2&3&4 Telephones Ring
Oct. 12th, 2012 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingtycoonWho's Calling? It's me the Phones! Uh, or something not dumb.
It's weird, you know - that you can get calls - someone might call you. I think, I wanna say I was about 7? The first time someone called me? Back then we had a directory for the school - so kids could just look each other up and call. Cause, right, who changed phone-numbers? The 80's... Anyhow- I think it was... Lisa? A girl Lisa wanted to call and talk to me about stuff. I guess? Sometimes girls want to talk on the phone. For real - that's probably the biggest hole in my abilities re- romance. I hate calling on the phone, and I don't like being called on the phone- it turns out that way.
I guess in the end I can't stop thinking that I'm just talking to a machine. I know there's another person and all - not, like - solopsistic - they're all secretly robots and it's a simulation - not like that - more like. I am here and talking and I am talking into a machine and that is like talking to a dog or the air. It is a thing of a crazyperson.
Remember those blue-tooth head things? Sometimes people still have them, I hate those things because they make it harder to distinguish between who is crazy and who is not. Knowing who is crazy is an important skill in the world and I'm okay at it. Except that maybe talking on the phone is a thing for crazy people.
So... With all that said- I still did make the Phones my symbol - replacing the Rod in the more traditional tarot. But for real - what is crazier - a dude talking to himself or a dude walking around with some quantity of rods? I mean, unless you are a rod-deliveryman you basically have no good reason to be carrying around rods. Maybe a fisherman could get away with it. Wands are likewise a personal affectation that will not get you many phone numbers if you brandish them in quantities greater than... I dunno, probably zero. Zero Wands is the optimal number of wands to be carrying around. And let's not even get into clubs. You shouldn't be carrying around a club, not even that collapsible kind that sometimes would-be tough guys have. Really you shouldn't carry things that the police are only going to have to wrestle you for.
I mean, unless you should. It could be that that is who you are and, I won't say - 'No Judgement' because I will judge you - not in a judgmental way, exactly, but in a discerning way. In the way that I don't just yell and get upset about the guy doing karate moves on the corner (there is such a guy) but rather- never speak or look directly at him. Not that he's got a very nice phone though - he's more of a cups, more of a swords kind of guy. You know how I know? Cause the Phones are not just activity, not just doing - they're symbolic of something else. Something simultaneously miraculous and prosaic.
Rather like the cellular phone. You see 'em around, heck you might manage their use and function as part of your day to day - because they are part of the day to day - common. They're a common thing that makes the world turn and bend - they're pretty much miraculous. A company that makes them is, as of this writing, the biggest corporation in the world. Who knew right? They're a non-trivial portion of the wealth of all nations. Crazy. Just as I imagine stick-gathering was a fundamental chore for the laboring classes of medieval times. True story - gather wood or die freezing - that's just the nature of things.
Which is to say that the phones mark a kind of middle-of-the-road. A kind of baseline human condition, the lowest common denominator. Kind of. It's a little trickier than thinking of them like say - opinions and assholes. It isn't quite something everyone has. That's not what the Phones/wands/clubs/rods are about. No - this is more about your assimilation into the broader popular culture. Being caught up with the phones means you're more in the mode - you know the popular culture, you know the cool bands, the nice clothes, the popular political opinion, the tolerable political ideology.
These are 3rd estate things. They're for the people that make the world work - and in our world the best and newest is the way of things. If I were painting this all in the 60's I'd probably have the wands be cars - in the 90's maybe computers (maybe). But a tool that's contemporary and that's a statement about personality. Well - to an extent. You know there are i-people and android-people and wall-phone people right? It's this idea that there are these kinds of people - when really, there's an unseen class of people who don't have any of those. Like the millionaires in the 60's with drivers and the executives in the 80's with receptionists. They're not of the mode - they're above/beyond. It's a working-man's tool. And so- the phone.
The Phone is also - activity - and that's what I've been having - activity - I'm active! Doing-Making! Full activity is the thing of the phones- fire and happening. So don't imagine for a second that I've been slack.
Nosir.
Really - I should mention it was a long languid summer of breaks before I got the Cups all done - and here I got the first 3 Phones in a weekend. Maybe have the next three by the end of this weekend! Maybe.
And here's the rundown:
The Phones start out - kind of telling a story.
You start with the 2 - you're up and at 'em - you're out the door (or I am) at the crack-of-doomy-dawn you're ready, you're capable. You've got calls coming in already - maybe you even have to check your mail and the weather on your personal phone - you've got things happening. There's a man or a woman that you know who gives out different numbers for different reasons - that's someone who's got Things Going On. That's the 2 of Phones.
Then you're on your way - You're in the world and you're really - in-the-world, in the loop, you can see what it is and where you are going in it. The world is a golden paradise for you - because you're ready, and part of the world - it's a welcoming place that's just waiting for you. So - waiting, and ready-goodness. It's the next stop of the day - the Bus Stop.
And after that? Well you've got things to do, you're the golden one - bright prospects, when you talk - people listen, eyes dilate, blood in the cheeks - you're the golden one- on the shining path - you've heeded the call and now you're encircled by the shekina glory! The magic ring of jesus-fire - if you will. Fire.
It's all to do with fire - movement, and a signal. Like the bars on the phone - you're in a good spot, good reception for the Gnosis - you're on the shining path. In a way. It's still earthly, but it's a rising, transcendent earthliness.
You are, in a word - Effective.
It's weird, you know - that you can get calls - someone might call you. I think, I wanna say I was about 7? The first time someone called me? Back then we had a directory for the school - so kids could just look each other up and call. Cause, right, who changed phone-numbers? The 80's... Anyhow- I think it was... Lisa? A girl Lisa wanted to call and talk to me about stuff. I guess? Sometimes girls want to talk on the phone. For real - that's probably the biggest hole in my abilities re- romance. I hate calling on the phone, and I don't like being called on the phone- it turns out that way.I guess in the end I can't stop thinking that I'm just talking to a machine. I know there's another person and all - not, like - solopsistic - they're all secretly robots and it's a simulation - not like that - more like. I am here and talking and I am talking into a machine and that is like talking to a dog or the air. It is a thing of a crazyperson.
Remember those blue-tooth head things? Sometimes people still have them, I hate those things because they make it harder to distinguish between who is crazy and who is not. Knowing who is crazy is an important skill in the world and I'm okay at it. Except that maybe talking on the phone is a thing for crazy people.
So... With all that said- I still did make the Phones my symbol - replacing the Rod in the more traditional tarot. But for real - what is crazier - a dude talking to himself or a dude walking around with some quantity of rods? I mean, unless you are a rod-deliveryman you basically have no good reason to be carrying around rods. Maybe a fisherman could get away with it. Wands are likewise a personal affectation that will not get you many phone numbers if you brandish them in quantities greater than... I dunno, probably zero. Zero Wands is the optimal number of wands to be carrying around. And let's not even get into clubs. You shouldn't be carrying around a club, not even that collapsible kind that sometimes would-be tough guys have. Really you shouldn't carry things that the police are only going to have to wrestle you for.
I mean, unless you should. It could be that that is who you are and, I won't say - 'No Judgement' because I will judge you - not in a judgmental way, exactly, but in a discerning way. In the way that I don't just yell and get upset about the guy doing karate moves on the corner (there is such a guy) but rather- never speak or look directly at him. Not that he's got a very nice phone though - he's more of a cups, more of a swords kind of guy. You know how I know? Cause the Phones are not just activity, not just doing - they're symbolic of something else. Something simultaneously miraculous and prosaic.
Rather like the cellular phone. You see 'em around, heck you might manage their use and function as part of your day to day - because they are part of the day to day - common. They're a common thing that makes the world turn and bend - they're pretty much miraculous. A company that makes them is, as of this writing, the biggest corporation in the world. Who knew right? They're a non-trivial portion of the wealth of all nations. Crazy. Just as I imagine stick-gathering was a fundamental chore for the laboring classes of medieval times. True story - gather wood or die freezing - that's just the nature of things.
Which is to say that the phones mark a kind of middle-of-the-road. A kind of baseline human condition, the lowest common denominator. Kind of. It's a little trickier than thinking of them like say - opinions and assholes. It isn't quite something everyone has. That's not what the Phones/wands/clubs/rods are about. No - this is more about your assimilation into the broader popular culture. Being caught up with the phones means you're more in the mode - you know the popular culture, you know the cool bands, the nice clothes, the popular political opinion, the tolerable political ideology.
These are 3rd estate things. They're for the people that make the world work - and in our world the best and newest is the way of things. If I were painting this all in the 60's I'd probably have the wands be cars - in the 90's maybe computers (maybe). But a tool that's contemporary and that's a statement about personality. Well - to an extent. You know there are i-people and android-people and wall-phone people right? It's this idea that there are these kinds of people - when really, there's an unseen class of people who don't have any of those. Like the millionaires in the 60's with drivers and the executives in the 80's with receptionists. They're not of the mode - they're above/beyond. It's a working-man's tool. And so- the phone.
The Phone is also - activity - and that's what I've been having - activity - I'm active! Doing-Making! Full activity is the thing of the phones- fire and happening. So don't imagine for a second that I've been slack.
Nosir.
Really - I should mention it was a long languid summer of breaks before I got the Cups all done - and here I got the first 3 Phones in a weekend. Maybe have the next three by the end of this weekend! Maybe.
And here's the rundown:
The Phones start out - kind of telling a story.
You start with the 2 - you're up and at 'em - you're out the door (or I am) at the crack-of-doomy-dawn you're ready, you're capable. You've got calls coming in already - maybe you even have to check your mail and the weather on your personal phone - you've got things happening. There's a man or a woman that you know who gives out different numbers for different reasons - that's someone who's got Things Going On. That's the 2 of Phones.
Then you're on your way - You're in the world and you're really - in-the-world, in the loop, you can see what it is and where you are going in it. The world is a golden paradise for you - because you're ready, and part of the world - it's a welcoming place that's just waiting for you. So - waiting, and ready-goodness. It's the next stop of the day - the Bus Stop.
And after that? Well you've got things to do, you're the golden one - bright prospects, when you talk - people listen, eyes dilate, blood in the cheeks - you're the golden one- on the shining path - you've heeded the call and now you're encircled by the shekina glory! The magic ring of jesus-fire - if you will. Fire.
It's all to do with fire - movement, and a signal. Like the bars on the phone - you're in a good spot, good reception for the Gnosis - you're on the shining path. In a way. It's still earthly, but it's a rising, transcendent earthliness.
You are, in a word - Effective.
