Sorry to see you go, but I've got you off the list for now. Enjoy whatever BG/VR combination you work out
Batty! Great to see you in here! It's been forever! As you can see, I'm on a Thoth break. Too much Thoth was driving me a little, well, batty, so I'm spending some time with this Fantastic Menagerie to recenter.
I'm really enjoying the Fantastic Menagerie so far - it does absolutely wonderful readings. I'm wondering how long I'll be able to sustain working with it, though. While I think there are interesting details that can be studied in it, I just don't feel myself having any desire to do so. All I've really been doing is whimsically enjoying each card's image. I rather dislike the book, so I don't have anything about the deck to read, and I hate that, as you all probably know how much I love books and research and all that.
Something fun I find about this deck is that it's very easy to take the opposite view from the norm in many of the "bad" cards. Like this morning I pulled the 10 of Wands, but rather than worry that I'd be carrying some burden or overworking, I saw myself as the other guy, fiendishly slave-driving my students.
Not gonna lie though - the hardest thing about this time with the FM is that every passing minute makes me want my Haindl more and more. At the very least I'll be cheating on Thursday as it's my birthday and I want to do a year-ahead reading with my Hermann...
If nothing else, the FM is cementing itself as one of my Top Ten decks
(right now...
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How's everyone else doing? No cheating so far I hope...