March 30, 2003

• I smudged.  I don’t smudge every time , but this time….

  
  

  I was shuffling my new tarot deck for the first time.  The cards are both stiff and slick, of course–they’re new.  I shuffled a flurry of them onto the desk, inadvertently.  All landed face down but one:  Princess of Sabres, “Authority of Ritual.”  Duh, ritual… wazzat??

  
  

  It’s something I know, have done, generally dispensed with but not entirely.  Sometimes, something tells me to observe the Old Forms.  So I smudged… I lit a brand new stick of Southwestern “cedar”, really three-seed juniper from Sedona, and a stick of artemisia from my own garden.  The scent took me to a different mindspace.  It’s still here, lingering….

  
  

  I took down my smudge fan made of three big feathers:  turkey, peahen, and great horned owl.  It doubles as a feather duster for my rock collection.  I smudged myself, my new cards, the computer, and the dog.  Since Doug was oblivious and defenseless, snoring in his bag on the front room floor, I smudged him.  While I was in the neighborhood, I smudged the war news on the TV.

  
  

  Then I went out and smudged the winds and sky.  When I looked up to smudge the sky, I noticed there’s a big paper wasp’s nest under the eaves of the little cabin beside the trailer.  Note to self: there’s a wasp nest….

  
  

  Smudging done, I smoked and brewed a fresh pot.  I thought over what I have planned.  For the second day in a row, I’m using a new deck of cards to do a Tarot spread I’ve never done before.  This one is challenging, lengthy, and I saw myself in a dream, doing this spread this way….

  
  

  I’m putting on the headphones, spending a few hours in Theta, and doing an Opening of the Key spread with the I Am One Tarot, a reading focused on the (current) war.   It will be at http://www.xanga.com/KaiOaty as soon as it’s done.  Bye-bye.

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