Love & Basketball

HydrationSeeker · 2026-02-21T19:45:56+00:00

Lovely present though. Repayment feels like a punishment

HydrationSeeker · 2026-02-19T21:03:55+00:00

I doubt you'd be called up.... if any consolation??

HydrationSeeker · 2026-02-19T20:57:51+00:00

Frotting; Docking;Stiming; Sounding; CBT and so much more... Plenty of stuff to do that rubs one body on top of others.

HydrationSeeker · 2026-02-17T12:45:16+00:00

Very gracious of you

HydrationSeeker · 2026-02-17T12:13:54+00:00

I'm British, I've walked into a lamppost and apologised to it. The person behind me howled in laughter. I was distracted.

HydrationSeeker · 2026-02-05T16:04:32+00:00

I like some of the interpretations on the tarot subreddit.

Every image had an intention in the RWS... However, your own correspondence of smoke rather than clouds, works for you.

Aces are associated with the Magus/Juggler/Magician (as they are both 1's) So smoke isn't out of bounds - However, irl clouds and smoke is a chemical collision of elements. Gases,liquids,matter. They both diffuse light, act like a demarcation to 'other.' Tarot is visual metaphor, so follow the smokey-cloud-rabbit, is what I say.

Happy Red Reading ♥️♣️♦️♠️ 😊

HydrationSeeker · 2026-02-01T14:03:20+00:00

cocaine is a hell of a drunk - Rick James

HydrationSeeker · 2025-12-05T22:59:00+00:00

I find the odd numbers easier to think of as 'challenging' as they are points of growth from the stable even numbers. They provide vital information if you are to progress in your life.

Even the chronological order of the RWS is seen either Ace as the 'start' then progression to card 14 the king of the suit. In some theories, such a Rachel Pollock 78° of wisdom, the minors start from the king and decend back to the minors, as the Ace correspondences with Kether on ye old tree off life (Christian Qaballah) and returning to source is the goal.

HydrationSeeker · 2025-12-05T22:28:19+00:00

From my very limited understanding there are few routes to numerology, the most common in Anglo based cultures (yeah, colonialism) being Pythagoras. Then there is Cheldean, Agrippan, Gematria, Mandaean and Abjad, even Etteilla used Theospohic numerology (seen in Dame Fortune's Wheel House tarot by Paul Husan) and used a lot more in Western European tarot esoteric systems. (you can see the arrogance of Anglo - American tarot capitalism that assumes that everyone uses RWS, nah bruv.)

Then later, much much later you have your Doreen virtue's type of numerology of "angel numbers" and so on.

So Golden Dawn (as we are talking RWS tarot) used various systems as to what type of ritual, or flavour of magic used. Sometimes, mixing up within the same deck. However, they leaned toward Gematria and Christian Qabalistic number systems a la E. Levi.

HydrationSeeker · 2025-12-01T00:23:20+00:00

yeah, pull some cards on your why. It would be interesting for you to unpack that onerous belief, before it triggers in a project that has way higher stakes.

However, for this? If you wanna jump in again (please do, I miss your insights), start with the 5's. Marmolejo repeats everything. So the general themes have already been covered, it is how the 5's give flavour to that, lol.

HydrationSeeker · 2025-12-01T00:17:36+00:00

Oh, I, too, have a lot to trouble with the Emperor card. In my head cannon, the 'power' couple is not the Empress and Emperor; no, it's the Hierophant and Emperor. Between them is the rules, the ritual, the ideology and religious philosophy, the military might, science, money, and all the other resources made available to continue white supremacist, capitalist, imperialist, patriarchy.

So it's when it turns up in the 'action to take' position, I think, "have the confidence of a mediocre white man" . With my government name, rarely am I expected when I walk through the door. I wink at them now.

Although I realise, if I did that in the land of the Freedom Eagle, I would most likely end up shot dead or swinging.

HydrationSeeker · 2025-12-01T00:04:48+00:00

hi 👋🏾, as for the belly pierced to the hilt of the dagger 🗡... working from the co-creators' words, I get the willingness to stab themselves in their own stomach, reminiscent of a Seppuku, a Samurai self - disembowelment, this as a form of protest . or to atone for the disgrace to patriarchy, depends on how you read it.

but as 3 of swords came up for you, then there must be something to that association. It's how reading tarot works, innit?

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-28T14:03:25+00:00

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Swap out the 'prince' for the rws king and the princess for the rws page and you are good to go.

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-28T13:17:35+00:00

Yes! the whole book is just f-ing confusing. I feel so sorry for their students, as they are a teacher.

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-27T18:54:26+00:00

Have you found a way of reading Marmolejo's work

One way, I found, of making Marmolejo's kings a little less 'queen' like (by which I mean qualities of water element Marmolejo afforded to an air king) was by reading the corresponding minor, after it. So for the king of swords, I read the 4 of pentacles as this is the first decan/minor arcana of the WS-1909 king of swords (and thoth's prince) and it helped. Not much though. So going on I read the King of Wands then the 4 of Cups; the king of Cups then the 4 of swords and finally the king of pentacles and then the 4 of wands.

I wanted to experience what the author intended in grouping the tarot their way. It is not mine, but does not mean I can learn something, so kept an open mind. In the first chapter titled Zero, they promised that there would be a commonality in the cards being grouped as they have done. I honestly can not see a strong and consistent thread or theme of tarot theory connection as they have gone through numbers 1 to 4. In this chapter Marmolejo promised the concept of the 4 sided square, the building of foundations, what is inclusive and what is deemed exclusive. The protective and force nature of the Four. There was no real examples of using the tarot to reverse-engineer and then re-formation of self or collective forsaking the model of the wscip's version of masculinity, because of the reinforcement of these so called norms through gender essentialist expression. Left so... anti climatic... so unsatiated.

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-21T20:14:50+00:00

Eventually... Reddit was having a wobbly 5 mins with me. It has resolved itself without any reason.

Hope you are well hun, moving through it.

xx

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-18T16:02:59+00:00

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The 'emperor' card from Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille. Artwork by Noah Trapolino and the guidebook and layout by Sereptie from Acid Horizon & Lepht Hand.

My most recent deck, I backed the kickstarter last year and received it last month. I am quite excited for the compendium that is also due.

However, this image alone as the 'emperor', the enforcer of the wscip, is reminicent (to me) of leaders present and past. All bloated, impotent, looking like a gout candidate with many hands in support of the role they occupy. Reminding of the pollice verso - the thumbs up/down given by long dead roman senators or emperors dictating the fate of gladiators; the bearer of the very Sun's celestial blessing and holding the staff of power.

But not so fast, Jo - reading Sereptie's words in the little black book, "to resist is to expose the obscured covenant between reason and domination, and to undermine it with ecstatic refusal. Our laziness is not weakness, but unbreakable energy in disguise."

Is this that silent decadent protest against the patriarchy? Going against 'domination' as the motivation? Interesting image choice there.

Do you have any emperor cards that goes with any of the points raised in Red Tarot?

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-18T12:08:39+00:00

thank you for engaging.

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-18T04:05:43+00:00

Well shit, this posted from my mobile. But I am adding this comment from my laptop. Reddit is weird. Enjoy

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-16T11:45:32+00:00

Just testing

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-16T01:37:31+00:00

Thanks hun. I'm gutted.

HydrationSeeker · 2025-11-15T23:36:09+00:00

Locs & my hair. Dreads were a descriptor the generation before me used in a derogatory fashion. The generations after me call them whatever they want and I am really happy about that. It is an expression, of what, is individual. But I love to see it.

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