Ogham Readings on Sundays

[kimberlysteele]

I am happy to read your Ogham free of charge -- that's how I hone my divination skills -- but if you want to donate for it, I'll happily buy myself a book, a snack, or a cup of tea while on the town. Please only donate if you can absolutely afford it. I've been there. Your prayers for my continued success are welcome whether you donate or not! I take reading requests until 8pm Central Time (Chicago Illinois USA) on Sunday night.

 

Ogham readings are concluded for the week of May 22.  Please feel free to comment on existing threads and see you next week for more Ogham readings!

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[kimberlysteele]

Hi Anon,

They sound like annoying people!

My Ogham would like to chime in. For Question 1., my Ogham say No, you were not legitimately in the wrong in any way. They provide Ioho or Grace ill-dignified, which means that the strangers took advantage of your gracefulness and good nature.

For the "point of the encounter" or 2., my Ogham provide Straif or Strife/Resilience ill-dignified. The encounter was meant to strengthen your character and resolve in the face of asshats. Sometimes our karmic lessons are of the "that which does not annoy you to death makes you stronger" variety, and this seems to be one of those.

2b. My Ogham say Yes, your hypothesis is accurate. They gave you Ailm or Transcendence well-dignified, which means the strangers used you so they could work something out with each other. Let's hope they get over whatever baggage they're dragging around and learn to keep their crap to themselves next time.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. To give a little more detail on the encounter, I'm trying to build community around vaccine freedom issues, so I struck up a conversation with the strangers because they had a great yard sign saying they oppose discrimination on vaccine status as well as opposing discrimination on all the usual issues including religion. Well, they invited me in to discuss further, and it turned out that they think everything is the fault of the Jews. So much for not discriminating on religion! They even tried to convince me that Anthony Fauci was Jewish. I don't think Fauci is a great guy, but his Italian Catholic heritage is pretty well documented.

It is sad that so often the worst enemy of unvaccinated people is other unvaccinated people. The JMG forum and associated acts like this blog are welcome but unfortunately rare exceptions.

What haunts me most about the encounter looking back on it at this point is the way the dynamic between the two strangers reminds me of my parents' marital problems, where the woman had to endlessly placate the man who had been done wrong by the world. My dad did not have a problem with Jewish people, but there were certainly other groups of people he did blame for all his problems, like atheists, academia, and so on, and it was absolutely necessary for peace in the home to uncritically accept that his problems were the fault of whoever he'd blamed.

I pushed back against the anti-Semitism in conversation with the strangers because, to me, they were just strangers, and my goal was simply to build a movement capable of succeeding in the real world. I was looking for competent collaborators who would be assets to the cause rather than liabilities, and they didn't pass the test. What terrifies me about myself is that, if I'd known I was talking to my dad in disguise, I might not have had the confidence to do that -- I too know what it's like to have to placate the man-sads. I even brought up personal responsibility in the conversation with the strangers (along the lines of, so what if the Jews or whoever else did all this stuff -- what are you doing with your life?), and personal responsibility was the ultimate no-no with my dad, so now I feel guilty for having let my dad down.

[kimberlysteele]

One of the reasons I don't like Telegram or Bitchute is the predictable anti-Semititic comments that show up on Every... Single... Thread. It's so boring watching people (usually white men) blame Jews for all of problems dredged up by projected shadows.

Ugh, your dad sounds awful. I'm sure he had moments where he wasn't awful, but yeah, that sort of parent is the kind who makes it easy and preferable to move far, far away. As for the women who are expected to kowtow to such a man and be his crutch, I've seen it way too many times. There are quite a few men who want a woman as a trophy waifu for losing. Even men I dated looked at me as their trophy for losing the game of life, and when that or its accompanying blame game started happening, I got out fast. I think it's what happens when either party settles. The woman doesn't believe she can do better, and by the time the first child is born, he's got her over a barrel and the only way out means lifelong poverty. The man doesn't believe he can do better, so he projects his beer goggles ideal on the woman, does what little it takes to attach himself to her. He spends the rest of their time together blaming her and using her as a convenient scapegoat when it isn't "the atheists" or "the Jews" keeping him from realizing his imagined potential. One thing I can say about my husband is he has never once blamed me or some random evil group for his failings. He is good at personal responsibility in a way many men are not.

[kimberlysteele]

Also, good on you for calling them on their bullcrap. I hope that if I'm ever directly faced with the same sort of person or people that I'll do the same thing.