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Covid

Date: 2021-07-21 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I'm sure that you're tired of talking about this, and I don't expect anyone to have any answers, but does anyone have any idea when this fracking Covid nonsense will be over? Just when I thought that they were finally done obsessing over this and were ready to let everyone move on with their lives, they break out the Delta variant and seem intent on firing everything up all over again.

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Date: 2021-07-22 12:08 am (UTC)
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This will end only when the established powers fall. I mean this quite literally: the only way for Covid to end is for someone else, someone outside the current political classes, to take power. I hope it happens peacefully, but I worry it'll look a lot like France in the later 1700s or Russia in the 1920s. It'll require something dramatic though.

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Date: 2021-07-22 12:12 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] mollari
I'm working through the CGD, one of the core elements of that curriculum is geomancy, and I'm now thinking about offering it for others. I don't want to do it just yet, since I still struggle a bit to get good readings for myself, but at some point I hope to offer it to those who want it.

Since you do divinations for anyone who wants one, how did you know when you were ready for your weekly Ogham offerings?

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Date: 2021-07-22 08:35 am (UTC)
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“Thank you for not using profanity.”

You are (bleep)ing welcome.

I hope you’re feeling better? When you are ready are you getting another pet? You certainly took great care of Kiki.

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Date: 2021-07-22 11:41 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I was wondering if you or anyone had any insight on which preindustrial skills are most suitable for making a living within this decade?

Date: 2021-07-22 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] mollari
My advice is to look at what jobs were available circa 1950 or 1920 (depending on how badly you think the next few years will be), and are also available now. This is why I'm jumping into the electrical industry: unless things go really far south the grid will survive and people will still need someone who can worth with their electronic devices (1950s); if it does go really far south and the grid collapses, well, people will need someone who knows how to get them electricity (1920s)!

We will not collapse all the way to a preindustrial society overnight, but we will almost certainly fall a long ways in the rest of the 2020s...

Date: 2021-07-25 01:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lp9
Another idea along the "trades" line: masonry and woodstove/fireplace installation. I imagine more and more people will want more resilient heating sources as oil costs become more volatile. Then, when there isn't any more steel for woodstoves, you could build fireplaces, outdoor kitchens, build walls, etc..

Public Health Crisis

Date: 2021-07-22 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Regarding COVID and the astrologically predicted public health crisis, we're seeing it now. The crisis is this: EVERYTHING. We're seeing every usual health problem people have times two; people are just a lot sicker. The substance abuse and mental health folks are probably times three, which I saw coming when the lockdowns started. Where I'm at, I've seen one COVID positive in 4 weeks; of course, that's one ER. There's also a massive shortage of RNs now, which is exacerbating all the usual problems we have. People are spending much longer times in the ERs because we can't admit or transfer people who need it, because there aren't enough RNs on the inpatient units to accept more patients. So pray you don't need to go to the ER or be admitted. I don't know if it's like that everywhere, but I've heard this is a problem in a lot of areas.

As far as COVID and young people goes, I've seen one 20 something who was normally healthy who was sick enough with COVID to require oxygen and even that one was able to go home and did fine.

So there's things on the front lines.

Sincerely,
Brother Josephus

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Date: 2021-07-24 12:16 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hi Kimberly,

I have an observation about the COVID vaccine that may be of interest. I'm an Indigenous person from a large Canadian city. Like many other Indigenous people in my city, I got my vaccinations at an Indigenous health centre. What makes this different from a pharmacy, Costco, or someplace else people have been vaccinated?

Magic and religion! You see, sage is burned every morning in such a health centre. People also pray. Sage is used for getting rid of negative energy or thoughts troubling a person.

I have been to different Indigenous communities where every adult member has been fully vaccinated. Nobody has reported any negative things after getting the COVID vaccines, and people would be very vocal about any such thing. Especially the younger generation on social media.

So, I'm sure you see what I'm trying to get at. I think that burning sage and praying negates whatever bad things the vaccine does. How? I don't know. Maybe the vaccine is going something negative magically??

Sage

Date: 2021-07-24 03:40 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Thanks for the reminder. The simple magic works well.

Annette

Date: 2021-07-24 12:41 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)

Browsing 4chan /x/ I came across a post asking "What is the most schizo thing you totally, unironically believe?" This reply jumped out.

the reason for political extremism and so called sjws is because Neptune is in Pisces. This will end when neptune enters aries, but thats not till 2025 or so

You know, Trayvon Martin sort of kicked off the whole thing in earnest and that was 2012. Right on the cusp of this transit. It was only a year later that the anonymous adjunct professor wrote his article about how students terrify him. While the seeds were being planted for years and years before hand, I feel like that was the first bloom.

This then made me wonder about previous decades? I'm not so educated on astrology so I would have no immediate answer for how Neptune in Virgo, in Capricorn, Sagittarius, or other signs described the other various eras of my lifetime.

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Date: 2021-07-25 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] mollari
I think that Neptune in Capricorn is behind the weird false nostalgia, the obsession with law and order, the bizarre rise of the religious right, and the start of the vacation from reality in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Aphrodite

Date: 2021-07-26 12:02 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You’ve told me twice now to pray to Aphrodite about moving my practice out to my homestead.

I’m really not sure how to go about doing that.

Would you give me some instruction please, or point me to a place to learn about it?

Thank you,

Annette


Date: 2021-07-26 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
This is something I’ve been wondering, and it seems a good place to ask - do you prefer random internet people address you as Kimberly, Kim, or something else?

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The thing she misses

Date: 2021-07-28 03:24 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/did-millennials-finally-kill-flirting

Men Are Now Too Afraid To Approach After years of being told that unwanted advances = harassment, men simply don’t want to risk approaching women out in the real world, for fear of being accused of a dark motive later.

Before this sterilized culture emerged, we would naturally send signals, some subtle and some overt, that acted as clues for us to determine if someone were romantically interested. Maybe we caught their eye across the room and held their gaze. Maybe we smiled at them on the bus. This would be the signal for a man to make a more overt move – approaching us to chat or ask for our number.

But why would a man make a more explicit move – or start the flirtatious dance at all – if he fears he’ll be rebranded as someone sinister just for doing so?

She correctly identifies a situation and makes a brave but incomplete attempt at a solution

If we want to revive a culture where it’s okay to flirt, the onus is really on women to make it clear to men that we’re okay with being approached in public – that we’re either going to accept their offer or politely decline, not brand them as a creeper if we’re not interested. (Men, of course, also need to clearly read our signals, whether they’re signals of interest or disinterest, and be willing to go away when we say no.)

This solution doesn't really address the fact that individual women can present a trap still for men to step on and blow their foot off. In practice how this can only happen is if women who engage in clearly false attention seeking are "canceled" and that can only happen if a society chooses not to simply "believe all women." (Who happen to not be accusing a Clinton or a Biden at the time)

This clearly won't happen. Why should it happen? Would it even be ideal if it did happen?

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Request for a history lesson?

Date: 2021-08-02 02:18 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I've heard that the John Birch Society once was extremely popular with a very high US membership. With the rise of the Neocons the jbs and its membership fell off a cliff and nowadays if you hear about them at all its to say that they're conspiracy theorists and "radical right wing extremists"

But that label is meaningless nowadays as you know, and a cursory look at their site reveals they pretty much nailed exactly what's happening right now.

So is this reputation they have well earned? Is it just more slander from the usual suspects? What caused their fall from influence?

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