way š
mystereum
September 27, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Thx, Christiane! š
Koneta
September 23, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip its been. š
mystereum
September 27, 2012 at 3:21 pm
š Ditto!
Lisa Frideborg Lloyd
September 28, 2012 at 4:35 pm
I think that “…and conquer the world with tired and knowing smiles” is perfect for The World.
mystereum
October 2, 2012 at 12:32 am
yep yup, Yeah, You!
Carolyn Cushing
October 31, 2012 at 1:54 am
Wow, what a story! And discovering Rilke, Jung, Blake, and Neruda all at the same time is a IV-full of awe and mystery, shadow and light!
mystereum
October 31, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Funny, I remember pushing my IV on the wheelie stand around the nurse’s station that I pushed while relearning how to walk. I like the quadruple author crown IV you mention much much better than the other after being off my feet for 10 days.
Arwen
October 31, 2012 at 2:40 am
Honorary tire designer? Jordan, your posts amaze and entertain and enlighten. Thank you.
mystereum
October 31, 2012 at 6:48 pm
You’re welcome. Happy to crack ya up. š
alisoncross
October 31, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Wow. Jordan. I’m going to read and re-read this one. Thank you! (((hug))) Ali x
mystereum
October 31, 2012 at 6:49 pm
You’re welcome n (((hugz))) back ToYa. ~J x
Alison
October 31, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Now THAT’S a journey! Thank you…
mystereum
October 31, 2012 at 6:49 pm
You’re welcome. Thanks for taking the trip!
Bonnie Cehovet
October 31, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Incredible promo! š
mystereum
November 2, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Thanks! Hope people will take advantage of it! Great double-gifts for the holidays if they are shopping and don’t use them right away. š
Bonnie Cehovet
December 12, 2012 at 6:24 pm
Jordan –
Love this take on 12/12/12! Definitely a time of raising vibrations! Come 12/21/12 … we get to do the work! š
Blessings,
Bonnie
mystereum
December 12, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Woot Woot! Thanks, Bonnie.
JJ
December 12, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Just another day. I’m knitting a sock though, does that count?
I keep meaning to buy your deck, maybe I should stop hanging around and do it? Oh wait, not on a day that ends in “Y”……right, got it.
mystereum
December 12, 2012 at 11:45 pm
š JJ. A sock sure DOES count, maybe even x 2. I have to laugh. Not on a day that ends in “Y” = never. Oops. If you would like Mystereum signed, you can order from the instructions on the banner link towards the bottom of this blog. Otherwise, it is available at The Tarot Garden and Amazon. Thanks Much for your interest!
Muselady11
December 21, 2012 at 5:34 pm
Seriously wow. This poet bows to your poet genius. Well played!
mystereum
December 29, 2012 at 1:13 am
š Thank You!
Arwen
December 21, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Liked the line about angels and gargoyles quite a bit.
mystereum
December 29, 2012 at 1:13 am
š Thx!
Koneta
December 22, 2012 at 12:26 am
It is not fire or lightning
that occasionally rips the gargoyles from the towers of your cathedrals. š
mystereum
December 29, 2012 at 1:13 am
Rockin’ Thx! ;-D
Christiana Gaudet
December 22, 2012 at 9:56 pm
You are simply too much fun!
mystereum
December 29, 2012 at 1:14 am
That’s acceptable, Christiana.;-) lol
Alison
December 26, 2012 at 11:05 am
Love this present – thank you!
mystereum
December 29, 2012 at 1:14 am
You are welcome, Alison!
Roma
December 26, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Excellent Christmas Present Prescient Presence ļæ½
Tarot in the Land of Mystereum guide! Now i’m especially taken because of your competencies in creating. The situation brought to mind an article concerning contact psychic reading I just read two hours previously. However, fine piece… thanks for submitting posts.
pureblessedtarot
December 31, 2012 at 4:19 am
High Five Hoggard! š x
mystereum
December 31, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Rock on Sealey! š x
Bonnie Cehovet
December 31, 2012 at 7:25 am
Reblogged this on Bonnie Cehovet.
sarahtaylor777
December 31, 2012 at 8:37 am
I caught this on Bonnie’s post on fb. Thank you for this, Jordan. I will miss you on fb, but the picture you have painted is one that I am going to bear in mind. Thought-provoking. With thanks.
mystereum
December 31, 2012 at 3:34 pm
You’re welcome, Sarah. Best to You and Yours into a Magical New Year.
JJ
December 31, 2012 at 4:20 pm
I was on Facebook for 10 days way back in 2006 before I deleted my account. I found it the most mindless and vacuous exercise in wasting time. For similar reasons, I never bothered with Twitter. I’m glad to see many people waking up: Internet marketing in general is not quite the magic potion it is painted to be.
I didn’t know you were interested in the work of Jaynes. I knew a fellow who was quite devoted to him. This fellow introduced me to tarot 11 years ago. I always called him “Magus Mine” since he considered himself a prototypical Magician.
I came to find Jaynes a bit too narrow in belief and overly fond of assumption. Similar to some tarot historians, you can only extrapolate so much, assume so much, before you are in the realm of projected theory. Perhaps we could say the same of most philosophers? But they sure are interesting to read.
I found a playing card deck recently called the Existentialist Playing Cards:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/105588363/existentialist-playing-cards
I like the art and I like the spark of thought such things engender. Wouldn’t it be neat to have a tarot deck devoted to philosophers and people like Jaynes?
You have made a good start….;-)
xaralouise
December 31, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Hey, JJ! I was wondering where you were! Went to thank you on FB for posting to my own blog as many times as you did in 2012, to find you were no longer there!
I’ve now found your blog and followed it. I hope you’re well and that 2013 brings to you all that you want and deserve! š
With Hogmany blessings!!
JJ
January 1, 2013 at 3:27 pm
Oh-oh, I think it’s another JJ who has been commenting, my name is Judith Johnston. JJ is a common enough initial I suppose. I have a few meanderings with the Wildwood you might like on my blog though. (Sorry to hijack comments Jordan, felt I should clear this up.)
mystereum
January 3, 2013 at 6:42 pm
Thx! Following your blog, and looking forward to further.
pureblessedtarot
January 2, 2013 at 10:17 am
Oh Mr Hoggard! Well, you asked which cards came to mind… well… I jumped on a link to Skinner and immediately got swept off on a journey with pigeon guided missiles… So, now I have Skinner!!!! booming through my head in Superintendent Chalmers’ voice… and much OTT hilarity at thought of 3 pecking pigeons…
So, you will get no sense from me now… So, to answer your question, I’ll have to take a dive into Mystereum and see who wants to play…
So…XVIII The Moon … ok so may need a telescope?
Page of Pents LOL !!! Is he steering? or are those 3 pigeons he is looking to?
Queen of Pents…. oh! she sits inside a big coin and holds a small coin… both big & small…
š Thanks!! That was a fun flying visit into M š
Karen Sealey
January 2, 2013 at 7:51 pm
You gave me an earworm… š
mystereum
January 3, 2013 at 6:34 pm
š
mystereum
January 3, 2013 at 6:36 pm
š Yep
If raining, bring an umbrella.
If snowing, a coat.
If sunny, a friend.
JJ
January 3, 2013 at 12:37 am
And you know of course I do architecture playing cards on my blog? Without training, I comment on the Great Ones. Le Corbusier should have remained a painter….
I don’t know, I kind of like a good cat pic.
mystereum
January 3, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Oh, when I was on Facebook, I almost posted cat pics exclusively through the election. Love me some cats. I don’t really understand your “without training” part of your comment. Meaning, you’re a natural? Creds and authority can sometimes just be props, not necessarily necessary, so good for you!
In regards to Corbu, I’m glad he did what he did, and I have no revisionist personal history to suggest to historical friends. Mostly ’cause they’re dead, and minorly because he did what he did. He was simply horrible at undervaluing his paintings. Gallery owners would double and triple the prices, and they would sell. Plus, he designed stark white and simple architecture, except for his coup de tas of Ronchamps, and lived in luxury with opulent ornate things. When asked why, he would mostly respond, “Oh, that’s for my clients. I couldn’t stand to live in that barren kind of space.”
mystereum
January 3, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Thanks for your comment JJ.
Karen Sealey
January 4, 2013 at 10:24 am
š
JJ
January 6, 2013 at 6:08 pm
When I did architect Gerrit Rietveld on the 10 of Spades, he said much the same thing about his famous Schrƶder House. He lived in it for a time 25 years after he built it and found it awful to live in. But the lady who commissioned it loved it. Such is ART.
Without training = without a degree in architecture. In our society amateurism is a terrible sin, but if you look at history, many discoveries in science were made by amateurs. I guess they didn’t realize they couldn’t do it. I have a small deck called The Ocean Oracle, and when I look up the shells and who discovered them I find many of them were amateurs who just liked to scrounge around for a good shell. Same thing in botany, and on and on.
I did Le Corbusier (we were never familiar enough for me to call him Corbu) on the King of Spades and his Villa Savoye on the 8 of Spades–the spades are all Modern architecture in the Play Architecture playing cards that I am studying, Next up: De-Structuralism in the Clubs suit. Ooh-la-la.
JJ
January 21, 2013 at 5:49 pm
Fortunately I don’t hang around in spirituality circles. I prefer listening to jazz in the quietude.
mystereum
January 22, 2013 at 5:32 am
Jazz is Mo Betta! It may inCLUDE that other thing, though when it does, it’s called groove . . . and we DO!
dodo
January 26, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Some folks would like to burn you at the stake for saying such things. To them you speak heresy…fluently! Me, I’ve had several good giggles, in between nodding with relieved approval.
Cheers!
mystereum
January 26, 2013 at 7:50 pm
Heresy spoken fluently. Is there any other way? Thanks mucho for your rockin’ comment! There’s no I in team, and OH there’s no I in heresy, either. lol
dodo
January 26, 2013 at 1:20 pm
I’ve no idea what a bicameral mind is unless the term refers to the two sides of the brain, but I was on Facebook for a few weeks some 4 years ago and I left soon enough. I found the whole thing not only creepy but mindboggingly vapid -or as JJ says, vacuous. The general level of discourse was pathetic, when not downright questionable. So glad to find out I’m not alone. I’ve neve bothered with Twitter either as it sonded like something for tweets/twats. Flickr, on the other hand, unfashionable as it seems to be, or have become, I still find OK. It’s been rather good for my self-confidence as a graphic artist and it’s -admitedly over- populated with some wonderful stuff that soothes the eyeballs and the mind (bicameral or otherwise).
Bethany
February 7, 2013 at 1:59 am
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Cheryl Carlyle
February 21, 2013 at 5:43 pm
hey Jordan, I added my email so I can get updates. This looks very cool.
mystereum
February 21, 2013 at 6:05 pm
Thank You, Cheryl! Volume 2 & 3 will be available soon, and then I will release 1 a week through the series for the story to unfold.
mystereum
May 3, 2013 at 7:17 pm
Thanks Cheryl! I’ll look forward to your rockin’ voice.
Karen Sealey
February 21, 2013 at 6:35 pm
Less chat Jordan and more action!! I have devoured vol 1 and am waiting…. š x
mystereum
February 21, 2013 at 9:24 pm
š Volume 2 coming soon! No sooner than that.
Karen Sealey
February 22, 2013 at 1:45 am
Hey… you know I’m impatient….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMz9mbgNDyM
š
mystereum
February 22, 2013 at 10:20 am
Ooph! pfffft. Oh, nevermind, Volume 2 will be out in a couple of minutes. lol
Karen Sealey
February 22, 2013 at 1:17 pm
Ha!! You caved so easily š I thought you would make me beg! lol
mystereum
February 22, 2013 at 3:43 pm
ahhhh, don’t get too comfortable in your seat. lol
Karen Sealey
February 22, 2013 at 2:49 pm
Niiiiice š
Karen Sealey
February 25, 2013 at 6:05 pm
pfft !!! It won’t let me like… so I will have to write LOVE IT here… š x
mystereum
February 26, 2013 at 2:52 am
saWEET!
Bonnie Cehovet
March 2, 2013 at 1:26 pm
Jordan –
Thanks for sharing! š
mystereum
March 6, 2013 at 4:19 pm
You are certainly welcome, Bonnie!
Bonnie Cehovet
March 2, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Jordan –
Thanks for sharing! š
mystereum
March 6, 2013 at 4:19 pm
You’re welcome, Bonnie!
Karen Sealey
March 6, 2013 at 11:31 pm
Oh Mr Hoggard! You leave me thoroughly blissed… ;-)x
mystereum
March 7, 2013 at 12:34 am
Rock on, Karen! x
JJ
March 14, 2013 at 3:05 pm
9-41-16 – Grade 7 lock, 1968 onward into high school. Shall we start a club Big J?
I have been enjoying the odd mandala drawing with your deck.
mystereum
March 18, 2013 at 7:56 pm
It’s always been a funny memory anchor to me. Cool on the mandalas.
Kelsey Lynore
March 16, 2013 at 1:33 am
I love Judgment. If you’re never called out on your shit, or vice versa, no forgiveness is really even necessary. :/ It’s also what prevents you from eating the poison berries. You mention the Queen of Swords and then name the Queen of Cups…. but the Queen of Swords is a really interesting mention that I wouldn’t have thought of! She’s been around the block, she’s in a position to move on. The Queen of Cups… I worry about co-dependency and chronic apologist victimhood for her… Dunno. Interesting. Cool deck, too! I hadn’t seen it before. Take care.
mystereum
March 18, 2013 at 7:57 pm
Thanks for the rockin’ breadth in your comment, Kelsey! Amen to calling and getting called out on our shit. Kinda mandatory for deepening.
mystereum
March 20, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Reblogged this on The Land of Mystereum ~ Tarot, Voice, and Story and commented:
The Psychic Synapse of Ostara…
pureblessedtarot
March 21, 2013 at 4:59 pm
I like your meanderings Jordan š I did get myself tangles in a web though as my brain is being trixie today and read Anarchos as arachnid… š x
JJ
March 22, 2013 at 12:44 am
I bought a similar drafting template with squares, triangles, circles, ellipses and hexagons–ye olde general purpose metric template. Love the darn thing, use it for lots of stuff. There is something about templates….swoon.
I love the idea of astrology in history, and also alchemy, I just like reading about the history or the various experts and their lives. I have a couple of books on alchemy, particularly the artwork. I like the artwork of astrology too but have no patience or interest with the charting and such.
Which reminds me, I have a biography of Paracelsus by Philip Ball (an excellent author) called “The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science” that I still haven’t read after several years, so I vow to read it. I don’t suppose you have read that?
mystereum
March 22, 2013 at 5:33 pm
I haven’t read that, JJ. And, now I want to read that! Thanks Much for the referral to the what-looks-to-be-a-great-title Paracelsus biopic.
Kelsey Lynore
March 22, 2013 at 5:58 am
Against fixed structure… it has to move and swap parts.
mystereum
March 22, 2013 at 5:35 pm
as they play together, one bracing against the other
with fluid fluency, accurately…
Kelsey Lynore
March 22, 2013 at 10:18 pm
Haha š
mystereum
March 22, 2013 at 11:26 pm
š
JJ
March 22, 2013 at 6:38 pm
And this is an idea that runs through your entire deck–one of the reasons it is different! I was quite surprised at the gentle way this meanders through the Minor Arcana. Surprised and rather heartened actually.
mystereum
March 22, 2013 at 6:44 pm
That adds a bright star in my day, JJ, to get a postcard so to speak like that back from the Mystereum Minors from their not-minimized mode of being. Thank You.
karen
March 23, 2013 at 4:36 pm
Thank you Mr Hoggard š That has amused me greatly… Just off to polish my docs…
š x
karen
March 24, 2013 at 4:56 pm
I’m am woefully inept and lacking the eloquence required to pay full justice to how exquisitely delightful I found vol 5 to be – let’s just say – rest assured I will be re-reading this many many times š
mystereum
March 24, 2013 at 4:59 pm
Thank You, Karen!! I am wonderfully floored by the note you sent me yesterday about “The English Patient” in this regard. Would you mind posting it or a version of it in the comments?
karen
March 24, 2013 at 5:08 pm
Mr Hoggard!!!
I have just read vol5….
You have made me cry…
The last time I cried like this was watching English Patient….
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mystereum
March 24, 2013 at 5:13 pm
Wow and WOW! Thank You, Karen! The English Patient is my all time fave movie. I am honored to be associated with it in such a wonderful way!
karen
March 24, 2013 at 5:21 pm
Well maybe in a few years time, people will say – oh! The English Patient… I love that almost as much a J Jordan Hoggard’s poetry š x
mystereum
March 24, 2013 at 5:24 pm
š x
karen
April 1, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Hey! I like that š x
karen
April 12, 2013 at 9:52 pm
Ba da da dum tddddddz š
mystereum
April 12, 2013 at 11:06 pm
š
pureblessedtarot
April 13, 2013 at 5:33 pm
The 8 swords put me in mind of a Guard of Honour. The black line that cuts through the clouds echoes back to the messages of 6 of S and 7 of S but also whispers hints forwards to the 9 of S … Similarly with the shadow hand, that takes me back to the 6 and 7…
mystereum
April 13, 2013 at 10:29 pm
Thanks for your comment, Karen. I appreciate the picture you painted for the card.
mystereum
April 17, 2013 at 5:34 pm
Thanks, Karen. These were my two prototypes as I was going into pre-production on my 2008 self-published edition. Based on the card manufacturer’s available card sizes that I ended up awarding the card production to, the box on the left (playing card size) was the one I made. All hail 7th grade Butterick flat pattern work and a Bernina + architecture with descriptive geometry. I printed the boxes on photo paper with my printer from the pattern I created and then cut, folded, and assembled them. Thanks for liking. I enjoyed the way they turned out. A little thin, but for an Indie deck at the time…
pureblessedtarot
April 19, 2013 at 7:20 pm
That’s a nice thought for the day š thanks! Xx
mystereum
April 19, 2013 at 9:11 pm
You’re welcome! š
pureblessedtarot
April 21, 2013 at 11:16 pm
You dancin’? I’m askin’! LOL š xxx
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pureblessedtarot
April 24, 2013 at 12:18 am
Love it!! š xx
pureblessedtarot
April 25, 2013 at 8:26 pm
Mystereum 6 of P is one of my most favourite cards š x
mystereum
May 2, 2013 at 3:33 pm
That’s only because you have such great taste. š
pureblessedtarot
May 2, 2013 at 4:19 pm
Yes… Yes I do! It rubs off from the excellent company I keep š every day should be a 6 of P day š x
mystereum
May 2, 2013 at 4:22 pm
š 6 o’ P it be!
pureblessedtarot
May 2, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Did you just say that in a pirate voice? Arghh! Pieces of Eight… Ha! Just added my 2P to your 6P š
mystereum
May 2, 2013 at 4:31 pm
Aaaaargh I did, Matey.
pureblessedtarot
May 2, 2013 at 4:34 pm
I knew it!! Now stop fiddling with your eyepatch š
Aaron
April 30, 2013 at 2:23 pm
What?! Juggling?! Holy Crap! I never would have related it to this. I can see it now! yes! It is like the Wheel of Fortune, to me, when I relate this to not just up and down of energy but the in and out of it. The “where are we sending that energy to and how are we receiving it back”. Thanks.
mystereum
April 30, 2013 at 9:19 pm
Great comment on the Wheel of Fortune both ways, Aaron! You are very welcome.
Le parfait skin reviews
May 3, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally,
it seems as though you relied on the video to
make your point. You clearly know what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to
your blog when you could be giving us something informative to read?
JJ
May 5, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Serious question: Why do you think there is such an interest in vampires in popular culture?
mystereum
May 5, 2013 at 4:03 pm
Personally, more than the immortal qualities I feel that there is so much mystery and fear, stealth and depth, and hidden realms present in the night for people … and vampires are masters of it… and, all they want is your whole life for one, infinite moment. There’s my 2 cents. Would you like me to send you Volume 1 & 2 for free?
JJ
May 9, 2013 at 10:58 am
That’s very generous of you Jordan, but I am not a great fan of vampires. I do have Ian Daniel’s “Tarot of Vampyres” which I find kind of kitschy and charming, plus he wrote an excellent book, but vampires aren’t really my thing.
Reading your words, it occurs to me that the stealth aspect, the secrecy, represents a type of power and mastery that people long for in a world that can make them feel helpless and out of control. Perhaps that’s the appeal?
Darkness has always been fearful for people–probably a biological thing–so to have mastery over the fear of that would be appealing too I think. Better to master the hidden realms than be fearful of the night. Also, there is a component of sexual power to the vampire archetype, perhaps as a result of the omniscience of hidden secrets and conquered fear?
I find that Tarot can represent a similar appeal to certain people, as if it gives them power or some sort of leverage of being in-the-know.
Great stuff, thanks for replying.
mystereum
May 9, 2013 at 3:23 pm
All points great there, JJ. And, I’ll simply let Prescient Remembrance remain a mystery to you, except to say it’s not a story of biting and chasing and fear and screaming but of one man’s search for his lost love. I figured the Vamp world needed a human interest story, so it’s a metaphor for the power and grace…. ahhh, talking about it is not something an author should do.
Thanks for your comments. Tarot does have that appeal as well. Journey is as Journey does whether it’s a Fool’s journey, a Hero’s journey, that they are one and the same and/or neither. Every card an Oracle straight from a dark psychomanteum I say.
moderndayruth
May 6, 2013 at 8:46 pm
Loved the video, Jordan! In full honesty – it’s one of the pips that deep inside i don’t really get… š
mystereum
May 6, 2013 at 9:23 pm
Thanks Much, Ruth! Some cards can be boogers, huh? Hope the video planted some seeds for you.
Aaron Lozano
May 6, 2013 at 11:00 pm
Thank you for sharing this. I needed to hear that last statement. I have been feeling that my energy is misspent. Great post!
mystereum
May 7, 2013 at 12:30 am
You are very welcome, Aaron! Thanks much for the kudos.
Jenna | Queen of Wands Tarot
May 7, 2013 at 1:44 am
Great way of looking at 6/p…give as much as you can but also look for misspent energy. I am thinking much along these lines of late.
mystereum
May 7, 2013 at 2:17 am
Many thanks, Jenna! Me, too.
JJ
May 19, 2013 at 11:35 pm
Huh, I have never heard of a psychomanteum. Whew, amazing what people do. I am incredibly boring, but I’d rather read a book.
Being an author is like going on a date: one must hold back, keep a few secrets, and make them eager for the next installment.
mystereum
May 25, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Psychomanteum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychomanteum
JJ
May 26, 2013 at 10:48 am
Thanks Jordan, I already had a look at that so I’d understand your comment.
The older I get, the more I feel I don’t know anything about the world. It makes life interesting though to learn about new things and see what other people are doing and thinking.
pureblessedtarot
May 25, 2013 at 5:44 pm
Well speaking from my Virgo BS free zone… I have to tell you… LOVE IT !! š x
mystereum
May 25, 2013 at 5:56 pm
Thanks Mucho!
JJ
May 26, 2013 at 11:11 am
Years ago I used to read HiC’s Tarotscopes. I am not a great believer in astrology (surprising no one I expect), but I like the idea of pairing it with tarot.
Well, I’m a Leo and consider the 8 of Pentacles one of my personal cards, so this sounds good. I think.
(Checks mirror for the fourth time in an hour, feels burning sensation….)
mystereum
May 26, 2013 at 2:37 pm
LOL. Gotta wear sunscreen and shades?
Kelsey Lynore
May 27, 2013 at 6:12 am
So, Jordan — You pulled the Queen of Swords for my Sun and the King for my BF’s. Thing is, we got in our first fight on the night of the lunar eclipse — of course! I’ve already broken out my mourning veil, which is fine, I am very Queen of Swords-y — but that we got paired Courts makes me hesitate. Care to take a…uhm.. stab? Haha. š
mystereum
May 27, 2013 at 4:10 pm
Surprise surprise getting into the first fight on the lunar eclipse. š Then, as well your paired Courts comingle though not necessarily need to mix… I would extend to you… taking a stab at it (good one) that one of you should poke the buttons on the phone and mix it up together understanding that there are two swords, and that that requires two scabbards. She’s the ultimate natural leader and he’s the ultimate natural communicator. Also, heat dulls blades, so chillax and take the high road… when he pushes, don’t push back to escalate, simply say “What can I do to make this work?” Then of course he’ll need to hear from you afterwards what HE can do from your perspective to make it work. Don’t turn up the heat unless the swords are sheathed. Not so no-one gets hurt… I just can’t STAND for you to dull a good blade the wrong way. š
That’s my 2 cents.
Kelsey Lynore
May 27, 2013 at 6:13 pm
Mmm — Stab very much appreciated. I’ve actually turned my phone off, though, and I’m not turning it on in the near future. Alone time. And a mourning veil. Very Queen of Swords. š
mystereum
May 27, 2013 at 9:02 pm
Make sure you graffiti the veil with “NO BS” with a š
Kelsey Lynore
May 27, 2013 at 9:04 pm
Oh, of course! The veil only goes up with magic words, i.e. grown-up, honest discourse. š
mystereum
May 27, 2013 at 9:06 pm
Amen to that!
Kelsey Lynore
May 27, 2013 at 9:08 pm
PS — I think you nailed it with the boring, workaholic routine, as that is the card I intend to play to get through this. Head down, focus on something that I can do something about — work! Oh, yay!
mystereum
May 27, 2013 at 9:09 pm
well, nailed it is an acceptable comment. lol
Carmen Waterman (@CarmenWaterman)
May 30, 2013 at 8:45 pm
Wow Jordan how wonderful. I don’t have a kindle would I be able to read it directly on my computer?
Thanks so much for sharing this amazing offer.
Carmen
mystereum
May 30, 2013 at 8:55 pm
Many Thanks, Carmen! There is a Kindle for PC download on Amazon so you can have a Kindle reading library on your computer. Look for “Kindle for PC”, unless you have a Mac which I believe only works with iBook and Nook. And, thanks much for tweeting this to your followers! Makes my day! š
Carmen Waterman (@CarmenWaterman)
May 30, 2013 at 8:45 pm
I tweeted this to my followers too. š
mystereum
May 31, 2013 at 3:23 am
š Thanks much!
pureblessedtarot
June 2, 2013 at 5:16 pm
5 of Wands is very interesting but being a very cuspy Virgo, I’m wondering to which Aerosmith song you refer? If it’s Love in an Elevator I may be tempted to tip my scales into Libra for a while… š
mystereum
June 2, 2013 at 5:38 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klvWtrtIRyI from Sgt. Pepper.
pureblessedtarot
June 2, 2013 at 5:44 pm
LOL š that song follows on nicely from mine š
pureblessedtarot
June 9, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Kudos on the radio show Mr H š x
mystereum
June 9, 2013 at 10:26 pm
Thanks! š
goalfulchels
June 15, 2013 at 7:33 pm
Powerful quote at the beginning!
mystereum
June 15, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Glad you liked it. Came across my email and the post it came from disappeared, so I figured I wouldn’t drop the ball.
Patricia Anne Cain Filgate
June 16, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Thanks, Jordan ! I loved the video. …and the horoscope for me this week is particularly apt. š Patrice
mystereum
June 16, 2013 at 9:28 pm
You’re welcome, Patrice. Glad to give you some resonant info. Best to your horoscope being a great ally for you. š ~ Jordan
mystereum
June 16, 2013 at 9:29 pm
Thanks for the kudos on the video, Patrice!
JJ
June 17, 2013 at 12:11 pm
I liked your greeting cards at Zazzle Jordan. Watercolour and circles, very nice. Having blobbed some gouache last week I was hesitant to draw points of architecture this week in the sketchbook, but your Leo forecast might get me going. It will look awful but I’ll learn a lot about the point.
mystereum
June 17, 2013 at 4:44 pm
Go you, JJ! Thanks for the like of my watercolor print greeting cards on Zazzle.
pureblessedtarot
June 19, 2013 at 3:47 pm
That is making me smile for too many reasons to list :). Tarot table? Altar? Yes! I have a garden… That serves me very well š
mystereum
June 19, 2013 at 4:17 pm
Rock on on the table and the altar and to get your personal pentacle out there rockin’ the garden! Smile on!
pureblessedtarot
June 19, 2013 at 4:28 pm
I like to get my groove on on the ground… I can rock on without worry of rocking off š
mystereum
June 19, 2013 at 4:52 pm
Good stuff! Just don;t fall off the ground. š
pureblessedtarot
June 19, 2013 at 5:06 pm
LOL I’ve tried my best to fall off and happy to say that to date I have failed… So it seems pretty fool proof š
mystereum
June 19, 2013 at 7:15 pm
š
Vivianne
June 21, 2013 at 7:43 am
I enjoyed this post, and your list of things to do š
mystereum
June 21, 2013 at 2:20 pm
Thank You!
Alison Cross
June 21, 2013 at 9:03 am
Great post and today I am really going to Live My Width!!! What a great expression. I am purloining it š
mystereum
June 21, 2013 at 2:20 pm
SaWEET! Go You! š
Ania
June 21, 2013 at 9:20 am
I rather wish I wasn’t living my width quite so much :/ I blame the scones
mystereum
June 21, 2013 at 2:21 pm
lol. It’s ok, they’ll make more. š
sungoddesstarot
June 21, 2013 at 12:05 pm
Jordy, I am so bloody happy you’re back in the hop because you always have so many interesting things to say:) Thank you for teaching me to live my width…
mystereum
June 21, 2013 at 2:21 pm
You’re welcome! And, thanks for the warm welcome back.
Joy Vernon
June 21, 2013 at 1:28 pm
I absolutely love the X bridges surrounding the I that only I can be. Thanks for an invigorating post, Jordan!
mystereum
June 21, 2013 at 2:20 pm
You’re welcome, Joy! Much appreciated. I look forward to hopping when I get back in town later today. BlogHop on!
Arwen Lynch, Professional Joy Seeker
June 21, 2013 at 4:40 pm
“It’s you as only you can be.” Splendiferous, Jordan! So glad you are back on the hop1
mystereum
June 22, 2013 at 1:03 am
I’m diggin’ “splendiferous,” Arwen! Thanks. Glad to be back. Thanks for the warm welcome.
Jenna
June 21, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Living my width over here…. all of it! š
mystereum
June 22, 2013 at 1:03 am
š lol. Go You!
Cher Green
June 21, 2013 at 11:26 pm
‘Remember, even in a card with no people, there is always oneā¦ You looking in through the portal.’ Love this take on the Tarot cards. Enjoyed the post.
mystereum
June 22, 2013 at 1:04 am
Thanks much, Cher!
JJ
June 22, 2013 at 3:20 am
Jordy? Crummy buttons, you never let me call you JORDY…..
mystereum
June 24, 2013 at 2:22 am
Ahhh, you can.
Louise / Priestess Tarot
June 22, 2013 at 9:07 pm
Maybe I should have read this post before living my width with a huge bar of fruit and nut and a glass of Merlot. But it’s Saturday night, the kids are in bed, so why worry?? š
mystereum
June 24, 2013 at 2:22 am
Exactly! No reason to worry. š
Muselady11
June 23, 2013 at 1:33 am
What a wonderful, quirky, spiritual style you have, Jordan! Very enjoyable. Felt as though I was being rocked back and forth through the lines. Actually aside from widening/expanding, this is my fav of yours: Remember, even in a card with no people, there is always oneā¦ You looking in through the portal.
I’ll remember that the next time the eight of wands comes up in particular….:)
mystereum
June 24, 2013 at 2:23 am
Thanks much, and thanks for the nod to my quirky style. Glad the “no people in a card” expression resonated with you.
pureblessedtarot
June 27, 2013 at 3:26 pm
I like that Mr H š I like that a lot!
mystereum
June 27, 2013 at 3:55 pm
Thx!
pureblessedtarot
June 30, 2013 at 8:23 am
I had a drink with the Q of C… She’s says if I want to amp then to go with the flow of my Artist, Mathmagician and Psychic comedium… Cheers! š x
mystereum
June 30, 2013 at 3:55 pm
Cheers! š
Sharon Cumming
July 1, 2013 at 3:23 pm
Love the way you compare twilight to nature’s psychic synapse. Twilight is my favourite time, there’s always a hush in the air, it’s peaceful and empty, and at the same time vibrating and full of potential. Be all that we are, in shadow as well as light, embrace our width š Thank you! š
mystereum
July 1, 2013 at 3:40 pm
You’re very welcome. Great to find another twilight lover resonating with nature’s psychic synapse that isn’t necessarily the movie. You’re very welcome. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
pureblessedtarot
July 6, 2013 at 8:13 am
F.A.B. Funderbirds Are Bo! š
pureblessedtarot
July 7, 2013 at 3:49 pm
Cheers! š x6 š xx
mystereum
July 7, 2013 at 4:49 pm
Cheers! š x 6 š xx
pureblessedtarot
July 8, 2013 at 11:59 am
Reblogged this on The Pure and Blessed Way… and commented:
Fave Rave…
Aaron Lozano
July 9, 2013 at 12:39 pm
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Now to find that little sprout!
mystereum
July 9, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Happy hunting!
pureblessedtarot
July 12, 2013 at 6:10 am
š ha! That’s why there are more Virgos than any other sign… Lol
JJ ColourArt
July 17, 2013 at 6:17 pm
Jordy Baby, enjoyed the Sun card–I picked the Sun card from another deck, so it’s all coming together. I never get that card so enjoyed hearing your thoughts. I also enjoyed Leo this week. I am finding your astrology things rather canny.
I’m using my other blog today (it’s Judy from Photon Stimulus)
mystereum
July 17, 2013 at 6:28 pm
Hi Judy,
Thanks Judy, and thanks for the “canny” compliment — gentle, restrained. I had to look it up as uncanny is good, and I wasn’t sure how it was being used like canny being canned or… So, thanks for the new word usage!
~Jordan
JJ ColourArt
July 18, 2013 at 1:38 pm
I was thinking of canny as being “astute” or “knowing.”
Words have such facets, which makes life interesting I suppose.
mystereum
July 18, 2013 at 3:33 pm
Astute or knowing. Thanks much.
Words. I’ll see you facets and raise you fractal-facets. They do make life interesting… such as… semantics are often just that… some antics.
JJ
July 18, 2013 at 2:36 pm
AND, I pick up your subtle “Jordan”–I had to try out “Jordy Baby”–it was one of those days when silliness overtook reason. I think I’ve got a grip now.
mystereum
July 18, 2013 at 3:35 pm
I thought it was a fun way to start a comment… like a hipster from the 70’s/80’s who is still current.
tarotcardsreading.Org
July 19, 2013 at 5:09 pm
Hi, after reading this amazing paragraph i am too happy
to share my knowledge here with mates.
pureblessedtarot
July 19, 2013 at 11:13 pm
I think I need to get glasses… I just misread as sacred adornments of boobies… š I’m trying to shake off the image! š
mystereum
July 20, 2013 at 9:02 pm
š
pureblessedtarot
July 22, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Spud? Where did you learn such a word? š
Have you tried mash?
voyance par telephone
July 22, 2013 at 9:06 pm
Hey there! I’ve been following your site for a while now and finally got the bravery to go ahead and give you a shout out from Humble Tx! Just wanted to say keep up the great work!
la voyance gratuite
July 24, 2013 at 1:17 am
Greetings! I’ve been following your blog for a while now and finally got the courage to go ahead and give you a shout out from Humble Texas! Just wanted to tell you keep up the fantastic work!
Fate
July 25, 2013 at 6:11 pm
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mystereum
July 25, 2013 at 7:37 pm
Thank you for your gracious offer. Prior to me contacting you, please clarify your statement that “some rules of the site are not stated.” That’s both too vague and broad to facilitate a conscientious comfort level as it stands.
Additionally, what kind of exchange? Do you mean to indicate that I place an article or articles there, or are you also looking to place articles on my blog? If the latter is the case, I am definitely not interested.
Please clarify, Fate. Thanks.
mystereum
July 27, 2013 at 6:06 pm
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
pureblessedtarot
July 28, 2013 at 12:54 pm
I love seeing the Kn of P… I will never forget the first time he appeared for me… I ended up in the hands of a professional make up artist getting a free make over… I emerged with Kn of P hair and eyes covered in gold and turquoise glitter… My little Tarot heart was filled with glee š
mystereum
July 28, 2013 at 5:36 pm
š
twopynts
July 28, 2013 at 3:48 pm
Great entry, very interesting stuff. It is good to be an Aquarius! š
mystereum
July 28, 2013 at 5:37 pm
Go You!
mystereum
July 28, 2013 at 5:37 pm
:-D. Thanks Kort!
lisahuntart
July 28, 2013 at 7:01 pm
Well said, Jordan! I like the idea of going with the flow, but it is an overused phrase that has lost its punch over time and can be easily misused. “Workability” take a more pro-active approach to a given situation and sounds more empowering than the passivity of just going along with things. Thanks for the awesome post!
mystereum
July 28, 2013 at 7:07 pm
You’re welcome, Lisa! You’re right on the money. My perspective is that going with the flow has gone with wind, so I figured to juice it back up again albeit with a twist. I appreciate your rockin’ compliment!
Aaron Lozano
July 28, 2013 at 8:19 pm
Wonderful Tarot-scope for Capricorn. You remind me of a great astrologer that writes for the VC Reporter here in Ventura. He is always in tune with the energy and really makes you think about what you are reading. Great job Jordan!
mystereum
July 28, 2013 at 10:21 pm
Thanks much, Aaron! Much appreciated!
luke
July 30, 2013 at 2:41 am
The very next time I read your blog, I hope that this doesnt let down me up to this one. I mean, I know it ended up being my replacement for read, however i actually thought youd get something fascinating to say. Almost all I pick up is a few whining about something that you may fix in the event you werent as well busy searching for attention.
luke
mystereum
July 30, 2013 at 2:50 am
Next time please pay attention and comment on the blog you read. Thanks. Posting about whining is way beyond off-topic in regards to this blog. oops, sarcasm over. OH WAIT! You are spam incarnate that slipped through. Thanks for the chuckle! I took the liberty of amputating your spammy dialysis link. The rest of it is priceless.
pureblessedtarot
July 31, 2013 at 10:33 am
Reblogged this on The Pure and Blessed Way….
mystereum
July 31, 2013 at 1:37 pm
Thanks!
sungoddesstarot
August 1, 2013 at 5:18 pm
what a beautiful poem my bloghop neighbour!
mystereum
August 1, 2013 at 5:20 pm
Thank You, Joanna!
pureblessedtarot
August 1, 2013 at 5:50 pm
I like your blue talk š
mystereum
August 1, 2013 at 9:23 pm
Thanks much. It was fun to do. š
Sharon Cumming
August 1, 2013 at 5:58 pm
Wow that’s an amazing poem! I love the association of The Hierophant with flour, kneaded dough, and baked crust… talk about the bread of life! š
mystereum
August 1, 2013 at 9:24 pm
Thank You, Sharon! And, glad you resonated with the process the Hierophant’s bread of life! š
Alison/Alison's Alembic
August 1, 2013 at 5:58 pm
The blue edits are pure joy to read! Thanks š
mystereum
August 1, 2013 at 9:27 pm
Thanks much, Alison! I had a blast riffing them off rather than creating a whole ‘nother article. Since I had started with the poem It became one of those editing moments of “YOU! Hey YOU. Yeah you, the one writing. One entree per blog, please. Next!” So, I just let the editing be thinking out loud to preface with a short lead-in story. Thanks again. I like how the blue edits bounce around. Happy Lammas!
xaralouise
August 1, 2013 at 6:23 pm
The blue bits were confusing at first, but I can see how they worked together in the second paragraph! I never got to do that with my uncle when he ran his own bread shop. 25 loaves was the first batch of the day. Thank you for the memory of warm, fresh bread š
mystereum
August 1, 2013 at 9:36 pm
You’re welcome for the memory of warm, fresh bread, Louise. And, fully understood about the blue edit portion being confusing at first. I laughed when I stumbled into the sticky fly paper of the Wiki article and figured I would simply try to write myself into and out of it which took a paragraph or so. Thanks for adding the flour to ease the sticky in the dough and get further into where things start happnin’. š
xaralouise
August 1, 2013 at 10:08 pm
Oh, now if you’re wanting a flour fight… š
mystereum
August 1, 2013 at 10:11 pm
š Uh, I have seasonal home kitchen experience. You have bakery experience. I’ll be toast! uhhh, groaner on that one.
xaralouise
August 1, 2013 at 10:23 pm
And what, pray tell, stops us from pooling resources? š
mystereum
August 1, 2013 at 10:26 pm
And, the seeds of takeover plans were born.
Vivianne
August 1, 2013 at 8:18 pm
I love the narrative of your poem š
mystereum
August 1, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Thanks, Vivianne! Much appreciated. š
Cassandra Santori (@dancingtarot)
August 2, 2013 at 12:52 am
Sweet poem, thanks!
mystereum
August 2, 2013 at 3:52 pm
You’re welcome, Cassandra!, and thanks for the compliment!
JJ
August 2, 2013 at 11:41 am
“…continually baked golden by decades under fire,” Now that’s a good line! I also loved “unflinchingly tender.”
I never understood the appeal of the blog hop thing, but they seem to be popular with tarot people.
mystereum
August 2, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for the accolades on the two lines that stood out to you, JJ!
Jenna } Queen of Wands Tarot
August 2, 2013 at 1:06 pm
Thank you for the stunning gift of your poem. You have reshaped the Hierophant in a new way for me. I particularly love “Silverback” and the concept of bringing down to earth. You inspire me to write more poetry.
mystereum
August 2, 2013 at 3:56 pm
“reshaped”. Such a great word, Jenna, in the context of bread. Glad to have reshaped the Hierophant in a new way for you. I always imagine he might play the stubborn and unbending traditionalist when he sits there too long without anyone dusting him off to see what he really looks like and acts like. I look forward to seeing your poetry!
Joy Vernon
August 2, 2013 at 3:20 pm
I love your story of baking the bread of the Super Gods!
And your inspired writings also inspired in me a new spread–the four quarters spread. Pull one card, and see that card divided into four equal sections, as if a cross were drawn on it. The lower right quarter is the kneading, the top right corner is the rising, the top left corner is the baking under fire, the lower left corner is the golden crusted loaf.
I’ll do an example using my pre-first edition, hand cut, bark wrapped Postcard Mystereum.
I asked how I can protect my stores for the winter, and pulled Strength.
Divided into four corners, I start with the lower right, kneading. I see blue tendrilling up her arm while her green hand reaches outstretched to receive the incoming flow of red life force as her hand hovers over some phallic lion extensions (??). Kneading is preparing the dough, so to prepare my stores for the winter I need to first receive the stores, and recognize the potency of being filled with life force. I need to receive first, and educated by your story, I know that this is a very hands-on, Sisyphean process–I need to do the steady, tedious work, ask for what I need in order to receive it.
Second quarter, Rising. A primary color rainbow swoops up from her shoulder. The rising of the dough is letting it expand and grow in its own time, left alone. My simple red life force is now expanding out into other colors as I let it sit in darkness. To protect my stores (I’m thinking here of my money and resources; winter can be a slower time for tarot readings), I think planting some small investments that will expand in ways I can’t predict (the red dot that expands into the rainbow). This makes some sense in that a couple things on the drawing board involve what might work out to receiving a lot of clients for not very much money, but this shows me that if I invite them to continue to participate and them let them develop in darkness, they will grow into a rainbow of clients.
Third quarter, baking under fire. A sun on the horizon is the steady heat that triggers the billowing of cumulus rainbow clouds on this quarter, and I see that the bread continues to rise and expand in the heat of the oven. The blue and purple rainbow clouds show me that the clients most interested in healing and spirituality will stay the longest, lingering and expanding as they grow into what they need. I think my responsibility here is to be the steady heat, not too hot, not too cold, just what they need as they develop in their own ways.
Bottom left, the golden crusted loaf. I love that the long-whiskered lion is here, my stores protected through the winter! He is being revived with the life force that she received from the kneading stage as she transforms into the color of him. I also see on this side a paw and a foot. Fully baked, my stores have one foot of the wild beast and one foot of the life-giving woman; he balances her and she revives him. When I look at this, I think of my cats meowing and nudging and purring and loving when they are hungry (or can see the bottom of the bowl!). This brings me full circle as I again think of the simple expedient of asking for what I want and need. And not to forget that the wild beast in me has some simple, practical needs, like dinner on the table and roof overhead; I remember not to get so lost in billowing spirituality that I neglect the pyramid base. When I ask for it to start with, I’ll have it to feed the beast when the time is come.
Anyway, thanks for letting me do a spread in your comments section! š Enjoy your day!
mystereum
August 2, 2013 at 4:35 pm
Wow Wow and WOW!, Joy. Thanks for enjoying the story! Great spread! The Four Quarters spread is a great spread! I’m honored to have provided the writing-ground and some sun-water for your inspiring spread-seed to open up. SUCH a great spread. Thanks for going through it in detail here!
Your spread of 4 in one quartering the card… that’s a WOW. It pulses with the Sisyphean bread-making process breaking down wheat and putting back together by the mixer and tiring the kneader and rising patience and baking… putting everything back together again. At first “The Quaternal Card” came to mind for your “The Four Quarters” spread — you know me, it’s not disrespect, and quite the contrary, that great ideas rocket launch to go places for me. I laughed with Humpty Dumpty II where he gets put all back together, though then the broken eggs felt to be a metaphor that made that name all wrong… that fed back into your 1-card “The Four Quarters” spread that breaks the bread of a card into a spread when the card is visualized as quartered and nodding to the four quarters and the four directions in the barn. And, then cycling through the quadrants to come back around and not put the egg(s) back together again, but to make something new that through the spread has been kneaded and worked, rested to rise and fill up Self, and tempered as it is baked to golden crust… to quarter 4 its golden crusted deliciousness where it all comes back together though is in no way simply just putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. Those broken shells were initial awakenings as preludes to quarter 4 and the card cycling back around within itself to come together in new ways with greater sustenance. Honestly, there feels to be an Urobouros that is not-self-consuming but like the Urobouros is a top view of helical dna spinning like spiral stairs where we get a view that is a traveling, an ascending and descending. The chthonic numinosity of Self is taken whole through your spread, and comes out wholly different on the other side. I’d lend chrysalis to my description, though I never felt in your spread the liquification-dissolution that the caterpillar undergoes in the chrysalis… It was all open and occurred in a heavenly sunny kitchen and waded/waited through the cave of the hell-fire oven. You have quite a sword-making temperance gig gong on in your Four Quarters spread. Honored that you all saw Joy’s “The Four Quarters” spread here first.
And, thanks for the smile of giving me the memory of those handmade mulberry bark paper boxes I made for that pre-edition Major Arcana set back in ’08!
I am more than digging your “The Four Quarters” spread, Joy. It has such a resonant way of utilizing the process of study without playing the linear game of intellectual dissection that kills or disconnects things/ideas with duality. There is a wonderful quality of the non-dual nature of reality where each side is always occurring together and alive in your spread, and your spread feels like it resonates a path from conception to life born anew, inception to conceive… to…reception to believing… in life. inceive (neologism). conceive. receive. believe.
I’m still bouncing around like a Pied Piper playing radial-linear twister cycling through your “Four Quarters” spread… It feels like one of those spreads where sitting down to think is not part of the program. It’s more of a 1-card dna-finder of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ dancing. I don’t know which of each is either in the Strength card as they might trade the lead-follow follow-lead on an upcoming cycle and on a regular basis, and her or whoever is in her role doing everything backwards and in heels…. Great spread, Joy! Great spread!
Joy Vernon
August 4, 2013 at 4:47 am
Thanks š It was fun playing with it and playing with the imagery in your card. I thought you would get a kick out of breaking the image down. š
mystereum
August 4, 2013 at 9:18 pm
I DID get a kick out of your quadrangling the image! It’s like a Plaza Of One HieroDood quadrangle. š
Olivia Destrades
August 2, 2013 at 9:43 pm
Wow, this is a beautiful! Brings out the soul of the Hierophant…..
mystereum
August 2, 2013 at 9:48 pm
Thanks much for your wonderful compliment, Olivia.
Chloe (@ChloeTarot)
August 3, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Ha, the things we get kids to do “for their own good”, which is almost always for the parents “own good” (I can own this, being a parent). And yet, decades on, seems it was for your good after all. And that is a huge part of the Hierophant’s wisdom, I suspect…
mystereum
August 3, 2013 at 6:13 pm
Hey, all for one and one for all… though defer first to keeping the parents sane though on their toes… Of course I say that now… š
Arwen
August 3, 2013 at 8:21 pm
Loved the Rockin’ Moroccan Bread tale. And you helped me see the HieroDood in an kinder, gentler light. š That poem is a soaring, diving piece of whoa! š
mystereum
August 3, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Thanks, Arwen! Wonderful to be able to open up the HieroDood in a kinder, gentler light. I find the HieroDood to be the higher octave Fred & Ginger (Rogers) way to dust off stodgy and bring the archetype to life mo betta. “That poem is a soaring, diving piece of whoa!” That’s acceptable. š Thanks much. š
depepi
August 4, 2013 at 6:39 pm
Lovely poem! <3
mystereum
August 4, 2013 at 9:19 pm
Thank You! š
pureblessedtarot
August 5, 2013 at 12:06 am
Cool! BANG ON!!! I’m sitting here reading this, with some notes in my hand… a project I started 3? 4? years ago and have decided to dust off and polish up… š x
mystereum
August 5, 2013 at 1:17 am
That’s rockin’! Go You! :-Dx
pureblessedtarot
August 5, 2013 at 12:19 am
Reblogged this on The Pure and Blessed Way… and commented:
Oh… I do so love these…
mystereum
August 5, 2013 at 1:18 am
Thanks Mucho for the reblog and the kudos! Much appreciated.
pureblessedtarot
August 5, 2013 at 1:25 am
You’re welcome… you are lucky I am inherently lazy… a reblog saves me writing notes in journal š x
pureblessedtarot
August 6, 2013 at 4:12 am
Thanks for putting up link back to this… Most enjoyed revisiting my dog tags š x
mystereum
August 6, 2013 at 12:22 pm
You’re very welcome. š x
tarot
August 7, 2013 at 9:42 am
Have you ever thought about publishing an e-book or guest authoring on other websites?
I have a blog based on the same subjects you discuss and would love to have you share some stories/information.
I know my viewers would enjoy your work. If you are even remotely interested, feel free
to shoot me an e-mail.
pureblessedtarot
August 11, 2013 at 10:46 pm
Cheers! I raise my cups filled with Virgot Legot Merlot… š x
mystereum
August 12, 2013 at 1:36 am
Cheers!
pureblessedtarot
August 18, 2013 at 9:05 am
1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 … A spinning circle? Is that why Fred and Ginger don’t count 1 2 3 4… they dance in binary? š
mystereum
August 18, 2013 at 7:23 pm
š I see binary as the twin states of a spinning circle. Face image O, edge image |, face image O, edge image |. Makes more sense from a conceptual/philosophical perspective to me as integrated opposites of the states of one thing rather than two things in a duality.
pureblessedtarot
August 18, 2013 at 7:34 pm
Wheeeee 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 integrating too fast makes you dizzy! š
mystereum
August 18, 2013 at 7:37 pm
š or… ( | ) peachy.
pureblessedtarot
August 18, 2013 at 7:43 pm
Well I never! Cheeky! š lol
pureblessedtarot
August 26, 2013 at 1:36 am
I like this… I like it a lot… š Thanks!
mystereum
August 26, 2013 at 2:00 am
You’re welcome… You’re welcome a lot! š TarotScopes are in the works.
pureblessedtarot
August 26, 2013 at 1:37 am
Reblogged this on The Pure and Blessed Way… and commented:
This feels my little tarot heart with glee…
erinsights
August 26, 2013 at 2:11 am
Great exercise Jordan thanks.
mystereum
August 26, 2013 at 2:29 am
You’re very welcome, Erin.
Bonnie Cehovet
August 26, 2013 at 4:43 am
Reblogged this on Bonnie Cehovet and commented:
Checl your coming week out!
Donna
August 26, 2013 at 7:40 pm
These revolving Tarot Birth Cards are just fabulous, and the keywords make them memorable. Love it.
mystereum
August 26, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Thanks much, Donna! I appreciate the accolade. I’m looking forward to exploring the 81 celeb/famous Birth Card sets blog you have.
pureblessedtarot
August 28, 2013 at 7:40 pm
That’s very beautifully described Mr H… I’ll get back to you when I’ve played with my compass… I may be gone for sometime… š
mystereum
August 28, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Thank You.
pureblessedtarot
August 28, 2013 at 8:01 pm
Ok… I’ve not found my compass yet… But it occurs to me that there is a major difference in drawing with compass and free hand… With a compass, you determine and fix your centre right at the start… With free hand… You don’t reveal the centre until you’ve gone 1st cycle… though you would have had to been able to feel where it was…before it existed… Mmmmmm…. Off to ponderland…
mystereum
August 28, 2013 at 8:07 pm
Really no need to feel where it is or was when drawing a circle by hand. If you can pull off continuously changing direction without fail in a consistent way, then with your eyes closed you will simply keep continuously changing direction consistently drawing drawing drawing and the lead will round about to touch where it began.
On the “Constructing the Center: Inner Rose Windows” watercolor series I thick foam taped over where the point of the compass would poke the paper, and after the circle was drawn I would “construct the center” by doing Expressionism Drafting (freeform with triangle and straight-edge) to chess my way back to checkers KING ME having a line shooting across or able to shoot across where the missing center was / is.
pureblessedtarot
August 28, 2013 at 8:16 pm
That’s interesting… I can see I’m going to have to play extensively with this before I can give you an opinion,,, it may even be in the next life… I also recall seeing a program where it was talking about it being impossible to walk forward in a straight line with your eyes closed… The natural tendency is to drift into circling… I wonder if it is some kind of primeval homing device… Look… See what you’ve started! š
mystereum
August 28, 2013 at 8:27 pm
š
pureblessedtarot
August 30, 2013 at 8:50 am
Reblogged this on The Pure and Blessed Way….
stefanie
September 1, 2013 at 10:51 am
thank you so very much for this sharp and tender circling poetry, mystereum. thatĀ“s just the way it is.
mystereum
September 1, 2013 at 3:26 pm
You’re very welcome, Stefanie. Thanks so much for stopping by.
Hildegard
September 1, 2013 at 11:59 am
I am actually grateful to the holder of this site
who has shared this fantastic article at at this place.
Bonnie Cehovet
September 1, 2013 at 6:01 pm
Reblogged this on Bonnie Cehovet.
pureblessedtarot
September 1, 2013 at 9:52 pm
I love that video Mr H… it’s great to play spot the difference…. Some differences being way easier to spot that others š x
mystereum
September 2, 2013 at 12:06 am
š n š on the typo. Let’s call the differences typos… except the clothes I added.
pureblessedtarot
September 1, 2013 at 9:53 pm
Oh… Poop… and I’ve left you a spit the tpyo up above… D’oh!
mystereum
September 6, 2013 at 6:22 pm
Thanks for the share!
pureblessedtarot
September 8, 2013 at 6:58 am
Thanks Mr H š that’s quite a shower of Pents… Be sure to keep your umbrella turned upside down š
voyance
September 8, 2013 at 5:42 pm
Can you tell us more about this? I’d care to find out some additional information.
mystereum
September 9, 2013 at 7:27 pm
What areas of more would you like to know more about?
mystereum
September 11, 2013 at 9:10 pm
Reblogged this on The Land of Mystereum ~ Tarot, Voice, and Story and commented:
The Birth Card Heartbeats Exercise. A sure way to enhance your Tarot experience.
pureblessedtarot
September 13, 2013 at 1:45 pm
Ok… admittedly… I have got a bit of a Bowie head on today… but I read your story here and I have to laugh a little as I think it flies fully in the face of this…
And I’m glad you didn’t heed this advice… š
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP2SS8ggLtU
mystereum
September 13, 2013 at 5:38 pm
Me, too! And Bowie is a great head to get into. š
pureblessedtarot
September 13, 2013 at 5:42 pm
Cool š all is Hunky Dory š x
mystereum
September 13, 2013 at 5:42 pm
š
pureblessedtarot
September 23, 2013 at 4:55 pm
Brother Hoggard! My little Virgo heart just burst with glee š that’s bloomin’ marvellous! š x
mystereum
September 23, 2013 at 7:18 pm
š bloomin’ Thank You!
Bonnie Cehovet
September 28, 2013 at 3:25 am
Thank you for sharing! š
mystereum
September 28, 2013 at 3:30 am
You’re welcome! š FINALLY caught up with emails to the point of ignoring a couple of hundred and said, “BONNIE’s got STUFF!” Post it! Funny how the gettin’ things done of priorities sometimes takes a while to breach the eADHD of the internet, huh? š Back on track!… n ignoring the rest to 3rd course vollies. Pardon my remiss. Funn what happens when you have to dig out of email every once on a while.
mystereum
September 28, 2013 at 6:59 pm
You’re welcome! š
mystereum
September 28, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Reblogged this on The Land of Mystereum ~ Tarot, Voice, and Story.
Katie-Ellen Hazeldine
October 1, 2013 at 2:27 pm
Good tip re: reading ascendants too, if known. Your Virgo tarotscope made sense to me, Taurus, with Virgo rising. My own cards have lately been flagging up The Empress and The Queen of Pentacles – there was resonance there.
mystereum
October 1, 2013 at 3:54 pm
Thanks so much for your comment, Katie-Ellen. Glad there was resonance. Your comment makes doing these each week worthwhile. Have a great one!
mystereum
October 17, 2013 at 12:12 am
Thanks Mucho, Bonnie! š x
mystereum
October 18, 2013 at 4:28 pm
Thanks Bonnie! š
pureblessedtarot
October 18, 2013 at 5:03 pm
Great show … I’m going to have to watch it again as you both made me laugh so much! You made a dynamic duo! š x
mystereum
October 18, 2013 at 5:48 pm
Thanks much, Karen! And thanks for chatting in your great question for us to Tarot Tennis Rally read for you! š x
Bonnie Cehovet
October 18, 2013 at 5:10 pm
It just keeps getting better!
mystereum
October 18, 2013 at 5:47 pm
š Thx, Bonnie!
pureblessedtarot
October 20, 2013 at 7:47 pm
Mr Hoggard!!! Virgo and Capricorn are so BANG ON!! for conversation I had earlier with Mr S about working on a new project together… If it wasn’t for the fact that I know you are 7 time zones away, I would accuse you of having had an ear at the keyhole… Too funny!! š x
mystereum
October 20, 2013 at 8:15 pm
š rock on! š x
pureblessedtarot
October 20, 2013 at 8:18 pm
\m/ š x
pureblessedtarot
October 23, 2013 at 9:07 am
Thank you Jordan! š x
mystereum
October 23, 2013 at 12:13 pm
You’re welcome, Karen! š x
pureblessedtarot
October 25, 2013 at 8:34 pm
That Empress card is also pretty interesting if you Rx… š
mystereum
October 25, 2013 at 8:37 pm
š
pureblessedtarot
October 25, 2013 at 8:48 pm
That’s full on awesome š love it!
I’d like to share this here… I love this video… There are many parts, for many reasons… But one, I’m particularly fond of, is the archer shapes they make which I think sit nicely with Temperance and Sagittarius…
http://pureblessedtarot.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/from-temperance-to-kate-bush/
pureblessedtarot
October 27, 2013 at 12:04 am
Mr Hoggard! you fill my little Tarot heart with glee!!! Thanks for all the pingbacks!! š x
mystereum
October 27, 2013 at 12:17 am
You’re welcome! š x
pureblessedtarot
October 27, 2013 at 12:09 am
Reblogged this on The Pure and Blessed Way… and commented:
Scope out your ‘scopes…
pureblessedtarot
November 4, 2013 at 12:51 am
I loved your scopes Mr H… as a bit of a random aside… I always forget what ROI means and either read it as Republic Of Ireland… which oft’ makes things interesting… or else I read it as King… Though I think King kinda works here… š x
mystereum
November 5, 2013 at 6:03 pm
KING! FRANCE! And, NO headhunting rabblerousers hopped up on cake? š
pureblessedtarot
November 5, 2013 at 6:35 pm
Ah… Monsieur AstroCat… Watch out for wascally webels… Let them bring cream to go avec le gateau… š x
pureblessedtarot
November 10, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Cool! š x
mystereum
November 10, 2013 at 9:03 pm
Thanks! Came up for air and had to do SOMETHING, though not enough time right now to do weekly Scopes… so… something fun and cool for everyone to play with their own! š x
pureblessedtarot
November 10, 2013 at 9:12 pm
I think it’s a beautifully timed and perfect example of sometimes less is more… š I LOVE imagination tools… Thanks for homework… I’ve got a lot on my mind right now and Kn of C is perfect riding companion… Mmmm…. I’m hoping that came out right… š x
mystereum
November 10, 2013 at 9:15 pm
:-). It did! š x
mystereum
November 10, 2013 at 9:15 pm
n Thx!
pureblessedtarot
November 10, 2013 at 9:20 pm
š thanks to you too š x
mystereum
November 10, 2013 at 9:34 pm
You’re welcome š x
klkolberg
November 11, 2013 at 5:56 pm
I think I like someone. What should I do?
mystereum
November 11, 2013 at 6:13 pm
LOL. Tag, I’m it. I lost a bet after walking into a booby-trapped post, and had to post that as my status for 24 hours. š
Dylan D. Lowe
November 16, 2013 at 11:28 pm
“Best Tarot ever, unfortunately…” – By Iria A. Ramos Unfortunately Llewellyn (publisher company) screwed up with the size, the art is so godly beautiful and even thou the cards ended up too small, its a standard size like Mystic Dreamer tarot… but since the imagery is so detailed some cards are hard for you to see everything, it should have gone with Druidcraft tarot size cards.. Besides that, its NOT Hardcover.. I just got mine this week and the companion book that comes with is not hardcover, its paperback… moreover, a deck of this quality should come with an Organdy Pouch or Velvet bag too.Anyway, the deck is so awesome and it’s deep art is so full of meaning that Im giving it 5 stars anyway… just hope some time in the future Llewellyn makes another version with those lackings covered.
mystereum
November 17, 2013 at 3:23 am
Are you posting on the wrong blog, Dylan? Tarot in the Land of Mystereum is not published by Llewelyn. It is published by Schiffer. Please clarify. Thank You.
pureblessedtarot
November 18, 2013 at 5:16 pm
KS… Nice… š x
mystereum
November 18, 2013 at 8:57 pm
š x
Olivia Destrades
November 26, 2013 at 3:22 am
Ok, first of all I love your conversation with your friend about these Tarot Scopes, and as I mentioned in my reply to you on my own blog, itās relieved some doubts about applicability, so Iāll take it as cosmic permission (channeled through you) to keep doing themĀ Ā I also must tell you that my summary card for November was the Queen of Swords, and for the first full week of November I drew the King of Swords, sooooā¦ that was clearly amazingly precise on your part! (Capricorn Sun) Cool!
mystereum
November 26, 2013 at 7:09 pm
Way cool, Olivia! Thanks for the great feedback, and go You on your Scopes!
Cool on the Cap Sun. I’m a Sag Sun with Cap Moon and Cap ASC brand.
pureblessedtarot
December 1, 2013 at 7:50 pm
Reblogged this on The Pure and Blessed Way… and commented:
Fave Rave… š
pureblessedtarot
December 12, 2013 at 2:38 pm
http://pureblessedtarot.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/3-of-swords-comes-unstuck/
mystereum
December 12, 2013 at 7:05 pm
Cool!
pureblessedtarot
December 12, 2013 at 9:39 pm
š x
Machelle Earley
December 21, 2013 at 3:25 pm
Wonderful meditation, Jordan!!! I only read through it now but will doing this later. Thanks!!
mcornell2013
December 21, 2013 at 9:13 pm
So glad to have found your blog, awesome resource!
Olivia Destrades Mendoza
December 21, 2013 at 10:52 pm
This is a really nice meditation. I can’t wait to try it out! I also really love your Mage card š
mystereum
December 23, 2013 at 12:14 am
Thank You very much, Olivia. Much appreciated on both counts. š
sungoddesstarot
December 22, 2013 at 12:18 pm
Hey, this is actually a very useful meditation for days when I have a creative blockage. I am huge on meditation so this one resonates with me a lot. Its one i can do again and again and again. Thanks Jordy!
mystereum
December 23, 2013 at 12:15 am
You’re very welcome, Joanna! Many thanks for the compliment. Best to it busting those creative blockages with ease and grace.
pureblessedtarot
December 22, 2013 at 11:20 pm
Hey! Thanks Jordan! All those hours I’ve spent doing dizzy star gazing… and never actually thought of doing anything useful with it… LOVE it !! š x
mystereum
December 23, 2013 at 12:16 am
š That’s my up-front Loki. Tricking people into discipline and creativity and removing blocks making it poetic and fun instead of a hassle. x
pureblessedtarot
December 23, 2013 at 10:57 pm
š yes… I’ve noticed that about you… I think you’ve tricked me a few times… You wily old rascal! Lol š x
insufficient mums
December 29, 2013 at 3:53 am
Video is epic, J Jordan Hoggard. <3
mystereum
December 29, 2013 at 9:40 pm
Isn’t it?!! The music just builds! Tingles.
mystereum
January 8, 2014 at 6:36 pm
Thanks!
tillytarot
January 13, 2014 at 9:19 am
Reblogged this on Tilly Tarot.
mystereum
January 14, 2014 at 10:25 pm
Thanks for the Reblog TillyTarot!
tillytarot
February 21, 2014 at 11:17 am
thank YOU for having an awesome blog!
Jordan Hoggard
February 21, 2014 at 2:47 pm
You’re welcome! That rocks!
TarotByArwen (@TarotByArwen)
January 14, 2014 at 4:22 pm
As always, a brilliant trip through madness. š
mystereum
January 14, 2014 at 4:48 pm
Thanks, Arwen! š
Bonnie at Tarot Salve
February 1, 2014 at 11:28 am
Cardboard source magnets? That’s a whole ‘nother concept for me! I’ll have to think about that one…and, I don’t know how you made your images into a slide show, but, cool.
Jordan Hoggard
February 1, 2014 at 12:46 pm
Thanks, Bonnie! Glad to provide something new. Much appreciated. The slideshow is a function in the “Create Gallery” feature. Once you’ve selected your images and clicked the blue “Creat Gallery” button at the bottom left while IN Create Gallery you are given some options on the right. Under “Type,” like type of, there is thumnail grid and some other display options, and “Slide Show” is towards the bottom of the short list or at the bottom. Simply selct Slide Show and voiLA!
Bonnie at Tarot Salve
February 1, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Thanks, I will have to try that!
Jordan Hoggard
February 1, 2014 at 1:21 pm
You’re very welcome! Happy to help. The Slide Show is a fun feature.
pureblessedtarot
February 1, 2014 at 12:31 pm
‘Tarot light, Tarot bright. First Tarot card I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, divine the wish I have tonight.’
Mr H š I just love that line so much!! It’s gonna make me smile for days š
Thanks! x
Jordan Hoggard
February 1, 2014 at 12:46 pm
š Cool E O! š I had fun with that one. x
Arwen
February 1, 2014 at 1:27 pm
Cardboard source magnets. Yes. This. š
Jordan Hoggard
February 2, 2014 at 12:54 pm
š Thanks!
Jordan Hoggard
April 4, 2020 at 11:53 am
Thank you, Arwen.
sungoddesstarot
February 1, 2014 at 7:49 pm
What a great tribute to Tarot! Hmm…cardboard source magnets….Jordy, wherever do you dream up of these terms! LOL!
Jordan Hoggard
February 2, 2014 at 12:54 pm
š Thanks tons, Joanna! That’s my job. š
Jordan Hoggard
April 4, 2020 at 11:53 am
Well, I dream them up right from inside when they burst forth. Some come from nowhere, some from experiential influence. That said, I have NO idea. Though, I like it when The Place of Creation makes me smile… wherever it is or comes from. š
xaralouise
February 2, 2014 at 2:15 am
So loving the cardboard source magnets & Tarot bright poem – an entry into this years eBook I feel? š
Jordan Hoggard
February 2, 2014 at 12:55 pm
š Thanks! And, yes, definitely into this year’s eBook,
Jordan Hoggard
April 4, 2020 at 11:50 am
Thank you, xaralouise.
Olivia Destrades Mendoza
February 2, 2014 at 7:24 am
I will continue to water my empathy seeds with experience š You have a lovely way with words!
Jordan Hoggard
February 2, 2014 at 12:56 pm
Thank You very much, Olivia! š
Jordan Hoggard
April 4, 2020 at 11:48 am
Thank you, Olivia! Much appreciated.
Joanne
February 2, 2014 at 10:25 pm
Noting the triumph of the feminine here (Empress and Priestess over masculine/neutral Magician) and therefore the manifestation. Brilliant! Love the slide show…
Jordan Hoggard
February 2, 2014 at 10:30 pm
Thanks much, Joanne! I really enjoyed cooking this one up.
Sharon
February 5, 2014 at 5:24 am
Praise be to, “Always complete, never finishedā¦” Makes life and creativity so much more exciting š
Jordan Hoggard
February 5, 2014 at 5:27 am
š Thanks much, Sharon.
aniam123
February 5, 2014 at 6:07 am
Mmmm, sauce magnets….oh wait! ;D
Jordan Hoggard
February 5, 2014 at 6:08 am
;-D
Mike
May 11, 2014 at 8:43 pm
Thank you. Wow, that’s a gift.
Jordan Hoggard
April 4, 2020 at 11:42 am
Youāre very welcome, Mike.
Mezo Calloway
April 20, 2015 at 8:10 pm
Great post.
Pure & Blessed
April 4, 2020 at 2:19 am
The who
Jordan Hoggard
April 4, 2020 at 2:14 pm
Hey KS!
Pure & Blessed
April 4, 2020 at 5:19 pm
JJH! How’s it going?
Jordan Hoggard
April 4, 2020 at 8:28 pm
KS! Inside, home, healthy, and creative is how itās going. You?
Pure & Blessed
April 5, 2020 at 1:25 am
Straddling two worlds. I spend the twilight hours driving bank staff to and from care homes, the rest of my time at home reading, scribbling… catnapping… So pretty much business as usual. I’m happy, healthy (touch wood) and a little bit puzzled when I hear people complain of being bored! Good to hear from you.
Jordan Hoggard
April 5, 2020 at 10:56 am
Thatās wonderful to hear.I agree on the oddity of people being bored, just not something I personally fathom. Though, if I venture into an empathy (possibly folly) of their perspective in their situation, it seems everything is work/life/compulsory for them. Without that thereās not much else. I asked a neighbor how he was doing, āBored,ā he said. āMucho Bored-o.ā āWrite a book,ā I replied. āYeah right. Iāll get right on that,ā shaking his head. That expressed to me a common quality now more present that it is exposed by the drought of the daily minutiae overgrowth now that that has been removed. Whatās the word or words for that quality? I think itās grief, and itās a proper pause for them. I just hope they acclimate across the false summit drought and walk into their garden to tune out the cars and ear up into birdsong. Hearing that might strike a chord to resonate. I did steal that specific tuning out except to tune in to the birds from you. Great to hear from you as well.
Pure & Blessed
April 5, 2020 at 5:12 pm
Yes, that removal of the daily minutiae, absolutely! Though I’m not sure it’s grief maybe more panic/bewilderment of what goes on in their heads when left with their own thoughts. One of the girls who I drive to work, came out at the end of her shift last week looking very puzzled. She said – Karen, I just don’t know what’s happening to me. I was changing a bed and looking out the window and watching the sheep in the fields and I asked my colleague – what do you think it’s like to be a sheep? What do you think they think about? Then she says oh! Karen? Why am I so random? What’s wrong with me?
I said nothing is wrong with you. You’ve just ditched your day to day small talk and found your imagination! Have fun with it!
Man you pinched my lines! All this time on your hands and you”re pilfering passages š¤£ plus ca change…
Jordan Hoggard
April 5, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Great point about people seeing inside now that a great deal of the chatter and noise has suddenly disappeared, experiencing their imagination AS something valuable, and itās entirely their own.
Pure & Blessed
April 5, 2020 at 5:20 pm
I feel as though I’ve learnt more about some of my passengers in the last week than in the last two years. It’s pretty neat.
Jordan Hoggard
April 5, 2020 at 7:10 pm
Thatās a wonderful perspective. Experience and connection.
It reminds me a little bit of a writer friend years back who happily started driving a cab, to bring random people into his life to use for character development and test characters, taking on their persona in the cab, for a novel he was writing.
Good for you! Taking some of that birdsong out into the world. I bet they enjoy it as well?
Pure & Blessed
April 5, 2020 at 7:47 pm
Oh yes, cab driving would be perfect for that. Do they enjoy it? Well let’s just say it’s not unknown for folks to ring the transport manager and request a change of shift so they don’t have to ride with the other driver… Though tbf he’s a ranting, road raging loon, so I may just be the lesser of two evils… š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
April 5, 2020 at 8:46 pm
I resonated When you indicated āitās pretty neat.ā Thatās a wonderful perspective from my perspective.
Funny you ask about that writer-cabbie. It was 30-ish years ago. I think he ended up getting caught up in āall this research via cabā which then simply translated to it being ANOTHER reason to over-analyze it all and procrastinate via blame and distance himself further from not just typing stuff to dive in, and consequently not write.
I guess he allowed his experiential impetus and form-giver notion to be drowned. Iād chalk his blame up to self-disrespect peppered with a dash of desperation ā that didnāt seem to actionably induce much urgency. I donāt know, though. I donāt know h9w it shook out. I was always trying to teach him that if he did his dishes when he was finished with them, that they wouldnāt build up like they did. š That was a while ago. Touch with that is almost ancient.
Pure & Blessed
April 6, 2020 at 2:48 am
Maybe you were trying to teach the wrong chore. Maybe polishing was what needed to be learnt. He was data mining his fares to build characters, perhaps he should have been buffing up what fate had dealt him, tossing his pages into a binder then slapping on the title – A Cabbie’s Diary. That’s a gonzo journey I’d read.
I don’t know š
Jordan Hoggard
April 6, 2020 at 6:47 pm
That would have been another work for his repertoire, though he was focused on mining peopleās characters and personalities for characters in a novel he was working on. I wasnāt trying to teach him anything. At that point HE was the novelist, I simply the artist-architect-writer roommate. Also, early 20s the both of us. His writing was great. I think his having a bear of a time getting a publisherās ears to perk up weighed him down. He certainly DID the work, and was understandably deflated about the WTF of rejection letters. He liked that I made free wallpaper out of all of mine, almost covered 4 full walls floor to ceiling. A poor manās renaissance style painting hanging mosaic with NO spaces between. Laughing, it wasnāt fun patching and painting the walls when I moved. All the pin holes, all the colored paper dyes bleeding through the walls that also telegraphed back through the new paint. I guess I didnāt really begin to empathize with his pain until I started disassembling that mosaic. Then, I understood that he was understandably deflated. āHEY, take another shot! Iām so full of holes that youāll miss.ā š
Pure & Blessed
April 6, 2020 at 6:58 pm
Sounds like Denver’s version of Withnail & I.
Jordan Hoggard
April 6, 2020 at 8:48 pm
Yes, in a way it does.
I value the conversation, though as well weāve digressed way away from the topic of this post into what could be Considered a personal email in public. I value my subscribersā time, and broach this a bit uncomfortably and at the same time wonder about people out there who get barraged with a comment email every time we go back and forth..Thoughts of yours, and from all subscribers out there? Par for the course for a blog, or too much?
Subscribers out there, my Inquiring mind would like to know so I can run a more effective blog. Please chime in in the comments. I donāt necessarily need to set up protocols, though Iām learning from all the things I unsubscribe from when they become too much, and I would like to hear your thoughts specifically and/or in general.
Thanks in advance!
Bonnie Cehovet
April 4, 2020 at 6:06 am
Happy to see that radio silence is over! Thank you for sharing this amazing spread!
Jordan Hoggard
April 4, 2020 at 11:39 am
Thank you, Bonnie! Nice to open my mouth again. Youāre welcome for sharing this amazing spread. I LOVE that Joy Vernon created a 4-card reading out of a single card! I see it as a tool like a Marshall stack is a tool. When focusing on a particular card in a reading… WONDROUS how Joyās āThe Four Corners of the Barnā takes the reader on a quadrant by quadrant journey through the world of the card itself. I see the potential of the off-ramp arabesque side trip and then back onto the highway in a larger reading. And, of course, only one card? Still a journey, one card that elucidates inner and outer N S E & W! Iām gathering in this comment Iām writing to comment on your comment realizing I canāt say enough about how pleased I am that I love this spread so much. SO not Humpty Dumpty, Joyās spread cracks open the card, though respectfully and surgically in such a way to provide that place to fully scuba style drop in to a card, or jump out of a perfectly good airplane into itās potential. Loud. Quiet. Silent. Full. Deep. Intense. Respectful. Identity. THis spread provides such a great introduction on how to get to know a card, and of course consequently oneself.
Jordan Hoggard
April 6, 2020 at 11:10 pm
Thanks much for posting this on Pure & Blessed Tarot, Karen! I am suddenly no longer uncomfortable at all. I appreciate your perspective, and look forward to experiencing what others express about theirs. I gather itās NOT too much. In fact it may be the BEST thing when comments generate dialogue whether fluid or on topic, and/or/neither or all. Go You! Thanks again for posting this question for the whole world to answer. It popped that concerned bubble of ego that formed. Now comes more good stuff. And/Or or Both/And, weāll see what others feel no holds barred. Good stuff. Whereās Uranus right now? Oh! There. Cool, the Shaker-Upper is in da house squaring Pluto. SaWEET. Buckle up.
Jordan Hoggard
April 6, 2020 at 11:44 pm
And, the question rings out further at Pure & Blessed Tarot to see how people resonate with it:
https://pureblessedtarot.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/personal-emails-in-public/
Jordan Hoggard
April 7, 2020 at 12:30 am
I would like to share with you the original Tarot spread that was inspired by this post in 2013. Iāve been radio silent for coming up on 7 years now pretty much. No social media except for Pinterest, and even there I use it as a museum to view pictures and as a rule never respond or comment on anything. Here in 2020 Iām honored to re-discover I inspired Joyās Tarot spread! This is a wonderful accolade, and Better than that, Iām resonant to share her site and this reading as a gift to you.
āThe Four Corners of the Barnā Tarot spread by Joy Vernon is on her website Completely Joyous, With this spread Joy has provided a wonderfully original way to view a single card. And, Iām further thinking, do you have a problem card or cards when they come up in a reading? This spread may show you ways to dive into it, open it up, and bring those problem cards robustly into your fold to enhance your readings. This spread is wonderful on its own for a 1-card reading. I can also see it evaporate the speed bumps of problem cards for you in a larger reading to enhance your fluidity and the value you can provide to your clients.
https://joyvernon.com/blog/the-four-corners-of-the-barn/
I donāt have problem cards as I work from a perspective of being present with a philosophy of āDonāt waste trouble. And, fear is just a cone zone warning on the highway. No reason to allow it to transform into the anxiety of being afraid. Thatās wasteful of your energies, talents, and developed abilities. Plus, Iāve almost died on the mountain 3 times, so I also have that going for me. š ā Yes, I DO duck and/or swerve sometimes, though when a card comes up, it certainly already has. Itās there to be responded to, sometimes in Silence. Then again, some safari guides say, āDonāt be afraid of the wild tiger. You just have to make sure to run faster than the slowest person in this group.ā š
Enjoy Joy Vernonās original āThe Four Corners of the Barnā Tarot spread. It provides a solid reading method in itself to enhance, reinforce, and strengthen the psycho-spiritual gymnastics of Tarot reading. Triple Lindy anyone?
https://joyvernon.com/blog/the-four-corners-of-the-barn/
Holly Troy
April 8, 2020 at 1:22 am
“You, as only you can be.” Yes!
Jordan Hoggard
April 8, 2020 at 6:06 pm
Thanks much, Holly!
Pure & Blessed
April 9, 2020 at 6:18 am
Me? Overcoming my back injury and finally shedding the 4 stones that I gained whilst being off my feet for 4 years. A couple of years ago, I dragged myself at a snail”s pace with the aid of a walking stick to the top of Glastonbury Tor and vowed I’d do it again unaided. Equinox just gone I did it! I stood at the top in a swirl of wind that had my hair swept on end and heard this jubilant noise… Then realised it was me shouting – I FEEL SO ALIVE! š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
April 9, 2020 at 7:04 am
Thatās Wonderful!
Pure & Blessed
April 9, 2020 at 7:17 am
It is! As is seeing M back out of the box!
Jordan Hoggard
April 9, 2020 at 7:19 am
It was a nice box. I fits, so I sits, though now time for more. Shipped myself to right here. Thanks!
Pure & Blessed
April 9, 2020 at 7:20 am
YW!
Holly Troy
April 9, 2020 at 2:46 pm
I love this interpretation if the Four of Pentacles – gratitude for unseen foundations. Oh yes!
Congratulations on your honor!
I am proud of getting back into music after a 14-year bleak break! Oh, and just a couple of days ago, I found out one of my poems is being published in the next RAMA Life Magazine. I’m very excited about that.
Thanks for these thought-provoking moments of tarot.
Take care – Holly
Jordan Hoggard
April 9, 2020 at 5:46 pm
Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Congrats on breaking the bleak break. And, kudos to you for one of your poems being published in RAMA Life Magazine! Certainly update once the issue has been released.
Youāre welcome. Itās wonderful to hear that they are being appreciated.
Jordan Hoggard
April 9, 2020 at 10:28 pm
Yup! All images and intentions must speak for themselves! Yes. Yes. I couldnāt agree more. I as well would rather double-clutch out of the tunes to jet forward than clutch a manual causing me to run off the road.
The Imagination Primer in Mystereum simply plays the images in the alleged code of text. I guess I like code, and hieroglyphs. I do hope the code translates more easily than Michael D. Coeās āBreaking the Maya Code.ā Then again, I do wish that it as well plays its own tune actionably with usefulness like āThe Tarot Mechanic.ā
Jordan Hoggard
April 10, 2020 at 9:12 pm
Tingles of ablution cascade throughout.
Trauma has a strange way of always being fresh when triggered.
No shame, when triggered, provides a gift to listen to the message of the trauma.
Not only acknowledging the trauma, though as well patiently listening to it until it trusts you again. And, some time after that, may even have a message for you.
I find that when one compassionately listens to their own traumas, they sometimes gift you the message of their world since then, since the time before they peeled off or ejected to separate from you AT the trauma ā possibly to preserve you.
Brainspotting calls traumas our basement children. Traumas are most often held by our Parts.
Parts may hold more than one trauma.
And, traumas cause acting out that behaviorism doesnāt resolve.
She helped 235 people all at once by bringing their trauma into focus silently within each of them, together. Thatās courage, on her part and theirs. Thatās bravery on theirs, and on hers for going in like a Navy Seal for the Soul.
They listened. I imagine they respected themselves more in that experience..
I imagine the traumas that they allowed themselves to be formally introduced to in each of those moments, between, at, and in the interstice of each of their steps, literally brought them closer to their own center, brought them to feel like more of themself..
I experienced a feeling that they welcomed their trauma selves (āPartsā in Brainspotting) back to themself that then began to dose them with more of themself as the traumas began to introduce and integrate all on their own, naturally, without need of words.
I imagine there were 235 inner soulstreams of Self self-connecting within..
One man, the favorite day of his life.
One woman who looked trouble in the face and held out a hand instead, doing evocatively wonderful and important work.
This is important. To be presumptuous, though most likely safely so, important for everyone, every single one of us here and beyond. I have not met anyone in my lifetime that has had zero trauma/influence/nudge/slam/etc,
Thank you to Cosmic Holly for posting this experience.
Holly Troy
April 10, 2020 at 10:52 pm
Plenty of space to get lost! Enjoy the trip!
Jordan Hoggard
April 10, 2020 at 11:16 pm
The attachment initially didnāt take. I rather like that maybe I should have left the attachment off for travel to nowhere. Both. š
Jordan Hoggard
April 11, 2020 at 2:17 am
Funny. Upon further reflection I used to have a saying when going to new places, interviews, etc. āIf I donāt get lost going there, itās probably a sign that itās the wrong place to go, too compulsory to be of any long-term value.ā
Love the āplenty of space to get lost. Enjoy the trip!ā It resurrected that fond memory and way that used to be mine. Adding back ālostā to the itinerary template so I can reclaim it in a new way. Thanks! Much
naimahealer
April 11, 2020 at 9:57 am
Cool perspective.
Jordan Hoggard
April 11, 2020 at 11:07 am
Thank you!
Jordan Hoggard
April 11, 2020 at 12:18 pm
Youāre comment has a kind of EverReady Bunny quality to it. Keeps going, and going, and…
āPlenty of space to get lost! Enjoy the trip!ā
1. Infinite space Inside, inner infinity, body as Temple and dwelling within
2. Space Inside my home. Also, see 1, home space
3. Space Inside my work, workspace, office
4. Space, the now, the perpetual present dialing into memory through the past, dialing into dreams through the future… or Australia. Oz is 16 hours in the future from where I sit. š
5. Doggieās lips flapping as she snoozes in whatever dream sheās running in. Chasing? Playing? Hunting? Roaming?
6. Space, space, everywhere the space.
I have to say, this pandemic has cut out SO much small talk and chatter. Things of value are easier to serendipitously discover, feels more natural. I empathize with those who itās causing frenzied and frenetic chaos for, and wish them the best for their space to find ways to get lost, to find ways to enjoy the trip being present. I like the actionable lost of being lost in the present. Like all roads lead to Rome, all lost leads to roam, and roaming can spend the currency of time well.
Jordan Hoggard
April 11, 2020 at 12:39 pm
Reblogged this on Jordanās Journey ~ Mystereum Tarot, Astrology, Tarot, Alchemy, Art, Psychology et al.
Pure & Blessed
April 12, 2020 at 5:21 am
M 6 of P is one of my favourite cards. The image contains a lot of motion in my eyes and when it comes up in readings, I often pick it up a twirl it. Yes, now more than ever is a time to keep the coins up and moving. Since this started, I have been tipping, though on reflection, I realise that it’s been to the more visible people… Not everyone is good at putting their hands up and asking for help, so now I’m mentally scrolling for the less visible friends.
Gig economy is tough at the best of times. Coming out of this whole mess, I would be very glad if there’s an end once and for all to the “working for exposure” bs.
Jordan Hoggard
April 12, 2020 at 11:48 am
Thanks for the perspective on my 6 of Pents in Mystereum, KS. The 2 High Priestess cameos either side juggle-exchange the 3 Pents each to on another in a flowing round.
Thatās very thoughtful of you to scroll through for the ones who donāt have as much exposure, and may need it all the more. I love that!
Pure & Blessed
April 12, 2020 at 12:56 pm
Not sure if it’s thoughtful scrolling or an Old Mother Hubbard type tic of roll calling…
Yes, I remember you saying way back when about the juggle-exchange. Now you mention it again, I’ve mentally relabeled 6 of P as 3 of P goes to Cirque du Soleil š
Jordan Hoggard
April 12, 2020 at 1:19 pm
I LOVE that! Exactly the point of the card, though NOW it has its REAL name!
3 of P goes to Cirque du Soleil! Wicked cool!
Old Mother Hubbard roll calling. Thatās funny.
Pure & Blessed
April 12, 2020 at 1:31 pm
Ha! If M gets reprinted, I can’t see you getting that past the publisher. It’ll never fit in the box š¤£
Holly Troy
April 12, 2020 at 12:01 pm
Thanks for the shout out!
Circular branch. Yes! I love that!
“If you feel depletion, look for misspent efforts.” – this is key! Sort of a game of balance everyday. “Give as much as you receive, naturally.” Giving and receiving both require self-worth and value.
Jordan Hoggard
April 12, 2020 at 12:31 pm
āGiving and receiving both require self-worth and value.ā Yes!!
Jordan Hoggard
April 13, 2020 at 7:16 pm
āAdversity doesnāt build character. It reveals it.ā ~ James Lane Allen
All that adversity, all that confinement, all that pressure building the density of identity until CRACKKKK, the seeds burst open, unfurls, and pokes up its nose to become the oak tree dreaming of itself in the seed.
Did the soil hold back the seed, or was it its womb/oven/place of creation?
What pressures help form you, help magnetize the critical mass of your efforts
Holly Troy
April 14, 2020 at 3:32 pm
oh yes! “Don’t waste trouble.” Chiron return and turn that shit into gold!
I’m gonna shake that Snake-Egg Tooth and shimmy it up my spine. A little cat cow and fast breath, followed by a dance on guitar string.
Grateful you broke your creative silence, cracked the egg, found life under the surface.
Jordan Hoggard
April 14, 2020 at 7:42 pm
Thank you! Glad to be back. ANd now? Chiron Return is waning, as I step out of its long-form catalyst pulling me out of cicada-level sleep. Heck, Iām my own Ace of Pents again. š
Full-on dig your kundalini yoga move to serpent-shimmy that good stuff up your spine and weave it. I am digginā that expression of it. Thinking I will open up my back a bit more as well, give it more home, more room to roam and settle in expansively.
Jordan Hoggard
April 14, 2020 at 10:05 pm
And, YOURS! Kudos and great YOU into and through your Chiron Return. My experience from doing readings, and personally (though not yet lol), is that the Saturn Return is more actionably and positively staged and set up for more success when the Chiron Return (which can be more difficult as a Saturn precursor, and Chiron is the Centaur Son of Saturn/Chronos/Kronos) is embraced. 7 years from the Chiron Return comes the often ill-fated Saturn Return. Like āno bad cardsā with a sense of perspective, I don;t buy into the Saturn Return being a curse.
Kudos to you being aware of your Chiron Return, Many arenāt, AND aware and present in it! Chiron is so much more than the immortally wounded healer. Heck, thatās a metaphor for life, for OF COURE itās not perfect. My old joke in my 20s to a philosophy prof was, āPerfectionās gotta be boring. I mean, GEEZUS. GAWD. Perfect? What the hellyagonnado once that happens? Quit? Fuck a bunch of that.ā I donāt know if he has still not stopped laughing. He brought that one back up for years. I laugh now that I may have made a man crazy just that day with that one statement. š Seriously. Seriously to that, and seriously as well to your Chiron Return. It resonates that you are 1āaware of it, and 2āaware of it so that you can own and acclimate and absorb and meet it 1st hand wise in time while itās happening.
Holly Troy
April 14, 2020 at 3:33 pm
lifeful magic!
Jordan Hoggard
April 14, 2020 at 7:43 pm
:)!
Pure & Blessed
April 15, 2020 at 4:32 am
Cool! I’ll answer your questions in my own head, in my own time. Thanks.
As a by the by comment, seeing 3 of C reminded me of how many times it has shown up in readings where people are pregnant or trying to conceive… 3 of C, I renamed A Womb With a View š
Pure & Blessed
April 16, 2020 at 12:40 am
Did you ever see Tim Michin’s 9 life lessons? Your Jack of all trades reminded me of this:
“I advocate passionate, dedication to the pursuit of short-term goals. Be micro-ambitious. Put your head down and work with pride on whatever is in front of you. You never know where you might end up. Just be aware the next worthy pursuit will probably appear in your periphery, which is why you should be careful of long-term dreams. If you focus too far in front of you you wonāt see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.”
Jordan Hoggard
April 16, 2020 at 6:02 am
I have not seen that. Thatās solid for pro-ductility and actionably working being comfortable with the not-knowing. Thanks for posting Tim Michinās micro-ambitious statement. I smiled as in itself his micro-ambition can be a whole way of living process.
Pure & Blessed
April 16, 2020 at 6:53 am
Watch the whole thing, you’ll love it. It’s not too long and it’s easily findable on YouTube š
Pure & Blessed
April 17, 2020 at 5:56 am
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Pure & Blessed
April 18, 2020 at 7:04 pm
Are creating and manifesting the same?
No
Creating – a vision in mind, flowed through hand, to see a result in the world.
Manifesting – a vision in mind, flowed out to the world, to see a result in my hand.
For example – I created a painting…. I manifested a brand new mountain for free…
So I guess, creating is controlling a flow and manifesting is just throwing it out there…
Pure & Blessed
April 18, 2020 at 7:05 pm
*mountain bike! I’ve not quite mastered moving mountains just yet…
Jordan Hoggard
April 18, 2020 at 7:18 pm
Nor did Sisyphus. š I guess he could have done that instead of pushing for so long. I have no pity or empathy for him. Inspect your expectations prior, huh? Plus, his punishment was wholly unjust. Isnāt he still in Olympus Appeals Court?
Pure & Blessed
April 18, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Dunno, last I heard, he was seen hanging out with M. C. Escher…
Jordan Hoggard
April 18, 2020 at 7:23 pm
Thatās certainly ONE way to circumvent by Loki circumnavigation.
Pure & Blessed
April 18, 2020 at 7:24 pm
š¤£
naimahealer
April 20, 2020 at 4:11 pm
I have a small victory to share: I’ve completed 16 hours of a spiritual fast. I have many more days to go. But I am excited to have begun something that I’ve been wanting to do for so long. Although, I have not completed it yet-in this very moment, I am expressing gratitude for all that I have done so far!
Jordan Hoggard
April 20, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Excellent. Congrats on your small victory of you doing whatās aligned with what you value. Thatās important.
Iām curious. What is a spiritual fast?
naimahealer
April 21, 2020 at 1:01 am
Iām depriving my body of food for three days to gain clarity in some aspects of my life. Increased meditation and focus on what I seek help with. Specifically from my spiritual guide and a particular ancestor in my case.
Jordan Hoggard
April 22, 2020 at 8:23 pm
Naima, Best to your spiritual fast towards the particular ancestor you were specifically looking to commune with providing clarity. Best to there being poetic, living value for you.
Jordan Hoggard
April 21, 2020 at 8:25 pm
Thatās strong. Thatās powerful. Go You! Best. Big best to your in dwelling to that ancestor.
Pure & Blessed
April 25, 2020 at 2:33 am
I smell something beautiful in the air š
Holly Troy
April 26, 2020 at 1:33 pm
Oh yes, fear is different from being afraid! Great post/prompt. Hurray!
Jordan Hoggard
April 26, 2020 at 3:32 pm
Thank you, Holly! āGreat post/prompt. Hurray!ā The value expressed by that feels really good. I thoroughly appreciate that. š
Holly Troy
April 26, 2020 at 3:51 pm
love the painting!
Jordan Hoggard
April 26, 2020 at 10:05 pm
Thank You! And, thank you for the accolade.
I chose #16 from my āConstructing the Centerā series as it just felt to be right. Little did I know, that upon your compliment, the wonderful and sad and full reverence of this paintingās story would re-surface. I express my heartfelt thanks for that.
My experience and history with this painting passes through occasionally to re-posit a perspective of the importance of now, though it has been years since I felt it from this painting fully. You certainly donāt need to read the rest if it comes to being TMI about what this painting did after it graduated from my brush. Suffice it to say I am proud of it, and proud of what its nature did for another vibrant person.
Extra:
This is one of my personal faves in the series, The compositional white space feels to do as much as the paint to dance the image into life, circles completed by the unpainted white space. It was #16 in the āConstructing the Centerā series of 66 mandala-like watercolors. At the gallery opening where it was 1st presented, a woman smiled and reached out to me and the gallery owner across the room. We both felt it. Turned. As she smiled and turned back to the painting to continue her finger trance-dance across the glass of the Uni-Frame.
We came over. She was just beaming. āConstructing the Center #16 you call it Mr. Hoggard? Hmmm, CtC #16. Hmmm. Nope. I say, Sweet 16. Besides the color sense I love, so joyous, and JUST FUN, it just has everything, and half of that is comprised of nothing Mr. Hoggard. Jordan! You IMPLIED half of this!. I LOVE that laziness that probably took more planning than the contrary, or (looking me up and down) maybe you didnāt plan anything, just painted? Oh, I love the balance. The feel. The colors. Whatās there. Whatās not there in connected complement. Oh, hmmm. Oh Lordy. Where will I put it? Ah, thatās the 50% not there. I donāt need to know that right now. May have to reshuffle a bit. Donāt need that reason buzzkill right now, cloud my decision. Yes. Yes, I must have it.ā Instant red dot on the label from the gallery owner. And, Iām there beaming, too, wondering where my words went. I know now. I didnāt need any. It was the feeling of knowing that something I did enhanced anotherās life.
I stood there enamored in her resonance with the image, honored, and love that I was also taken aback, a bit confused at 25 years old. She was so astute with her emotional resonance as to why she loved āSweet 16.ā Heck, I didnāt even take issue with her re-titling it. Heck, she adopted it after it graduated. She gets to name it, and itās not moving back home. Itās started to make its way. And, that I had created something that someone valued that deeply? At the time, all I said was, āThank You,ā as we both stood there swimming. I, in something that graduated from me provided to another that enhanced their life, her simply basking, more wondering where in her house did it need to find home… like it was already there.
I felt something in that experience I will never forget. Honesty and emotional truth in what you find beautiful, in what moves you. Yes, it was my creation, though hoopy to the vanity of that. That SOMETHING I created moved someone that way, that intensely, calmly, honestly, in the moment? She taught me a great lesson that day about what are yess-es and what are no-s.
Thanks for striking the nerve in me, the ancient chords on this one. I hadnāt resurfaced that memory when I posted it. It just felt right. Your resonance was plenty enough, though, fulfilling to feel what she taught me again, fresh again now this painting and her speaking to me fully again now liberated from their treasure chest to be worn..
And, I hope this was not too much. Your compliment dropped a smile on the portal they were in to open it for me. Thank you for that.
Not to be cagey, though if you read down this far, the short story is more important. One day, in 2002 a package arrived. It strangely looked like something I was used to shipping out. No return address, actually my address as the return address. ??? I opened it, unwrapped the contents, and there was Sweet 16, and a card fell out. I was stunned. āWhat is happening here?!!???!!!! I opened the card.
Dear Jordan,
I have been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic. Itās one of those that even I IN MY lyrical way canāt sidestep to flip the poisonous turtle limits back. Itās quite a menace. That said, I do not give up. I live. I love living, love experience. Though, this Sweet 16 that you made has given me so much joy every time I pass it. Will it EVER stop dancing in your 50% laziness of execution? I handed Sweet 16 with this card off to my son in my will. So, if you are receiving this, know I cherished Sweet 16 and your spirit. Thank you. Heck, what else can I say? Thank you.
Love,
(My nameās moving on.Please keep yours fit, and take care of Sweet 16 for me)
Holly,
I love that Iāve been brought to tears here. Waterfall. Thank you. This experience is a gift I cherish.
Thank you, Holly. I gather as well the original owner thanks you as well from somewhere beyond. SHe was an effin lyrical firecracker, quick on the draw, and most everyone around her glad for it.
Bonnie
April 28, 2020 at 6:11 pm
What a touching story.
Jordan Hoggard
April 28, 2020 at 6:18 pm
Thank you! I appreciate that as it meant and still means so much to me.
Pure & Blessed
May 1, 2020 at 8:55 am
So pleased to see these back in the world! Cheers!
Jordan Hoggard
May 1, 2020 at 1:07 pm
Thank you!,Iāve layered in an ImaginAction How-To and creation story to make for a more robust experience. Heck, you donāt even need cards to Divine with IaginAction. May I suggest? Simply scry the questions swimming in the artwork.
Pure & Blessed
May 1, 2020 at 1:22 pm
Shhh! I’ll get to that once I’ve finished savouring your exquisite story…
Bonnie
May 1, 2020 at 7:18 pm
What a beautiful child! Born full-grown out of your amazing forehead. Your introduction is so lyrical and visceral. I wished youād flee that mountain lion! I would never have allowed myself that experience! You ask questions no one has: in the Expansive Life Spread: āWhat cornerstone in life do you brace against?ā What an amazing question. And, that is just one! All of the questions either have never been asked or never asked in your way. To heck with using along with Tarot. Youāve CREATED a new divination ādeck.ā Period. It stands alone. Congratulations. What a beautiful child to bring into this confusing heartless world. You brought heart – your heart – and it is soulful. Thank you for sharing it.
Jordan Hoggard
May 1, 2020 at 11:03 pm
Thanks much, Bonnie! What a wonderful honor for someone to feel my work with such depth and astute observation. I agree on the standalone quality, not even needing cards or other divination tools, only the divination tool of oneself. Someone can scry the questions swimming in the art pools they swim in, and have a full divination experience just like that. Add divination tools, and the powerful limits are those of the divinerās living steps on the journey.
Thank you for your insightful and depthful look at ImaginAction. That plucks resonant chords for me.
Pure & Blessed
May 3, 2020 at 8:21 am
What a banquet of a post! So many good things in there, I don’t know where to start! Compliments to the chef! š
Pure & Blessed
May 4, 2020 at 11:20 pm
Does the order matter? Not really… Being able to explain as a sequence… possibly?
For example when I title blog posts, sometimes the name appears in the middle, sometimes it appears like a punchline at the end and other times words won’t come unless the title is decided first. There’s a lot of disorder to get to some kind of order. A story is not always well told if in a prescribed order. One of my favourite films is Pulp Fiction – each and every scene delights me. The first time watching where the order didn’t make much sense until the end when you can retrospectively shuffle the sequence to find the time line order… Though each time I watch it, I might reshuffle it differently…
Ordering cards… In my mind, its like they move at varying paces around a mobius strip and order depends on when you take a snapshot…
Hmmm… Nailing down a defined order? That feels like taking a 4D model and flattening it into 2D.
Pure & Blessed
May 8, 2020 at 4:39 am
Gawd blimey Guv’na! There’s a couple of words in there which I’m not sure if they’re typos or intentional but they give me big smiles either way. Clam/calm? Weird/weild? Keep clam and weird on!
I was going to share a few thoughts about some memories I had yesterday after pondering on my Neptune in Scorpio in 11H. But past is past and lessons learnt and I’ve just stumbled across a funny phrase that makes a good motto for the day. Carpe Scrotum!
Pure & Blessed
May 8, 2020 at 4:43 am
P. S. M HP reversed showing the big flying owl is one of my favourites š
Jordan Hoggard
May 8, 2020 at 9:14 pm
Thank you, Karen. Yeah, when I was scrolling through the media I have, I got way down deep into 2011 n around there, and I hadnāt seen that Mystereum High Priestess upside down/reversed vignette I ecCropped out of my card in forever. Just made me smile at its intensity and that it told a whole ānother side of her that felt to naturally segue itself in here. Very much, āVIP on the list.ā
Pure & Blessed
May 9, 2020 at 1:27 am
Funny, a few days ago, I also refound an image in my files of Her sat in Calla lillies š
Jordan Hoggard
May 10, 2020 at 11:06 am
SItting in Calla Lilies with her Calla Lily hands. š
Pure & Blessed
May 11, 2020 at 1:09 am
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Jordan Hoggard
May 8, 2020 at 11:25 am
Thanks Karen!
Pardon misspellings and word substitutions. Autocorrect often does things I didnāt Nintendo.
Pure & Blessed
May 8, 2020 at 11:56 am
Nope! I will not pardon. I will embrace as bonus gifts!
joliesattic
May 8, 2020 at 4:13 pm
I love how other people’s blogs can inspire and take you on a journey you didn’t know you wanted to go on.
Beautiful piece.
Jordan Hoggard
May 8, 2020 at 8:47 pm
Me, too, Jolie, and Iām thoroughly pleased that your post inspired one for me. Thanks much for the accolade! I appreciate that.
joliesattic
May 8, 2020 at 4:34 pm
To be honest, I’m not familiar with Tarot readings or anything connected to Tarot at all. So it has been a bit difficult to absorb. Do you do your own art work? I like it.
Jordan Hoggard
May 8, 2020 at 8:51 pm
Jolie,
Yes, I do my own artwork. Thank you. š Both the deck I designed and published as well as my watercolors and oil paintings.
Itās cool you are not familiar with Tarot readings or anything connected to it.
From my perspective itās great to experience different perspectives from different people, just enhances experience and life. Glad I found your page when you commented on a blog in a way that impressed me. Very real and insightful. I full-on understand it has been a bit difficult to absorb as new things often are. Thanks for taking the time to visit my page and grace me/it with your wonderful comments..
joliesattic
May 9, 2020 at 12:51 am
You”re welcomed, and I look forward to more interesting tidbits’.
Jordan Hoggard
May 9, 2020 at 1:09 am
Me as well, Jolie! Iām full-on digginā your blog.
joliesattic
May 10, 2020 at 1:00 am
Thank you!!
Jordan Hoggard
May 10, 2020 at 11:05 am
Youāre most welcome!
Pure & Blessed
May 9, 2020 at 2:56 pm
“duet in lieu of dual or duel”. Exquisite.
Jordan Hoggard
May 9, 2020 at 3:38 pm
Thank you, Karen!
Christina Schmidt, MA
May 9, 2020 at 8:30 pm
Jordan, Scorpionic Poetry is well put and I particularly like the Civil Wars reference. Scorps – we are our own worst enemies. The most sincere of enemies. Cheers.
Jordan Hoggard
May 9, 2020 at 8:39 pm
Christina, Thanks much. I really appreciate that from a wonderfully candid Scorp. āThe most sincere of enemies.ā Love it. Agreed on the Civil Wars reference. It resonated. I do have to laugh on the āwe are our own worst enemies.ā The last time someone said, āand keep your enemies closer,ā I just about lost it laughing. āCloser? How? DAYum, I used to kick my own ass waaayyyy too much. Canāt keep me any closer than myself.ā š
Cheers as well. Iāll lift my Carmenere to you.
purplepeninportland
May 9, 2020 at 9:17 pm
“There comes one
who I breathe in like wind,
Like red rain into my water.”
Gorgeous words that hooked me immediately.
Jordan Hoggard
May 9, 2020 at 9:21 pm
I appreciate the high accolade. āGorgeous words.ā Thank you.
Pure & Blessed
May 12, 2020 at 5:27 am
Gawd love ya! š
Jordan Hoggard
May 12, 2020 at 8:05 am
š Thanks much, Karen!
Holly Troy
May 13, 2020 at 10:31 pm
I love the idea of infinity being a portal.
Bindu, Top and bottom of breath – the pause.
The card is really cool – the seven pentacles look like the seven sisters, a place of heavenly contemplation – and then the bigger pentacle on the earth. I see the seven as the chance for revoew – go bigger, go higher (as in a spiritual element) – and heck yes! Do it!
Jordan Hoggard
May 13, 2020 at 10:35 pm
Yes!
Jordan Hoggard
May 13, 2020 at 11:09 pm
And, Thanks on the card being really cool. I love how you felt and described it!
Pure & Blessed
May 14, 2020 at 1:21 am
I got distracted a while playing thumb scroll I Ching.
Theme?
It all seems to condense down to –
People bringing more value to their lives.
Pure & Blessed
May 16, 2020 at 1:30 pm
Reading your astro notes, reminded me to go back and read mine. I found that I’d written a summary sentence of my whole chart –
My sense of aesthetic brings all my thoughts together harmoniously in a way that I can communicate to serve others seeking deeper meanings.
Cheers!
Jordan Hoggard
May 16, 2020 at 2:43 pm
Iām liking that. Iāve been doing a bit of the same Turbo Reading of my Natal Chart + with Transits. Good stuff.
Iām seeing why Iām always better in the thick of it, in the shit so to speak. My Pluto~Uranus-Pallas-Athena conjunction in 8th House Virgo just love love LOVES transformation, shaking things up, and big-time strats (Pallas-Athenaās wise warrior and strategist qualities makes Mars look like he is playing checkers to her fluid chess).
Layer in my Mercury~Neptune conjunction in my 10th House āoutward personality,ā and these kinds of times where adapting is most key are native to my wheelhouse. Less resistance from me to shine in ways only I can (11th House Sag Sun). I do empathize with those that have lost loved ones, truly feel for them. At the same time, mask &;gloves, etc, I see NO reason to put my life on hold, in fact quite the reverse of that.
Iām having the time of my life. ImaginAction is born, graduated from me, and out there free to flow and grow and speak for itself. Just comments I make on othersā blogs seed blogs for me, full-on allowing influence ā of course when itās healthy. Lol Like that even needed to be said.
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I feel more community now. I feel a lot of people had the chatter and noise bomb-blasted right off them to reveal the treasure of their natural signal, and are seeing themselves for the inheritances value theyāve always had, though possibly never had the time or impetus to get around to owning and using.
And, of course my 12th House Capricorn Moon conjunct my ASC never has the āNo room In The Innā sign up. Infinity coupled with reflection tends to provide a portal to as much space as youāll ever need… and the Cap of the Moon in the 12th House just shakes itās head at the 12th House. āNope. You can give me your āAā game, none of that 12th House black hole swallowing everything up stuff. Gimme some expanse BayBEE. Iām the effin Moon. My lightās not even my own, reflected from the Sun, so you could never take that away from me. And, my mortgage with the Sun for said reflected light was paid in full from the beginning.ā
This is frickinā fun.
Pure & Blessed
May 16, 2020 at 2:52 pm
I think you’re spot on there buddy. On all counts š
Jordan Hoggard
May 16, 2020 at 2:53 pm
š Ditto you buddy-esse.
Pure & Blessed
May 16, 2020 at 2:55 pm
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Jordan Hoggard
May 16, 2020 at 2:57 pm
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Jordan Hoggard
May 16, 2020 at 2:55 pm
And, āMy sense of aesthetic brings all my thoughts together harmoniously in a way that I can communicate to serve others seeking deeper meanings.ā Excellent. Wonderfully said. Thatās a wonderful fit for what I know of you.
Pure & Blessed
May 16, 2020 at 2:58 pm
Cheers! I think also its why I love your work. It jigs that vibe awake.
Jordan Hoggard
May 16, 2020 at 3:03 pm
Thank you. (whereād those sunglasses go?)
Pure & Blessed
May 16, 2020 at 3:29 pm
Probably sitting on them š¤
Jordan Hoggard
May 16, 2020 at 3:37 pm
Yup, Iāve only had 2 expensive Ray Ban pairs, as I had sat on every other pair. CRACK. Damn! The 2 expensive pair were accidentally left at a friendās. I forgot them as I was leaving after dark, and not feeling like Corey Hart. And, they just kept them hostage. Seriously, they would hide them every time I was over, and in every social media pic I saw back then, they were wearing them. Shaking head. I just didnāt give them anything for Christmas those two years, except a card, āHereās your gift. Oh! Youāre already wearing them.ā
Pure & Blessed
May 16, 2020 at 4:02 pm
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joliesattic
May 16, 2020 at 6:42 pm
Every time I go to your site, my computer yells at me, saying “Danger Will Robinson!” lol, I don’t know why,
I no longer spend a fortune on glasses, but have several pair all over the place and save the expensive (prescription) one for driving.
Jordan Hoggard
May 16, 2020 at 6:58 pm
Thatās priceless, Jolie!
joliesattic
May 16, 2020 at 6:59 pm
If my computer crashes one day, you’ll know why, lol
Jordan Hoggard
May 16, 2020 at 7:03 pm
š I wonder why that it happening. Itās imply WordpRess website. I may have to put in a trouble ticket. Seriously, thanks for mentioning that. Is it due to the bandwidth of image-heavy posts? Youāve gotten me curious, as that would almost provide a bouncer at the door saying, āNo.ā, or āDanger, Will Robinson,ā as you put it.
joliesattic
May 17, 2020 at 12:55 am
I guess it bears looking into. I’ve not seen that before and it didn’t happen the first couple of times, I don’t think.
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 9:03 am
Thanks for the follow-up, Jolie. Thatās good to know for the trouble ticket. Maybe WordPress had a bad ad or something. I have a premium page, so I need to opt to stop those anyway.
Pure & Blessed
May 17, 2020 at 10:58 am
š¤£š¤£š¤£ You guys need to get out more.
Pure & Blessed
May 17, 2020 at 11:05 am
P. S. Your grandmother taught you well š
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 11:06 am
Yup. She was quite the firecracker. Played 6 sets of tennis or 18 holes of golf most days until her mid 70s.
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 11:50 am
Funny, Karen. You posted this on my site. Heād never in a million years leave The Senate to visit The Oracle. š
Pure & Blessed
May 17, 2020 at 11:58 am
The only thing I’d post on his site is TLDR. Besides, he doesn’t need to know I’m laughing at him!
Maybe for the best he doesn’t visit The Oracle… š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 12:09 pm
Yes, if he does, Iāll NOT revisit the thought of moderating comments. I like that my blog is a safe space to comment as people please the Mystereum way. All similar, each unique. Weāre each different, like everyone else.
People can bless me or bless me out. THatās their prerogative, which I will respect and protect unflinchingly. And, of course there are consequences. Things like, I might smile, or bless you for venting if you bless me out. Or, other. Ask me again tomorrow.so to speak. š
Pure & Blessed
May 17, 2020 at 12:21 pm
Oh blimey Jordan, hanging out with people with different opinions?! What kind of heresy is this?!
Lol it’s the Internet… I’ve heard you’re supposed to bubble wrap yourself with like minded people… Yes, you’re right! So right! š¤£š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 12:29 pm
Yeah, Pia Zadora could pull off bubble wrap. Me? Not so much.
Pure & Blessed
May 17, 2020 at 12:31 pm
Lol OK visual thinker here… Leaving the building š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 11:04 am
Yes, they do. š
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 11:05 am
Thanks for Liking on that… uh hem… site. Too funny.
Pure & Blessed
May 19, 2020 at 5:57 am
Lol I just went back to revisit as who doesn’t need a good laugh? I found the declaration along the lines of this is the last of your ignorant quips that will be allowed. š¤£š¤£ That was funny! But even funnier
Daniel Kaufman
1d ago
Just a reminder to everyone ā our regulars, of course, know this already ā that this Webzine is moderated and that there are rules for commenting that are listed under the āFor Readersā tab. Beyond the formal rules, however, I will enforce a certain kind of atmosphere here and will not permit people to flood the comments.
Mr. Hoggard has been banned. I apologize to Carter for allowing it to go on so long, but I try not to err on the side of not banning. As Mr. Hoggard would neither listen nor relent from flooding the comments, I reluctantly did so.
Thanks again to Carter for a terrific piece. I have invited him to do a regular arts column, if he is interested in doing so.
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Jordan Hoggard
May 19, 2020 at 7:22 am
Thank You Thank You Thank You, Karen!!
Thank GAWDDDDDDD. Geez. I had unfollowed the site, though because I had commented I received a toxic drip in my email for every comment others made.
I read them, too, though with no intent to comment further due to the Bio Lab Skeleton of a Hierophant, Hierophant on a bad day of the stubborn, unbending Traditionalist… their moderator. Readersā comments were reasonable, thoughtful, and thorough. I guess he didnāt like that I cross-checked into the blue line wall. Just some action on the ice. Nothing personal at the time.
The funniest thing to me is that multiple people liked my comments, except him, including the reader who I liked and commented on who liked my reinforcement of his Philo from a direct, artistās perspective.
THe newest, funniest thing, though, is his use of the word, āflooding.ā That I flooded the site with comments. What, a total of maybe of 6-10, more like 4-7?? That man must have been in that Ivory Tower Clean Room in a HazMat suit his whole life able to live at the molecular levels and able to detect things in the PPT range (parts per trillion).
Thank you, Karen, for letting me know Iām banned from his site. As I indicated, I unfollowed in that smiling same breath, though I couldnāt find a way to block his site en masse. Excellent, he did it for me. Thanks for sending me āthe audio.ā I have NEVER heard a door slam shut that gave me SO much JOYYYYY. That effinā ROCKS!! Walked right out of the Tower. Pressure tends to build in those kinds of closed environments, huh? I hope he has an amazing intellectual HVAC system. š š š š
I hope for his sake he doesnāt wander in here. I might not even have to do anything with the clear vision of the amazing people whoāve been frequenting my site and liking and commenting.
So, on THAT note: THANK YOU to every single person who has read, liked, commented, not liked though read anyway. Thank you all. I have seen my readers grow from 140+ to just over 200 in the last 10 weeks after I returned from my extended radio silence. I was in a better mood, anyway, though I smile at how many times I smile and get to say Thank You out loud when I see someone enjoyed my work, that they received something for their time. That makes me proud, and not the hubris kind of pride. That makes me proud in the āI CHerishā kind of proud.
Thank you. Thank you to all of you wonderful people who have read, share, and continue to read my blog.
Moiraās Blessings,
Jordan
Pure & Blessed
May 19, 2020 at 7:47 am
Seriously… That man really does need to get out more… š¤£š¤£š¤£ He needs to meet more people that will piss him off!
Jordan Hoggard
May 19, 2020 at 7:52 am
Yup, when someone pisses you of, it can be way cool to catch the inner stir before acting on it. Itās usually one of your Parts stirring and getting stirred up from an unresolved trauma or one that wonderfully can contribute by participating. Heck, itās a gift… when you catch it. It helps us see more of ourselves that we can recognize, listen to, and integrate once they (Traumas) trust/re-trust us inside.
Pure & Blessed
May 19, 2020 at 7:54 am
Well maybe one day he will be wise enough to take the lesson.
Jordan Hoggard
May 19, 2020 at 7:56 am
Thatās my hope. I thought about finding a way to have WordPress ban him from here before he even visits. Then, I thought of general stories of the stranger wandering into town. I donāt want to close off the serendipity intake, and am not going to place an exclusionary bouncer there, either.
Pure & Blessed
May 19, 2020 at 7:58 am
Just put up a reader’s note. Enter at your own risk. Live bait will be eaten.
Jordan Hoggard
May 19, 2020 at 6:07 pm
Thing is. The banning is not strong Enough in that one. I am still getting emails about comments on that post. I really think that may have been bluster as I had already unfollowed. I doubt he did anything official, though if he did, I am SUPER proud to have made that strong of an impression. Like Braveheart, āI didnāt think you were in the tent that longgg..ā :). Super proud. Ya know, the kind of proud that gets a cape.
I just smile at the amateur and stuffy hypocrisy. I think he most disliked that I said something to the affect of, āI find intention to be over-rated in Art. It is simply vastly more important the way it comes across. Once a work has graduated from the Artist, the Artist is null and moot in regards to the piece, and that is the time of the Artās opportunity to take its 1st fully formed steps as it begins to speak for itself.ā Or similar. I paraphrasing my concept from memory. That I expressed it as a reply to another commenterās comment, and the commenter and another both liked it… that was what he called my over-familiarity, etc etc.
I can only smile, and not post anymore about it as my strength and discernment have plenty of valuable things to focus on. Plus, thereās always the, āIād enter into a battle of wits with you, though I see youāre unarmed.ā
Ok, thatās enough for me. He gets no more of my energy.
Pure & Blessed
May 19, 2020 at 7:37 pm
I have other thoughts about it. It brought back to mind words from a conversation I had a few years ago. Long story short. Someone said to me – They reason they got so upset with you is because they try really hard and you just bounce along as though it’s play…
Anyway, whatever his intention, he came across as an ass… Dos Burros… The End! š
Pure & Blessed
May 19, 2020 at 8:33 pm
Just stumbled across this š¤£
I fed my donkey wheat. He brayed and said ‘me donkey wheaty’.
I fed my donkey corn. He clapped his hooves and said ‘me donkey corny’.
I fed my donkey oats. He charged full-tilt into a windmill.
Jordan Hoggard
May 19, 2020 at 10:03 pm
Ok, Karen… I had to make a āproperā exit if it was so formal… and commented to his ban… : Oh well, ask me again tomorrow:
Because of my aptness and innate familiarity with the topic, I have allegedly been banned from this site. Seems to me thatās a hubris bluster of words. I still receive the echo, the emails when comments are made. You made the statement I was banned. It will only be by your moderation that that happens. I will certainly NOT Comment further, though thatās because I value where I spend my time. Dare you to accept this comment. Will you?
Please DO ban me, OFFICIALLY, through WordPress. That will frankly be a joyful coup, literally makes me happy. The comments I made were liked, BY the commenters, rather than as you indicated, being an over-familiarity. DO I need to contact my local, international Diplomat for an introduction? I. Think. Not.
The comments you made were stuffy and out of touch. Iād say quite a shame, though I hear thatās your M.O. At least I can hand it to you that you are consistent. Good for you. THAT, I respect. Iād engage you in a battle of wits, though I see you are unarmed.
Please, please, please DO please ban me from your site. It would be such a wonderful morning when I do not hear the drivel of your drooling, though I will miss the wonderful commentary of your readers. Unfortunately, thatās a trade-off I can live with. Well, strike that. Itās a trade-off that is not compensatory. It. Just. Now. Is.
Thanks for Your time. Moiraās blessings to Ya. May you find your internal sense of time. Without it, itās just words.
Pure & Blessed
May 20, 2020 at 1:19 am
Boom! *drops mic* š
Jordan Hoggard
May 20, 2020 at 1:38 am
YES, it did, here we go….
Pure & Blessed
May 20, 2020 at 1:41 am
There you went š¤£
Pure & Blessed
May 19, 2020 at 7:50 am
Should I flood his comments… Do I have time to deluge and tidal wave him in irreverence and over familiarity… And ignorant quips… I’m qualified? š¤£š¤£š
Jordan Hoggard
May 19, 2020 at 7:54 am
No, youād be so big and so their like a tsunami or God that he wouldnāt see you. Heck, he defined my less than 8 comments, over 2 days, as a flood.
Karen, I suggest to flood yourself with the opportunistic, āWhat can I mine from all this energy Iām feeling?ā Please donāt waste it on him. That would be like uncut ambrosia tossed in an overly clean sewage plant.
Pure & Blessed
May 19, 2020 at 7:56 am
š¤£ I was joking. There’s no honour in taking down a weak opponent!
Pure & Blessed
May 17, 2020 at 11:07 am
I’m not going to respond further but I may come back repeatedly to try and have the last word! š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 11:08 am
That sounds like a wonderfully Pallas-Athena chess strategy on that site. I was floored kind of surprised at HOW stuffy someone could be. MAN, blow out the pipes, or as you expressed, get out more.
Pure & Blessed
May 17, 2020 at 11:09 am
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Judith
May 17, 2020 at 1:06 pm
I’m glad I’ve found your blog now. I really enjoy your forthright style, and yes, I think Grandma’s wisdom is well worth remembering. I look forward to reading more. š
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 1:10 pm
Much appreciated, Judith. What a wonderful thing to say. Thank you. š
Dawn Renee
May 17, 2020 at 5:37 pm
That is sad and beautiful, not a common combination. The Fedora is awesome!
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 7:05 pm
Much appreciated, Dawn! Thank you!
joliesattic
May 17, 2020 at 7:16 pm
Oh, thank you so much. I’ll be going through that soon, I’m afraid. My best friend and sister has been placed in hospice until she passes. It has been a difficult few months, but I know it’s coming. There are days it’s like nothing is happening I am numb. I’ve broken down somewhat once, but it’s only when I say things out loud that it becomes overwhelming. So, I don’t talk about it, but I know it’s coming.
Jordan Hoggard
May 17, 2020 at 9:01 pm
Jolie,
You are most welcome. My experiences of my grandfather and grandmother are blessings.
I am honored by your openness and emotional strength to share as you have. May your experiences and the love you share with your best friend and sister be blessings.
I wish for you all the support and grace you and she need during this difficult time.
Please accept my gratitude for sharing her with us here.
joliesattic
May 18, 2020 at 12:16 am
You are so welcome.
joliesattic
May 18, 2020 at 1:08 am
I enjoyed this and FYI, I’m no longer getting the “Danger, Will Robinson” alerts, Yay! Whatever you did worked. I’m still laughing.
Jordan Hoggard
May 18, 2020 at 5:12 am
Thank you, Jolie! ANd, excellent on the, āDanger, Will RObinsonā alerts going away. Letās see if it sticks.
Sharmishtha
May 18, 2020 at 5:16 am
beautiful post Jordan.
Jordan Hoggard
May 18, 2020 at 5:17 am
Thank you, Sharmishtha. Much appreciated.
joliesattic
May 19, 2020 at 1:43 pm
Cute, And, I did read it and I liked it! Loved the opening line, your Thank you to those who “has read, liked, commented, not liked though read anyway,” lol. I thought I was the only one who wrote like that. My husband sometimes says, I’m confusing people. I told him, “my people” like it and are used to it, which is why I seldom let him edit my writing. It may go in and out, here and there, but that’s what makes it me.
Jordan Hoggard
May 19, 2020 at 5:57 pm
Thank you, Jolie! Much appreciated. And yes, do NOT allow your husband to edit. If he wants his voice out there, he can blog it himself. Youāve got your gig, and itās solid. Good for you for having inclusive, though healthy boundaries with that to stick to your guns to continue to embrace your clarity of vision and voice.
joliesattic
May 20, 2020 at 1:30 am
Thank you. He doesn’t mind me for me, it’s just that he’s done proof reading before and he can’t resist sometimes plus his mom, a school teacher … lol
Jordan Hoggard
May 20, 2020 at 1:40 am
That makes all kinds of sense, Jolie.
Jane Lurie
May 20, 2020 at 11:26 am
And thank you, Jordan. š Keep on writing.
Jordan Hoggard
May 20, 2020 at 10:05 pm
Youāre welcome, Jane. I look forward to continuing to enjoy your posts.
Akpederi Raymond
May 22, 2020 at 1:21 am
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Jordan Hoggard
May 22, 2020 at 1:29 am
Akpederi, Thanks much for the š
Holly Troy
May 23, 2020 at 8:34 pm
Jordan, Thank you so much for your generosity and for sharing this post! You posted and sent coffees while I was in the midst of a three hour ritual for Gemini. I said to my friend, “I feel uplifted, evolved, like I stepped through a portal.” And then, I saw all of this – and I am so grateful.
Blessings, blessings, blessings! Holly
Jordan Hoggard
May 23, 2020 at 8:47 pm
You are SO welcome Holly, and Paul! Go You is what I SAY!
Holly Troy
May 23, 2020 at 8:51 pm
We hope to have some new songs to play soon – including one we are co-writing. It came about on the day Paul and I played “make believe” on his birthday.
Jordan Hoggard
May 23, 2020 at 9:01 pm
YES! Cool.E.O. Love new work coming. Iād say thereās more than one way to skin a cat, though that effs with cats, which I dig, and as well, that expression probably arose as cats have 9 lives so to speak. Hard to kill. LOL š
Looking forward to you new work!
Timothy Price
May 24, 2020 at 4:31 pm
Interesting aspects of waking up and calling out. Tarot cards and astrology are outside my realm of being, but they are interesting. I love the reflecting photo. It’s soothing to sit at a patio table and reflect with the reflections.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 5:28 pm
Thank you, Timothy. I thoroughly appreciate that. Thatās my favorite photo that Iāve taken. Years back I lost the high res copy so I couldnāt make a poster out f it. Today, it came to mind to use, and after an hour of searching files and emails, I finally found a copy from a 2009 email, though after I published it, I noticed that black editing arrow or some such right in the middle. Shaking head. It has a history. Beautiful and a bit impish. Gotta love the character. It certainly lets me know itās alive. I might reticle it Loki or Prankster. š
Thank you very much for loving Reflections.
Timothy Price
May 24, 2020 at 5:47 pm
We have a cat name Loki. He’s as tricky as his namesake.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 5:57 pm
š Great name for a cat. Loki. As agile and tricky in his mood as his motion? Thatās great. I had a cat, Mercurius, nicknamed Merc. Very mercurial, very Loki. What a great name for a cat. I made up Mercurius to a degree as fake Latin, though if you pronounced it with a Southern accent, Heās Mercurius, Mer curius than most.
R.I.P. Merc. You were 5 days shy of 21, fit in the palm of my hand when you were 8 weeks old. At 20 1/2 you were still hopping from the 2nd floor down to the 1st floor wall below, and off youād go on adventures.
March 3rd, 1993 – February 26, 2014
Timothy Price
May 24, 2020 at 6:05 pm
Loki is a really good natured cat, but he can be a trickster. He’s a big, beautiful black kitty. Mercurius must have been a great cat. I had another pair of black cats, brothers, that I got on a 2 for 1 special in 2000. We named them Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and they lived up to their namesakes, as well. Guildenstern died of a kitty stroke in 2016, Rosencrantz died of kidney failure in 2018.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 6:18 pm
Oh, great names as well for that pair. My condolences to you for them, and may your memories be blessings. They sound like a riotously funny pair.
Merc was a golden tabby, āMā on the forehead, black (dark tiger brown) necklace, full stripes up top, and jaguar spots on his white belly.
Merc got worms when he was 20, most likely from raccoon fees in the garden where I hadnāt seen it, as they often enter through the soft tissue between the toes. I thought I was going to lose him, found some homeopathic SUPER INTENSE drops that cleared out the worms in about 2 weeks. He bounced right back, and within a month was trotting around with outside in the garden and on walks like nothing ever happened. 3 weeks before 21, either they came back in force, or he contracted them again. The drops and some shots were sadly not enough.
Thank you for telling me about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They sound like quite the personalities.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 5:42 pm
Oh, and Timothy, full-on understood that Tarot cards and Astrology are outside your wheelhouse. I suggest to re-visit the post, though. I have converting to the Block Editor WordPress feature, and stumbling my way through it. Fittingly enough, the part I had about the point relating to the title, dead-heading and pansies, was grouped with the last line, and at one place or another when editing something, I inadvertently deleted that grouped block. Thereās now a section under the Tarot cards about the pansies, and as well when putting that back, the last line question also came back. It may more sense from a lay perspective now if you care to re-visit. š
Timothy Price
May 24, 2020 at 5:57 pm
The blockhead editor. I hate it. I was wondering how the title fit in. I was going to ask about the pansies but decided not to. I completely agree on you dead-heading analogy. And Pansies are anything but pansies (in the sense of weak men). When everything else is frozen, dried up and dead in the garden and the temps are below zero, the pansies’ blooms are strong and colorful giving us hope for new life in the dead of winter.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Yes, on the pansies. I hoped that would now make more sense.
And, oh boy the blockhead editor! 3 days in and Iām starting to crawl, and finding it to be a powerful tool, though still crawling. Though, the 1st day? I wish I had recorded myself. I might have just created a whole new slew of expletives and frustration noises.
Timothy Price
May 24, 2020 at 6:07 pm
My wife can tell you about my frustrations with it. I’m not going to mess with it. You can get to the classic editor at your posts in the admin pages.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 6:31 pm
Yes, though Iām a āok, fun, Iāll move forwardā kind of person.
If it helps you in the future if they discontinue Classic:
~ My initial biggest beef was I would click on something to edit it, and the menu would appear RIGHT ON TOP OF WHT I WAS ATTEMPTING TO EDIT. Maddening.
~ I found that that only typically happened if the passage was towards the bottom of my screen. Scrolling it towards the top of the screen, and Voila, Voici!, thatās editable!
~ Also, once youāve clicked the paragraph button on the menu, an up-down arrow appears on the left of the menu, and you can easily click to re-arrange where a paragraph sits.
~ The OOPS, I grouped something, and didnāt even know there was now a Group function. And, being grouped, when I split up a paragraph, and moved part of it somewhere else… if I deleted one, they both went, and I was too many saves past CMD-Z to undo, so GONE FOREVER until I re-wrote it ā which sometimes means NEVER TO RETURN if Iāve just written something new for me ā donāt have the feelingsense scholarship to re-convey the feeling I just had. :(.
~ Also, just the way the menus are… dafuqin all over the place. There have been a couple of times I was exploring a tool, and all I could then see were menus and options and 50 places to click…
Itās beyond a process. Though, I treated it like when I 1st opened PhotoShop years back. Pick a tool, and get good at that one tool. Then 2, etc. Then of course they upgrade and I all of a sudden canāt make the pencil touch the paper so to speak.
Aggravation is a word. I hear you on sticking with Classic. Thatās beyond fair. Your call, and I respect the decision. I just donāt want to come up on a personal deadline later, and THEN Classic goes away, and THEN Iām left there as a sitting duck. Of course, I can adjust my personal deadline, though thatās kinda countergrain to setting one in the 1st place. I do it all the time. I just donāt want to blow myself out of the water because an outside influence decided it was time for me to change.
Itās like autocorrect. I proofread like a Mofo, though in the end, all I can really brace against is my email footer:
Pardon any mis-spellings or awkward language constructions. Autocorrect makes me write things I didnāt Nintendo.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 6:01 pm
āAnd Pansies are anything but pansies (in the sense of weak men). When everything else is frozen, dried up and dead in the garden and the temps are below zero, the pansiesā blooms are strong and colorful giving us hope for new life in the dead of winter.ā
I love that last line! So very resonant and true.
Timothy Price
May 24, 2020 at 6:08 pm
Thanks.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 6:31 pm
Youāre most welcome, Timothy.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 5:44 pm
And, thanks on the waking up and calling out portion being interesting. It was very conscious and liminal at the same time, one of those indelible experiences that are best worked with comfortable with the not-knowing to get beyond the, sometimes hilarious awake-dream/Theosophic vision quality and step over the initial false summit of, āDafuq?? Whatās going on?ā
Pure & Blessed
May 24, 2020 at 5:35 pm
That brought back a memory from maybe 8 years ago. I was sat in the garden and watched a butterfly emerge from chrysalis. It dropped and plopped in a wet heap to land on my left deltoid. It looked kind of dead… We sat in the sun and I watched as it dried out and wings began to pump full of life… Then butterfly turned flutter by and was gone… Up into the sky and over the fence, away to new adventures.
It struck me then people often use the caterpillar/butterfly metaphor to speak of transformation… They’ll talk about the chrysalis glooping… They never really mention necessary pause as the wings get fully pumped…
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 5:38 pm
I love that memory, Karen. Excellent point with, āIt struck me then people often use the caterpillar/butterfly metaphor to speak of transformationā¦ Theyāll talk about the chrysalis gloopingā¦ They never really mention necessary pause as the wings get fully pumpedā¦ ā
Pure & Blessed
May 24, 2020 at 5:49 pm
It’s a good memory š I remember feeling very blessed to have Mother Nature drop a lesson on me.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 5:57 pm
Amen, A(wo)men to that.
Pure & Blessed
May 24, 2020 at 6:01 pm
Lol I just thought about Mike Myers doing that Woman poem š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 6:12 pm
Thatās a great drop-plop. š
Pure & Blessed
May 24, 2020 at 6:13 pm
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Timothy Price
May 24, 2020 at 9:08 pm
I have to say I’ve never thought about using Memorial Day to say condolences to my former selves. I wish I had the strength and conditioning of my former selves, but I have to give thanks for being alive and use what strength I have today to carry on and try to make my little piece of the universe better for my wife, my daughter, my kitties, my birds, my staff, my friends, my blog followers, etc. Whatever little bit I can do to make the earth as it is in Heaven.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 9:41 pm
What a wonderfully emotionally full statement, Timothy. I resonate beyond honored at your passionate, seated, expression. Well said about stepping into something you’ve never done before, and steeping with zeal and clarity. I appreciate how you just site read your track with the sovereignty of a cornerstone that supports all the things that comprise a building, the building that is your family.
Timothy Price
May 24, 2020 at 10:57 pm
It’s nice to have different perspectives to make us reflect about things we otherwise would never think about. We all have our unique ways of thinking which I learn so much from.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 11:12 pm
Me as well. Thank you. Thereās the all similar, each unique,=. And, the weāre all different, like everyone else. And then, thereās this, where we actually do it. Iām grateful for your perspective.
I learn so much from these interchanges as well.
Jordan Hoggard
May 24, 2020 at 10:51 pm
Upon further reflection, Timothy, I hadnāt, either. Something about today, though, took the āthose who have died for usā concept to something more personal.
Good distinction you made.
bonnie hubly
May 25, 2020 at 2:53 am
Love your tribute – words and photos – to Lyra. Loved the story about her streaking across the NM mesa. Love you.
Mom
Bonnie Hubly
Jordan Hoggard
May 25, 2020 at 4:31 pm
Thanks, Mom! Happy Memorial Day!
Jordan Hoggard
May 25, 2020 at 8:30 pm
Thanks much, Mom! Love you, too.
Sharmishtha
May 25, 2020 at 3:35 am
sweet post. Love German shepherds! they are one of a kind dogs!
Jordan Hoggard
May 25, 2020 at 4:30 pm
Thank you, Sharmishtha! Much appreciated, and she sure is!
Timothy Price
May 25, 2020 at 9:48 am
You’re a good Texan, and she’s a smart old dog.
Jordan Hoggard
May 25, 2020 at 4:30 pm
Thanks, Man! Much appreciated.
Timothy Price
May 25, 2020 at 4:57 pm
What’s interesting is our cats are not afraid of fireworks, guns, or lighting. And of course they love the sound of rustling paper/cardboard and cardboard boxes.
The only reason I know they are not afraid of guns, or gunfire really, is a friend brought out a box of primed 45-70 shells that he couldn’t ship with live primers. He thought the quickest and easiest thing to do with live primers was to bring the shells out and shoot them in my 45-70 lever-action rifle.
We stood out on the deck and popped off the shells. With the first shot, the cats that were outside jumped and looked at us like “What the hell?” then they went back to lounging and ignored us as we fired off the rest of the box.
When the City and Balloon Fiesta set off fireworks just across the river, the kitties ignore it. When the balloons fly over the house, which is often when they fly, the cats go out and watch them. The kitties like to go out in the catio during thunderstorms and come back in all wet (it’s especially annoying to have a wet cat trying to get under the covers at 3:00 o’clock in the morning). They are really silly and it’s funny how with 6 cats all of the noises that seem to scare dogs don’t bother them at all.
Jordan Hoggard
May 25, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Great stuff there, Timothy! Great stuff.
Pure & Blessed
May 26, 2020 at 6:57 am
“My allergy to boredom neverminds the other one Into oblivion.” Love it! Rock on Jordan! š
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 6:58 am
Thanks much,Karen!
bonnie hubly
May 26, 2020 at 9:53 am
LOVE the BITC method! Great acronym! (You and I could add out last names and have full on BITCH – butt in the chair Hoggard or HUBLY.)
Bonnie Hubly
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 10:13 am
Love it!
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 6:09 pm
Maybe we should re-name it the HubHog BITCh Method, Mom! Or HuHoBITCh Method? Or, HRHs Royal BITCh Method? Or, bitcHH Method? None of those feel right yet, though thereās something to be said for tuning and tailoring the BITCh Butt In The Chair title.
Timothy Price
May 26, 2020 at 10:17 am
Good allergies to have. I’m never bored, and while I’m often hungry, I’m never starving. In my song for Inchcock and myself called “Neuropathic Mambo” I have the line “I stubbed my toe. Ouch! I’m still alive!” Always a good reminder. There are some days, very few mind you, that I wake up with no pain. While I’m lying there pondering whether I’m still alive, one of the cats will stomp across me, getting a paw square on my bladder. That’s when I stop pondering, crawl out from under a pile of cats, and head for the “wet room” as Inchcock calls it.
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 6:10 pm
Neuropathic Mambo. That rocks, Timothy!
Timothy Price
May 26, 2020 at 7:26 pm
You can listen to it at https://wp.me/p1yQyy-4lv.
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 8:02 pm
SaWEET! Thanks for the link! Iāll look forward to experiencing it.
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 8:12 pm
Oh Yes! Thatās a solid 3 minutes.
I resonate with the speak-singing, goes with the nerve damage of not belting out some American Idol tingles, simply talking the song. I have a dead-ish spot on the outside of my left knee from ACL replacement surgery. Some of it has come back over the last 20 years. They had to cut right through the medial nerve ā well, maybe didnāt HAVE to, though the time it would have taken to move around it and underneath it to harvest the inner 1/3rd of my patella tendon to repurpose it as an ACL… more time-effective the way they did it.ā
I appreciate the lyrics, and your description of your friend in Nottingham:
ā āThe annoyance of some nerve damage is better than the alternative.ā Since Inchcock made it out of the stroke ward alive, he was told others who were in the stroke ward at the same as him did not live, heās made a great recovery. I believe his fantastic recovery has a lot to do with his drive to entertain his followers with his daily descriptions of woe and wonderment of his life in Nottingham, not to mention his updates on his unmentionables and daily constitutionals.ā
Excellent. Thanks much for sharing the link! Great spirit in Inchcock, and great tribute to that spirit in your piece.
Timothy Price
May 26, 2020 at 8:19 pm
I have a parody video I did for Inchcock on my my T&L Photos site. I need to post it on WP. My fingertips and toes are numb from chemo. It makes it hard to play the guitar and my typing totally sucks theses days. I’ve been trying to practice guitar more but what it mainly seems to do is make my hands hurt and my typing worse. But onward and whatever word.
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 8:20 pm
Cool! I just found it back in 2019 so I could like it there, the link wouldnāt let me, and then kept going to find him and follow.
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 8:21 pm
āOnward and whatever word.ā Yes!
Jaquita Rideau
May 26, 2020 at 11:50 am
I live in Austin right now. Iāve been here for two years and I love it. I think what plagued me the most is the overwhelming obstacles I encounter in life. From birth, Iāve felt like Iāve had to struggle more than others despite all of the natural talent and intellect I feel I possess. There have been so many dark times in my life, but I prevailed against everyone of them. I think this is my superpower. And it strengthens me to know that bs may come, but Iām strong enough and capable enough to maneuver through it. And soon, because I feel it happening, I can dodge a lot of new turmoil from learning through my past mistakes. So despite me not having a magic wand to change the rollercoaster that is life, Iām thankful for the strength to handle all that comes my way! Good post! I read this a couple of days ago. And I pulled the 2 of coins that day. So this post was almost like another confirmation.
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 6:14 pm
What a wonderfully open and strong reply Jaquita! Thank you. Sounds like youāve taken hold of your experiences and ānot wasted trouble,ā so they enhance, reinforce, and strengthen healthy boundaries for you? Sounds like youāve come a long way, and are better for the work youāve done on yourself for yourself.
Iād say that though magic wands are wicked cool, they can also play the trickster of āquick fixes have shallow rootsā and āDeeply rooted trees have no fear of strong winds.ā ā and Iād say thatās at the heart of Winston Churchillās āIf you Stop to address every barking dog, youāll never get anywhere.ā
Excellent comment. Thanks for stepping up with clear and hard-worked honesty.
Susi Bocks
May 26, 2020 at 8:23 pm
You have included me amongst many of my favorite writers, Jordan. Thank you, it’s an honor to be represented here. <3
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 8:23 pm
Youāre very welcome, Susi. How could I not. Your writing is like geodes opened without the initial raw.
Susi Bocks
May 26, 2020 at 8:24 pm
*blush Thank you!
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 8:57 pm
Youāre welcome. āYou can talk a good game, but can you (Susi) Bocks?;ā š
Susi Bocks
May 26, 2020 at 9:13 pm
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Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 9:15 pm
š I have to say Iām rather pleased with myself as well, Itās funny, and TRUE! You SHOULD make T-shirts. Iād buy one for sure.
You can talk a good game, but can you (Susi) Bocks?ā Thanks for inspiring that. Youāll have to sue me for PUNitive damages.
Susi Bocks
May 26, 2020 at 9:15 pm
LOL
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 9:22 pm
š I just canāt stop laughing. I used to tell people that to diffuse them, though now… I just canāt stop laughing.
Youāre writing really is da bom.
Susi Bocks
May 26, 2020 at 9:24 pm
Well, I’m glad you are enjoying yourself! š
Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 9:28 pm
Itās your fault. š
Susi Bocks
May 26, 2020 at 9:33 pm
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Jordan Hoggard
May 26, 2020 at 9:36 pm
Like I like to say in meetings when someone attempts to dump something on me. āOf course itās my fault. Itās ALWAYS my fault. Iām just that powerful.ā
Youāre writing, though, all joking aside, is powerful.
Susi Bocks
May 26, 2020 at 9:49 pm
Thank you for your praise, Jordan. It means a lot to me. š
Jordan Hoggard
May 27, 2020 at 5:14 am
Youāre welcome, Susi. Very well deserved. š
short-prose-fiction
May 28, 2020 at 12:42 am
Brilliant post!
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 12:52 am
Thank you! Thatās a stunning accolade!. Much appreciated.
short-prose-fiction
May 28, 2020 at 12:58 am
My pleasure Jordan. It’s really a stunning post.
Funny I was reading today about the meaning of the Fool – not in a tarot book – in a dictionary of symbols. It must be somehow the same. The discussion was about the meaning of the unnumbered card.
Anyway, I love your poem. It is brilliant.
Stay safe
Gabriela
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 1:20 am
Oh, thatās wonderful serendipity, Gabriela.
I love the un-numbered card aspect. A great many attribute the O to being a zero kind of un-numbered. I donāt agree. I feel The Fool is truly un-numbered, and the O is an alchemically, unsquared circle, O , full of potential once creatively touched, influenced to come into being.
Thank you again, Gabriella. Stay safe as well, and healthy and in good spirits.
Jordan
short-prose-fiction
May 28, 2020 at 1:31 am
My pleasure Jordan.
“and the O is an alchemically, unsquared circle, O , full of potential once creatively touched, influenced to come into being.” I love the association with alchemy.
Thank you for the great wishes. Right back to you.
G.
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 1:41 am
š Youāre most welcome G. Iāll catch that and :), hold it, and watch it brighten.
J.
short-prose-fiction
May 28, 2020 at 1:43 am
Sending sunshine too š
Pure & Blessed
May 28, 2020 at 1:39 am
That’s a deja vu inducing read….and also brought back memories of singing in canon. š
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 1:41 am
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Gottfried
May 28, 2020 at 7:35 am
That darkness you speak of? It’s already here!
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 7:56 am
Always has been. Itās not dualism but cohesive adaptation with Both/And thatās… well, thatās not new, either. š
Gottfried
May 28, 2020 at 8:00 am
Haha, your mind is a beautiful place.
You’re like Dr. Strange in the MCU. Thinking up multiple realities at once.
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 8:02 am
Nice! That Rocks!
āHaha, your mind is a beautiful place.
Youāre like Dr. Strange in the MCU. Thinking up multiple realities at once.ā
Iām simply nodding with a big smile. Thank you, Gottfried. What a saWEET description in a high compliment. Glad my hairās thinner up top so my head can exhaust properly. š
Gottfried
May 28, 2020 at 8:05 am
Hahaha, I can’t with you ššš
Gottfried
May 28, 2020 at 7:36 am
Why does the musician look like Downey Junior?
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 7:57 am
I think the musician looks like the musician. Downey Junior looks like Downey Junior. All similar, each unique. Everybody different, just like everyone else is why?
Gottfried
May 28, 2020 at 8:01 am
I think the Angels got bored and started making replicas of the old days while inserting brand new souls
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 8:03 am
Thatās both funny and potentially intensely on point and apt.
Gottfried
May 28, 2020 at 7:37 am
“What doesn’t kill us doesn’t kill us because they like us very much”
Never considered it that way and this is absolutely brilliant!
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 7:58 am
Thanks much!
Gottfried
May 28, 2020 at 7:38 am
Self-centered is definitely not an ego issue. It’s priortizing and putting yourself and mental space first. Everyone should try it!
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 7:58 am
Full-on agree, Gottfried.
Gottfried
May 28, 2020 at 7:39 am
“It’s not the mess that’s the conflict”
A gem
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 7:59 am
š Thanks much!
Timothy Price
May 28, 2020 at 9:06 am
You took the long way home.
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 5:21 pm
Thank you, Timothy. I did. I appreciate you expressing that. Both songs, both songs as songs to Self from where I am now. Thank you.
Timothy Price
May 28, 2020 at 9:08 am
Really nice images. Love the poem.
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 5:40 pm
Much appreciated, Timothy. That means tons. Thank you.
Timothy Price
May 28, 2020 at 10:47 pm
I take it you like Sara! She reminds me of a young woman who worked for me a couple of years ago.
Jordan Hoggard
May 28, 2020 at 10:59 pm
Sara rocks!
Can i hear your friendās work somewhere?
Timothy Price
May 28, 2020 at 11:26 pm
I borrowed her and another young architect intern to finish a project after our staff, who worked for another project manager, got pulled off my project. Both of them have gone on to work for larger architecture firms.
Jordan Hoggard
May 29, 2020 at 4:58 pm
In regards to Sara: I have a habit of enjoying, resonating with, liking music and often donāt turn into the head part of listening to the words of the lyrics, simply the music of the voice. WIth her, the lyrics stuck out right off the bat as such a well-done song to herself about her when younger, that I went on a listening field trip to listen FOR her words in he music. Sheās a solid writer, and/or has great co/ghost-writers. The songs feel to be hers, though.
Pure & Blessed
May 29, 2020 at 8:12 am
“Itās a great place to place a flower.”
Yes! A good place to bloom! š
parneetsachdev
May 29, 2020 at 9:43 pm
Thank you so much. I love this version.
Jordan Hoggard
May 29, 2020 at 9:52 pm
Youāre most welcome, Parneet.
Timothy Price
May 29, 2020 at 9:54 pm
I’m a curmudgeon. I really don’t like this version.
Jordan Hoggard
May 29, 2020 at 10:06 pm
Thatās full-on fair. Thanks for the chuckle, too. Gotta be you, like what you like. āThereās no accounting for taste. Itās yours as only yours is.ā š
Timothy Price
May 29, 2020 at 10:51 pm
Yep. It’s great that we all have our own tastes.
Jordan Hoggard
May 29, 2020 at 10:53 pm
Definitely! I f I could support none else, Iād support that.
Timothy Price
May 29, 2020 at 10:59 pm
The version of the song is good for all you noted. There’s just something about it I don’t like. I’m one to alk. I have a parody of the song called “The Sound of Coffee Grinding”. It’s pretty bloody awful. I have two versions. One is a hyper punk version and the other uses the traditional music. I doubt I’ll ever publish either version. But if I do, it will probably be the hyper punk version.
Jordan Hoggard
May 29, 2020 at 11:11 pm
I get that about you, and your taste statement prior. All good. Each discernment is both individual ADN in context, and sometimes not for the same taste/discernment reasons. Besides. Reasons are unreasonable most times. Like lists, they tell more about the Reasoner than the topic. š I feel it important to step up like you did right off the bat. Heck, it just didnāt sit right with you.
Curmudgeon? COOL! Though, of course, youāre not one. Not liking something… as I gather youāre aware… is…. simply not digginā it.
Pure & Blessed
May 29, 2020 at 11:19 pm
Abso-bloody-lutely!
SaaniaSparkle š§š»āāļø
May 31, 2020 at 3:07 pm
Nice blog š
Jordan Hoggard
May 31, 2020 at 3:29 pm
Much appreciated, Saania. Thank you!
Jordan Hoggard
May 31, 2020 at 8:20 pm
Love that you recently posted The Trolley Problem. I hadnāt thought of that in years, and full-on resonate with how I tracked my response on your site… today. Good stuff!
SaaniaSparkle š§š»āāļø
June 1, 2020 at 1:41 pm
Thank you so so much!
Jordan Hoggard
June 1, 2020 at 3:29 pm
Youāre most welcome, Saania!
Pure & Blessed
May 31, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Eustress – I’d not come across that word before. For a moment I thought it was going to be about Brexit! š¤£
Loved this from start to finish!
Back in the day, you gave me lots of advice and reading this flashes up how often I’ve used that over your radio silence years.
I have a wonderful story I may tell you one day.
I liked the part about listening to voices… Around 6 months ago, I culled song-term friendship as their voice continually hit me like a sock full of wet sand across the back of the head…
The urgency thing and doing other people’s scheduling… Hmmm… Amazing how often I ‘lose’ Internet connection š¤£
Dealing with weather? Swimming! 60-70 lengths of the pool and I’ve either got a clear plan or forgotten about the whole thing completely… It’s a bit of drag, the pool being shut but good excuse to buy a new bike!
I’ll stop there before my comment becomes longer than your post!
Angler fish! That’s brilliant!
Thanks Jordan!
Jordan Hoggard
May 31, 2020 at 4:33 pm
Excellent, Karen!! š Good stuff?? And, thank you!! Mucho appreciated. Grateful for your perspective. I smile big as I MISSED that potential PUN-it Iāve damage item of EU Stress. Great one! Now, whereās that sunglasses emoji again?
Pure & Blessed
May 31, 2020 at 4:36 pm
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Jordan Hoggard
May 31, 2020 at 4:38 pm
Thank you. There they are. Thought I sat on them again. Slip āem on, and…
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Ahhh, much better.
Pure & Blessed
May 31, 2020 at 5:53 pm
š Oops gone again
Pure & Blessed
May 31, 2020 at 4:49 pm
Yes, you’re looking good š
SaaniaSparkle š§š»āāļø
June 1, 2020 at 9:03 am
Nice blog
Jordan Hoggard
June 1, 2020 at 1:31 pm
Much appreciated, Saania. Thank you.
SaaniaSparkle š§š»āāļø
June 1, 2020 at 1:40 pm
My pleasure, followed you!
Jordan Hoggard
June 1, 2020 at 3:22 pm
Thank you for that, Saania!
Holly Troy
June 1, 2020 at 1:41 pm
Brilliant! Strain – yes, of course!
“It can be difficult to sort out the signal from speedy, newsfeed noise and head-chatter-inducing static driven by the false sense of urgency of media and the amount of information we encounter even in a single minute. That in itself can put you in a heightened sense of trauma. And, then in that vulnerable state, you are fed highly repetitive, psych-slang of stress… among other misinformed things.”
– I know that when I read the news, or take it in, I feel strain from it. Exhausted when I let it press on me too much. And I feel like that is often the point the news these days.
Yesterday, for instance, I helped my roommate move out. At the end of the day, we shared a meal and a good-bye toast. Afterwards, Paul and I went for a walk – around the neighborhood like we often do. We got home at 10:30 at night. i opened my computer. Reposted my friend Michael’s post – and then – noticed that Arizona was placed on curfew. No one outside from 8pm to 5 am. We broke curfew. Unbelievable, so I did some research. yes, our mayor asked everyone to follow the curfew via social media after she had a phone conversation with the governor. How strict is that? social media?
Anyway, flexibility seems key to me. And somehow, sometimes, assuming a cloak of invisibility helps. I love how you applied structural engineering to structural psychology! Yes!
Jordan Hoggard
June 1, 2020 at 3:28 pm
Niiiiice, Holly! Thank you for going in depth!
We have curfew here as well, though it went off loud as an alert on my phone. 8p-6a Saturday, yesterday and today 6a-6p. I agree that that was not strict at all to notify over social media. What about people who donāt have internet? What about people who arenāt on Facebook ā I left 4+ years ago.
Kudos to ābreaking curfew. Posted on social media probably would not be a strong enough stance to arrest anyone under āignorance of the law is no excuse,ā when many who werenāt on social media were basically almost consciously kept in the dark about it.
Thanks again for your accolade on āStress Is Not The Issueā !!
Holly Troy
June 1, 2020 at 4:39 pm
I didn’t even know there was a curfew to break.
very weird feeling – though!
Jordan Hoggard
June 1, 2020 at 7:03 pm
Yup, me, either. The 1st night I was walking my dog, and I donāt take my phone when I walk her, just us. A police car pulled up and asked if I received the PD curfew alert that went into affect 30 minutes prior. āOfficer. No, I donāt carry my phone on our walks.ā She nodded and, āWell, curfewās now in effect. Once sheās finished doing her business, go on home.ā I almost put a thumbs up and thought better to keep my hands where they were, āOk.ā
Weird feeling yes.
Holly Troy
June 2, 2020 at 6:11 pm
oh my god! glad it was a “friendly” encounter.
Jordan Hoggard
June 2, 2020 at 6:32 pm
Thank you. Looking at it, glad I trusted āOkā rather than my 1st instinct to be concise and āthumbs up.ā Kept my hands right where they were.
Timothy Price
June 1, 2020 at 9:11 pm
That is one of the best articles on the health issues with Navajos and other people who live in poor and impoverished areas that I have read. The Economist has an article in this week’s issue that mentions how the per capita infection and death rate from Covid-19 is the same in the USA as it is in Europe. But one thing that magazines like The Economist fails to mention is that the USA has a much more diverse population that most other countries with a large number of people at greater risk because of health issues related to race and economic conditions.
Jordan Hoggard
June 1, 2020 at 9:45 pm
I agree. I was pleased when Mary Greer had her friend, Capt John Irving, put down his story. I lived in NM for 4 years and had been wondering about credible stories rather than sensationalized hearsay. Their plight needs no sensationalism to be hugely intense and tragic.
Timothy Price
June 1, 2020 at 9:49 pm
Many of the articles I’ve read have just been way off the mark. They are politicized and sensationalized and do no good for informing anyone on the issues people are dealing with on the Navajo Nation.
Jordan Hoggard
June 1, 2020 at 9:51 pm
You have my robust agreement on that, Timothy. Glad I had the opportunity share the real and credible story.
joliesattic
June 1, 2020 at 10:02 pm
Wow! I know the WWII Code Talker your friend referred to. Small world. He is the last living Code Talker remaining if I recall, so it must be the same one. Awesome! I also spent time working with many of the Navajo on a Bill Murray film many, many years ago. When we learned the film company had recorded one of their native songs in English, they allowed those of us who could sing to learn and sing it instead in Navajo, thanks to Bill Murray. It is a very hard dialect, so we wrote it phonetically and practiced the clicks. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Jordan Hoggard
June 2, 2020 at 2:54 am
Youāre welcome, Jolie!
Small world yes, though I wouldnāt want to paint it (Steven Wright). That is wonderful that you know the Code Talker in the article. He sounds like quite a pricelessly alive personality, quite the character from the article.
Thatās so cool that Bill Murray facilitated your production team to learn and record one of their native songs in Navajo! Thanks for sharing that.
bonnie hubly
June 2, 2020 at 9:38 am
So glad you posted this. Itās an untold story. Love Mom
Jordan Hoggard
June 2, 2020 at 10:46 am
Thank you, Mom! It felt intensely important and credible.
Holly Troy
June 2, 2020 at 6:16 pm
Jordan, Thank YOU! I am excited to have a gander at some of these sites – and thank you for sharing Cosmic Holly!
Your blog is feeling like a thought-provoking, virtual home place for me. Very grateful for your words, ideas, art, and generosity!
Jordan Hoggard
June 2, 2020 at 6:35 pm
You are most welcome, Holly! Itās no accident, and Iām pleased to be pleased to feature Cosmic Holly!
I wonāt say thereās no rhyme or reason to my wandering topics, though, well… Yes, I will. Very much The Fool, or any other card with me, or just me on any given day. I have a lot of developed interests. Thanks for hopping on the ride.
Holly Troy
June 2, 2020 at 6:28 pm
very cool!
Pure & Blessed
June 3, 2020 at 12:30 am
“redirected a tsunami before it even got to surge” Brilliant!
(I’m also wondering – How many feet do you have?)
Jordan Hoggard
June 3, 2020 at 6:51 am
Thank you! He has four feet, one not yet used. š Thanks for noticing. Maybe heās a Carnie Architect.
Pure & Blessed
June 3, 2020 at 6:52 am
I’m not playing Twister with you! š
Jordan Hoggard
June 3, 2020 at 6:53 am
Nor with a centipede. š
Pure & Blessed
June 3, 2020 at 6:54 am
Gonna need a bugger mat…
Pure & Blessed
June 3, 2020 at 6:57 am
*bigger! Good damn automotive
Jordan Hoggard
June 3, 2020 at 7:42 am
The Architect has four feet. Heās an animal? Nope. A beast! š
Pure & Blessed
June 3, 2020 at 7:44 am
RAWR! š
joliesattic
June 4, 2020 at 9:40 pm
I was surprised at some of the responses found on twitter regarding these events. But to me the most impressive was not a tweet but a clip on the news about a black man confronting a black looter, shouting at him. “You are not our ally” recognizing that looters harm the cause. Now that was good to see. One such looter showed up at one place of business that had been devastated, bringing back the items he’d taken, apologizing. The owner said to him “I forgive you, sometimes we do stupid things” More of those responses and stories need to happen.
Jordan Hoggard
June 4, 2020 at 9:58 pm
Full-on agree, Jolie! I love your examples. THATās the kind of perspective that not only makes workability, though begins to frame ways for actions that begin turn history happen.
Thank you.
Pure & Blessed
June 4, 2020 at 11:41 pm
“catalyzing like the ambrosia smell of an Asian Lily in bloom” that makes me smile. I wasn’t going to mention it but I’ve been wondering for the last couple of weeks, why it is that everytime I see your cover image, I can smell really expensive, high quality Turkish Delight – roses and lemon…
Jordan Hoggard
June 4, 2020 at 11:50 pm
Oh, that is delicious! Yes, my love of that is certainly there. Thanks much, Karen.
Jordan Hoggard
June 5, 2020 at 12:32 am
And, I will confess. No amount of Lotus oil was spared in the making. š
Certainly NOT to grow a Lotus out of the mud. I had moved beyond that with the hard-core 3+ years of dedicated Brainspotting. 1k-petal Lotus internally minimum was my impetus. Asian Lilies as often as they were available to permeate my house.Lotus oil in no diet supply… Yes. Turkish Delight of roses and lemon. Iāll say yes to that. Might add more To the mix.
Thanks for the amplification potential idea. Good stuff..
Pure & Blessed
June 5, 2020 at 12:45 am
And there’s me thinking I’d gone bonkers… š
Jordan Hoggard
June 5, 2020 at 12:46 am
If youāre NOT bonkers, THATās when I start to worry. Same with me. š
Pure & Blessed
June 5, 2020 at 12:53 am
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Holly Troy
June 5, 2020 at 1:15 am
Jordan! Wow. I have just looked at every page of imaginaction – before I really dive in. I am very excited to go deep with this book! The artwork is so alive – and – ooh – the spreads. “The Resonant Ancestors” Spread – “How do Inner UFO’s intrigue you?” I love it!!
Constructing the Center #10: Ankh – GORGEOUS!
Have a wonderful night!!!
Jordan Hoggard
June 5, 2020 at 1:24 am
š I am plussed, Holly! I look forward to how YOUR intensity immerses YOUR way. Enjoy the divination Hot Springs of ImaginAction!
No hubris. Yes, thereās a bit there. š
āThe Resonant Ancestorsā Spread ā āHow do Inner UFOās intrigue you?ā Good one. Big š from here.
I wonderfully and beyond wonderfully look forward to seeing how you dial into ImaginAction YOUR way.
Jordan Hoggard
June 5, 2020 at 1:26 am
Have a wonderful night as well, Holly!
joliesattic
June 6, 2020 at 1:26 am
I will get my writing back on track. Actually, I hadn’t written anything significant for awhile until CoVid forced me to slow down and that was a good thing. With hubby working from home I was prevented from doing anything noisy or at least too noisy for him to do business.
Btw, I’ve climbed both Democrat and Lincoln among several other 14’ners in Colorado. On Lincoln I picked like 100 varieties of wildflower, then someone said it was illegal. Ooops! In 2005 we moved to Alabama, so I’ve not done anything as significant since.
Jordan Hoggard
June 6, 2020 at 7:41 am
Thatās great about you picking your writing back up, Jolie.
Oh my, youāre a criminal! Wildflower picking on a 14āer? How could you…. LOL Iām glad I didnāt learn the hard way on that, too, someone sternly told me. I laugh, though, as she said it this way, āDOOD! Killing wildflowers on the rock is illegal!ā š
So great youāve climbed both Democrat and Lincoln! Sounds like weāve both put in our vote.
Iām still laughing a bit. I love your Oooops! on the wildflowers.
joliesattic
June 6, 2020 at 3:55 pm
I was going over some of the 14ner’s I’d climbed with hubby and friends and asked, why I hadn’t done more, since we went out each weekend? (I only did around 14-15, I think) He said 14ner’s aren’t always the most interesting, from the guy who bagged almost all 53 or is it 52? I think there’s been a dispute and/or contradiction as to how many there really are. It was his goal to get them all, but we suddenly moved to Alabama to care for the parents, so he was shy 6-7 when we left. I really miss it. There’s still time, maybe?
Jordan Hoggard
June 6, 2020 at 5:04 pm
Yes. I wonāt comment on the number, as thereās too much mish mash over elevations on the lower ones.
Excellent that you got through 14-15, and hubby got through almost all of them. ConGrats to you guys to have bagged so many.
I was lassoed into leading them after an intensely interesting conversation at an art opening (of mine) after I had gotten some climbers out of trouble. I look back and go…
HUBRIS!
Naive effin HUBRIS. Site-reading a 14āer leading 16 people with a colleague. What was I thinking? Though, I more than intensely value that experience Now. š
When the leader is the one who does something Search And Rescue Canāt Even Address ā no 2,000 foot rope to drop down to me ā. How would they know where to drop it? ā plus not knowing where I was; a helicopter evac would had avalanched any safety I had entrenched myself in, plus the wind and the weather precluded that.
Good for YOU guys! I certainly wasnāt a novice, though I hadnāt experienced Democrat before directly. Iām really glad I have that experience. Iām really glad I put in my vote. š And, Iām really glad my colleague got everyone else back down to base camp safely.
joliesattic
June 6, 2020 at 5:12 pm
I bet. How long did it take for the rescue? They obviously knew you were down there.
That’s why I never lead. Hubby has to, because I would surely get everyone lost. I offered to lead only once and everyone just stood there, not moving. Hubby says, “where ya going?” I said, “cabin” He says, “wrong way” everyone laughs, but in a fun way.
Ooops! lol
Jordan Hoggard
June 6, 2020 at 5:33 pm
š There was no rescue.
Search and Rescue couldnāt get to where I was was until morning, and knowing that in the conditions I was in, I took it into my own hands. Otherwise, they wouldnāt.
It was 3 or 4am when I left-leg dragging like the Creature From the Black Lagoon dragginā my left leg and Sand & Blood Self dragged myself into a (not ours) base camp… and collapsed.
I THOROUGHLY LOVE the, āLaughed in a fun way.ā
I naturally do that now about this experience. Now itās experiences, a great well to draw from to hydrate life.
joliesattic
June 7, 2020 at 1:28 am
Yes! I don’t know how old you are, but those memories definitely do hydrate life. I’m just glad a good many of them were late in life, so they are relatively still fresh in my memory. I had previously lead such a suppressed life prior to meeting my husband that life began for me at 45 and I am grateful for that.
Jordan Hoggard
June 7, 2020 at 8:36 am
Iām 52 1/2. The Mt Democrat incident where I certainly put in my vote was in October of 1999 (lol, I think. Might have been 2000. Kinda the M.O. of my intensity. All I can really say is, āit happened some time in the past.ā š ). Heck, when I get older, maybe Iāll get SERIOUS memory issues. Then, Iāll be able to set up a surprise birthday party… for myself.
Glad life began for you, Jolie! Hey, better To start experiencing now than not! š Go You!
Pure & Blessed
June 6, 2020 at 5:09 am
Fuck shame! Shine on Jordan! Xx
Jordan Hoggard
June 6, 2020 at 7:41 am
Yes! Xx
Pure & Blessed
June 6, 2020 at 8:06 am
Shine hardcore! š Like you do everything!
Bonnie Cehovet
June 6, 2020 at 5:38 am
Very happy to see you up & running, Jordan! (Not that you were ever not!)
Bonnie hubly
June 6, 2020 at 7:41 am
I love your confession that this social isolation time has been wonderful. I vowed to myself to have something to āshowā for it and I have: a whole series of watercolors.
Jordan Hoggard
June 6, 2020 at 7:44 am
Thank you! That IS certainly something to show for it. Are they on your Pinterest site? WIll you put a link in the comments to the series?
Christina Schmidt, MA
June 7, 2020 at 4:42 pm
What a lovely mention. Thanks, Jordan!
Jordan Hoggard
June 7, 2020 at 4:46 pm
Youāre most welcome, Christina!
Pure & Blessed
June 8, 2020 at 7:09 am
There must be something in the air today… I just posted my blog and then read this to find you’ve succinctly put into 3 words what I’ve been babbling on about!
“Immersion is ablution” perfect! š
Jordan Hoggard
June 8, 2020 at 7:27 am
Yes, thatās what I felt after posting and then heading to the Reader feed, and there was your post to read… presence.
Immersion is ablution. š And, I love the immersion where you bring us home in the last paragraph of your post, āMemory Paused.ā
āToday I find a photo of Mr S. Itās a very rare one, usually he gets deleted as he thwarts my attempts to catch him as I feel him, by turning goofy faces at me as soon as I point in his directionā¦ But just this once, I caught him unawaresā¦ I see his face and I recall why I settled inland and just for a while, I forget that I miss the seaā¦ā. Love the immersive ablution in that.
Pure & Blessed
June 8, 2020 at 7:32 am
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joliesattic
June 8, 2020 at 5:55 pm
I really like the picture with the clouds reflected in the glass top table. Pretty pretty.
Jordan Hoggard
June 8, 2020 at 6:51 pm
I intensely appreciate that, Jolie! Thank you.
āReflectionsā is my fave pic Iāve ever taken. It was on my back porch when I was in Denver, 2008 or 2009-ish. I walked out to take a pic of something in the garden and instead, BAM, there it was on the table, literally.
Thanks for āPretty, pretty.ā
Bonnie hubly
June 9, 2020 at 4:54 am
Thank you for your song of resilience. Itās needed now.
Jordan Hoggard
June 9, 2020 at 4:59 am
Youāre welcome. As much as itās needed now, I needed to hear that. Thank you.
Pure & Blessed
June 9, 2020 at 9:29 am
Blimey! That’s two days running, I’ve posted, then come here and LOL! Something definitely in the air! š
Timothy Price
June 14, 2020 at 1:06 am
Blasting the music can be a good way to deal with stress. Some great songs in your line up.
Jordan Hoggard
June 14, 2020 at 6:57 am
Yes, and thanks much, Timothy!
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
June 14, 2020 at 2:14 am
Thank you for including me in your roster! If some think “Princess” and or ME puerile, well, then I’ve successfully deceived everyone. If only I could share the other side on my blog; sadly, I cannot. At least not yet. The very fact that I’m able to string a few words together is a testament to the truth of a rising phoenix. Or princess.
Jordan Hoggard
June 14, 2020 at 7:01 am
Youāre welcome! And, :). Youāre certainly not puerile. As I expressed, a Princess is simply a Queen not yet sitting ā I think a good many toss around the word princess as some kind of weakling, which is greatly in err. Add āRosebudā and thereās no doubt of strength. Roots, thorns if need be, and blooms with rose hips after. Great stuff!
Jordan Hoggard
June 14, 2020 at 7:02 am
Plus, one read of your blog and puerile might just get erased from the dictionary. One of the reasons I dig it.
Jordan Hoggard
June 14, 2020 at 7:05 am
And, kudos to Phoenixing! The enchanted strength shows. Accolades to you for doing whatever you did to then be able to rise from the ashes.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
June 14, 2020 at 11:19 am
Thank you! In a nutshell, it involves Wetiko, a malignant Dark Triad narcissist, a Jezebel spirit, and rebirth that started when I had a Shamanic experience and then met the Dalai Lama. Maybe one day I’ll start a new blog to be able to share my journey.
Jordan Hoggard
June 14, 2020 at 11:37 am
Interesting, after owning my stuff through Brainspotting to honor myself with the 3rd, the 1st two begin to describe my ex. š
Invite me to that blog when it is born. Sounds like a powerful experience of sacred process.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
June 14, 2020 at 12:41 pm
Parts of it can be seen if you look up keywords on my current blog. Sadly, my research has revealed a lot of it going around. I’m sorry about your experience.
Jordan Hoggard
June 14, 2020 at 1:08 pm
Thank you very much.
Iām actually not sorry for my experience. It stood me up like a surprise uppercut, caught me off guard in a psychological blind spot as Narcissim and sociopathy, especially when combined in one person will… where then the pounding lasted 2+ years. It got me to look into it once I came to in it…like I was somehow knocked out on my feet. I found Brainspotting Parts Therapy for 3+ years after I removed myself from that vampire danger, and here I am today. My whole life up to this point, all my experiences brought me to right here right now.
And again, I do thank you for your sentiment for the pain. Much appreciated. Thatās good for a heart tingles cascade. Thank you.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
June 14, 2020 at 1:28 pm
Wow. SAME.
Jordan Hoggard
June 14, 2020 at 1:10 pm
I will concur that thereās a lot of it going around, and amplify that to I feel thereās always for all time been a lot of that going around lineage after lineage like a fuqād up perennial, succubus rather than succulent.
Bonnie Hubly
June 14, 2020 at 10:40 am
Thanks for what youāre doing. You find sites Iād never know about otherwise.
Jordan Hoggard
June 14, 2020 at 11:40 am
Youāre welcome. I like using serendipity as fuel. SO long as there is Nature, those tanks stay full with potential. š
Pure & Blessed
June 15, 2020 at 8:59 am
Thanks for the Birth/Bitc(h) cards! š
Jordan Hoggard
June 15, 2020 at 10:18 pm
Youāre most welcome, Karen! š
Timothy Price
June 15, 2020 at 11:05 pm
Should I know who this person is?
Jordan Hoggard
June 15, 2020 at 11:45 pm
I say yes.
Though, most likely not until you visit her blog. Your wonderfully evolved defiance and straight up qualities might just dig the ride and straight up expression that has a foundation in humor… as much as fact.
Check it out, and well see. š
Then again, you shouldnāt most likely know her already, though moving forward…
Jordan Hoggard
June 16, 2020 at 12:20 am
Understood Tarot is not in your wheelhouse, though your evolved wit and thoughtfulness… might strike chords to resonate.
If you look past the Tarot, you might find yourself laughing at and with serious topics. Karen doesnāt pull punches. Says it like it is without bluster, and with feeling. I think Brice Lee would be proud, No Grasshopper here.
Pure & Blessed
June 16, 2020 at 7:01 am
Nicely done. Though I must admit my curiosity wonders what she was going to back her ‘or else’ up with… Nowt so strange as folk…
Jordan Hoggard
June 16, 2020 at 7:32 am
Iād say, āMe, too,ā though as I expressed, I think the fundamentalist church sent the wrong envoy to scuttlebutt. She might not even have known thinking somehow Iād cow, so their strats had not been developed that far?
Thatās the thing about fundamentalists and fanatics… more often than not, the fundamentalists have piss-poor or outright missing fundamentals, and the fanatics have little to no fantastic qualities to them. Oh, pardon. Did I just mis-spell my attempt internal rhyme and beat poet syllabic hoppity hop? Hmmm.Whatās that smell? š
Pure & Blessed
June 16, 2020 at 7:40 am
It’s outside my realm of experience, I had to read it 3 times to register what was going on. What? She’s done what? Did I read that right? What?
Fundamentalist? More like effin’ mentalist…
Nice poetic beating Mr Hoggard š
Pure & Blessed
June 16, 2020 at 7:44 am
Just to clarify – mentalist as in Brit Slang to mean bat shit scary crazy…
Holly Troy
June 16, 2020 at 4:55 pm
lol! at least people now know how to spell her name
Timothy Price
June 16, 2020 at 11:10 pm
Beautiful painting. I liked seeing the process.
Jordan Hoggard
June 16, 2020 at 11:39 pm
Me as well. āA ship in harbor is safe, but thatās not what ships are for.ā ~ John A. Shedd
It was cool to see him take the ship of the painting out of the harbor start and out into āRough Sea.ā
Gottfried
June 17, 2020 at 7:22 am
Eustress – new word alert for me.
Strain is when stress pushes something past its elastic limits. Profound!
“If you stop to address every barking dog along the way, youāll never get anywhere”. Must be a lot of dogs!
I could teach you how to remove the watermark on shutter stock images if you like!
Great post!
Jordan Hoggard
June 17, 2020 at 7:45 am
Thanks for the comment, Gottfried!
Yes, pushing something past its elastic limits, and if its steel its to its Point of Flexure where it snaps. Glad that expanded into profound for you. I feel thereās just a rockinā deceptive simplicity to be mined for solid psychological use there.
Yes, on the watermark. Iām out the rest of the day, though. Maybe over the weekend? I appreciate that.
Gottfried
June 17, 2020 at 7:47 am
You’re not far from the truth in that regard. I’ve always wanted to watch someone snap from being under physical strain, just so I know what happens next.
Yeah sure, over the weekend. Choose any of my posts to comment on when you’re ready!
Jordan Hoggard
June 17, 2020 at 7:59 am
Excellent! Will do. Have a great one! Keep up your intelligent snarky wise hilariousness. Snarky without even a whiff of petulance. Great stuff!
Gottfried
June 17, 2020 at 8:02 am
Haha, of course!
Pure & Blessed
June 17, 2020 at 8:39 am
OFL’s Yes! Go You! š
Bonnie Hubly
June 17, 2020 at 11:08 am
What a magical story. Thank you.
Jordan Hoggard
June 17, 2020 at 5:19 pm
Much appreciated! Youāre welcome. ššš»
Jordan Hoggard
June 17, 2020 at 8:41 pm
Youāre comment has continued to resonate since I saw it, since I responded. Such a wonderful accolade of resonance. I am plussed and honored. Thank you.
joliesattic
June 17, 2020 at 7:40 pm
Ooooh that’s lovely!
Jordan Hoggard
June 17, 2020 at 8:39 pm
Right?!! Excellent, Jolie! I thought so myself. Watching the process start to finish was a joy. I ful-on dog watching something build to fruition in such a powerful, end-product way. And now, the ship keeps sailing regaling in its intensity. The finished painting is a Power!
I appreciate you stepping in to comment.
joliesattic
June 18, 2020 at 1:33 am
I used to oil paint and tried acrylics a time or two, but just being creative no matter how it turns out is the best. Any decent painting I ever did ended up in peoples home, so I have none of my own creations, can you believe? lol
Jordan Hoggard
June 18, 2020 at 7:23 pm
Thanks for sharing that, Jolie. I have a similar gig. I remember when nothing was selling, and so I started to make a point to show up with a painting under my arm at every birthday party or event as a housewarming thank you. And then, one social butterfly summer, bbqs weddings, birthdays, etc… I came home after one and… OH, only my 3 oils and 1 water color that are MINE and on my walls are…WOW, I have NO backlog. All-gone. Better get back to work and paint some more. š
joliesattic
June 19, 2020 at 4:20 pm
My sentiments exactly.
MichaelStephenWills
June 21, 2020 at 7:03 am
Lots to think about here and wrap ones head around. Thanks
Jordan Hoggard
June 21, 2020 at 11:56 am
Youāre welcome, Michael. I appreciate you taking the time to visit and read āStress Is Not the Issue.ā
MichaelStephenWills
June 21, 2020 at 7:04 am
Thanks for following my blog. Your support is appreciated.
Jordan Hoggard
June 21, 2020 at 11:57 am
Youāre very welcome, Michael. Happy to follow quality.
Holly Troy
June 21, 2020 at 8:43 pm
I love this! Oh my gosh – and I have found some other great bloggers on these posts. Thanks, too, for mentioning my work again.
Jordan Hoggard
June 21, 2020 at 8:51 pm
š Your work will stay there. Iām glad youāve found some other great bloggers you resonate with, Holly. The 1st couple of weeks were my travels that week, and/or the week before ā want to make sure I donāt recommend people who are basically a link farm for blogs… Iāve followed a couple who then post every 3 to 10 minutes throughout the day = glut in my inbox, and/or false sense of urgency inducing. Try my best to cull, so that the people I pop in are ones I know are worth it, and donāt post post post post post across a single day. That said, people have their own rhythms. I know I do, sometimes posting more frequently than others, and thatās just cool par for the course.
Your work will stay here as I feel I am building an all roads lead to Connection (Rome) place. I may move everyone each week over to a dedicated community SI page where the community can grow and build back in between each othersā resonances to keep the weekly SI more manageable in regards to blog link. NOt yet, though.
It started as a cool and fun gig, and quickly became a seed of community bursting through the hull and up into the light in the garden so to speak.
Moving forward, any suggestions you have are most welcome.
Holly Troy
June 21, 2020 at 8:53 pm
Hurray!
I’m starting to figure out the automated purchasing – I’m using mailchimp (and it’s free). It all takes time! SO excited you will be rolling out more ImaginAction. I am going to be posting more tarot stuff (I still need to finish the major arcana with Falcons and Pentacles April Fool’s journey prompts) – then I thought I’d explore ImaginAction after that!
So exciting. š Congrats!
Jordan Hoggard
June 21, 2020 at 9:03 pm
š Thanks for the MailChimp mention. I may put that back on my radar, though I upgraded my WP site from Premium to Business Premium to be able to have it all occur ON WordPress + of course the PayPal transaction.
Oh YES, does it take SO much time. 27 hours between 6p Friday and 3:35p today just to make the 1 step of selling a downloadable product so I can continue to engage, though not be pigeon-holed by myself to spending countless hours fulfilling orders. Now, itās down to 1 click… which after 27 hours across 2+ days…thatās acceptable. I can move forward from there. Heck, itās EASY… LOL, once you know how to do it. š Phewwwww.
Just made it in under the wire while the moon was in Gemini, on the Solstice, 4:44 annular Solar Eclipss… before the moon went Void OF Course at 5p EST as it ducks in to cusp-head for Cancer.
Plus, it was Fatherās DaY AND my Dadās birthday. He got a quadruple crown today.
thank you for the congrats!! Much appreciated!! š
Holly Troy
June 21, 2020 at 9:32 pm
wow! Happy Father’s Day birthday to dad.
Yes, I am still premium, not business premium – but – now, when someone gets the seminar – they will get an automated message that says – thanks you – and here is the zoom link for the class happening on . . . . . And afterwards, if they purchase after the live class, they get a message that sends them to a link with the zoom video and a regular video, along with slides, etc. All housed on dropbox. š
27 hours seems like a magical number! Now that you know how to do it, it’s easy peasy!!
Jordan Hoggard
June 21, 2020 at 11:07 pm
š Easy Peary, except now, I have to piece together Where TF was that next step. Itās always easy once you know how to do it. Soon, with practice, product after product, Iāll get the hang of it, and hang 10 surfing the ease of, āCOOL, just need to upload that new gig I just finished.ā š
Right now? I got there. Now, to climb the mountain again time after time without the extraneous WTF Nope steps. Again, š .Funny I hadnāt thought about the 27 number. Itās a 9, my fave Humber for itās dynamism, for its multiplication tables being the only one that posits a mirror that folds over itself as I indicated in my 9 of Pents video:
09:18:27:36:45;:54:63:72:81:90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSjOXjWeUXE
:). Thanks Holly for you and Paul being out there! Makes the world a better place for me to know you are.
Holly Troy
June 22, 2020 at 12:11 am
Jordan – you are so kind. I feel the same way – I am so grateful to connect with someone who has original thought and is about sharing and community. It’s felt rare to me for the last several years. I am so glad we are connected.
Jordan Hoggard
June 22, 2020 at 12:33 am
Ditto. Me as well, Holly.
You and Paul are a gift.
I took a 5-year radio silence to take the long road home to heal away from some serious poisons, and came back me, Sovereign.
And, I came back to… I made it. Iām home. Got this. SO looking forward to taking it from here.
Thank you for being you with those places of vulnerability that are the birthplaces of courage strong and sovereign enough to be able to comfortably be gentle, and easily use wits to dispense with whatās not right for you.
Bye bye competition energies. R.I.P. forever. Itās about inner and outer community service for me now.
Holly Troy
June 22, 2020 at 2:32 pm
Yes! Yes! Yes! I was thinking about all of these things on my bicycle ride last night – and likely will write about them.
I am so glad we get to play in this new field of possibility, community, vulnerability, discovery, recovery, compassion, action, and creativity.
Jordan Hoggard
June 23, 2020 at 10:32 pm
Excellent expression of the sandbox of The Field of life, Holly!
Love that it happened on the bike, when you were exerting the living of experience of what you love to do.
Pure & Blessed
June 22, 2020 at 12:49 pm
Landau! Thanks for that! ššš
Pure & Blessed
June 30, 2020 at 1:28 am
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Timothy Price
July 2, 2020 at 11:26 pm
I see you got a lot of us serendippy types mentioned and linked to. Thank you for the mention. I really appreciate it. I’m curious about your something special arriving on the 4th. I’ll be on the lookout. Have a great holiday weekend.
Jordan Hoggard
July 3, 2020 at 2:03 am
š You’re welcome, Timothy.
š on the new arrival tomorrow.
Have a great holiday weekend as well!
nickreeves
July 3, 2020 at 3:28 am
Wow, lots & lots of interesting stuff pouring out of my screen! Thank you!
Jordan Hoggard
July 3, 2020 at 3:33 am
What a wonderful comment, Nick. Glad you opened the spigot.
I agree. Many interesting things from the people here, and best to finding something that resonates with you. I appreciate you stopping by.
nickreeves
July 3, 2020 at 4:13 am
A pleasure, Jordan. Thank you.
Jordan Hoggard
July 3, 2020 at 4:27 am
Youāre welcome, Nick.
Holly Troy
July 3, 2020 at 10:20 pm
Wow – the tarot pulls are pretty darn cool! And I love the interpretation of the four of pentacles. A new way of looking at things for me! I love it!
Also, yay! The tardigrade. And of course – thank you for the mention.
I cannot wait to check out all the music – we have many similar tastes. Dead Can Dance! LIsa Gerrard! Yes! New Order! š
Looking forward to the 4th as well. š
joliesattic
July 4, 2020 at 2:11 am
Neat!
Timothy Price
July 4, 2020 at 11:36 am
I think you can imagine what we say out here in the land of enchanted maƱana ā “Ā”EEEeeee! Ā”Jo! Ā”La!” An ImaginAction EEeeSpa. I wish you well with your unplugged sessions. Drive on dude!
Oh! Happy 4th!
Jordan Hoggard
July 4, 2020 at 11:54 am
Thanks much, Timothy! The land of enchanted manana. Love it. I laughed pretty hard the day in Santa Fe I realized manana didnāt really mean tomorrow. It meant… not today.
Love the hooked On Fonix gravy you wove in there. Thatās some coolio green Chile frijoles.
Timothy Price
July 4, 2020 at 2:06 pm
Green chile and frijoles the breakfast of champions.
Jordan Hoggard
July 4, 2020 at 3:57 pm
Amen, Brother! Yummy stuff.
Pure & Blessed
July 4, 2020 at 11:47 am
Huzzah! Lockdown loophole swimming! Just what the doctor ordered šš¤£š š
Jordan Hoggard
July 4, 2020 at 12:04 pm
Huzzah! Love it! Thanks much, Karen. Did the link automatically come to you? Iām still having to manually authorize the order completion, so it probably took about 15-20 minutes from purchase to download email link. Please let me know your customer experience from your side so I can tune this beast up as I learn more how to drive it. Thank you. š
Pure & Blessed
July 4, 2020 at 12:09 pm
I’ll email you.
Pure & Blessed
July 5, 2020 at 3:03 pm
Wicked! I’ve probably heavily bastardized TTOTS since you taught me it but I probably use it for about 90% of my readings. I love how versatile it is and how it can handle both a rapid fire speed read in seconds as well as stretch out into a 2-3hour read-athon in the garden. Thanks! This method never fails me nor my clients. š
Jordan Hoggard
July 5, 2020 at 3:06 pm
Thank you, Karen! I thoroughly appreciate your wicked cool feedback on TTOTS versatility and effectiveness. š What a wonderful review! I know itās public here in the comments, though do I have your express permission to paste it into the post as TTOTS 1st 2020 review?
Pure & Blessed
July 5, 2020 at 3:38 pm
Go for it! š The other really cool thing about the method is watching how people handle and place cards, and patterns as they land. My party trick is to answer all their questions before they’ve asked and before turning the first card over. šš«
Jordan Hoggard
July 5, 2020 at 6:11 pm
Love it!
Pure & Blessed
July 5, 2020 at 6:27 pm
I know, Loki told me! š
Pure & Blessed
July 5, 2020 at 3:40 pm
P. S. Do me a favour and correct my typo! (vetsatile)
Jordan Hoggard
July 5, 2020 at 6:47 pm
Done and done… š “bastardize as well. Gotta get THAT one right. š Thanks for calling it out.
Pure & Blessed
July 5, 2020 at 7:44 pm
Thanks! That soothes my Virgo Stellium š«š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
July 5, 2020 at 7:49 pm
Stellium Soothing. Nice!
Pure & Blessed
July 5, 2020 at 7:53 pm
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mitchteemley
July 6, 2020 at 7:01 pm
Thanks for the Follow, Jordan! Good to meet you, my friend.
Jordan Hoggard
July 6, 2020 at 7:11 pm
Youāre welcome, Mitch! Glad to have found your site, and good to meet you as well.
Jordan Hoggard
July 7, 2020 at 4:35 am
Extra intensely valuable poem by Christina Schmidt, MA, I came across today that I edited into this post post-publication. Great stuff! She deftly dials this in.
Timothy Price
July 9, 2020 at 12:08 am
I like your “5 of Pentacles Mystereum Tarot Moment”. Nice video to sketch animation. Is that the same singer in both videos? I really like the second video. Interesting thoughts on Walden. I think about the potential Thoreau would have now, in cargo shorts, writing on a MacBook, and in 200 years who knows. Think about what Beethoven could do with synths, sampling, and multitrack recording?
Jordan Hoggard
July 9, 2020 at 12:23 am
Yes, same singer. Aaron Lewis is also front for the band Staind.
Beethoven doing synths and sampling and multi-track recording? THAT would be an experience to behold. Nice push to amplify the concept of the post. Iām really digginā that, Timothy.
And, Thoreau. And your sunset lava cloud and owlets and Papa Owl come to mind. Thereās full-on majesty and beauty there. I am wondering how to plug beauty not into the solution but AS the solution actionably without going into naive Utopian territory… though, hmmm… maybe thatās where I need to step, or start to step, and then step differently before my foot hits the ground. Weāll see.
All I know is beauty and continuing to do what weāre doing is the requisite and unchanged first step…
Jordan Hoggard
July 9, 2020 at 12:26 am
And, your comment brought to mind Baithoven in Bill & Tedās Excellent Adventure in the music store in the mall. Good stuff.
Pure & Blessed
July 9, 2020 at 2:08 am
“Can we forsake blame, lose the reverse gear of shaming, and simply work with,Ā OK, we fucked up. What are we gong to do about it?”
I like that a lot.
Also like that your 5 of P video slid into 6 of P writing.
Jordan Hoggard
July 9, 2020 at 2:12 pm
Thank you, Karen! Much appreciated.
Pure & Blessed
July 9, 2020 at 2:54 pm
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Timothy Price
July 10, 2020 at 11:40 pm
No matter how you do it, changing your perspective can do wonders.
Jordan Hoggard
July 11, 2020 at 12:08 am
Yes, definitely changing perspective can do wonders. Excellent comment, Timothy.
And, one of those wonders is to also help us inspect our expectations to evaporate blind spots to further develop clarity of perspective
JALPA
July 10, 2020 at 11:47 pm
Ya true enough p! We need to think out of the box!!
Jordan Hoggard
July 11, 2020 at 12:05 am
Yes!
JALPA
July 11, 2020 at 12:05 am
Stay safe and healthy š«
Jordan Hoggard
July 11, 2020 at 12:09 am
Thank you JALPA. Much appreciated. You as well.
Ian Bryant - ×”Ö°×Ŗ×Ö¼×Ø (@ianbryanttarot)
July 11, 2020 at 1:22 pm
Jordan, I just saw your comment on my piece on the Tarot Sushi page, and then this appears in my subscriptions Inbox! I’m so honored to know you liked the piece. It’s your deck and writing in the accompanying deck that sparked the fire for this and as a newly formed storyteller it was an invaluable tool in getting me to completion. I’m still in the early stages of my relationship with Tarot in the Land of Mystereum, but I am all in! Such a refreshing tarot and truly a portal to new worlds. Thanks, again. This really made my day and I look forward to more of your wonderful posts on this blog. Every one of them takes me to new places. Cheers!
Jordan Hoggard
July 11, 2020 at 1:28 pm
Oh MY ARE YOU all in, Ian! I am honored and thoroughly look forward to continued engagement with your work. Itās a pleasure to hear that my fresh language took a spark to a flame!, especially since you are just getting into Tarot in the Land of Mystereum. It feels to have dropped you right in the drivers seat with a Queen of Cups and King of Wands natural emotional and energetic balance with dynamism. Having little or no previous experience with the deck, it feels almost as if you are site reading, and thatās one of my favorite gigs. To open and go, actionably..
This has really made my day. I had ablution tingles throughout my body reading your story. Yes, there was the seed husk of high octane fresh to fuel the spark to a flame, though as I moved through the journey of your story, it was your story that was dosing the tingles. Such a resonant connection full-on dialed in expressed in āA Place of Restful Possibilities.ā
This is is such a pleasure to have my work be a high octane fuel to dial in yours. Hereās to portals to new worlds!
I thoroughly appreciate your accolade on my blog posts, and on Mystereum being such a refreshing Tarot and truly a portal to new worlds. Cheers!
Holly Troy
July 12, 2020 at 7:24 pm
very cool!!!
Jordan Hoggard
July 12, 2020 at 8:30 pm
Thank you, Holly! I felt so as well!!
Nilesh Kumar
July 13, 2020 at 7:02 am
Fantastic post !!
Jordan Hoggard
July 13, 2020 at 7:26 am
Thank you, Nilesh, and I appreciate your read! I feel it to be one of the highest accolades for my work to be the/a creative catalyst of Ian Bryantās āA Place of Restful Possibilitiesā story. I love that the warm-up is often not part of the performance, and that he owned and made it his own everything my book juiced him with. Catalyst, fuel in the tank, though the vehicle and the expertly creative writing driving skill is all Ianās own. I wholeheartedly receive the story as highest accolade and at one and the same time cherish that even I FORGOT about my book (yes, I recognized the references) and swam immersed in Ianās story āA Place of Restful Possibilities.ā THe tingles I received cascading through me inspired me back from the story standing on its own! Now, THATās some soulful tennis. š
Again, thanks for visiting, Nilesh. Your comment is received and appreciated.
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July 13, 2020 at 11:47 am
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Timothy Price
July 14, 2020 at 11:50 pm
I love the idea of Brainspotting. I don’t know why but “Session me Elmo” came to mind while skimming this post. Wasn’t there something like “Tickle me Elmo”? Silly I know but after my crappy day silliness is about all I can muster.
Jordan Hoggard
July 14, 2020 at 11:52 pm
Actually, Iām getting a great laugh from that silliness and somehow find it appropriate and apt. Donāt know why, so Iāll leave the reasons as being unreasonable. That I laughed was reason enough,
Yes, I think there was a āTickle Me Elmoā doll or some such.
Session Me Elmo just works.
Timothy Price
July 14, 2020 at 11:59 pm
It’s weird isn’t it? We all need to laugh and have a good time. It’s that off-centeredness and not evenness coming out in me.
Jordan Hoggard
July 15, 2020 at 12:30 am
Such a great title for your blog. When someone tells me Iām left of center, I often respond, āYup, the middle, the boring average, that is in the middle. The center? The center is rarely in the middle. Look at the nucleus of a cell roving around its domain inside the semi-permeable membrane of its castle walls.
ANd yes, we all need to laugh and have a good time. Sometimes its expert skill in play, like Baryshnikov or Beethoven or Halestorm. Sometimes is just laughing and having a good time. Yes, that off-centeredness and not evenness coming out that to me aligns with Nature. Heck look at our faces. Educated symmetry, different thing similarly placed on the other side of the axis. Copy half of your face and flip ot to replace the other side, and you wonāt even recognize yourself.
Pure & Blessed
July 15, 2020 at 6:26 am
Is Anxiety a Creativity Silencing Narcotic?
If you’re talking about anxiety arising from external stimuli then I’d say yes. If you’re talking about endogenous anxiety then I’d say no, and maybe quiet the opposite.
Jordan Hoggard
July 15, 2020 at 7:26 am
You bring up an interesting question, Karen.
Is there really any endogenous anxiety, imply we were born with it a priori? I would say no. From my perspective the anxiety that comes from within is simply ingrained further back, though not innate, though we may feel it is so lost in the dawn of the early portions of our life.
Do you feel endogenous anxiety, anxiety coming from within, is innate or acquired, or from some other source?
Again, great statement that begs a sanctuary of a question.
Pure & Blessed
July 15, 2020 at 8:21 am
The short answer is that I don’t know.
It’s extremely difficult to draw a line between nature and nurture. In some ways I think of it as being a bit like type I and type II diabetes in that some anxieties are remedied by changes in environment/lifestyle and others aren’t.
Certainly it’s very plausible that they are ingrained further back and maybe further back than early portions of our life. Consider transgenerational stress inheritance whereby stress can result in inheritable changes to DNA methylation leading to altered expressions of genes in offspring which in turn lead to decreased tolerance to stress…
Jordan Hoggard
July 15, 2020 at 8:38 am
Yes, I was hoping youād layer that in. There are certain lineage pieces. I feel we pick them up in THIS life, though the magnetism of our DNA is tuned to pick them up until we resonate otherwise. THe DNA methylation example is excellent… and so on and so on and… down the road it goes the wrong way due to the decreased tolerance to the forces applied… of stress… leading to a predilection to strain.
Pure & Blessed
July 15, 2020 at 9:14 am
“tuned to pick them up until we resonate otherwise” Now THAT I like a lot! š
Jordan Hoggard
July 15, 2020 at 4:05 pm
Thank you. š
Pure & Blessed
July 15, 2020 at 6:36 pm
I was thinking on this further this afternoon and a Crow landed beside me. I asked him – What do you think? Nature or nurture? He turned his back and showed me patches of white feathers. He said he’s falling on the side of Nature but he’s a Crow and it’s not easy to get peer reviewed… Something about when crows get together there’s a murder…
Jordan Hoggard
July 15, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Yup, though Crows get their nurture from Nature, are what they are, and we get nurtured away from our Nature even when Mentor/Tormentor (parents) had the best intentions. Which puts me to lose the nurture, forgetting is for getting, to find oneās Nature, and continually re-nurture oneself from Nature.
Plus, yes on Crow peer review being difficult as when they get together thereās a murder. Similar to when a group of Baboons gets together thereās a congress. š
Pure & Blessed
July 15, 2020 at 7:05 pm
You have congress, this side of the pond it’s a flange.
I’m glad the Crow stopped to chat. I like your thinking on that š
Jordan Hoggard
July 15, 2020 at 7:18 pm
:). Yup, and over here Parliament might be mis-interpreted as āYou speak breath mint,ā Parley vous mint.
Pure & Blessed
July 15, 2020 at 7:21 pm
I’d sooner parley with Jack Sparrow š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
July 15, 2020 at 7:26 pm
Thatās because you have good taste and enjoy humor and clean living like Jack Sparrow. Oh, he lives clean, always cleaning up messes or running from them. Heās all about clean. Clean escapes. Clean getaways. Clean cons. š
Pure & Blessed
July 15, 2020 at 7:30 pm
Yup! That’d be it! š¤£
Holly Troy
July 17, 2020 at 5:34 pm
I like that a lot, too!
Jordan Hoggard
July 17, 2020 at 9:38 pm
Thank you, Holly! š
Bonnie
July 15, 2020 at 11:11 am
Love the ādoodleā and the ātiger ladyā art!
Jordan Hoggard
July 15, 2020 at 4:14 pm
Thanks much, Bonnie! I was rather proud just doodle drawing along geometrically, playing with constructions and visual sleuthing, when the Star of David was suddenly constructed at every intersection. Very appropriate for the subject matter. Big ole !!s that day. Itās one of my fave doodles. š
Also, as well Tiger Woman. That was a fun contour study. I appreciate your comment!
Jordan Hoggard
July 15, 2020 at 5:19 pm
It was a bit like geometric lemon juice on invisible ink abducting the Star of David as something unseen though hiding in plain sight in unseen structures… like oneās skeleton. We canāt see it, though we use it all the time.
joliesattic
July 15, 2020 at 8:46 pm
No doubt, all my OFL’s are essential to who I am. BTW, for awhile I wasn’t getting the “Danger! Will Robinson” warnings and then they started up again. Yikes!
Jordan Hoggard
July 16, 2020 at 12:17 am
Thanks for your comment on the OFLās being essential to who you are. Yes, theyāre integral to me as well.
I wonder on the āDanger! Well Robinsonā messages. Do you regularly delete your cookies and history? Understood it can make web bookmarks not so fun as you keep having to re-do them, though Iām wondering if thereās something that could be cleaned off your computer. Do you have a firewall? KasperskyLab or BitDefender or Norton?
joliesattic
July 16, 2020 at 9:10 am
You know my computer is so old that my HP protection is no longer available and that may be part of the reason. The thought of replacing it all feels like a herculean task considering all the data I have on it. I’m not so adept that transferring it all or cleaning it up feels daunting. lol
Jordan Hoggard
July 16, 2020 at 4:44 pm
Oh! I gather thatās whatās going on. I had that years back on an old computer that I kept going for just about ever. My office was broken into and it was stolen when I was traveling for a few days. I came back, and OH! Well, gotta get a new one and Iāll… OH! OOPs. Both my backup Zip drive and jazz drives were plugged into it, so THEY were stolen, too. I remember just starting to chuckle. Yes, a little minor hysteria in the laughter as I had a presentation the next morning. I smiled, āLook at the bright side. I donāt have to transfer all my data… because I donāt have any data.ā Lolz. I only lost 12 years of work. Thatās on me for not having a true archive system back then or a proper server NOT in the office. š
It may feel daunting, though you also may feel refreshed with how zippy fast a new one is. I donāt know your system, and Iām not really the tech guy to be able to advise how to make it easy. And, Iād just be prepared that some stuff wonāt make the transfer due to file incompatibility due to the potential span of time between upgrades. That you say HP protection does clue me in to… when you say old… you mean it. š
joliesattic
July 16, 2020 at 8:04 pm
Yeah they warned me last year that I was done for, but it’s still working. I had one that crashed once and that was horrible, but this one has all my scripts on it. Some are online, most are not. I think if I get those and some of my stories, saved, Ill be good, I just need to quit procrastinating is all.
Jordan Hoggard
July 16, 2020 at 9:26 pm
š ādone for and still working. That sounds like my career at certain times in y life. LOL. Ahhh, donāt be a quitter and stop procrastinating. Hop on the web and get some sort of Mac or Apple product. Come over to the dark side. LOLz
joliesattic
July 17, 2020 at 9:54 am
I have several Apple products, but my computer is in SLC, I just need to go get it. I left it there so my son could edit this film we did last year. With the lock downs, I’ve not ventured far, so it’ll be awhile. Do you know if there’s a way to just store items that I can later pull up to my Apple without doing the drive thing? I do have iTunes on my HP and an iCloud, but I’ve not tried to transfer things to that. Is it possible? I have so many discs floating around my office, so that doesn’t work for me, plus discs are no longer “the thing” anymore.
Jordan Hoggard
July 17, 2020 at 10:55 am
Iād say upload it to iCloud and then download later only as you need. ICould like a storage unit. After a year or two and you havenāt needed those things, lose the storage unit And those things, or well them. Though, with iCloud you can park them there indefinitely so long as you retain access to it.
joliesattic
July 17, 2020 at 3:08 pm
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Holly Troy
July 16, 2020 at 10:00 pm
I love this!! “The Adaptable & Our Thrival” THRIVAL! yes!
“So, where does that leave us? It leaves us with potential Sovereignty, each of us. Perspective and experience in experience rather than poor me.”
“Here Is Gone, that here is gone. No new normal to come. No waiting procrastinating for it.”
I am so glad you came out of your radio silence.
Jordan Hoggard
July 16, 2020 at 10:22 pm
Big Abrazos smiles to you, Holly. Thank you! My chest is tingling. Love the heart ablution. Thank you!
Holly Troy
July 17, 2020 at 12:07 pm
Blog by comment technique is great – this is what so much creative work is about. Inspiring one another to respond, communicate, create create create. writing, music, visual art, dance – creating has always been about discourse and connection and what do you say? Try this! Try this! Oh, wow – I wanna try that, too!
Makes me think of how musicians back in the 60s were playing and recording one another’s songs – how many versions of Bob Dylan songs are out there that were released in the same year? People were excited! That excitement is a celebration of being alive.
And man – so too with blogs or whatever the at form. Someone’s post is another person’s diving board for the leap in thought, in connection, in creativity. Yes! Blog by comment technique produces some of the best stuff! A + B = Wow!
Jordan Hoggard
July 17, 2020 at 4:10 pm
What a great expansion of the technique, Holly! Great stuff! Thank you.
I love the example of āHow many versions of Bob Dylan songs are out there that were released in the same year? People were excited! That excitement is a celebration of being alive.ā
Holly Troy
July 17, 2020 at 5:35 pm
Tiger Woman!
Jordan Hoggard
July 17, 2020 at 9:41 pm
š Thanks. One of my faves. I keep an easel-framed copy on a furniture piece. Itās not even like I created anymore. Moreso than I created her, she graduated from me to something larger, her own world. I just smile at her meditative Presence As Architecture. SHeās a grand, totem ally.
Bonnie
July 22, 2020 at 10:13 am
Thank you for this nice morning meditation.
Jordan Hoggard
July 22, 2020 at 5:51 pm
Youāre welcome, Bonnie. Glad you appreciated it.
Laleh Chini
July 23, 2020 at 8:11 am
So true, and patience is the resolve of many problems. Thanks Jordan.
Jordan Hoggard
July 23, 2020 at 10:30 pm
Yes, good call on the quality of resolve from patience, Laleh, and.youāre welcome.
Laleh Chini
July 23, 2020 at 10:46 pm
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Jordan Hoggard
July 23, 2020 at 10:47 pm
I will get a cool eVase from The Alchemistās Studio for those flowers and Fill it with the š
Laleh Chini
July 24, 2020 at 9:07 am
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Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
July 24, 2020 at 5:47 pm
I love Trini too.
Jordan Hoggard
July 24, 2020 at 5:49 pm
Right?!! Trini rocks!
joliesattic
July 25, 2020 at 9:04 am
Wow! I’m totally impressed. Thanks for sharing this kid’s talent.
Jordan Hoggard
July 25, 2020 at 9:06 am
Right?!! Iām totally impressed as well. I was really enjoying it, then noticed, WAIT! Thatās the same… WOW! WOW! And, heās 12! BoyToven. Heās amazing.
joliesattic
July 25, 2020 at 9:16 am
Whoever helped him put it all together and/or if he did it, double wow!
Jordan Hoggard
July 25, 2020 at 9:24 am
Yes, I just noticed it was produced in Charterhouse Studios. Not familiar with them, though even the sponsorship adverts from Sabian and Tama and and and. And, HEās playing every instrument. Just stunning. Such a double wow across the board! I wouldnāt be surprised if we see him behind the sound board next. His abilities, especially hitting Mike Portnoyās drum licks dead on with feel, and his flams are SO open. Heās really got it going on.
joliesattic
July 25, 2020 at 9:37 am
I like the fact that here’s a kid making something of himself instead of sitting in front of a TV or computer playing games or rebel rousing somewhere or worse yet, moaning and groaning about being bored or whatever kids find to complain about. Unfortunately. This is inspiring!
Jordan Hoggard
July 25, 2020 at 10:35 am
Me as well. Excellent points. I just updated the verbiage to that effect and just nuked my Sonos Serendipity Itinerary list for this week. One, is may be too time consuming, and more importantly, simply featuring him is plenty. š
Laleh Chini
July 28, 2020 at 8:38 am
Thanks for sharing Jordan.
Jordan Hoggard
July 28, 2020 at 8:39 am
Youāre welcome, Laleh. I appreciate you stopping by to read.
Iām gathering you will be receiving a surprise post over the weekend. š
Laleh Chini
July 28, 2020 at 8:45 am
Awww, you are amazing. Can’t wait.<3<3<3
Karen Sealey
July 29, 2020 at 6:26 am
More afraid of life or death? My irreverent streak is inclined to say they should both be afraid of me.
I frequently think that people who are afraid of death are people who have regrets about not living fully.
Jordan Hoggard
July 29, 2020 at 11:45 am
Yup, Iāve literally almost died on multiple occasions, so, Iām living fully until Iām not, and then… well, then I wonāt care anymore. Death delegates all that to whatever or whoever I am then.
Karen Sealey
July 29, 2020 at 12:56 pm
I was going to say something but I’ve completely forgotten what… I drifted off into thinking about one of my favourite scenes…
Liz Sherman:
In the dark I heard your voice, what did you say?
Hellboy:
I said, “Hey, you on the other side. Let her Go. Cause for her, I’ll cross over, and when that happens you’ll be sorry.”
Jordan Hoggard
July 29, 2020 at 3:45 pm
I love that.
Karen Sealey
July 29, 2020 at 3:46 pm
Swoons me every time!
Karen Sealey
July 30, 2020 at 7:30 am
I’m just amusing myself with idle thoughts, thinking I’ll see you back here in n months time after x polls and you say, yeah…Think I’ll go with Tiger Woman (or whatever name you chose first) after all… š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
July 30, 2020 at 8:25 am
š Nope, I donāt even like that one anymore. Too… obvious from a surface standpoint. Looking for the depth, always the depth.
Then again, I respect that… ask me again tomorrow so to speak.
Karen Sealey
July 30, 2020 at 8:38 am
I’m enjoying your ‘problem’ immensely. Just before you posted the first post, I’d been rough drafting one of my final chunks for the D. O. It was there but not quite there in a way that I thought anybody else would relate to. Every time you post a poll, I’m more convinced that yes, I should stick with the idea and just polish it up a little š
Karen Sealey
July 30, 2020 at 8:41 am
Regardless of poll outcomes. I’m calling her
L.G.D.
š
Jordan Hoggard
July 30, 2020 at 1:27 pm
Laughing Goddess Dammit?
Karen Sealey
July 30, 2020 at 1:29 pm
Nope! I’ve told you twice what it is, I’m not telling you 3x š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
July 30, 2020 at 6:58 pm
Ok, I missed the 3rd. I get it. WIll you tell me now for the 4th?
Karen Sealey
July 30, 2020 at 10:20 pm
Maybe… Lol you should pay more attention to what you write! They’re your words, not mine š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
July 30, 2020 at 10:58 pm
I would say I have a problem with the past, except tomorrow I will look at what you remember more vividly than I do.
Jordan Hoggard
July 30, 2020 at 11:02 pm
And, … what gives, Karen?
Karen Sealey
July 31, 2020 at 12:36 am
What gives? You’re the architect, you tell me! š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
July 31, 2020 at 3:20 am
I guess the name will have to give, as the name isnāt giving itself up from memory. Iāll put in a request to Accounting to retrieve the previous verbal invoice.
Karen Sealey
July 31, 2020 at 4:48 am
Avoid the Brazil office š
Jordan Hoggard
July 31, 2020 at 5:51 am
Yup, because Iād have to fill out the forms to get forms to fill out the form I was looking for.
Karen Sealey
July 31, 2020 at 8:24 am
Much like the paperwork for my speeding offence š¤£š
Jordan Hoggard
July 31, 2020 at 10:18 am
Ouch. Sorry you got tagged for driving a car the way its made to be driven.
Karen Sealey
July 31, 2020 at 10:34 am
I was being moderate. If I’d gone full hammer, I’d be facing a ban. Honestly 9.10 am on a Sunday during lockdown… No-one else on the road. 38mph in a 30 zone is driving miss daisy… š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
July 31, 2020 at 11:02 am
Darn. I thought you were having fun. Oh well. In time. š
Karen Sealey
July 31, 2020 at 11:14 am
I was having fun. I was singing pirate songs with team Portugal! š¶ā ļø
Jordan Hoggard
July 31, 2020 at 11:25 am
š Now, THAT sounds like fun.
Karen Sealey
July 31, 2020 at 11:48 am
The really fun one was getting caught on camera in the bus lane on a bank holiday, because I couldn’t resist driving right through the middle of a massive puddle to cheer my passenger up… That was Ā£30 well spent! š¤£
Holly Troy
July 31, 2020 at 2:33 pm
My birth cards – The Star and Strength 17/8 – my north node – Aquarius, 3rd House ; South Node – Leo, 9th House
I hope you are great! Been surfing the depths of water world – grateful we are out of Cancer and moving on into Leo Season. AS long as Colorado allows it – I’ll be gong on a camp trip in about a week – assessing life,enjoying nature, next moves. Looking forward to catching up on reading a backlog of your posts – and writing many of my own!
Happy Summer!
Jordan Hoggard
July 31, 2020 at 6:43 pm
Happy Summer, Holly! I hope you are great as well! Thank You! I am. Just working away on writing projects, blogging, ImaginAction and other creativity amplifying eProducts. Good stuff Iām swimming in these days.
The Colorado trip sounds excellent. I was there for 20 years. What part or parts are you planning to head to?
I look forward to your perspective! Iāve been having semi-tons-o-fun with my blog. š
Looking forward as always to your new posts as well.
Oh, can you post a link to The Tardigrade live at the Mtn Bike Festival? I now can only seem to find a 1-minute blurb after there was some HTML issue (most likely WP) and I had to remove it as the link was jacked. Iād like to go back and edit previous Serendipity Itineraries where it is/was to get the full version back again. Let me know. Thanks much.
Holly Troy
August 3, 2020 at 1:04 pm
Hi Jordan – I am planning on going to Telluride! š So excited – we’ll see how it goes. With Covid it’s a day by day thing.
I’m glad you are doing well and getting projects done! I am about to get to work on Co-Creating for Leo and all other blog/writing stuff.
Tardigrade is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR51vjhwLNg
Peace! Holly
Jordan Hoggard
August 3, 2020 at 2:25 pm
COol on your Co-Creating for Leo! š ANd, Telluride is a great place!
Thanks for the Tardigrade link. Iāll pull that in.
Holly Troy
August 3, 2020 at 1:20 pm
and! Thanks for the link relink and all the sharing and all the awesome stuff you do!
Jordan Hoggard
August 3, 2020 at 2:31 pm
Youāre most welcome, Holly! Glad to to so. Helps people find people and places they otherwise might not… juiced with some serendipity.
Holly Troy
July 31, 2020 at 2:59 pm
pool or pond! lol
Jordan Hoggard
July 31, 2020 at 6:45 pm
Right?! Yeah, I felt I needed some gratuitous levity in there. š
Holly Troy
August 3, 2020 at 1:06 pm
I heard that scene between Bill Murray and Chevy Chase was pretty much improvised
Jordan Hoggard
August 3, 2020 at 2:30 pm
Yes, thereās quite an alchemy when you put them together. Priceless scene. Pool or Pond, I think the pond would be better for you, Carl. Still makes me laugh.
Holly Troy
August 3, 2020 at 4:07 pm
still makes me laugh, too
Jordan Hoggard
August 3, 2020 at 5:33 pm
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Ritish sharma
August 1, 2020 at 4:43 am
I’m glad that I figured out your site. You have some amazing blog posts. I really enjoyed touring your blogs.
Keep doing it.
Will always support your site and post.
Stay blessed.
Jordan Hoggard
August 1, 2020 at 9:00 am
Wonderful, Ritish! Iām grateful for your accolade. Thank you.
Timothy Price
August 4, 2020 at 9:09 pm
I watched the video you had on a post, but I didn’t download anything.
Jordan Hoggard
August 5, 2020 at 6:43 am
Thanks Timothy.
Karen Sealey
August 5, 2020 at 8:25 am
Thanks Jordan, I downloaded. It’s a treasure trove of delights!
Jordan Hoggard
August 5, 2020 at 2:21 pm
Much appreciated for the feedback, Karen!
Karen Sealey
August 5, 2020 at 7:42 pm
I could say a lot more but I think people should dive in and find out for themselves what’s in there š
Jordan Hoggard
August 5, 2020 at 8:07 pm
Yup, I full-on agree. They are ablution pools. No vats of acid here! For Mindfulness, Divination, Tarot, Oracle. Just depends on how you roll. I like the safe swimming of dive in and find out. FIrst you download, then… the depths and heights are yours and your alone.
Karen Sealey
August 5, 2020 at 8:26 pm
Roll? Oooh… I have astro dice somewhere. I might throw them in! š²š²š¦
Jordan Hoggard
August 5, 2020 at 10:31 pm
Nice! Dice make great charms to cast lots with!
Karen Sealey
August 6, 2020 at 4:26 am
The next solo project I’m toying with is dice based.
Jordan Hoggard
August 6, 2020 at 6:43 am
NIce!
Holly Troy
August 5, 2020 at 9:22 pm
How freakin’ cool! Legendary!
Jordan Hoggard
August 5, 2020 at 10:24 pm
Thank you Holly! I LOVE that. āLegendary!ā Oh what a feeling to get this news today!
Karen Sealey
August 5, 2020 at 9:43 pm
Yay! Wicked cool news! Looks like good taste is trending! Congratulations! Xx
Jordan Hoggard
August 5, 2020 at 10:26 pm
Thanks, Karen! Thatās funny! āLooks like good taste is trending.ā Love it! Xx
Timothy Price
August 5, 2020 at 9:45 pm
Congratulations. Very cool, indeed.
Jordan Hoggard
August 5, 2020 at 10:26 pm
Much appreciated, Timothy. Thank you. Indeed, thank you.
Bonnie
August 5, 2020 at 10:58 pm
Love manifesting into the world. Congratulations!
Jordan Hoggard
August 5, 2020 at 11:04 pm
Thank you, Bonnie! āLove manifesting into the world.ā I love that! Wonderfully resonates. Much appreciated.
Laleh Chini
August 6, 2020 at 8:08 am
I believe Tarot cards. Something special about it.
Jordan Hoggard
August 6, 2020 at 7:03 pm
I agree, Laleh, and I believe in them as well. Itās funny, though. Whenever I get an interviewer or someone angsts about it who says, āI don;t believe in Tarot! Prove it.ā I always laugh, and simply smile, and return serve with. āGreat we have something in common! I don;t believe in Tarot, either… any more than my fridge or range in the Kitchen, though I use all 3 every day to nourish myself.ā š At least it presents them a sea wall of Absolute No. Most often turns the tide. Sometimes no, then itās my choice to continue or thank them for their time and leave. Iāve smiled like the cat who ate the canary standing up from a live interview, said thank you, and walked. Leaves them holding the bag of poop they created. I just helped them light it on fire before they stepped in it. š
Laleh Chini
August 6, 2020 at 10:18 pm
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Laleh Chini
August 6, 2020 at 8:09 am
Are you professional in Tarot cards?
Jordan Hoggard
August 6, 2020 at 7:05 pm
I am, Laleh. I havenāt opened back up my public reading docket after my 5-year radio silence yet. Doing things differently this go āround after taking the long road home from the story youāre aware of. Giving myself the Breathing room I need instead of crowding in too much too soon.
Do you read Tarot?
Laleh Chini
August 6, 2020 at 10:20 pm
I know how to set them and read them by book. Other then that I donāt have the knowledge. But I believe it and itās very interesting.
Jordan Hoggard
August 7, 2020 at 2:35 am
Full-on understood. It feels in your book, āClimbing Over Grit,ā You have a way of navigating the archetypes of life, especially the torrential ones, more sore the joyous ones, that is beyond resonance creating and making a page-turner of life itself. I thank you for your Heartfelt Hierophant wisdoms born of and actionably put in place from and for the experience of life in itself. āClimbing Through Gritā is a tome of wisdom in itself. Wonderfully expressed feeling that is as clear as it its poignant.
Laleh Chini
August 7, 2020 at 7:11 pm
Thanks a million my dear friend. Means the world to me.šŗ
Jordan Hoggard
August 7, 2020 at 7:37 pm
šŗ šŗ šŗ šŗ šŗ šŗ šŗ šŗ šŗ šŗ
to You, Laleh, and āClimbing Over Grit.ā
Laleh Chini
August 7, 2020 at 8:06 pm
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Bonnie Cehovet
August 6, 2020 at 9:04 am
Congratulations, JOrdan!
Jordan Hoggard
August 6, 2020 at 7:12 pm
Many thanks, Bonnie! This is the 3rd major accolade-honor. Thereās this yesterday with
āThe Library of Esotericaā I was graced with yesterday, Taosophiyās naming Mystereum 30 out of the Top 50 Most Essential decks of all time, and the 3rd… the ability to meet all kinds of wonderful people across the world through formats like this and The Tarot School and Meetups which a great many of are streaming online now.
Thank You, Bonnie! You were my 1st Major Supporter when you took an interest in Mystereum. I remember that flimsy paper box I hand-crafted, though even I WAS like WHOAH, this piece of this great puzzle is like bread that got soggy. Much better now with Schifferās wonderfully crafted boxed set with blue ribbon pull tab for the magnetic catch. š I still SO resonate with the discussions you and I started after your 1st review. Great stuff all around… eSPECIALLY that flimsy, original box. I took and take no offense at that. In fact Iām chuckling I couldnāt agree more. Still a bit baffling that me as an Architect running his own firm then would say YES to that and then even produce it myself. Big Abrazos smiles from here! š š š I hope youāre healthy and in good spirits.
Timothy Price
August 7, 2020 at 10:13 am
Like dude. “Resonant, stellar and cosmic groove accolades” sound like they are totally ethereally and extra-terrestrially groovy. Congratulations. Rock on!
Jordan Hoggard
August 7, 2020 at 10:38 am
ThanK you, Timothy, Much appreciated. Across 570-580 years of Tarot history? 3.5-4K + decks out there.. 0.04% of 500 images? Yes, stellar and cosmic groove accolades. As Holly Troy aptly put it, LEGENDARY.
No matter how hard I try, I can not have a false sene of modesty about the largesse that was again for the 2nd time just bestowed on my work. No ego or hubris, either.Every time I think about it? Cascades of ablution tingles wash through most all of my body. It DID take me a little bit, though Thinking about my experiences through life… I have most often stood there and owned and receiving the lashings certain experiences have provided. Now? Now, I stand and own this honor… just as much as Iāve owned those other… though now, I feel the ablution tingles. Nothing about my being says āDUCKā to that. Instead, I feel 2 words:
Receive
Gratitude
Thank you for quoting āResonant, stellar and cosmic groove accolades.ā Nodding yes. Receiving yes. Grateful yes.
I gather this is an important time in my life where being wise in time and owning it wise in time here in public is much more important than waiting for quiet and receiving it on my own… as I completed two work, though then it took othersā experiences to do this. I honor them with me. Iām no King of the Mountain here. I am simply one, who touched another, and it its strikes chords to resonate with me that my work has touched twice in these two legendary and historical ways.
Rock on! Iām still me. I simply now have 2 feathers in my fedora. I honor the 2 birds as totems who gifted them to me.
Timothy Price
August 7, 2020 at 10:42 am
It is super cool. And I’m really happy for you. You should shout about it from the highest mountain tops.
Jordan Hoggard
August 7, 2020 at 7:36 pm
š Thank you, Timothy. Several Uncle Walt YAWPS from the highest mountain tops are in order… and in the works too. Hope the drywall doesnāt continue To fall off the walls as I jump around celebrating once it settled in and the joyous concussion blast of being a citizen in 570 years of Tarot history AND having TWO out of the 500 images from my work. ……
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
August 9, 2020 at 9:13 pm
That’s an amazing amount of detail. How many years did it take to learn all of the ins and outs and how it’s all related to every other aspect? I’m impressed. I don’t understand it, but I’m impressed!
Jordan Hoggard
August 9, 2020 at 9:29 pm
Iād say… my whole life up to this point… then, expressing now. š
Jordan Hoggard
August 9, 2020 at 9:33 pm
And, Iād qualify āmy whole life up to this pointā as being from age 15 to now = … Iād say 37 years… or more, depending on how it was unconsciously active prior to my stepping int it.:)
Jordan Hoggard
August 9, 2020 at 9:36 pm
I simply now read Charts straight out of hand without much thought or will. They simply present themselves, and I surf and dive through their F.I.C.P. ā Functionally Inter-Related Component Parts. That may be too much detail in such a way that defeats the poetic of the poetry of a reading… though, of course, I donāt feel so. I read.. From my perspective, I read.
Timothy Price
August 9, 2020 at 9:59 pm
The Sun Card is beautiful. I like the moon in the yin yang. Nice touch. Cool video. I like the music. Do you play the sitar? Have you ever tried the hangman position? It looks wild. I know. I know. So many weird questions. Ā”Bast ya! Already. Right?
Jordan Hoggard
August 9, 2020 at 10:08 pm
So any rockinā questions, Timothy, The Hanged Man position is pretty much The Tree position in Yoga. So, very much yes to that. I DO NOT play the Sitar, though now that you mention it, hmmmmm for future.Hmmmm on all the other wonderfully implied questions.Thanks for the vast expansiveness of your comment.
Karen Sealey
August 11, 2020 at 7:35 am
Today was a good day for post!! š
Jordan Hoggard
August 11, 2020 at 7:44 am
Thank you, Karen!! š
Karen Sealey
August 11, 2020 at 7:44 am
This is why I get no work done!!!! š
Jordan Hoggard
August 11, 2020 at 7:45 am
Yup, itās all my fault. Itās ALWAYS my fault because I am just THAT powerful. LOL š
Karen Sealey
August 11, 2020 at 7:46 am
Yeah right! š
Karen Sealey
August 12, 2020 at 8:53 am
That’s the fiirst time, I’ve noticed the shadow hand in Kg S, I’ve always seen it very clealry behind the Pg. The Kg, I’m mostly drawn to how his sword is ouside of the border… The last card in the pack, going beyond the boundaries, carving an exit and opening into a new world…
Jordan Hoggard
August 12, 2020 at 12:07 pm
š He’s a bit of the ultimate ninja fully blending his comms naturally into his surroundings.
Karen Sealey
August 12, 2020 at 12:21 pm
Nice š
Jordan Hoggard
August 12, 2020 at 12:16 pm
“I’m mostly drawn to how his sword is outside of the border… The last card in the pack, going beyond the boundaries, carving an exit and opening into a new world.” I appreciate you seeing it that way, the King’s snake-tooth of a sword (sworld) opening up the Universe of Mystereum to evolve even further beyond. No limits when clear, even when clear as mud… you can grow a Lotus out of that stuff.
Karen Sealey
August 12, 2020 at 12:23 pm
I like him a lot, we share initials! Sometimes I call him Kindred Spirit š
Jordan Hoggard
August 12, 2020 at 2:43 pm
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Jordan Hoggard
August 12, 2020 at 6:19 pm
Thatās a great nickname, Karen. Kindred Spirit fits his AIr and Mind qualities that include fire and earth and water like a finished, folded sword tempered in Clear water and dipped in oil for character.
Karen Sealey
August 13, 2020 at 2:17 am
š
Timothy Price
August 13, 2020 at 10:52 pm
You Image “Actionalizationing”, as Inchcock would put it, is very cool. As I’ve said, I’m not into Tarot and don’t understand it very well, but I think I get the intent and the art of making original spreads. The process in itself would be very therapeutic and super mental gymnastics. You are very cool to do this.
Jordan Hoggard
August 13, 2020 at 10:57 pm
Thanks much, Timothy. Ironically, it ended up being a portable system that I often use now without cards. It just doesnāt need them after 3+ years of Brainspotting. I just have Came To Mind Readings with myself wher my Parts are the cards (like when people are cards, real characters) saunter in or come in hot at Mach 3 with their hair on fire. Ok, time for me to Shut Up and listen is most often the M.O.
Thanks for the cool kudos, Timothy. I figure everyone has an imagination, and uses it their own particular way. Like Incocksky. I subscribed to him after you mentioned him. SUCH an interesting guy, and not in spite of all his physical stuff. Heās one of the good ones keeping that sense of laughter and spirit going that makes cool people in my mind.
āActionalizationing,ā as he wold put it. Thatās great.
Timothy Price
August 14, 2020 at 2:50 pm
Tarot talk is much more interesting than Men in Black.
Jordan Hoggard
August 14, 2020 at 3:15 pm
š And, we have the reMinder Tool rather than the Mind Eraser Tool.
Timothy Price
August 14, 2020 at 3:23 pm
I don’t need no stinking too to erase my mind it seems. reMinders are great.
Jordan Hoggard
August 14, 2020 at 4:13 pm
Nice. Tool? I don;t need no stinking tool to erase my … hold it. what was I saying. Who are you? š
Timothy Price
August 14, 2020 at 5:01 pm
Tool. Too probably works as well. But I forgot.
Jordan Hoggard
August 14, 2020 at 5:24 pm
š The reMinder tool from the side looks like the l that graduated from your Too. From the front it looks more like a page in ImaginAction, or a card.
nickreeves
August 16, 2020 at 4:27 am
The customer is always write!
Jordan Hoggard
August 16, 2020 at 10:18 am
Yes, though they’re not always correct. š
nickreeves
August 16, 2020 at 11:18 am
‘something-something’ autocorrect?!
š
Peace xo
Jordan Hoggard
August 16, 2020 at 5:03 pm
š
Karen Sealey
August 16, 2020 at 11:18 am
Not at all boring. I have an Alban Welti Impressions print, no idea what the title is. It’s had pride of place for over 30 years. There are violins or maybe cellos and ducks. The whole of the picture is covered in swirls that are similar to your ocean lab script. I never get tired of that picture. It’s in its 3rd frame now after a couple of accidents with kids being kids.
Jordan Hoggard
August 16, 2020 at 5:04 pm
That art has some quality of use and durability. Great stuff.
Karen Sealey
August 16, 2020 at 11:22 am
Yup, boring like a peacock’s tail! šā¤ļø
Karen Sealey
August 16, 2020 at 12:41 pm
I cross-checked with the Google oracle about peacock symbolism
“Commonly referred to symbolize integrity, doing what you say, truth, honor, beauty, and strength this bird is a part of the pheasant family but also has references to
Self-Esteem
Humor
Vision
Spiritual Awakening
Long Life
Confidence
Awareness
Leadership Skills
Enjoying Life
Resurrection
Being Well Balanced
Light Hearted
Self-love”
Jordan Hoggard
August 16, 2020 at 5:07 pm
Well, that is cool! Those peacock totem meanings are so different than the derisive slur slang. Thanks for looking that up. I was still hanging out in my mind with the beauty of a peacocks tail and all the wonderful eyes, hadnāt even thought of the slur yet, and then read this… and now will let the slur just slip back off the bot and dial into its depths as fish food.
Karen Sealey
August 16, 2020 at 5:15 pm
That’s exactly why I cross checked. The thought came through in a good way, then after I wrote it, I thought oh no… That may sound not how I meant it. The G.O. summed up perfectly.
Jordan Hoggard
August 16, 2020 at 5:20 pm
Love it. I kneel to the Google Oracle ALL the time. Quicker than heading over to the 40-mile town of Delphi. Hold on, Delphiās calling. … …
Oops, missed a shift. š
Karen Sealey
August 16, 2020 at 5:21 pm
Yup and C&P usually avoids the autocorrupt š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
August 16, 2020 at 5:23 pm
Thatās good stuff right there. Autocorrect. Love it.
Jordan Hoggard
August 16, 2020 at 5:23 pm
Uh hem autocorrupt.
Karen Sealey
August 16, 2020 at 5:23 pm
š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
August 16, 2020 at 5:04 pm
šā¤ļø Thanks!
Laleh Chini
August 17, 2020 at 10:02 am
Lol.
Karen Sealey
August 18, 2020 at 8:34 am
To me, they’re saying- Hurry up and finish writing then get back to me. (LOL I wrote that using middle button predictive text!
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Karen Sealey
August 19, 2020 at 7:19 am
I love seeing the whole suit together. I find M pents very motile. Seeing them like this make think of petri dishes, growing cultures, Brownian motion… And other things but I leave it there before I waste (in the best possible way) another day š. Though I might pause a little longer as the background colours and patterns of lilac and turquoise are fleshing out thoughts I had earlier about how to describe a concept in my head into words someone else can grasp…
Jordan Hoggard
August 19, 2020 at 7:51 am
Wonderful perspective, Karen. I love the growing analogy, Pentacles as assets and seeds starting out with the Ace, and growing things, real things, solidly.
Can you Turbo Read it for yourself? Infinitize your concept onto your media, paper/screen/other? Just a thought.
Karen Sealey
August 19, 2020 at 8:01 am
My Turbo answer is – Yes!
Thanks Jordan.
Jordan Hoggard
August 19, 2020 at 8:02 am
Youāre welcome, Karen! Will be back later on. Lots to do today. š
Karen Sealey
August 19, 2020 at 8:03 am
Have fun! š
Timothy Price
August 19, 2020 at 2:55 pm
Cool looking card. In my research for a paper about necromancers and exorcists, I came across a lot of incantations and prayers involving pentacles. Those who call on spirits and those who drive them out use mostly the same methods.
Jordan Hoggard
August 19, 2020 at 6:41 pm
Thanks — and they’re 13 more in the main post.
Interesting observation. I haven’t thought about that like that before. These days may we should call them in, though call an Uber for those that need to be driven out. Ya know, tip large. š
Timothy Price
August 19, 2020 at 7:10 pm
The title of my paper is “Masters of Demons/Servants of God: Exorcists, Necromancers and Inquisitors: Using Magic, Miracles, Mystery and Authority to Usurp Manās/Womanās Freedom in the Middle Ages” I haven’t finished it. The paper was accepted in a Medieval Conference in 2019, but then I couldn’t go to the conference to present it. I got involved in another paper that I was supoosed to present at the International Conference on Construction Grammar this week in Belgium, but the ICCG has been postponed until next August.
Jordan Hoggard
August 19, 2020 at 8:02 pm
Thatās an excellently broad title Timothy. Iād love to experience once youāve presented it released it to see the perspectives and bents with which youāve approached it. Iām especially interested for 2 reasons. A friend of mind who I cross paths with once or twice a year has a MA, Cultural Study of Cosmology and DIvination from the University of Kent, and as well see how you dealt with the Inquisitors/Inquisition, one of the most torturous groups to āUsurp Manās/Womanās Freedom in the Middle Ages.ā
Timothy Price
August 19, 2020 at 8:21 pm
The really brutal inquasition was the French inquisition starting in the 12th Century. Thousands and thousands of people died as a result. The Spanish Inquisition, though long-lived and far reaching, only resulted in a couple of thousand executions, and their trials were a little more fair. A book that made me add “Woman’s” to the title of the paper is “Discerning Spirits: Devine and Demonic Possessions in the Middle Ages” by Nancy Caciola. She has some wonderful insights. A major influence in my interest in inquisitors is “The Grand Inquisitor” from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov”.
Jordan Hoggard
August 19, 2020 at 8:27 pm
I wondered if you had gone there with Dostoevsky. And yes, as creative as the French are known to be, and as defiant, though somehow always got called Frogs and lost many wars later… they were certainly creative in just how intensely wicked they could be in torturing people. Made the guillotine look like the easy way out, over quickly at least.
Iām not familiar with Nancy Caciolaās work. I just wrote that on my list as it sounds vastly interesting
Jordan Hoggard
August 19, 2020 at 8:10 pm
Iām smiling. Our backgrounds may be more similar than I knew? When I was in Denver I would leave the off to head to an Archtectural client meeting, then downtown to the 14th floor of whatever address Mediation Chamber to provide Expert Witness in Building Code, Planning, Zoning, and Special Regulatory on whatever project I had been hired for, then a bite to eat on the way back to my office to meet a Tarot client to give a session, then work on drawings/sections/details/specs, etc and move around like that.
Sounds like you move between multiple professions as well, and layer in Photography and Music and Video. Good stuff. Will you speak to the aspects of your Polymath areas?
donna4poetry
August 20, 2020 at 11:35 pm
Thank you Jordan for following my poetry.
Taking time to read it is very appreciated!
Jordan Hoggard
August 21, 2020 at 9:22 am
Youāre most welcome, Donna! May I include a link to your site on this weekās Serendipity Itinerary post?
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
August 21, 2020 at 11:18 am
That was a good prompt. I won’t record it, just will briefly say that the home I’ve lived in for 35 years is my sanctuary. When I look in the window, I see me. Not just the reflection, but the reflection.
Jordan Hoggard
August 21, 2020 at 11:44 am
Wonderful recording of it! You just expressed the whole recording of it all right there with, “When I look in the window, I see me. Not just the reflection, but the reflection.”
I appreciate you engaging the prompt.
Jordan Hoggard
August 21, 2020 at 11:46 am
And further, you moved the decimal point. Not 56 seconds. You made a robust and full response in more like 5.6 seconds. That’s pretty wicked cool.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
August 21, 2020 at 11:59 am
People who know me IRL and come over always say it’s exactly what they thought it would look like. I assume it’s a compliment haha.
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 7:22 pm
I like the clarity of clear expression of that. Intent is over-rated, more important the way it comes across. And, then the way you come across (those IRL who know you express) aligns with the intent (whatās inside). I like that. Good stuff there.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 8, 2020 at 8:55 pm
Sometimes the tone of their voice isn’t so very nice. Often it is, but sometimes there are other agendas in play. And they don’t get invited back. I don’t need negative people around.
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 9:00 pm
Clarity does that, makes the courage to be disliked, acts like a pump filter kept clean. Better for all around. I like what Johnny Depp said, “Yeah, once you make it, all the people who tried to bring you down will talk about how they met you.”
Karen Sealey
August 22, 2020 at 2:53 pm
9 years later is good. 9’s a magic number squared š
Jordan Hoggard
August 22, 2020 at 4:46 pm
š ANd, 9 is my favorite number. So dynamic.
Karen Sealey
August 22, 2020 at 5:47 pm
I hear cats are quite fond of it too š
Karen Sealey
August 22, 2020 at 5:54 pm
ā¤ļø I went to see the Van Gogh immersive experience in York last year. It was absolutely wonderful! You have great taste!
Jordan Hoggard
August 22, 2020 at 6:30 pm
That sounds epic! ā¤ļø Thank you! Atelier does Lumieres (Studio of the Lights) has outdone themselves with this.
Karen Sealey
August 22, 2020 at 6:35 pm
I saw it in a small church with big arches, next to the Jorvic Viking centre. It plays on a loop and you can stay as long as you like. There were rows of old fashioned canvas and wood deck chairs so you could just lie there and lose yourself. It got set up in Leicester, then lockdown set in before the opening or I would have gone again.
Jordan Hoggard
August 22, 2020 at 6:47 pm
Sounds like such a resonant experience to immerse in it in the real…
Karen Sealey
August 22, 2020 at 6:48 pm
Very much so š
Timothy Price
August 23, 2020 at 12:45 pm
Those are great looking cup cards. En todas las formas misteriosas. A C cup is a nice handful.
Jordan Hoggard
August 23, 2020 at 12:47 pm
Much appreciated for your BROAD comment. š You poured some bang for the buck into spare few words. NIce high octane.
Joanne Sprott
August 23, 2020 at 11:51 pm
Brilliant. Dorothy would approve, I think. Like the poetic in your prose.
Jordan Hoggard
August 24, 2020 at 1:16 am
Thank you, Joanne.
Jordan Hoggard
August 24, 2020 at 1:23 am
Thank you, Joanne. Much appreciated.
Karen Sealey
August 25, 2020 at 1:55 am
I really love it when you read for someone with M and the 10 of S is followed by Kg of S. The band of yellow of the new dawn coming up over the horizon morphing into a fully pumped royal arm. There’s getting back onto your feet and then there’s coming back in real style! I also like that the figure in 10 of S looks like a cocoon waiting to hatch. Seeing them altogether, I like how the 3 of S also joins with the 10 and Kg like a visual power chord.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
August 25, 2020 at 5:37 pm
Malice and evil entered my life 29 years ago. If only I knew then what I now know.
Jordan Hoggard
August 25, 2020 at 6:17 pm
Liking the ānowā wisdom part of it, not the 29 years ago… or… ok, that dug in a double-bind. Iām glad you know now what you didnāt then.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
August 25, 2020 at 6:33 pm
Well, my reply was more nihilistic. If I knew now what I now know, I wouldn’t have wasted 29 years of my life.It’s depressing, not a lesson.
Jordan Hoggard
August 25, 2020 at 6:40 pm
Excellent clarification. I get it that itās not a lesson. Some things do in fact just suck.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
August 25, 2020 at 6:59 pm
Exactly. Exactly. Hindsight, 20/20 whatever. It doesn’t change a thing, does it?
Jordan Hoggard
August 25, 2020 at 7:06 pm
Well… it doesnāt change then, youāre right about that. Though the wisdom of having a nose more tuned with the perspective of ānotta chance nowā I find of value. Personally, I have a couple of scenarios where I was led at 19 and then at 23 into outright professional betrayal situations (attorneys and all), and I didnāt know any better until it was too late. They were the same and just enough different that the overlay of the two got missed. Heck, my Architecture career was almost blasted and obliterated out of the cosmos before I even graduated college. Well, until a year later I stood the fuck up, dusted myself off, and walked back through a couple of doors, so I could walk back into my life. The damage was done, though. I havenāt unfolded those thorns from the wrinkles until the last 2 years ā 33 years causing civil war trouble inside. Now, though? I wouldnāt trade it for the world as itās provided a semi-everlasting treasure chest of reference perspective recently I can use moving forward.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
August 25, 2020 at 6:37 pm
I meant if I knew THEN what I now know…
Jordan Hoggard
August 25, 2020 at 6:43 pm
Nodding Yes. Got it loud and clear. I donāt know yours, though I get that Kind of thing entering when I didnāt know any better… which is strange because at 19 I knew everything… and now I see… ohhhh, well there was that one thing (at least) you didnāt. I hear you. stuff like that dragging blades along the ground of life in waste. Thanks for being you now, though. That bold streak (full-boat gardener š ) is (nodding big YES).
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
August 25, 2020 at 6:59 pm
You’re welcome and thank you.
Karen Sealey
September 8, 2020 at 7:51 am
– …. .- -. -.- -.– — ..- .— — .-. -.. .- -. š
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 10:58 am
If only I knew Morse Code… except, your first letter is mis-spelled… I think. š Or, is 4 dots just intensely serious?
Karen Sealey
September 9, 2020 at 7:33 am
No idea.. The Google Oracle did the donkey work š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 7:18 pm
Oh Cool. Excellent. š now that itās translated.
Karen Sealey
September 9, 2020 at 7:34 am
One site translates into sound files. That’s pretty fun (or maybe I’m just way too easily amused) š¤£
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 8, 2020 at 10:54 am
Since this is my littlest T’s 1/2 birthday, I read this with enthusiasm. You def understand parts of my Taurean mind though, lol. I hope wherever you are, it hasn’t been as hell hot as it’s been here!
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 11:01 am
Nice. I appreciate the feedback. š
It hasn’t been hot, actually nice… unlike Denver going to 101 2 days ago and then 37 and a big snow storm this evening.
You guys over on the West Coast are getting pounded by heat and heat from fires. Intense. Maybe need a fireman’s or scuba mask re-breather now?
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 8, 2020 at 11:45 am
It’s actually about 20+ degrees cooler today. Crazy weather.
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 5:21 pm
Crazy weather, indeed. Heck, if you don;t like the weather, just wait 5 minutes. š
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 11:07 am
Oh, and Happy Birthday to your littlest T.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 8, 2020 at 11:46 am
HALF birthday lol, so everything is halved. Another fam tradition.
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 5:22 pm
HALF Birthday, So in Enchanted SbPR language that translates into 8 celebrations? š
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 8, 2020 at 6:42 pm
HAHA that’s funny. I haven’t gone that far but thanks for the idea.
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 6:57 pm
š Feeding Monsters of Benevolence can only make them grow larger, and that… I donāt see that as a problem. Like in crystal clear spring water with a waterfall… Iāve never heard myself say, āOh, itās too pure, I better get out.ā Fill that Half Birthday full enough to OOPS, spilled some beauty out of the cup when I tipped it. Wait, thatās a good thing.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 8, 2020 at 8:52 pm
Well, I’ll tell ya. He just called me to let me know that a particular thing I sent him as a 1/2 gift was broken-baby sister used her two new teeth and chewed off the ear. He said, “it’s bad, Grandma. I have bad news.” But he wasn’t prepared for the fact that THIS grandma THOUGHT that might happen and I had purchased 3 of them-just in case of this very scenario. That’s what a Taurus grandma does. He was speechless. ‘YOU DID?” And then I flipped the camera to show him. He was ecstatic. Crisis averted. They’ll be mailed tomorrow. (and now you have a sneak peek into my Thurs post lol)
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 8:56 pm
That’s priceless. Grandma Rambo Runs the Gift Streets with a Semi-Automatic Full Clip. Where there were tears they’ll be replacement ears with smiles. Breaking story. More at 10. š
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 8, 2020 at 8:58 pm
Exactly. I could predict it so I was prepared. Made him so happy but then he riffed off into a fantasy story about me flying up tomorrow which isn’t reality.
Jordan Hoggard
September 8, 2020 at 9:00 pm
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Timothy Price
September 9, 2020 at 7:18 pm
Nice set of cards. Those notes are quite triangulated.
Jordan Hoggard
September 9, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Thanks x 2 + pun, Timothy. Appreciated.
Karen Sealey
September 9, 2020 at 8:56 pm
I love how the colour flip of your notebook turns your page into the Professor of Mathematics blackboard! š
Karen Sealey
September 9, 2020 at 8:57 pm
*Mathemagics! Bloody autocorrupt…
Jordan Hoggard
September 10, 2020 at 6:21 am
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Jordan Hoggard
September 10, 2020 at 6:21 am
Thank you, Karen! It feels more communicative to me when I do that, like a lay down the work, and then the invert takes it past the synapse into the next step for me to continue and expand it. Love the Professor of Mathematics Blackboard title. Great stuff.
Karen Sealey
September 10, 2020 at 6:22 am
That would be a class I’d turn up to AND stay awake in šš
Jordan Hoggard
September 10, 2020 at 6:25 am
šš I think itās an online Workshop I will put together once Iām further into it. To take the Archetypal Cosmology of it to expand into and from my article (no words about the article until pub=blissed by submittal receiver, or me if not).
Karen Sealey
September 10, 2020 at 6:25 am
Wicked! ššš»
Karen Sealey
September 9, 2020 at 9:10 pm
“~ that rise to the tetrahedral point at the top which isā¦ still thinking this part through: the Emanation point?”
The corollary??
Jordan Hoggard
September 10, 2020 at 6:22 am
Yes, and Thereās something else there as well. Iām still rolling that one around, and am going to let it steep as I move through the successive ones.
Karen Sealey
September 10, 2020 at 6:23 am
Yeah… There’s definitely more brewing in there…
Jordan Hoggard
September 10, 2020 at 6:26 am
Glad itās evocative and living for you as well. I think I struck water, discovered another well at the next level on which I will focus a good portion of my upcoming work.
Karen Sealey
September 10, 2020 at 6:27 am
Very much so! Thanks ā¤ļø
Jordan Hoggard
September 10, 2020 at 6:28 am
Thanks as well ā¤ļø
Karen Sealey
September 10, 2020 at 6:28 am
You make geek chic! š
Jordan Hoggard
September 10, 2020 at 6:29 am
Geek Chic. Now, I love that. Goes along with the esotuitive I coined several years back, of which I am one and also am not as I swim and run more than research and cogitate..
Karen Sealey
September 10, 2020 at 6:30 am
You can have it š you wear it well!
Jordan Hoggard
September 10, 2020 at 6:35 am
Thanks much! Geek Chic is a keeper. (C) 2020 Karen Sealey. Used by permission, Jordan Hoggard. Wanna make sure you get the Origin Creator Credit.
Karen Sealey
September 10, 2020 at 6:36 am
(tbh… I probably sifted it from the collective consciousness…) Cheers! š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
September 10, 2020 at 6:43 am
Yes, now in the Collective COnsciousness yanked from the deep of the Collective Unconsciousness… though the fisherman(person) gets to eat what they catch. I think thatās what (c) really means. Nothing new, but everything orginal, and (c) Name = thatās on their plate… the lesson of dogs: Donāt get between a dog and its food. š
Karen Sealey
September 10, 2020 at 6:48 am
(c) now I can’t not see that symbol as bird’s-eye view of a dogbowl containing half eaten Pedigree Chum š¤£ Thanks! Thanks a lot! As if I don’t have enough crazy images in my head already… š¤£š¤£š¤£
Timothy Price
September 11, 2020 at 10:30 am
Nice cards. Did you etch the copper talisman? I like the pentacles video. You included lots of music videos and mentions of other bloggers. I just kept scrolling down, taking a listen and scrolling down some more. Thanks for the link and nice description of OC&NE.
Jordan Hoggard
September 11, 2020 at 12:35 pm
Thank you, Timothy. Much appreciated. I did etch the copper talisman, both sides different Tarot Birth Card images. A friend and fellow sleuth-alchemist and I back in Denver figured out a way to use saltwater, a car battery and applied film to one copper plate and blank copper plate the other side of the bottle to create a diode. Such cool weather patterns of colors eclipsing everything across ONLY the vertical cross-section of the plates, clear and almost still above and below it for x number of time… and then guesswork to pull the plug on the battery charging the water and… VOILA! That’s what came out of the saltwater solution. I still feel it may the coolest most kick-butt thing I’ve ever done. We had such a blast figuring it all out and then leaving it to do its thing sight unseen in the green and blue and orange Jupiter cloud electric weather pattern going on between and around the anode and cathode in the diode bottle.
You’re most welcome for the link and nice description of IC&NE. Happy to have people find your blog.
Timothy Price
September 11, 2020 at 1:00 pm
Very cool.
Jordan Hoggard
September 11, 2020 at 1:36 pm
Thank you,
Timothy Price
September 11, 2020 at 1:34 pm
My birth cards are Temperance and The Hierophant. A bit of Houses of the Holy, would you say?
Jordan Hoggard
September 11, 2020 at 1:37 pm
I would. I will. I do. I like that, Houses of the Holy. Excellent title for the Temperance ~ Hierophant Tarot Birth Card Pair.
Jordan Hoggard
September 11, 2020 at 5:03 pm
Timothy, Here’s the specific link to the “Fives: Birth-Placing Identity” for your Tarot Birth Cards from my 9-part series. https://jordanhoggard.com/2011/04/09/fives-birth-placing-identity/
Timothy Price
September 11, 2020 at 7:19 pm
Thanks, Jordan. I reconize those cards, but had no idea they were my birth cards.
Jordan Hoggard
September 11, 2020 at 8:06 pm
Youāre welcome, Timothy. Did you use the Tarot School Birth Card Calculator to find them, or did you already know?
Timothy Price
September 11, 2020 at 9:46 pm
I used the calculator you had a link to. I had seen the cards in your posts, after looking at you post on the two cards, but I had know idea they were associated with my birth until I checked out the birth card calculator.
Jordan Hoggard
September 11, 2020 at 10:10 pm
Thatās pretty cool. Glad you checked it out. Do your Tarot Birth Cards cards resonate with you?
Timothy Price
September 11, 2020 at 10:25 pm
I get in trouble with religious types, especially fundamentalists, but also middle of the roaders, for my perspectives on theology. I’m more in line with the early Christian theology, which is mostly Jewish theology, before all the Platonic views of Heaven and Hell were brought into Christianity and the Catholic Church became obsessed with the Devil ā who, BTW, is not in the Old Testament. I’ve been kicked out of four Methodist churches. Do you know how hard it is to get kicked out of a Methodist church? I’m a bit of a theological rebel I suppose. If you think that fits into the houses of the holy, then the cards resonate.
Jordan Hoggard
September 12, 2020 at 2:42 am
I do, And, youāve got me howling laughing. I grew up Methodist with a grandfather who was a Methodist Minister and a Dad who was a Professor of English, Greek Tragedy, etc, and he was the same with the early Christian beliefs. I remember on day in conversation with him I started laughing way loud, and he stopped a little puzzled, and āWhatās so funny?ā āDad, you said Judeo-Dhristian. Cummon. Youāve got the Judeo part all right. ā.He just started beaming smiling, āThatās fair. Here let me show you the best translation of the Bible without all this modernity Biblical hijacking from centuries of poor translation.ā My grandfather was similar and got moved around as he was a ātroublemaker.ā Meaning he had an IQ of around 180 and spoke his mind and called anyone and everyone out in that Churchill way of tact… Telling someone to go to Hell in such a way that they look forward to the journey.
Iām right there with you, Timothy. I believe in Nature. And, as David Bowie said, Heaven and Religion are for people who don;t want to go to Hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have already been there.ā
Yup, the Old Testament didn;t need the Devil. āThe Devilā lived comfortably within the wrath of the characters. š The Modern Devil is just a convenient, metaphorical and allegorical literary crowd control device. My joke about the Bible is that itās simply the most grammatically correct book on the planet. It better be as many edits as itās had. š
Timothy Price
September 12, 2020 at 11:00 am
I love the Wesleyan tradition of the old Methodist theology. Very solid and sound. It’s been hijacked these days. We had a few Jehovah’s Witnessed who worked at the office. We had monthly birthday celebrations for everyone born in any given month. Of course, the JWs don’t celebrate birthdays. I asked one of our JWs what the problem with birthdays was. She said Jesus didn’t celebrate birthdays in the Bible. I asked her to show me any passage in the Bible where Jesus went to the bathroom. Even one where he “…pisseth against the wall”. Otherwise, she should not ever go to the bathroom because it doesn’t say Jesus went to the bathroom in the Bible. She was stunned and said “but but that’s a given.” I said celebrating birthdays was a given, also.
Jordan Hoggard
September 12, 2020 at 12:06 pm
Ohhhhhh… Snap click click BOOM. That’s beautiful, Timothy. I love that. Yes yes, on the Weslayan tradition. We had a lot of John Wesley talk more than anything at First Church (FUMC) growing up. I tend to resonate with most pre-hijacked stories/traditions. They’re like watercolors. One stroke too many goes straight from beauty to the bin.
Yes yes, our expectations and assumptions are our given, the 1st step in any given geometry proof of experience. I try to keep in mind, “Inspect what I expect. Inspect my expectations.” At least that way I have half a chance for both ears to work, especially when difference plays in in promontory level ways. Keeps the faith of listening and empathy married in discernment without second-guessing. … the old, “You never really know until you ask” statement.
Plus, I love the Jesus turning over the money changers. There’s a lot there. Rite of passage in child becoming the parent of the man becoming his own hatching from his heritage, as the money changers were Jewish People who took the job no one else wanted to do. Turning over the money changers at 12… because he was an only child throwing a tantrum in the onset of puberty? There is simply so much to work that can be done with any given passage. One year I started typing the whole thing into a Word doc with triple spacing between the lines so I could open up the literal and metaphorical and alllegorical and personifications and and and in the spaces between the lines. I think I got a bit over 150 pages in, and other projects moved it off the front burner. Still a fun idea. Long, certainly, though long in that well worth it in the experience of the process of doing it regardless of the outcome.
Jordan Hoggard
September 12, 2020 at 2:44 am
I think that resonates in the houses of the holy, The Temple In Man. Know Thyself. Heartfelt SIlverback Hierophant rather than some stuffy old unbending traditionalist white male as the Hierophant on a bad day.
Jordan Hoggard
September 12, 2020 at 2:51 am
So, I do know how hard it is to get kicked out of a Methodist church. Almost impossible. I should give certificates and badges Of honor x 4.
Jordan Hoggard
September 12, 2020 at 10:50 am
Plus, In addition to believing in Nature, or steeping in it rather than faith or belief, my predisposition os towards the GAWD deity when the female was not cloaked and closeted as the Holy Ghost, when the masculine and feminine were required together to form one complete identity, none of this lop-sided one-sided mumbo jumbo not as good as gumbo stuff.
Ah yes, fundamentalists and middle-of-the-roaders — just a great way to get run over. I always grin a little when I hear a fundamentalist or fanatic. Used to piss me off, then one day it came to me. Wow, fundamentalists have the most piss-poor fundamentals of the lot. Birds with only one wing, imbalanced, can’t get out of the circular prison of their own flight path, grooving further and further into being stuck on the move… in the same arc of direction. Orbit is cool, though stuck? Not so much. Fundamentalists take the fun out of fundamentals, are pretty much just mental
Timothy Price
September 12, 2020 at 11:16 am
That’s a great way to put it.
Timothy Price
September 18, 2020 at 5:23 pm
Death seems like a strange birth card. My 59 seconds says “Darn you cats!” More cool etched copper cards. I like the way the etched copper looks. I don’t see a contact. I have a funny country song to send you.
Karen Sealey
September 20, 2020 at 2:22 am
I like band of blue sky across the central line. Also I like the stance of the fool head thrown back followed by head down IX, VIII, 7ofP like a set of Russian dolls.
Jordan Hoggard
September 20, 2020 at 8:46 am
Me as well Karen. The configuration of this reading with its overlapping suits, Knights facing right ā outward on the move ā and the Major Arcana Fool qualifier cards and 7 of Pents all facing down and to the left ā inward, with the 2 of Cups ā most crucial emotional connection to Self and others as the center expresses a wonderful balance where all the cards together raise their hands and heads to say, āAlso, make sure to look at us with Bob Placeās 3-Card Message Reading Chart where the ways we are facing has a message as well.ā I believe it is in his book āTarot and the Sevenfold Mystery,.ā
Your idea of the cascade of cards at the bottom being like a set of Russian nesting dolls dials in to the unfoldment there in a robust and visceral way. Thank you.
Jordan Hoggard
September 20, 2020 at 8:49 am
Also, I love that the reading tuned it limit/boundary/identity to end up with the 7 of Pentacles who I call the Soul Gardener card with his foot out over the clouds not on the ground. And, Wald Amberstone of The Tarot School has referred to the 7 of Pentacles as āThe Depth of Aboveā which full-on resonates with me.
Karen Sealey
September 20, 2020 at 9:09 am
Soul Gardener 7 of P – very cool and very you! š
Jordan Hoggard
September 20, 2020 at 11:53 am
Thank you.
Karen Sealey
September 20, 2020 at 9:08 am
Yes, I did note the Kns but didn’t mention as that felt like teaching granny to blow eggs š
Karen Sealey
September 20, 2020 at 9:11 am
Or suck even š¤£š
Timothy Price
September 20, 2020 at 10:54 am
I was a blue baby, which sucked up a lot of sunshine, I believe.
Jordan Hoggard
September 20, 2020 at 11:55 am
The lack of oxygen from cyanosis would suck up a lot of sunshine. Fro what I experience of you, though, your creativity and humor and intellect are no worse for the wear?
Timothy Price
September 20, 2020 at 12:09 pm
You know how Red Green says āIf the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.ā Well that goes for blueness, as well ā at least fool em with creativity, humor and bloody awful songs!
Jordan Hoggard
September 20, 2020 at 12:58 pm
Especially the bloody awful songs.
Timothy Price
September 20, 2020 at 1:22 pm
Those are essential.
Karen Sealey
September 23, 2020 at 6:29 am
“TheImagination” š
Karen Sealey
September 23, 2020 at 6:29 am
Thelma…
Karen Sealey
September 23, 2020 at 6:36 am
Though my brain read that as Thelema… I need new glasses or possibly more sleep! š¤
Jordan Hoggard
September 23, 2020 at 10:05 pm
Lol, b/c I was like āThelma and Louiseā? Cool, I should watch that movie again some time.
Karen Sealey
September 23, 2020 at 10:19 pm
Me too! People at work get twitchy when I mention that film… It amuses me to glance in rear view mirror as they check their seat belts š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
September 23, 2020 at 10:04 pm
Whereās Louise? Or, the cliff? Oh, The Fool took care of that for me. š
Karen Sealey
September 23, 2020 at 10:20 pm
You know the director cut that scene just before the car turned into Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Jordan Hoggard
September 23, 2020 at 10:32 pm
I did not know that. Thank you. I think if the Director hadnāt cut that scene, they Would have segued into Christine and also The Carās sets. š
Funny, I now remember Brad Pitt was in that in a pre-Brad Pitt role.
Karen Sealey
September 23, 2020 at 10:35 pm
Funny… I was also remembering Brad Pitt… What were you saying? š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
September 24, 2020 at 12:59 pm
He does have that kind of presence, majestic Presence As Architecture..
Karen Sealey
September 24, 2020 at 2:03 pm
Sagittarians scrub up well.
Karen Sealey
September 24, 2020 at 8:15 am
š¤£š¤£ There’s an age limit on MBTI? Most Bunkham Test Invented? How come it doesn’t have to carry a “For entertainment purposes only” disclaimer?
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 24, 2020 at 7:42 pm
Don’t know about anyone else but it wasn’t a good day today. I’m a little Erin Brockovich whistleblower on a project in my city and it’s been exciting, that’s cool, but then got a hoover email from the one who triggers my PTSD so that has a physical effect on me that takes days to clear. I literally do not understand why anyone would want to pull the wings off of a butterfly.
Jordan Hoggard
September 24, 2020 at 8:00 pm
A(wo)men to your Erin Brockovich whistleblower, and I hear you on the dayās qualities. I was immersed in work, so somewhat insulated though I could feel the wolves at the door so to speak of The Moon, Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn all in a close grouping in Capricorn. Very Saturnian Harsh quality flowing over through the other three.
I just didnāt answer the door and let them move on along to bully elsewhere, though I mined their pockets to line my own a bit as the turnabout felt to be fair play, consequences of the unwelcome knocks. It felt like a day where if someone opened with a knock knock joke that my 1st inclination would be to say, āDoorās open,ā to shut it down.
Iām sorry to hear that one of those types who viscerally triggers you where the concussion of the impact reverberates across several days. That butterfly torture image is powerful, and not in any good way whatsoever literally and/or metaphorically. The weakness of cruelty is such an abomination of an effort. And, who could do that to Beauty? That That it is an outrage is what comes to mind in regards to pulling the wings off a butterfly.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 24, 2020 at 9:45 pm
Thank you, it’s been a struggle. I told him that once, that what he had done was so very cruel, I am a true innocent, to pull the wings off…and I don’t think he’s capable of comprehending, a narcissist /ZERO empathy for anyone but himself. Always the victim. I don’t know how to permanently cut the psychic cords/trauma bonds, not after 29 yrs. With all the planetary stuff going on on top of personality disorders, I think I’ll just stay home and make more mini-chimes for my fairy garden hahaha. Stay strong and healthy yourself!
Jordan Hoggard
September 24, 2020 at 10:14 pm
Can you simply cease all contact with him? May sound deceptively simple, though regardless of encumbrances or responsibility or pets or even children, it sounds Like an unhealthy drag. Are you able to cut the contact and specifically block the number(s) email(s)? Those kinds of people tend to orbit back around every 2-3 months like clockwork, and I will say you have zero responsibility to respond at all. Ever.
Is that an option? If not, is it doable to make it one?
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 24, 2020 at 11:24 pm
I have, I have told him that I will get a restraining order because he was showing up uninvited and with gifts, and calling incessantly — (he had a real psychotic break a couple months ago) and it slowed down his communications, but every 3weeks he’ll still contact me and it’s not enough harassment to get a TRO but I get affected emotionally. I do not respond, I am completely no contact, but I keep them in case I need them for the TRO. I have an attny that will do it no problem but I really just want him to stop. We have no minor children, he did what he did, destroyed our family, and I accept that. What he really wants is me PLUS all the others and can’t accept my NO means NO. So sorry to vent!
Jordan Hoggard
September 24, 2020 at 11:38 pm
It sounds to me like I would recommend that you needn;t keep the contacts anymore. Sounds like you have plenty for a fact structure for your atty? Invoke the TRO and move on. Cur. Cut the cords legally, and let others take responsibility for the situation.
No problem you venting. None at all. When itās time, itās time. It does, though, sound like itās time to let your (atty) allies take the wheel and drive him right out of your life.
You have a beautiful way about you. Mermaids. Gardens. I bet the Mermaids would have already made him fish food. Kudos for sticking in there, though… does sticking in there translate into taking responsibility for things you shouldnāt? Delegate it to your Attorney(s) and be done with it. It obviously upsets you, and if you continue to allow that, then YOU are continuing to allow it regardless of who has responsibility for instigating it.
Does that make sense?
Jordan Hoggard
September 24, 2020 at 11:44 pm
ANd, the gifts. Oh boy. Always the gifts, as if he isnāt enough on his own. That sounds like a full-on Angler Fish. OHHHHH Shiny! And, then gulp, back into the poison stomach.
I made an Empathic SIlence Mirror one year when my situation was both a Her and her Daughter of same. I am more thankful for that moment than most any other. ALL them. Their words. No affect on me. No cause for me to affect a role in that context anymore.
I say =, engage your attorney(s) and be done with it. Isnāt it simply holding you back? If so, thatās now on you. You have zero responsibility to engage things that are not healthy for you, regardless of how much sense they make. Your truth is not in the hands of others, though I sense it is being fondled by him. And, thatās not acceptable, is it? Your NO means… nothing other than Get Out. Play the horror movie, GET OUT. Along with your attorney(s)… bye bye to that detriment?
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 25, 2020 at 10:28 am
The only issue tying us at all is that I am dependent on his financial support. Thanks to him, I never worked, only supported his businesses. Im sure it was part of his control issues, but hindsight and all that. That is his only thread to me. If only I had my own source of income but I don’t. I still don’t have to talk to him, but that makes him feel entitled to manipulate me. I am so so sorry you have had a similar experience. Only those of us who have endured this hell can understand it. That’s for sure. I’ve had enough therapy and done enough research to comprehend people like that but when you are a real person with real emotions and ability to really connect, it’s HELL. Again, thank you for letting me vent and I’m sorry if my story triggered you.
Jordan Hoggard
September 25, 2020 at 11:40 am
Youāre most welcome. Better to vent than stuff. Gotta keep the insides fresh.
Oh, thatās the only issue? Thatās a big cord to cut.as you are the balance once it is cut to pre-assure you are on your feet when you do. If you decide to build a self-support system so you can uninstall the cord, please accept my compliment to your courage. It takes courage for you to live and endure in that kind of connection where itās dependent rather than interdependent.
Not to worry, no trigger over here. My several years of that + 3+ years of Brainspotting has me in a place around those kind of people where I have empathy and compassion for them as … as Robin Williams out it, āthey may need it the most,ā THOUGH personally, for me, it helped me develop an awareness to sniff it out and do my level best to steer clear… as, the best way to argue a Narcissist is… to not do so. Theyāre like the Tar Baby in the Brer Rabbit story. Once touched, itās damn difficult to get that stuff off. I see how that puts you in a precarious position. I will say, though, you DO have your garden, flowers, and butterflies. I think I learned more from my garden than I ever did from any teacher.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 25, 2020 at 12:31 pm
Thank you so much for your wise words. I have a friend who told me about brainspotting, so you’re the second one. I am working very hard to heal from what happened. Any and all suggestions are helpful. Hindsight again, but if only I hadn’t devoted my entire life to him and supporting his ideas, I could have been financially independent. It’s what I tell young people now. Oh well. It’s me that needs to learn how to handle the triggers; I gave up trying to help him or get him to go to a psychiatrist or a shaman or a neurologist a long time ago. It is what it is. There must be a lesson for me in it that I’m not learning. I’ll try harder.
Jordan Hoggard
September 25, 2020 at 12:49 pm
Youāre most welcome. Maybe trying harder is part of the problem? In Brainspotting, itās when I relaxed, let go, literally surrendered and only listened in Empathic Silence (my phrase, nothing official in the Psych community to my knowledge) when… thatās when things opened up infinitely, and at the same time became almost literal and simple and clear. Iād be curious what your experience of it would be. It took about 3 sessions for me to get out of my head and also simply acclimate out the primal distrust of something new. Itās when I realized that rather than resisting letting this Brainspotting thing in through my Inner Castle Walls… āOH! Duh. Lol, Why Am I closing myself of from myself?ā BOOM, the 1st Part just appeared. Thereās a wonderful book I recommend by Richard C. Schwartz and Internal Family Systems, āYou Are The One Youāve Been Waiting For.ā Hereās a link to it on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Youve-Waiting-Internal-Family-Systems/dp/0615249329
Yes, glad you gave up trying to help him, and help yourself to your own inner self-support instead. Good for you.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 25, 2020 at 5:01 pm
Thank you, I’ll check that book out asap!
Jordan Hoggard
September 25, 2020 at 8:44 pm
Excellent. Itās one of the only one of its type I recommend. Reading it is almost like, āOf course! Though wait, I already knew That…ā Oh, itās almost so simple that whether I knew ot or not, it gave me a whole different perspective and tool set from the subtle shift of perspective. It intensely dials in, and continues to provide many wonderful Self-experience assets.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 25, 2020 at 8:56 pm
What an awesome testimonial!
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 25, 2020 at 8:58 pm
OMG the price for the book on Amazon is $39, I’ll try to find it somewhere else, that’s a bit pricey for me.
Jordan Hoggard
September 25, 2020 at 9:04 pm
I saw it for like $15-$21 somewhere. Iāll see if I an find the link. It was like $60+ on their direct site.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
September 25, 2020 at 9:06 pm
Thank you!
Jordan Hoggard
September 25, 2020 at 9:08 pm
On their site, $25 https://ifs-institute.com/store/37
Itās always been pricey, though the value is worth it. Itās not just another self-help book. I found it to be self-support.
Jordan Hoggard
September 25, 2020 at 11:51 am
Itās interesting, too, that Carl Jung himself believed in the fluidity of peopleās attitudes that continually develop their Type, though:
āAs Malcom Gladwell writes in the New Yorker:
… Jung didn’t believe that types were easily identifiable, and he didn’t believe that people could be permanently slotted into one category or another. “Every individual is an exception to the rule,” he wrote; to “stick labels on people at first sight,” in his view, was “nothing but a childish parlor game.”
I like that at it is in support of how we transcend the Type in our multi-variable play called life. Thereās another quote from Jung that all but dismisses out of hand Type-ing people, which makes me smile as he also has a book titled… go figure, āPsychological Typesā which was the basis for the Mother~Daughter pair of Myers and Briggs to generate the MBTI. I look at the 16 square columns of varying heights indicating MBTI Type not as a static freeze frame, but a snapshot of a cyclic moment. Hit play on the MBTI Chart in 3-D, though, and it looks like a 4 x 4 16 bar equalizer with all the bars going up and down aspirating the personality like cylinders in an engine depending on what music or Silence is playing. Hmmm, I think thereās a blog in that last and this thread. Cool
Karen Sealey
September 27, 2020 at 1:55 pm
You write in books?! You’re dead to me! Oh wait, no… This is very neat, carry on!
I love your Soul Gardener that looks like a composite of all your other images.
Jordan Hoggard
September 27, 2020 at 8:52 pm
Thank you, Karen.
Karen Sealey
October 1, 2020 at 12:19 pm
Loving the Starman Zentangle š¤©
Jordan Hoggard
October 1, 2020 at 1:53 pm
Thank you, Karen. š
Karen Sealey
October 1, 2020 at 4:34 pm
Iolite! The Viking’s Compass! Just took the last few hours to skim through the dusty corners of the useless trivia section of my brain, to pull that out… š¤£š
Jordan Hoggard
October 1, 2020 at 5:56 pm
Exactly the intent of my reference! š I have a sterling silver 7-pointed Alchemistās Star necklace pendant, somewhere, has gone missing, that has a round price of Iolite at the center… the confluence of directions. Yes, the Vikingās Compass! Itās a dichroic stone, refracts light differently from each side. Have a square chuck of it with a black dot on the top, and it projects down through the stone. You turn the stone to align the dot, and even at night you can plot direction. Iām not telling you anything you donāt know, though expanding the Vikingās Compass so otherās can kneel before the Google Oracle and ask in the search bar and discover it, too. š
Karen Sealey
October 1, 2020 at 9:58 pm
I hope your pendant turns up. š
Jordan Hoggard
October 2, 2020 at 3:53 pm
Thanks. It’s probably right under my nose somewhere just out of sight.
Karen Sealey
October 2, 2020 at 5:11 pm
Maybe, though it does sound like the kind of treasure that house sprites like to borrow… You have to tell them give it back or else! I’ve never had to follow through on an or else (which is lucky, as I have zero to back it up with š¤£) š
Jordan Hoggard
October 2, 2020 at 7:55 pm
Yes, it does. They probably have it as a plate ceiling to navigate their Borrowers nights. š
Karen Sealey
October 2, 2020 at 8:30 pm
That sounds pretty cool, I think you should let them keep it! š¤
Timothy Price
October 4, 2020 at 8:49 pm
How many times we repair our cracked and broken bodies, psyches, and teeth. I’ve had gold to replace a tooth, but everywhere else seems to be a lot of dust mixed to a sticky mud to make the repairs. Always a lot of dust to bite.
Jordan Hoggard
October 4, 2020 at 8:58 pm
Yes, well put. A lot of dust to bite. Though, keeping the sails tacked towards gold, knows and Astro Nodes set….the anodes an cathodes of life can burn us indelibly into… always what we are… like a way cool cake you made. THAT is an exquisitely amazing post all around.
Anyone reading this, please visit Off Center & Not Even for an amazing post. Cake is involved. How can you go wrong? Seriously, go experience it.
Timothy Price
October 4, 2020 at 9:17 pm
Let us eat cake. Just like Marie Antionette didn’t say. I’m really happy you like the cake post. That type of effort is work recording and sharing.
Jordan Hoggard
October 5, 2020 at 5:36 am
Lots of work. Lots of reward more than even the cake. Excellent post. Life was in there.
Timothy Price
October 11, 2020 at 7:39 pm
The guy on the card makes me think of Superman. The photo of the frost patterns on the car? The patterns are amazing.
Jordan Hoggard
October 11, 2020 at 7:54 pm
Thanks, Man! I love that description. Well played. And, the frost patterns on the car? Yes, very much yes. When I came out in the morning to retrieve something I inadvertently left the evening before when I got home…. WHOAH!!! OH BOY go RUN and get the camera! Such a stunning experience in all the right ways.
Timothy Price
October 11, 2020 at 9:06 pm
That’s a bloody excellent collection of poetry with gargoyles, dragons, and a vampire’s dialogue. Gargoyles are very cool ā an acceptable way to release the depraved nature of creativity common among artistic types. I love the thought of enslaving traitorous gargoyles.
Jordan Hoggard
October 11, 2020 at 11:34 pm
Thank you, Timothy. Much appreciated. The Prescient Remembrance poetry collection has 6 sections of poems to tell the story and runs about 40+ pages. 43 including cover, title, and Table of Contents. All for a whopping $1.21.
Your interpretation of the gargoyles being traitorous is interesting. Hmmmm.
Timothy Price
October 11, 2020 at 11:48 pm
You take poetry however it hits you.
Jordan Hoggard
October 11, 2020 at 11:52 pm
Oh yes, I get that. And, I like that it transcends intent, and thatās pretty kick butt to me. I appreciate you chiming in from how it hit you. Big nods to your comment. Pretty rockinā actually.. It also got me thinking, and planted a seed of another perspective for some other work. Thanks much. Not what I expected, and that makes me like it even more.
Timothy Price
October 11, 2020 at 11:55 pm
Gargoyles have endless possibilities. So do dragons and vampires. But dragons and vampires are played up much more than gargoyles.
Jordan Hoggard
October 11, 2020 at 11:57 pm
Yes, definitely. Thereās so much there. History, lineage, unknown futures, and their stillness and being downspouts… Like photography, they feel to be secretly active freezeframes of intensity and unknown powers. Iāve always been fascinated by them.
Laleh Chini
October 15, 2020 at 8:29 pm
Love Tarot.ā¤ļø
Jordan Hoggard
October 15, 2020 at 9:41 pm
Me as well. .ā¤ļø Thank you for chiming in your resonance, Laleh.
Laleh Chini
October 15, 2020 at 10:05 pm
My pleasure.š
Jordan Hoggard
October 15, 2020 at 10:08 pm
š as well.
Timothy Price
October 16, 2020 at 10:44 am
I like how you walk through sacred architecture, tarot and places in verse. I know all abut that 30 minute drive, often more, twice daily. For a long time now I’ve pondered and questioned is contemporary sacred architecture sacred? Are we seduced by the romantic allure of ancient architecture to believe it is truly sacred? Is it the longevity, the style, the craftsmanship of iconic sacred buildings? I have been in many old cathedrals and monuments and there seems to be a Devine presence in those structures that I have never felt in the contemporary “neo-bank” style of many churches today.
Jordan Hoggard
October 16, 2020 at 11:52 am
Thank you, Timothy. Much appreciated.
Iām with you on that about the sacred, and I donāt feel seduced by an allure of ancient architecture as a rule, more that Iām its willing consort.
It feels to me to be about depth and materials. A good amount of modern architecture feels more concerned with form, read in: persona, than the feel of the space. I donāt get bullied away from styles I donāt care for if their spaces have a developed feel.
I will say that Iāve never felt the sacred in plastic or Tyvek or Dryvit. I feel there is an earth-born, natural materials quality that begins to drive sacred, then the composition and how the spaces are formed and feel, etc etc.
āNeo-bankā Love that as a description. I often call Post Modern, Post Menstrual. Just cramps oneās style. Have to raise my eyebrows and not even lend an eye roll. More a ok, move along… nothing of value to see here.
Karen Sealey
October 16, 2020 at 11:03 am
Integrated armor? Armour? Amour…?
Jordan Hoggard
October 16, 2020 at 11:53 am
Armor All. Makes the tires shiny. š Or is it Amor All that makes tires shiny?
Karen Sealey
October 16, 2020 at 12:02 pm
Lol yes! That one Amor! You know what us Brits are like sticking U into everythung…
Jordan Hoggard
October 16, 2020 at 1:25 pm
I wondered why I was everywhere. U Brits keep putting the U of Me in words. Like a Tar Baby, just canāt get U out of the words. š
Karen Sealey
October 16, 2020 at 1:30 pm
Yeah… Blame us Brits but we all know Cher started it with her I’ve got U babe š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
October 16, 2020 at 9:41 pm
Ha! I think Aristotle started the U, and he most likely was riffing off Heroditus or vice versa… and then The Egyptian chime in with The Bangles. š
Karen Sealey
October 16, 2020 at 9:45 pm
U think therefore U is š
Jordan Hoggard
October 16, 2020 at 9:45 pm
Xactly. š
Timothy Price
October 16, 2020 at 12:16 pm
Yeah for Scorpio. That’s my sign.
Jordan Hoggard
October 16, 2020 at 1:26 pm
Excellent. Youāve got the cool cats to work it.
Holly Troy
October 16, 2020 at 9:25 pm
Congrats on the article! So wonderful!!
Jordan Hoggard
October 16, 2020 at 9:42 pm
Thank you, Holly! Much appreciated! I finally rounded my troops and marshaled the forces. Itās a wonderful new milestone in a moment re-starting point.
Holly Troy
October 17, 2020 at 11:36 am
it’s wonderful to have the recognition and support with the restart. a nod from the universe.
Jordan Hoggard
October 17, 2020 at 11:44 am
Excellent stuffstance… like substance, just chock full of more fun with breathing room accounted for..
Holly Troy
October 16, 2020 at 9:26 pm
A. T. Mann is wonderful. I love that visual as well!
Jordan Hoggard
October 16, 2020 at 9:44 pm
Yes, A.T. Mann is wonderful. He was an awesome guest on my Inner State Highways show back when I was doing that. Which reminds me… Iāll email you about something I have simmering as a rue to collaboratively cook up. š
Holly Troy
October 17, 2020 at 11:37 am
yum! exciting
Jordan Hoggard
October 17, 2020 at 11:43 am
š ok, I have a handle on the rue to present to you and co-create collaboratively discuss. Iāll email you here in a few.
Holly Troy
October 19, 2020 at 1:42 pm
hurray
Timothy Price
October 18, 2020 at 3:42 pm
All the Radio Flyers are long gone from my life. The only wagon I have these days is a garden cart. I have a lot of kitty-litter buckets and old rusty shovels that are good for playing in the gopher dirt. Gopher dirt is clean, fluffy dirt. The cats love to roll in gopher dirt. I think you could make a board game called “Brainspotting”. If you fail to spot the brain you get sent to the Man-Womb where you have to earn a new birth unless you have a “Squeeze out of the Man-Womb Free” card.
Jordan Hoggard
October 18, 2020 at 3:53 pm
Oh I am howling, Timothy. Thatās hilarious! And, sounds like it actually has some potential to be hilariously made real. Weāll have the Community Vessel Cards, and the Do Not Pass Go and Go Straight To The 9th Level of Hell, and instead of Chance Cards, Serendipity Cards.
Gopher first would be great for the game, too. Pass GOpher Dirt and receive $200. The quality of use of the kitty litter buckets and rusty shovels could be two of the Player Pieces…
Timothy Price
October 18, 2020 at 4:29 pm
All that has great potential. You could work gophers into the game. I have a short video of an angry gopher who really told me off for flooding out his hole irrigating. Gophers are aggressive little rodents.
Jordan Hoggard
October 18, 2020 at 4:50 pm
Gophers would be good. They can be the Underworld Beasties. And, we should have a pool and a pond, āYeah Carl, I think the pond would be better for you.ā
Yes, they are Spartan little guys. They mean business. I wonder if gophers are Honey Badger Seeds.
Timothy Price
October 18, 2020 at 6:26 pm
Could be gophers are related to Honey Badgers. One night we came home and all seven cats were in a circle in the middle of the floor. I turned on the light to find a gopher in the middle of the circle holding his own against that septet of felines. I put the gopher outside and closed the kitty door so the cats couldn’t go out and bother him anymore that night.
Jordan Hoggard
October 18, 2020 at 8:14 pm
Gopher doesnāt take any predator guff. Way to go gopher. Get that little guy a peach or saffron cape.
Timothy Price
October 20, 2020 at 10:14 pm
I love that frost photo. It’s amazing.
Jordan Hoggard
October 21, 2020 at 3:33 am
Thank you,Timothy. I still smile just as bright, wide-eyed as the morning I first saw it. I remember just standing there in the cold with my key poised to push the button, and just standing there mesmerized. Phone?Whereās my phone? Picture picture. Holy shit, I left it in the house. I must have moved faster than a kid for the ice cream truck.
joliesattic
October 21, 2020 at 12:22 pm
ooooh, frost. I remember in Colorado, at certain times of the year, you would get this glistened Popsicle effect on the trees in the mountains and if the sun was out it was even more impressive. Right?
Jordan Hoggard
October 21, 2020 at 12:24 pm
Yes. Very much so. I remember that popsicle effect. It felt like the trees were playing a slow-form Nature cartoon. Mesmerizing.
joliesattic
October 21, 2020 at 12:27 pm
Yes! It was very fairy like. Hubby doesn’t miss the snow, but I do. I love the peacefulness of it.
Timothy Price
October 23, 2020 at 9:01 pm
Cool scribble.
Jordan Hoggard
October 24, 2020 at 7:33 am
Thank you.
Laleh Chini
October 24, 2020 at 12:34 pm
It’s a beautiful art, and very interesting.
Jordan Hoggard
October 24, 2020 at 12:54 pm
Thank you, Laleh. Much appreciated. Loving the smile you just gave me.
Laleh Chini
October 24, 2020 at 1:43 pm
My pleasure.
Bonnie
October 24, 2020 at 1:39 pm
These are absolutely gorgeous!
Jordan Hoggard
October 24, 2020 at 1:40 pm
Thank you so much for the wonderful accolade! š
Bonnie
October 24, 2020 at 1:40 pm
Even your altar is beautiful art.
Jordan Hoggard
October 24, 2020 at 1:41 pm
š That means a lot. Much appreciated!
Timothy Price
October 24, 2020 at 2:20 pm
Beautiful doodles and artwork. A real compass set. Wow! I’s impressed. I have one around somewhere, but I have drafted by hand in years. There was my early days of cartography when I had to do projections by hand. What a chore that was. Then it was GIS, now I write scripts to tie databases to OpenStreetMaps and GoogleMaps. How times have changed. For me anyway.
Jordan Hoggard
October 24, 2020 at 5:54 pm
Thank you. Thank you, Timothy.
Karen Sealey
October 24, 2020 at 3:42 pm
Jordan, I knew that you’d rise to the challenge. I knew you’d create something beautiful! Though the resonance upon seeing this for the first time was beyond measure. And as for drawing in a symbol that my daughter always hides in her cards and notes to me… How is that even possible? Thank you so much for this priceless treasure xx And even more so, thank you for being you as only you can be! (I think I might have stolen that last line from somewhere? āļø)
Jordan Hoggard
October 24, 2020 at 5:56 pm
š A(wo)men, Karen! I love that the ānoseā was drawn in and then OH!… nope, keep it. It is what it is, drawn. Must have had a place. Thanks much for the confirmation that I am not interfering with my hand moving through the Doodles, so they chime in to strike chords to resonate in ways where reasons are unreasonable, and what I create has life. š
Karen Sealey
October 24, 2020 at 9:41 pm
YW and I’m pleased you didn’t edit out but went with. Tubular bells dinging and singing wine glasses ringing out IT LIVES! IT LIVES! IT LIVES! ššš¶ Music for my eyes!
Jordan Hoggard
October 25, 2020 at 8:40 pm
What a wonderful comment and compliment, Karen. Thank you! ā ššš¶ Music for my eyes.ā I love that!
Karen Sealey
October 25, 2020 at 10:26 pm
š (music for my eyes – yeah, I’m secretly quite pleased with that one š¤£) Y>W & TY š
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 12:22 am
As well you deserve to be. Music for the eyes embraces how I see beauty in peoplesā art, and beauty in general, and Iām resonant you have attributed music for the eyes to my work. Thank you. š
Karen Sealey
October 26, 2020 at 2:49 am
“Music for the eyes embraces how I see beauty” ditto. Your aesthetics always hit the šš¶ for me š
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 3:07 am
Thank you. Such a rockinā accolade! š
Karen Sealey
October 26, 2020 at 4:54 am
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sloppy buddhist
October 24, 2020 at 4:58 pm
indeed beautifully created…I appreciate the details…and that you have fun Jordan ~ sending joy hedy āŗļøš«
Jordan Hoggard
October 24, 2020 at 5:57 pm
Much appreciated, Hedy. š Thank you. š«
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
October 24, 2020 at 11:26 pm
Really beautiful, and I’m fascinated by your process of creation.
Jordan Hoggard
October 25, 2020 at 8:42 pm
Thank you very much.
Timothy Price
October 26, 2020 at 9:55 am
Nothing like spilling a little simple beauty.
Kally
October 26, 2020 at 11:35 am
Amazing read. Made me think and ponder in depth. You may want to use a copyright free pic of your lighthouse so that it doesn’t have the labels all over your pic. Here are some copyright free lighthouse pics I found: https://www.pexels.com/search/lighthouse/?orientation=landscape
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 11:41 am
Much appreciated, Kally. Excellent idea on the lighthouse. Thank you!
Karen Sealey
October 26, 2020 at 2:18 pm
Wow! š§”
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 2:30 pm
Thank you! š§”
Karen Sealey
October 26, 2020 at 2:32 pm
That would make a good book cover for a ghost story…
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 2:34 pm
Funny you say that. When I finished, my head bounced around a little with, “Are people going to ask you where the Peach Leaf Portal book is?” It was all there just not written, or even conceived. Just was in a grand potentiality. š
Karen Sealey
October 26, 2020 at 2:37 pm
š
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 2:37 pm
š
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 2:32 pm
I love that I just noticed the ghostly Straw Person image in the middle of the left side with his or her hand reaching back, and chest forward looking up. Serendipity strikes chords to resonate with thematic synchronicity.
Karen Sealey
October 26, 2020 at 2:33 pm
That was the first thing I saw…
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 2:35 pm
š I smile that I was too focused on everything else. Once the creative straw settled… there it was.
Karen Sealey
October 26, 2020 at 2:39 pm
Too funny! You give masterclasses on exploring your blindspots… š
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 2:41 pm
Now that just bonfired some wonderful ideation… āMasterclasses in Exploring Your Blind Spots.ā š Love that. When you let it flow with action and a firm grip on the wheel until you dial in and let go to simply surf…
Karen Sealey
October 26, 2020 at 2:44 pm
Go for it! š
Timothy Price
October 26, 2020 at 3:17 pm
Looks great!
Jordan Hoggard
October 26, 2020 at 3:22 pm
Thank you!
Timothy Price
October 31, 2020 at 10:16 am
Great artwork.
Jordan Hoggard
October 31, 2020 at 10:17 am
Thank you. Thank you very much, Tim.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
October 31, 2020 at 11:08 pm
Happy Halloween and Happy Samhain, too!
Jordan Hoggard
November 1, 2020 at 6:51 am
Thank You! Happy Dio de Los Muertos!
Timothy Price
October 31, 2020 at 11:36 pm
I really don’t want to think about or imagine Uranus cracking a seismic smile, or cracking anything seismic for that matter. Now harnessing up my inner LUNAtic, and taking it out for a gallop I can gopher.
Jordan Hoggard
November 1, 2020 at 6:56 am
Excellent. Youāve got me rolling, Tim! Yeah, I donāt like to imagine that, either, though in Taurus the seismic rumble is in the foundation of a remodel… like big inner demo to make for a courtyard or cloister a stead of one, big, stuffy house. Once Uranus leaves Taurus, Iāll be galloping right there with you with my Inner LUNAtic as itās probably faster than me. I could gopher a gallop about now, though I am needed on site to supervise the oculus install. Budget cuts. Courtyard or Cloister too far out of budget. Had to value engineer the foundation out and put in some framing monies to arrive at an oculus that fits budget. At least it will be operable, so the original intent came through. š
Timothy Price
November 1, 2020 at 10:07 am
It’s amazing how budgets on projects go astray.
Jordan Hoggard
November 2, 2020 at 1:21 pm
It is. And, sometimes a combo of being too tight on the front end estimation/sales versus actual cost that production is highly aware of.
Karen Sealey
November 1, 2020 at 4:33 am
Vroom! š
Sharmishtha
November 5, 2020 at 1:29 am
Loved the lighthouse pic, it is a fantastic imagination! great post.
Jordan Hoggard
November 5, 2020 at 6:18 pm
Thank you, Sharmishtha! I thoroughly appreciate your accolade.
Sharmishtha
November 5, 2020 at 3:23 am
happy halloween!
Jordan Hoggard
November 5, 2020 at 6:19 pm
Happy post-Halloween as well! May the thinned veils bless you with clarity.
Sharmishtha
November 5, 2020 at 3:24 am
fantastic art!
Jordan Hoggard
November 5, 2020 at 6:20 pm
Oh, thank you! I appreciate that, Sharmishtha! Thank you very much!
Holly Troy
November 5, 2020 at 12:48 pm
marginalia – I love marginalia!! I do it all the time.
I love seeing other people’s notes in books. The dance does not end at the production of a book – hopefully it is just the beginning.
-A(wo)men
Jordan Hoggard
November 5, 2020 at 6:21 pm
Marginalia. Oh, how cool, a word Iāve never heard before. Wow! Thanks Holly. Vocabulary like Poi Dog Pondering clouds just increased by exactly +1. š
Holly Troy
November 6, 2020 at 12:59 am
Yay!
Holly Troy
November 5, 2020 at 12:53 pm
thanks for the share of the Halfbreeds. More lost tapes coming – of just plain old weird projects.
Jordan Hoggard
November 5, 2020 at 6:22 pm
Youāre welcome. Happy to. Love the plain old weird projects. Heart and soul, rather than form and pretty, is often more evocative.
Holly Troy
November 7, 2020 at 11:12 am
totally digging the videos and Verdaluz Rhythm Sanctuary!
Jordan Hoggard
November 7, 2020 at 12:48 pm
Thanks, Holly! Verdarluz is an Astrologer and Shaman I knew in Denver who is now in Asheville, NC. He and Jocelyn Mercado just launched the Bridging Dimensions Mystery School https://www.wearesacredplanet.com/bridging-dimensions-mystery-school . I went to an Astrotheology webinar earlier this week that they put on. Wonderfully resonant.
Holly Troy
November 7, 2020 at 5:18 pm
whoa – I am looking forward to checkin gout their work! Thanks!
Jordan Hoggard
November 7, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Youāre welcome! I thought you might resonate. š
They are closing the 13-month Shamanic Initiation offering a little later this month, limiting it to 30 people I believe. I will not be able to attend as a big portion of it is on Wednesdays at 1p EST, and I already have a standing C.G. Jung Advanced Reading Group I am in and deeply committed to.
Ver is the real deal. Him teaming with Jocelyn speaks to me that she is as well. Wonderful work they are doing!
Holly Troy
November 7, 2020 at 6:29 pm
Thanks again!
Jordan Hoggard
November 8, 2020 at 10:38 am
Youāre welcome! Most welcome.
Alan Houston Cree
November 9, 2020 at 1:12 am
Hello Jordan, my Account is currently playing up and comments were somehow deleted. I would like to try and reconnect. Apologies and thank you for All of your Support so far.
Jordan Hoggard
November 9, 2020 at 9:07 am
Hi Alan. Glitches happen. No need to apologize. Welcome back, and youāre welcome.
Karen Sealey
November 9, 2020 at 10:30 am
I’ll come back and watch this in its entirity, but the part I did watch (yours) was brilliant! Good to hear your voice š
Jordan Hoggard
November 9, 2020 at 1:02 pm
Much appreciated, Karen. Thank you for the accolade! š
Karen Sealey
November 9, 2020 at 5:23 pm
YW! š
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 2:16 pm
I have an entire book of troubles, of diamonds.
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 2:20 pm
Sacred Adornments o experience more permanent than tears?
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 3:45 pm
indeed! in fact, from tears to laughter in some cases
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 2:17 pm
so glad you survived the mountain slide
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 2:20 pm
š You make it sound like a carnival ride. Chutes n Ladders, anyone?!! š Thatās rockinā
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 3:45 pm
Chutes n Ladders to another dimension
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 4:52 pm
Pretty much. Iāve had dreams about it where I saw 9 of me slowly churning back up that scree field. I did intense Soul Retrieval work years before Brainspotting after those dreams as it felt like I was shedding whole Self Strata as Ballast over and over to keep lightening the load over and over to keep going and live.
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 5:29 pm
lightening the load – so much ballast tumbling slipping away
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 2:19 pm
I have an entire book of troubles, of diamonds.
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 2:20 pm
so glad you survived the mountain slide
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 2:21 pm
āYOU must be at least 42ā high, not pregnant, and with no hypertension.ā I say, āWhat if Iām pregnant with ideas?ā Ahhh GO on in son. I should have listened to the sign. š
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 3:46 pm
but look at the story you birthed!
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 4:55 pm
š Yes! This one. āDeath and My Greatest Crux ~ The 5th Ace.ā āBlood and Sand.ā A bit like the movie ā127 Hours.ā Itās not lost on me how much life and death was packed into 11 1/2 hours that day and night.
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 5:30 pm
turning point! eternal
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 6:53 pm
Itās the most intense and strongest experience of my life to date. Such a goldmine for the last several years once I worked through just how intense it was. Iaugh, though, still some things there as trauma can be lifelong. Once transformed, itās an ally. I laugh, though, as I watched āFree Solo,ā Alex Honnoldās free climb of El Capitan. It took a several sittings to ease in further and further, and then just be able to take it as my hams would just go ZZZZZZZZZZ like they were plugged into an outlet and fully putting the brakes on to not slip over the edge or to my death. There wasnāt much technical climbing the day of My 5th Ace, more the technical climbing of making every step and every continuous motion count… to live. :), I came up with Sand-Aids that night. Warm feeling down my temple lying there on the cornice at midnight after pulling myself over. I had stood up and must have collapsed-fallen. Warm feeling. Put my hand across, sticky, wet. Oh, Iām bleeding. Hmmm, heads are good at that. So, I ease to the cornice edge and reach down to the sand that almost killed me and scooped and packed and patted my whole head to stop the bleeding. Sand-Aids… not available at Walgreenās.
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 8:11 pm
Sand-Aids! lol What didn’t kill you made you stronger – for really real.
I have a difficult time watching climbing – always my stomach drops. I love mountain biking, but not so much when there is a ton of exposure.
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 8:42 pm
I get the exposure piece. I used to hop up on 42ā high guard rails and walk and spin and and and… my balance was just seriously trained in that, āso just donāt step anywhere except ON the rail.ā Then, the climbing accidents. I get 5 feet from a drop-off and I am lobster-tailing in reverse feeling like I jello about to flow over the edge… the only thing solid then are my legs that I might be able to power a city with for a the bzzzzzzzzz. Lol. I respect the stomach part. I get it in my legs. Itās almost like riding the edge of the sidewalk as a kid and when you start having to TRY to stay on, you go off in the crease and yard… like the thought told you and leaned you into it. I can have a clear mind most places unless Iām by a drop-off. Then, I become hyper-aware and move away so as not to set in some new trauma by slipping. I feel the current experiences and stories that go with them donāt need any more āHelpful, amplifying chapters of similar.ā š
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 9:27 pm
i get the shaky leg – can’t control it. There have been a few times where I have had to get off my bike because my legs just start shaking. and then, the rest of my body follows suit.
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 9:57 pm
š I get that. When we were climbing sometimes, and someone got stuck around a crux, holding on in one place too long, and a leg would star to blow out, start shaking, one of us would lean in and quietly, āGot belay, take?ā Nodding, whoever was on belay, the belayer would usually yell up, āOH, Look at that leg! Heās Elvis-ing.ā
Holly Troy
November 10, 2020 at 11:58 pm
yup! Elvis leg!
Jordan Hoggard
November 11, 2020 at 7:40 am
š
Jordan Hoggard
November 11, 2020 at 7:44 am
And, whatās funny is, if you let the seismic Elvis-ing quakes break your focus, then the laughter would start and shake you right off the rock with the hugest smile… all of us just laughing with hilarious tears kind of laughing as you were lowered back down. The 1st time someone said it, we all, including my friend on the rock just bust out laughing. He might as well been blasted off the rock by a cannon he was T-boned so hard by FUNNY… āYou shake my doors and you rattle my brain, hmmm hm hmmm hmm hm.ā DOOD, you donāt know the words all hummin n stuff? Word up, man. It was funny all around. Good times.
Timothy Price
November 10, 2020 at 3:08 pm
Now that’s awfully darn close to slip sliding away.
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 4:49 pm
Yes, it was. 2,000-2,500 vertical feet of slip sliding away down the North Face scree field. Between 2p in the afternoon at almost 60 degrees F to sun going behind bowl and storm starting to brew to midnight back at the top hugging the basalt cornice in shorts and a T-shirt at 19 F, to 3:30a at base to balmy 23 F.
Timothy Price
November 10, 2020 at 9:31 pm
The 19Āŗ F might have helped. Like being put on ice.
Jordan Hoggard
November 10, 2020 at 9:59 pm
I think it did. That was one of the 1st things I had to meditate out as I made my way up the scree field, to have it simply be a sensation instead of pain. And, I gather it also help me dial in my heart to cruise control at 51 or so, so I wasnāt bleeding energy in systems over-exerting… like setting in for a long leg.
Holly Troy
November 24, 2020 at 9:28 pm
holy crap
Jordan Hoggard
November 24, 2020 at 9:32 pm
Those are certainly two words I resonated with then, Holly. And now. HOLY CRAP… yes, it was.
Holly Troy
November 24, 2020 at 10:45 pm
phew!
Nicole
November 11, 2020 at 4:07 pm
so am I,
Jordan Hoggard
November 11, 2020 at 10:04 pm
Thank you, Nicole.
Laleh Chini
November 12, 2020 at 8:28 am
Me too.
Jordan Hoggard
November 12, 2020 at 2:21 pm
š
Jordan Hoggard
November 14, 2020 at 3:10 pm
I really donāt know that Night Vision and Inner Vision are very different from one another… other than To connect with darkness and Shadow within VERSUS To connect with Darkness in shadows outside. When I practice one, the other is correspondingly enhanced without fail sans dout. Iād say itās like Non-Local Mind, except for the fact that I live in the perpetual present, and Inner Vision and Night Vision confluence to mix together right in all my senses… so their commonplace connection in my experience makes the distance local at the level of 0ā – 0ā away… the same distance away as the perpetual present.
Nicole
November 14, 2020 at 5:11 pm
Im getting deep dark, devotional, a space to feel tomb death, rebirth, a place to fee all you have never felt before. a place were power truly is there for you. to feel into. a lot dont, scared everyone is too scared. so they stay in their houses there boxes there labels,, its time to break free.
Jordan Hoggard
November 14, 2020 at 8:05 pm
Excellent read of the image, Nicole! Nodding in resonance.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
November 14, 2020 at 8:34 pm
Really good read, thank you! Especially good tonight with this moon situation.
Jordan Hoggard
November 14, 2020 at 8:55 pm
š Thank you. Scorpio Moons are intense, and as well Mars sent out quite a blast of energy early evening yesterday. Of note is that Jupiter joined Pluto in Capricorn yesterday kicking of a major shift in power. And, Mars went direct to Station yesterday evening, 11/13, at 7:36p. Mars Stationing Direct makes it a grand time to take a leap and be amplified by the intense burst of energy released. It is also all to easy to get T-boned and be put off balance. Turn to re-adjust without stubbornness, and acclimate to re-direct yourself where you were going.
* Note: All times given are EST In the USA.
sloppy buddhist
November 14, 2020 at 9:57 pm
…. re-adjust without stubbornness, and acclimate to re-direct yourself where you were going…thanks Jordan āŗļøš good to know š¤
Jordan Hoggard
November 15, 2020 at 12:01 am
only if you get knocked off course a bit. š Itās like a big energetic wind gust, most of which was felt as really intense early yesterday evening EST. Itāll ripple/concussion blast wave cascade an influence for sure for… Iād give it a month to acclimate to it…Basically, keeping your wits, and picking yourself beck up. For you specifically Iād recommend securing your camera leash to you even more than you may already do.
sloppy buddhist
November 15, 2020 at 9:01 am
A camera leash oof…I wear my little black box like a necklace…Iāll hold on Jordan ~ thank you hedy āŗļøš
Jordan Hoggard
November 15, 2020 at 10:42 am
I figured you had it covered further than how I could suggest. It may have been selfish really, to make sure I can continue to enjoy your exquisite images. š š
Timothy Price
November 15, 2020 at 3:15 pm
He did have a wonderful voice. May he rest in peace.
Jordan Hoggard
November 15, 2020 at 6:33 pm
Yes
Karen Sealey
November 16, 2020 at 4:47 am
ā¤ļø
Laleh Chini
November 16, 2020 at 11:02 am
I believe that. <3
Jordan Hoggard
November 16, 2020 at 11:08 am
<3
Sharmishtha
November 18, 2020 at 1:43 am
great artworks Jordan!
Jordan Hoggard
November 24, 2020 at 12:20 am
Many thanks, Sharmishtha!
Karen Sealey
November 18, 2020 at 6:55 am
That’s an intense video!
Jordan Hoggard
November 24, 2020 at 12:19 am
Yes, and one of my faves!
Karen Sealey
November 24, 2020 at 8:11 am
I ended up watching it 5 or 6 times on loop…
Karen Sealey
November 18, 2020 at 7:41 am
Listening to the radio a few weeks back, I learnt a new word – eigengrau, the dark grey colour your brain perceives in total absence of light. The radio presenter quoted it as being the colour you see when you shut your eyes… I terrified one of my passengers by declaring – No, that’s wrong! I see mostly red. I tried it out whilst sat at traffic lights then said it after I pulled off. Made my day to hear my passenger shouting – Wait! Wtf Karen? Are you driving with your eyes shut? Yup! What’s the problem? I often take a nap and you’ve never complained before… š¤£ Laughter is divine right?
Jordan Hoggard
November 24, 2020 at 12:19 am
Divination Driving! ANd… Uber was never the same again…
Karen Sealey
November 24, 2020 at 8:08 am
Lol “Divination Driving!” I did actually shout that the other week when I hit a road closure, followed diversion signs which just dumped me in the middle of nowhere lost in the dark on dirt tracks… Satnav telling me to u-turn back to the closure… Oh FFS! Divination Driving! No idea how I got to where I had to get to nor how I still managed to get there on time… š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
November 24, 2020 at 8:18 am
š !!
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
November 20, 2020 at 2:58 pm
I like your reminders and tips about trauma, facing it head on with compassion instead of running away to the land of Denial. Have a great weekend!
Jordan Hoggard
November 20, 2020 at 9:21 pm
Youāre so welcome! I appreciate the feedback that my posts are valuable. That means tons. Thanks much for the accolade! Big smiles over here.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
November 20, 2020 at 9:52 pm
I don’t always follow your mind (it’s like my son’s book, philosophical erratica walking along a path of granite)but I admire and respect your gray matter and associated spirituality.
Jordan Hoggard
November 21, 2020 at 6:54 pm
Thank you! What a wonderful accolade to receive. I appreciate that. It means a lot. Thank you for sharing that with me. š
Karen Sealey
November 24, 2020 at 8:21 am
š š®
Karen Sealey
November 24, 2020 at 1:00 pm
Huzzah! šāļø
Jordan Hoggard
November 24, 2020 at 2:01 pm
Thanks much!
Holly Troy
November 24, 2020 at 1:46 pm
perfect!
Jordan Hoggard
November 24, 2020 at 2:03 pm
š Thank you!!
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
November 25, 2020 at 11:02 am
Beautiful poem, but I have differing views on a safe harbor concept. It seems to me that in certain circumstances, a ship is safer out to sea cos it can avoid or outrun a storm on land. Or not. Sometimes the storm is ON the ship. Strange thoughts, I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving!
Jordan Hoggard
November 25, 2020 at 11:10 am
Have a happy Thanksgiving as well! Thank you!
All great points, and all applicable and valid.
I sailed my intent that ships are safe in harbor, though thatās not what ships are for… meaning to get out there and do what ships do, set sail into their life including navigating the storms. Like sharks… on Mondays, are they complaining? Nope, they are naturally up and biting stuff and swimming and doing shark stuff.
I find the ultimate safety is to not protect myself from Natureās intensity, but to embrace it and live it to whatever degree I am able.
Thanks again for your comments. Thereās also:
Red sky at night, sailorsā delight.
Red sky in morn, sailors take warn.
I see no problem whatsoever, though, with pulling the boat out of the water and moving as fast and as far inland as possible to not be right in a tsunami or hurricane… or getting out to see and moving around the storm. Intentionally putting oneself in harmās way is self-destructive and generally just a bonehead thing to do. š
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
November 25, 2020 at 12:06 pm
Well said!
Jordan Hoggard
November 25, 2020 at 4:22 pm
Thank you!
Laleh Chini
November 26, 2020 at 10:58 am
That was deep, beautiful.
Jordan Hoggard
November 27, 2020 at 1:00 pm
Thank you very much, Laleh.
Laleh Chini
November 27, 2020 at 1:39 pm
My pleasure.š·
Spirituality Awakening
November 28, 2020 at 3:37 am
Very well written Jordan… š
Jordan Hoggard
November 28, 2020 at 5:54 am
Thank you very much for the accolade. š Much appreciated.
sloppy buddhist
December 2, 2020 at 8:38 am
…instead of disappearing inside to become a trigger where the trauma is always kept fresh…that powerful to me and so is the idea of historical friends…I also learned a lot about gardens this past summer now Iām into ice āŗļøš¤ thanks for this Jordan ~ smiles hedy
Jordan Hoggard
December 2, 2020 at 8:42 am
Youāre welcome, Hedy! š + with smart glasses š
Susi Bocks
December 2, 2020 at 1:56 pm
Such a variety of info, Jordan. Thanks for sharing it all as well as the praise of I Write Her. <3
Jordan Hoggard
December 2, 2020 at 3:33 pm
Thanks much, Susi. I appreciate you being present there, and best to it opening people up to your work. <3
Jordan Hoggard
December 2, 2020 at 7:32 pm
Again, I appreciate that, Susi. My goal is to enact some community of people finding people they might not have otherwise.
Susi Bocks
December 2, 2020 at 8:58 pm
I think that’s a great goal, Jordan! š
Jordan Hoggard
December 3, 2020 at 12:40 pm
Thank you, Susi! š
Jordan Hoggard
December 4, 2020 at 8:33 am
Thank you for sharing, Anisionogueira. Much appreciated so others can discover his work.
Bonnie
December 4, 2020 at 9:07 am
Happy Birthday
Jordan Hoggard
December 4, 2020 at 9:10 am
Thank you! š
Holly Troy
December 5, 2020 at 6:31 pm
this – “Reasons are often unreasonable . . . ” yes!
Jordan Hoggard
December 6, 2020 at 10:54 am
š Thank you!
Holly Troy
December 6, 2020 at 2:02 pm
yes. love. “Creativity is not a diagnosis or a malady or a disorder.”
Jordan Hoggard
December 6, 2020 at 5:56 pm
Thanks much!
Holly Troy
December 6, 2020 at 2:40 pm
lovely
Jordan Hoggard
December 6, 2020 at 5:57 pm
What a wonderful word of an accolade to receive. āLovely.ā Nodding. I guess Iām easy. One word to make my heart sing and soar. Thank you, Holly.
Holly Troy
December 6, 2020 at 6:53 pm
then it is the right word!
Jordan Hoggard
December 6, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Yes, it is! Go You!, and I appreciate the support!
Karen Sealey
December 12, 2020 at 4:41 am
If I’m awake, I’ll tune in š
Jordan Hoggard
December 12, 2020 at 10:36 am
Excellent. Thank you. š
Karen Sealey
December 12, 2020 at 8:52 pm
I lost track of time. Can you please let me know where to watch catch up? š
Jordan Hoggard
December 12, 2020 at 9:54 pm
I sure will. Once the YouTube LiveStream is posted to Skipās site Iāll send you a link. Odds are by by mid-day here/evening there tomorrow if not sooner.
Karen Sealey
December 12, 2020 at 9:56 pm
Thanks Jordan.
Jordan Hoggard
December 12, 2020 at 9:57 pm
Youāre welcome.
Jordan Hoggard
January 8, 2021 at 4:29 pm
Iāve just gone out and picked up the Participation Mystique links and embedded the ones to date here. It will make it easier to experience them as a series. Enjoy!!
sushibocks
December 19, 2020 at 7:17 pm
Thanks for the praise, Jordan! You, sir, have a delightful way with words. Your kindness is appreciated. I enjoyed the statement “If something can be destroyed by the truth, it should be destroyed by the truth, or destoried by it.” Agreed! Nice selection of things to research. Have a good night!
Jordan Hoggard
December 21, 2020 at 11:33 pm
Youāre welcome, Susi! And, I thoroughly appreciate your accolade! Thank you. Have a great night!
Timothy Price
December 22, 2020 at 12:00 am
That is quite a title. Wow!
Jordan Hoggard
December 22, 2020 at 12:26 am
Thanks!
Karen Sealey
December 22, 2020 at 1:54 am
Stuffstance! šš
Jordan Hoggard
December 22, 2020 at 2:08 pm
Thank you!
Karen Sealey
December 22, 2020 at 2:03 am
“I made it to the curb” – my UK brain likes the way I read that as opposed to how I’d read it spelled as kerb š
Jordan Hoggard
December 24, 2020 at 12:46 pm
Password: Community
Timothy Price
December 29, 2020 at 11:08 am
Meditation before coffee? Hmmm. That just might be a sacrilege as far as the coffee lobby is concerned. Love the cat photo. When I was racing bicycles one of my training partners swore there were a coffee lobby and conspiracy that made coffee available everywhere. He didn’t buy my supply and demand reasoning that there was a lot of coffee available because people wanted coffee. He considered coffee a bit like cigarettes, get you hooked, and make you pay. Maybe there is a little truth behind the madness.
Jordan Hoggard
January 1, 2021 at 11:51 am
Maybe more than a ālittleā truth there. Overtly, and hiding in plain sight, too. š
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
January 4, 2021 at 11:04 am
Happy New/Now Year! It’s all just another day/year for me, hope good things happen for you in 2021.
Jordan Hoggard
January 6, 2021 at 6:08 am
Yup, every day ends in ā y .ā I can get behind that. Thank you. Happy Now Year!
Timothy Price
January 7, 2021 at 10:13 am
I love the title, and the idea of looking beyond the temporal sense of everlasting into at least the implied essence of immeasurability and intelligibility into the realm of immortality.
Jordan Hoggard
January 7, 2021 at 1:29 pm
Thank you, Tim. Love your description. Nodding big.
Timothy Price
January 11, 2021 at 1:32 pm
When I get those “I think I’m full of crap!” feelings, I don’t really believe what I think, but I love what I thinking anyway.
Jordan Hoggard
January 11, 2021 at 1:36 pm
Yeah, for me those āIām full of crap/donāt know anythingā feelings usually happen when Iām not doing that particular thing. I swat them away like the flies they are. All they really indicate is that that thing is resting, as I tend to not spend much, if any, energy on things Iām not doing. If Iām walking my dog, the thought, āI donāt know shit About Tarot or Astrology or Carl Jung or Architecture or Poetry or Alchemy or ad infinitum, ad nauseum.ā Of course just hand me a Tarot card and that thoughtās more than all gone washed back out to sea so to speak.
Timothy Price
January 11, 2021 at 1:40 pm
At least we know we don’t know shit about anything, because we know there is always so much more shit to know about everything. I wish a lot of other people would figure that out.
Jordan Hoggard
January 11, 2021 at 1:54 pm
Yup, because knowing is the thing cast into the mold of the Logos, whereas the things giving us thoughts live in the Eros… until they emerge. Better to have them born alive than stillborn. That way others can resurrect them from their perspective when they engage and interact. Like I donāt know that I necessarily make art. I simply work. I feel it becomes Art once someone else viscerally interacts with it and is moved. If they are not moved, for them, said in a hillbilly accent, āthat āartā not to be on da wall.ā
Timothy Price
January 11, 2021 at 2:07 pm
I like a lot of “off the wall” art.
Jordan Hoggard
January 11, 2021 at 2:33 pm
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Timothy Price
January 11, 2021 at 9:51 pm
Our late freezes and early frosts have thrown many of our rosebushes into the abyss. Or at least the rose afterlife.
Jordan Hoggard
January 12, 2021 at 11:07 am
Yes, this year the winter sleep of plants has been tossing turning nightmares. Iām good, though I see plants as being confused. Some squirrel tales bushy like hard winter, some thin Oscar Meyers like nothingās happening. Nature is a bunch all over the place. Iāve reined into simply, ādo I need a coat or a fleece or not?ā to literally simply weather it, or wear the weather, though not in a way to let that confusion interrupt my own inside. I basically wouldnāt hire this winter. Itās too confused. It is what it is, though I have no compulsion or impetus to allow it to drag me into the mucky muck of its lack of wherewithal. Itās very flippant. Will still kill ya, though, nonetheless flippant.
Timothy Price
January 16, 2021 at 11:06 am
I never ask that question. It’s a dumb question. Dogs are nice to those who belong in the pack, and vary in the niceness they show to outsiders. Dogs can be quite xenophobic. I talk to the dogs, not the owners, and the dogs seem to appreciate I’m paying attention to them and not their people. I love the old classic joke played out by Inspector Clouseau when he asks the man if his dog bites. The man says “No!”, Clouseau reaches down to pet the dog and it bites him. He says “I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite?” The man replies “That’s not my dog!”
Timothy Price
January 16, 2021 at 11:15 am
BTW I know how that shark feels.
Jordan Hoggard
January 18, 2021 at 8:14 am
š Amen on all!
Karen Sealey
January 18, 2021 at 7:35 am
Out of curiosity – have you been blanket bombed by Operation X? They nearly exploded my phone this morning with 100+ likes in a matter of a few minutes… Wtf?
Jordan Hoggard
January 18, 2021 at 8:13 am
Yes. I just unfollowed them, and commented on their blog about 100 likes in under 3 minutes to not like unless they have read. If necessary, I will make efforts to report and block them. They just hit 3,000 followers and are in a manic mode. Iāll check back in the next several days to see if theyāve calmed down. Plus, cutting them off at the knees will be more effective when they are not all hopped up .
Karen Sealey
January 18, 2021 at 8:23 am
That’s my first knowledge of them today and I am bamboozled as to how they made 3000 followers. I’ll just idly wish that they accidentally sit on a nest of fire ants…
Jordan Hoggard
January 18, 2021 at 8:33 am
Me as well. And, I received not only likes on my blog, but an email for every like they placed on comments I made on yours.. I am wondering if they are playing in a presenteeism-everyone-gets-a-trophy culture that nurtures weak people, and makes people weak. Appalled is a word, though Iām not even going to grimace to get to that point. Not worth it. Itās a day that ends in āy.ā They all do. And, I have no desire to let some bullshitic āItās a Mondayā come into my life where my office is mine rather than going into someone elseās and re-starting the bitching for the week. I donāt re-start the bitching, as I am generally positive AND donāt stop bitching.
Bitch on with a š ! Heck, there have to be enough intelligent people and Engineers in Hell by now that I bet they have central air.
Karen Sealey
January 18, 2021 at 8:40 am
“bullshitic” š¤£ I’m stealing that and I’ll see you in Hell š¤£
Angel Like
January 28, 2021 at 9:09 am
Well Described Queen of Swords
Jordan Hoggard
February 4, 2021 at 5:04 pm
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Angel Like
February 14, 2021 at 3:32 am
My Pleasure š
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
February 10, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Wow, I was finally able to follow again, so weird. I’m staying quiet during these intense energies, it seems the safest plan. Have to say, I had to do quite a few unavoidable errands today and everyone was EXTREMELY kind today, even friendly–so YAY! Hope you are well.
Jordan Hoggard
February 11, 2021 at 9:49 am
Excellent. Love that you had a great foray outdoors on errands. I also like that people seem to be dealing with intensity more beneficially these days.
I am well, thank you. Best to you being well, too.
Karen Sealey
February 11, 2021 at 9:02 am
I’ve got a few beasties not so much named but filed under – Oh, you again… They go quiet when I yawn at them š
Jordan Hoggard
February 11, 2021 at 9:54 am
š Thatās an EXCELLENT folder. I just stole that to make one for myself… well, actually covered the existing ālow orbit burnerā scribble with a sticker label with THAT! Hmmm, they suddenly went even more quiet… where are they going to re-emerge?… OH! Iāll change ALL the labels and look for their Time Bandits confusion when they frantically look around at all the signs not knowing which tram to take. š Big Ole LOL. I have them NOW! š … nahhhh, it gives me time to RUNNNNNNN. When I hear a rumble, itās not, āOh how cute, the earthās moving.ā More like, āHoly EFF, here comes Godzilla.ā
Karen Sealey
February 11, 2021 at 9:58 am
š¤£Have it! If they come creeping back, it’s much like bored kids, you tell them you’ll find them a job to do and poof! Vanished into the ether without trace š¤£
Jordan Hoggard
February 11, 2021 at 10:30 am
Love it! āI hear your urgency. Mow the lawn, and then weāll talk about it.ā LOL, the melodrama will have evaporated before they finish. š Mellow, instead of melodrama, is actually pretty wonderfully intense.
Karen Sealey
February 11, 2021 at 10:36 am
š You just zapped back in time to remember this… https://youtu.be/_ebnjO9XEpU š
Karen Sealey
February 11, 2021 at 10:36 am
*zapped me š
Jordan Hoggard
February 11, 2021 at 10:57 am
š Thatās 12 seconds of hilarious!
Karen Sealey
February 11, 2021 at 11:00 am
š
Timothy Price
February 12, 2021 at 8:26 pm
Always best to fail when there is someone else who can take the blame.
Jordan Hoggard
February 13, 2021 at 8:42 pm
Lol. That sounds like pranking. Love it.
Timothy Price
February 13, 2021 at 11:00 pm
As the cauldron stirs with doodles and Jung. How fun is that?
Jordan Hoggard
February 14, 2021 at 2:44 pm
Nodding. Yes. Very much, yes.
Jordan Hoggard
February 14, 2021 at 2:45 pm
As the cauldron stirs, these are the days of our lives. š
Timothy Price
February 14, 2021 at 2:55 pm
It’s kind of sad to think we know what these soaps are. Aspects of cultural past, scenes neither of us may have probably never seen bubble up into humorous, or possibly humorless jibes.
Jordan Hoggard
February 16, 2021 at 9:11 am
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Karen Sealey
February 24, 2021 at 10:13 am
š!!!
Timothy Price
March 13, 2021 at 9:19 am
Cool drawing.
Jordan Hoggard
March 13, 2021 at 12:13 pm
Thanks much, Tim!
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
March 24, 2021 at 1:34 pm
How annoying! I’m sorry to hear this!
Jordan Hoggard
March 25, 2021 at 1:04 am
Thank you! Yes, annoying is certainly a word for it. Then again…it happened. I am one to be TOO careful with what arrives on my āputers. Goes to show…why worry about s=throwing caution to the wind. The wind is going to come, anyway/ š And yes, this one blew me away. Oh well… weāll see how this shakes out. I have a friend who owns a cyber security firm on it. I smile that even as owner and Founder, he has never changed his title. Ethical Hacker.
Weāll see what happens, though me as Architect has already begun to build the new Temple on the foundations of the previous, regardless.
Maybe I was just skiing and caught some air. Weāll see where this lands…
I WILL say again… Thank you for, āannoying.ā You can capitalize the 1st letter or the whole word at will, and I will nod. Again, thank you!
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
March 25, 2021 at 2:19 pm
SO good to have an expert you can call upon when needed! I was going to say “frustrated” but so many things have been annoying lately on a personal and global scale that it seems to be my word of choice to describe certain situations and people. I hope you get it all figured out, glad to hear you were skiing, I’m so jealous.
Jordan Hoggard
March 26, 2021 at 10:54 am
š Thank you. Smiling, the āmaybe I was just skiing and caught some airā was more an inside joke with myself. I havenāt been skiing in forever. Itās a feeling I get sometimes when I get thrown of the horse so to speak like when catching air skiing and you relax your tuck so that standing in mid-air causes you to feel waaayyyyy off balance… rather than holding the tuck until just before landing and SLAP, down go the feet on the snow to land well. Basically, I felt like I was flying through the air with the greatest of ease, though no trapeze to catch. The other thing that comes to mind is if your car has a governor at 150 mph and you fly up and through that speed and UH OHHHH the fuel injectors cut out and you basically have a 4-cylinder turbo with no turbo and no fuel injection and no power… feels like floating, though pretty much on the eyes wide terrifying side the 1st time… OFF the gas, wait for the drop, slowwwwly get into the brakes just a bit until back down to 120 and then get into the brakes to 90 and realize BREATHE DOOD as I was holding my breath the whole time.
Iām glad you thought I was skiing. It brought up a wonderful set up images and motion/balance sensations and feelings. Excellent stuffstance. Thanks much.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud
March 26, 2021 at 3:31 pm
You describe the feeling perfectly. It makes me chuckle cos I’m such a Taurus and SO literal sometimes!
Jordan Hoggard
March 30, 2021 at 10:04 am
:D. Thatās great. Love that Taurus visceral accuracy quotient!
Karen Sealey
April 4, 2021 at 11:20 am
Much better than Old McD’s take š Happy Hols Jordan!
Jordan Hoggard
April 4, 2021 at 2:49 pm
Thanks a lot, Karen! š Happy Hols as well!
Karen Sealey
April 4, 2021 at 4:03 pm
Cheers! š
Jordan Hoggard
April 10, 2021 at 5:44 pm
Cheers!
Karen Sealey
April 10, 2021 at 4:15 pm
A day sky full moon? Yup! Now you’ve said that, my brain says – well d’oh! Obviously! What else could it be…
I like that A LOT! š
Jordan Hoggard
April 10, 2021 at 5:44 pm
š Yup, it only took 500 years until I was 7 years old to figure out, and then another 46 years to lay it out there. š I brought it up in a webinar today, and had the response from a very knowledgeable person, āI haven;t ever seen that.ā
Cool, I thought. Iāll blog it to make it my own. 1st full-on original thought in a while, and now? (C) me 2021. And, it gives me a whole new forensic, visual history tool to play with and track back through… Nope, it can stay right there. My Acorn. My Fool Acorn that has the whole deck within. Ok, if you insist. Time to start designing another deck.
Karen Sealey
April 10, 2021 at 5:57 pm
Old McHoggard had a deck E I E I š
Karen Sealey
April 10, 2021 at 5:53 pm
Oh I absolutely insist. Now crack on! š
Laleh Chini
April 15, 2021 at 11:06 am
Hi Jordan, if you are interested I can email you my book āSorooshā for your wonderful review. I loved your effort on reviewing āClimbing Over Grit. Let me know. Much love.
Jordan Hoggard
April 25, 2021 at 5:13 pm
Hi Laleh! Great to hear from you. I would love to experience your book āSorooshā. Do you have my email?
Laleh Chini
April 25, 2021 at 6:19 pm
Appreciate it dear. Email me your email lalehchini@yahoo.com -your reply means a lot .š
iotaserpentis
April 24, 2021 at 5:49 pm
I like the spirit of iconoclasm here and you definitely have a point. Who wants to be considered a zero after all? I’m sure the Fool would agree with you!
Jordan Hoggard
April 25, 2021 at 5:13 pm
Thanks much! Excellent comment. I appreciate the nod.
rajeev patel
May 1, 2021 at 5:56 am
Infinite number š
Jordan Hoggard
May 1, 2021 at 10:02 am
Excellent, Rajeev. Yes. And, O, circle, is as well infinity. And, if you twist a circle, like a rubber band with your hands, it folds over itself to become the lemniscate, the infinity symbol.
rajeev patel
May 2, 2021 at 4:15 am
yes, Thank You š
Timothy Price
May 10, 2021 at 4:15 pm
Architecture has major implications on our health, both physically and mentally. One of the specializations of the company I work for is facility programming and post occupancy evaluation. We don’t do a lot of POE because people don’t really want to know how badly their precious architectural designs function. I can walk into most buildings and tell if they have been programmed for their intended use. Unfortunately, a lot of architects tend to be more interested in design elements and there egos than making functional spaces that work well for the inhabitants.
Jordan Hoggard
May 10, 2021 at 4:29 pm
Yes, you are full-on preaching to my choir on that. Though, with Don Ruggles and Melissa Mabe, this is nowhere near that. This is the poetry of visceral beauty in built form so necessary, like visual breath, for the health of the Architecture of Our Well-Being.
Iām not going to associate this post with those architects. No need for me to poison the beauty so to speak.
Thanks for your survey of whatās wrong with Architecture and Contracting, and I appreciate that you do what you do. Itās unfortunate that architects in general donāt want tO learn from their mistakes to be Architects. As Nietzsche said, āIf you are not making mistakes, youāre not making anything.ā To which I don;t believe in mistakes. I call them OFLs ā Opportunities For Learning. Donāt waste Trouble, engage and enact with your OFLs, and make diamonds and sapphires, and rubies out of misfortune.
kinge
May 14, 2021 at 11:14 am
Very insightful. There’s beauty in the broken-mended
Jordan Hoggard
May 14, 2021 at 11:47 am
Thank you, Kinge!
kinge
May 15, 2021 at 3:09 am
Welcome
Karen Sealey
June 1, 2021 at 11:47 am
Earlier today I was thinking back to a conversation I had with Emily Carding about her depiction of The Tower in The Sidhe Tarot. Whereas as in other decks, the lightening bolt comes from outside, in her card, the cleansing flash cones from inside of you… Reading this post reminds me again of that conversation. I can say from personal experiences that deciding FUCK YOU! I’m not your food! blows things apart and clears your space in a good way…
Good post Jordan, I like this a lot š
Jordan Hoggard
August 3, 2021 at 5:57 am
Thanks much! Love the lightning from the inside!
Karen Sealey
August 3, 2021 at 7:20 am
Yup! Me too ā”š
Karen Sealey
August 3, 2021 at 10:46 am
Yup, me too ā”š
Timothy Price
June 1, 2021 at 2:02 pm
I love the art work. Well I could go on an on about salvation, Hell, Heaven, souls and all the places I doubt they gone when we die. But maybe one’s philosophy puts one in one’s destiny in the afterlife. Plato had souls falling from heaven into bodies and longing to get back to heaven, yet they could be condemned to Hell. Gnostics had a hell of a time trying to find the secret to get their divine sparks past the evil Archons in the heavens blocking their access to the Pleroma. Jesus simply promised resurrection of the body, life everlasting and heaven and earth coming back together for all time. It’s amazing how it’s all become so mixed up, giving people so much anxiety about their salvation.
Jordan Hoggard
August 3, 2021 at 6:04 am
Yup, I sidestepped Plato and Aristotle and the Gnostics. Personally, in one form or another they have worry and shame and explaining oneself to another as some requirement for this or for that. Validation is for effin parking. We donāt need to go anywhere. Be present now, inspect what you expect, donāt waste trouble, deal with life now in the perpetual present confluence of past memories and future dreams confluence go to form the presentā¦ and deal with and donāt waste trouble AFTER you smile back at Deathā¦ which seems to come more and more for inanely over-used memes. Maybe Death has just become recycling?
You make a great point. Yes, anxiety about salvation seems like a very bonehead oxymoron of a combo. I say pick one. Anxiety, or Salvation. They mix less than oil and water.
I say make anxiety walk the plank, then forget about salvation, and be present in the perpetual present being comfortable with the not-knowing while consistently getting things done. BITCh Method. Butt In The Chair. The discipline of the ritual, just like alternating the clutch and the gas often creates adaptable momentum.
Timothy Price
August 3, 2021 at 6:39 am
Oh, how many believe in disbelieve. “I don’t believe in…” like a worn-out pickup line. In these days of post covid cooties and variants thereof, MaƱana, while you might find some people who still hold to “not right now”, MaƱana has morphed into “never!” You look great in that hat, and what lies behind the purple door?
Jordan Hoggard
September 30, 2021 at 10:55 am
Thanks, Tim. Heaven lies behind the purple door + the appropriate amount of intense hell for excellent balance.
Timothy Price
September 30, 2021 at 12:34 pm
That is wonderful.
Jordan Hoggard
September 30, 2021 at 12:44 pm
Thanks, Man.
Jordan Hoggard
September 30, 2021 at 12:53 pm
Thanks, Man!
Jordan Hoggard
September 30, 2021 at 12:48 pm
Yup. = morphed into never.
Timothy Price
October 22, 2021 at 1:22 pm
Very stylish.
Jordan Hoggard
October 22, 2021 at 2:45 pm
Thank you, Tim.
Timothy Price
October 22, 2021 at 1:24 pm
You look divinely southwestern in your trimmed beard and hat.
Jordan Hoggard
October 22, 2021 at 2:45 pm
Much appreciated!
Karen Sealey
June 20, 2022 at 12:01 am
As a kid, I used to have terrible travel sickness. My Dad used to drive and every journey used to seem to last forever because he never seemed to take the same route twice and so I always felt lost and a bit fraught wondering if we’d get there before or after me jettisoning the contents of my stomach. Now as an adult driver, I often find myself laughing that I inherited his ad hoc sense of direction. Someone once commented to me that my driving is like jazz. When I asked them what they meant they said smooth and free form and they had no idea where id head next but they were happy to swept along to my rhythm. But also I have a legacy gift in that many times I’ve driven in areas that I think I’ve never been to before and then suddenly it feels like I have a psychic sat nav as I will get an image in my head of some kind of landmark that feels to be just ahead… Then after a correct hit, I realise oh yes, I’ve been here before. This is another one of dad’s routes. Just last Friday evening, I was driving solo through the arse end of nowhere, down twisting country lanes, losing sense of direction and not sure if I was heading to the right destination. A stretch of road felt slight familiar, I drove over a couple of bumps and felt my stomach lurch and instantly recalled flying over those bumps as a kid when my dad was driving at full tilt and I started to laugh as then knew exactly where I was as it was one of his routes to one of the fishing lakes. I’m grateful that his divergent driving shaped my brain into having a latent taxi driver amygdala. I’m also very grateful that as a teen, he paid for all of my driving lessons! As adult, I recognise that my love of driving stems from his love of driving which as a child trying to hold back vomit, I just thought was some kind of bizarre and unusual punishment he was trying to inflict š¤£
Loving your Chiron astro doodle! š!!!
Jordan Hoggard
June 20, 2022 at 10:50 am
Wonderful story! And, thanks for the nods on the Chiron astro doodle!
Karen Sealey
June 20, 2022 at 11:09 am
Oh! It reappeared, this morning it seemed to have vanished into the ether! š
Jordan Hoggard
June 20, 2022 at 11:22 am
I put the comments on the Moderate setting, have to approve them manually. There was some spammy stuff while I was taking a break from blogging, and I didn’t want to have to deal with those nuisances as they arose. Let ’em build up, and clear them out occasionally rather than potentially subjecting others to dangerous links. š
Karen Sealey
June 20, 2022 at 12:31 pm
Wise move šš