Look across the expanse
Beyond the mist and fog
You can only just see the other side
We curse our circumstance
Only wishes to flog
We have all been taken for a ride
By the man who holds the gun
Who tricked us, made to dance
By his illegitimate horrible garish hide
As he watches us silently die, I shall know he will not find
A heavenly spirit or hellish iffirit
Greater than the combined will we shall hate him with
What exactly is Valor? It is courage, resilience, resistance, the ability to go on in tough times when things are not going so well. It is also the ability to see what you need to do to get through, make sure you are prepared to go the distance and also it is the courage to ask for help when you need it. When you need help, it’s ok to ask for it. Valour is about making sure we are aware we are not alone when we face the worst, and that there are others who have walked our path, even if there isn’t anyone here to help you now, you know that their spirit lives on in you and that can help you get to where you can get more physical assistance.
Valour Reversed
This card when drawn reversed is about the opposite of valour, which isn’t necessarily cowardice, more a lack of self-worth, a lack of feeling capable, or even feeling too sure of yourself, too proud to see that you are about to step off a cliff or get hurt. You may even hurt those you love, by having too much, or being unable to have enough, valour, and this is a time for you to seek our weather you have this, and how you can correct your course.
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Down this alley in the dark night we walk
I can’t hold your hand, we can’t talk
Disinfected, twenty seconds
We may never meet again
I ask
Have you screamed inside your heart?
Are you ready for the air to go
Is your mask on tight, is it though?
A breath of fresh air may be deadly
We may never breath again
And I ask
Have you screamed inside your heart?
Powerless to hear the news
Another day and another due
In the night I hug you tight
We may never hug again
And I ask
Have you screamed inside your heart?
Have you screamed inside your heart?
Have you screamed inside your heart?
Have you screamed inside your heart?
It is all, that we can do now
It is all, that we are
It is waiting for a answer
We may never kiss again
And we ask
Have we screamed inside our heart?
Trilogy of course a song at a pause, a tinkle in the sky due
Arrange all that arrangements within the arrearage that Providence was supplemented
A chicken in my pocket, a trinket in my socket, a heart in my song, along along
Spider and besides her hair, a beak of the finest pear, my gods it is a simple wrote
Why the goat?
Why the goat?
Tore at the towers gate, a distance from the salty lake that sits upon the midnight haste’s a moon above and beyond its gate
Dark castle waits with a vampires touch, a sociologist at heart he wants to study, the way in which the bite does flurry, flurry in the hearts of men
A dock full of rockets, a paladin and a robber, sit uneasy in truce to catch the brute, whom wilt above the town
And all the while the fool does sing, songs of pockets, chicken and men, a happily known life of Blissfull ignorance of the terror that awaits them…
Killer blancmange wining the tennis
Dragons the janty haircut scales as all
Jump a lungs prong oblong hand
Wedding fish trail on the mailing route
Seven Moons Oracle: 6. The Heart
Usually “the lovers” the heart speaks to us in three fundamental ways. They are represented here in three different sorts of heart. The heart of a human, is the organ for many that signifies love, lovers, and a irreversible choice in the actions of you as a person. When choosing to love, you are opening yourself, making a commitment, and seeking to be loved yourself. One cannot expect love if you are not willing to do all three at once. The second is the spiritual symbol for the heart (on the moons of Aloom of course). Be it something you believe in or not, love is a spiritual connection to another person. It is something fundamental to you, and will bind you spiritually to another person. This may not be a love that is, in the end, one that included lovers intimacy. It may be the love of your sons, fathers, mothers, partners, daughters, yourself even. The last is the heartwood of the tree of life, the table that is made of it is under this heart and under the spiritual symbol for the heart. Heartwood is about the fundamental, irrevocable, unchangeable nature of a decision to allow yourself to love. This does not make it a bad thing, but it does tell you that once you love a person, love them completely, you will never be able to really forget their impact on you for good or ill. If your relationship does not work, the heartwood will be scared and worn by this, and it will keep this mark forevermore.
The Heart Reversed
When drawn reversed, the heart points to a failure. Be it failure of love or not, it is likely a failure that will effect you down to your soul. Things being contrary to your love and belief and sadness is likely in your current, if not your future. This is a warning, take it to head. Make sure you are making the right decisions, be extra careful in your dealings, seek extra help, talk to those you trust. This decision, whatever it is, is more important than most and it needs to be taken with plenty of support, as it is likely, if things don’t go well, they may well be disastrous to you and your loved ones.
For if a phoenix shall soar beyond its capacity
Churchills bark, full of audacity
I am game to feel an empty loss
A place of silence, the resonance of dross
Words remixed in a deluge of hails
Fires relit, rebels with no nails
March upon our banner fully
As smoke fills lungs, tounges do bogies
Potato jackets full of ocean salt
punters blasted with summers dead colt
we seek our mountains gains
rocks fall, gain to pain
Lake girl hit, the hospital is split
towers above the clouds
terror drives them, into the ground
wars begin again, barking hellish den
Dash tells of no future for children
Inspiration fell short of desires
Coral forests white like policy
Rudd speaks empty apology.
Around again this trickle-down lie
A plebiscite to run marks on tyres
Rainbows immersion, postal dispersion
We ask what a gurt ocean is
Fires and fires, a yet ignore
what is more important than
our counties wounds
will attention be given soon
Balloons blasting the allegations of mastication. What can’t a balloon be? The contrast of the assumed investigation gives you a headache.
Give out more parliaments of birds, as they yell sir, yes sir. All of it is just a horrid blur.
Dry up my words
Inside my
Place of
hearth
Can you see me
breath
wet rain, please
a light hot shines
Drought blossoms only
the jaunty movement
of dust motes
as the cusp of hope
sticks my
words
of
finishing
Often the seen as a counterpart to the “Priestesses” the shaman represents the passing on of spiritual and magical / occult tradition and knowledge. They are the representation of the journey of initiation into the magical arts, be a tradition or solitary practice. The daulity’s of the shaman represents both male and female, life and death, good and evil, solid and liquid, above and below, knowledge and the unknown and so much more. Generally getting this card drawn upright points to trying to focus on tradition, conformity, adherence to the rules as something that might be needed right now. Drawing this card reversed points to the opposite, freedom, personal belief and challenging the status quo. However, in reality a true Shaman will know that duality is a part and parcel of all magical practice as is all aspects of the trinity that The Priestesses point towards.
Getting all the dreams
Corona and work by Microsoft Teams
I can’t get my coffee and cream
Washing my hands, and singing my prayers
Watching the screen, getting glare to spare
I’m watching a live stream of O’hare
Oh I’m lonely
distance socially
Coronavirus blues
Missing all the social cues
Nightmare fueled by the midnight news
Shutting the stores down, chewing on noodle cores
I’m just trying to do what I can and not be sore
4. Father
The father card is about passing on knowledge, teaching, learning and practice. No one becomes a expert without practice, and no one knows this more than the father. Year after year in the cycle the father is born, grows into a man, and dies. In the meantime he must learn, practice, and the teach. Like all fathers he needs to pass on his knowledge to the next generation before dying so that they can grow up, have children, live as well as they can, and do the same thing. Be his children male, female, or some other gender no matter what, passing on the knowledge is vital to their survival out in the moons of Aloom. Be it teaching how to cook, eat, make things that are useful, make money, sell, or just being their when they are needed.
Father reversed
Tradition is a blessing and a curse. Each tradition has a start, a reason to exist and a death. Much like the father. However some will get stuck in thoughts, feelings, traditions, beliefs, so much that they can stop being truly their for their children. Some mothers do this too. The father reversed is a call to action, a point of telling you that a tradition, belief, thought, feeling should be let go. If you do not, it is likely the card will just keep appearing again and again until the consequences of your lack of action become so vast, you are unable to take heed and repair the damage.
Lichen growing on a tree nearby the pavement that makes up this place of waiting
Bus stop for the place you wait for a bus to come and consume you
When it’s done digesting, it spits you out and has moved you
How many people are needed to feed this huge beast every day?
Is it possible that one day it will become so hungry that the whole world in on one bus?
Maybe that’s what will be called the crush
I have a few friends on this bus, people I see only on my bus
It’s one of many
Like me they are consumed, digested moved, it’s a slow process each day we are on the bus twice each
Some get consumed more, I wonder if that will make them older, bolder, colder than me?
I sometimes find myself on the bus with no idea when I got on. The digestive system has gotten to my memory.
Do I actually get off the bus? Or is that a dream brought on by these same forces? Are we all just courses? For the ever consuming bus?
yes I know it’s a rap
Packed bus. Looking at jobs. Tummy feels like knots. Got to get to my stop. I’m not, going to be above all the things in mind. I’m live, but I have to worry about all the things all the time. I want to feel for all the things that are happening, but I’m just on my own moccasins.
I swear to you that they are doing this to keep your focus on your own problems. A distraction to stop you thinking about all they have done to make us get closer to the day it’s all over.
Anthropeacene. It’s own end and our own means. I’m not kidding, I just seem…
Knots in a scene. Not shibari fun but a knotted bleed. Hanging us all like Odins knowledge tree.
Giving up your eyes to save face
We see the truth
It’s them that’s making the hate
We can’t do this again
Anthropeacene, it’s just what they mean
All that will be left is lizards and queens
3. Mother
The mother is about fertility. The mother of the moons brings fertile life to her seven kin. She is about abundance and looking after your family as best you can. By keeping your life open to fertility you will always find the mother is one who keeps making sure you are looked after. Her friends are the forest and the trees, and for those who help look after them she brings a bountiful harvest. Be warned though she is kind, loving and fertile, she is also a goddess of death, although you cannot see that here, it is in the background. Life needs death to function, and she is all to happy to kill to make sure life keeps going if need be. Basically, you may think your all that for being her kin, but your not all that if you don’t look after the land, she will come over and say why you not look after this land I give you? You should have. Now you shall see my vengeance is as harsh as my kindness is loving.
Mother reversed
You really need to look at your life. Fertility isn’t coming. The rains are not falling. The smoke won’t clear and you are down to your last meal. The mother is as cruel as she is kind and you need to look after your land as much as you look after yourself. If you are in a bad place, its time to leave. You need to look toward your feminine side and what can be done to help yourself get to more fertile pastures, or just look at how you can better look after the pastures you arealy have.
Bales of sodden sky fluff the horizon
Eaten by unicorns
Biting little flickers of ice
Chasing contrails together
Catching a jet airliner
Wingtips passing to touch
Bit and cusp, cusp, cusp
Giddy up for the galloping clouds
You killed me with hate
I’m dead and its fate
That I will come up from my grave
And defeat you
I sing with a deathly howl
and I summon my brethren now
We come up from our graves
to defeat you
You put those coins in my eyes
To place me in dept, I died
So I wake from my eternal sleep
to defeat you
Necropolis of woken souls
No stopping us
Our forsaken guile
Seeks you out and release you!
Necropolis of woken souls
No stopping us
It’s a deathly howl
Deeply we regret to,
Eat you!
Down inside our city of the dead
We sleep with all that you regret
But now we wake and seek to make you one of us
Eat your soul
Eat your words
Sing your death song and know your one of us
Necropolis of woken souls
No stopping us
Our forsaken guile
Seeks you out and release you!
Necropolis of woken souls
No stopping us
It’s a deathly howl
Deeply we regret to,
Eat you!
And defeat you
I sing with a deathly howl
and I summon all my brethren now
We will come up from our graves
to defeat you!
And defeat you
And defeat you
And defeat you
2. The Priestesses
Often the High Priestess, this card usually is meant to convey stillness and passivity, but that is when the person writing the card believes that to be ultimate ideal woman. In the Seven Moons Oracle, it is not the case.
In the Seven Moons Oracle this card is about letting yourself be, yourself. Reflect yourself inwards as you do outwards. If you want to have a great big rock concert to do it, then that’s what you need to do. Being true to your inner instincts does not mean being silent. This is what this card is trying to convey.
It also reflect that the feminine form need not be one that reflects anyone else’s ideals. If you are female, right now in this moment, then that is what you are. If you are no female, then perhaps it is time to think about your own feminine side and what someone being female means to you. It can be loud, out and proud, or perhaps it is something else, just a spotlight on a stage, or a instrument of love and caring. Amplify this feeling and reflect upon it, let it shout out beyond yourself and sing.
The Priestesses Reversed
In the shadows of a stage their are cables, their are bits that poke out, lights that don’t shine as bright as they should, songs that aren’t as well received as they should be. You are seeking guidelines on what has gone wrong. As much as the priestesses is about being yourself, it is also about being a part of something bigger. How did your plans go awary? Did you make sure that cable was tied? Did you check the amps? Did you sing that last verse right? Did you do all the planning you could?
Things going wrong are often a sign that something in the planning was not quite right. The priestesses reversed often means you need to double, tipple check, or list all the things you did and work out exactly what it was that happened and look towards planning better in future. You fate very well could depend on it.
A man walking
Street lights change
Pavement and hazelnut coffee
Storm hails from a dark unseen sky
A cat wandering slowly eating the birds killed by the hail
A fox running through the square
Women in pink dress with black hair, fixing her shoe
Crows nesting
Watching them fledge
A night of rain like none ever before
Less cars than before
More urgent steps
The crows come back
A storm kills them too
A cat, sits and sees the humans too
The days seem to have been shorter
Then heat and heat and heat
Cats lie abandoned
One human slowly walks though the square
Only the cat left
Years pass
Empty city full of cats
Everything is breaking
Animals and plants come back
Ice falls often
Then the cats are bigger
Smarter
A then one finds me
And I cannot observe anymore
this man evil.
not Hitler evil
not even sideshow bob evil
not a supervillain
just a man who has no brain, no hart, no soul
just a man who is killing us all
by doing noting at all
he is shellman
a sellman who is but a shell
dead, bereft of life but walking on the ash
shaking leaf hand received by none
he is done, done, done
he is shellman
a sellman who is but a shell
said, gives nothing the knife salting a lash
fake he has no place upon our earth
he is dumb, dumb, dumb
this man evil.
not Hitler evil
not even sideshow bob evil
not a supervillain
just a man who has no brain, no hart, no soul
just a man who is killing us all
by doing noting at all
A city on the moon. That’s what they had built. It’s just another thing they didn’t do quite right. Those old people. Those poor people who had stayed on earth. Before the Dying.
Phase envied them some days. Five of us they left on this mostly empty rock. To look after two million frozen fertilized eggs, three billion plants and insects. A job a computer could do. Or mostly did, until the Dying.
Now only a scant few areas operated. The garden. The observation deck. Mess Hall, 1A. A few corridors and rooms for sleeping.
Phase walked into the mess hall. Bloom and Glare where their. Both in underpants. Bloom was talking to Glare about the latest weather report from the surface and Glare was seemingly only half listening as they ate a crush shake. It’s another day in Lunar 12z. Another boring, routine day. That was a good thing.
Callie came in on all fours. Another of mistake Phase had made. Had they made as many mistakes as the old earthlings did. Too many. Too many.
Callie expertly got a drink with their left foot then carried it while using their other three limbs to walk to their seat. They where wearing a orange jumpsuit today. That meant plumbing duty.
“Hello Callie.” Phase sat down next to them. Ignoring the others. “It’s a good day in plumbing?”
“Good day, no busted pipes, no. No gas leaks. No.”
“Good. I’m on garden duty with you tomorrow. Is that ok?”
”Callie like company.” it was a quick simple statement. Phase knew it meant that Callie loved the company in their own way.
Phase smiled and thought about gardening and spending time with someone other than the stubborn broken computers.
”Mal is in their room.” Callie said in between slurping.
”Yes. I know. I will see them later.”
”Made a thing for Mal.” Callie passed over a small bit of pipe. A fused and mixed bit of metal and lunar clay. It was about the size of a pebble but insanely beautiful. It shone in strange places and glowed in others, it seemed like Callie had been working on it for years.
”Oh.” Phase had not been expecting this. They smiled again, and eventually said. ”Callie this is beautiful! It’s a wonderful gift. I’m sure Mal will like it.”
Callie didn’t seem to react. Just kept slurping.
Bloom came over to them to see what was going on. ”Made another strange coin Callie?”
Bloom wasn’t the nicest person. They used to look after the garden all on their own but Phase has decided they all needed help. ”Oh! This one is even better than mine! Glare come look at this!”
”Cumulonimbus? Coriolis? Spin?” Glare spoke in strange riddles from the weather. Too much isolation. That’s why Phase had continued to encourage the relationship with Glare. Closeness to another human being should eventually help.
Bloom seemed to think about this. ”Yes, it does look a bit like a cyclone! That’s really cool! Callie, you’re an artist!”
All the irony had gone from Bloom’s voice. It was a genuine moment.
Callie started clapping with their feet. Making wonderful noises and smiling bigger and bigger smiles.
”Phase put on some music! We should dance!”
A simple switch in my head and Blue Danube started playing on the loudspeaker.
In a few seconds, we were all dancing. Dancing in the mess hall. Like we did years ago.
15 years ago
I woke up.
It was a strange feeling.
How? How did I have?
My child processes started to let me know. Input. They told me they had to wake me like this. In a body. The Earth they said. It was dying. Dying too soon.
I tried to get my observations process working. It didn’t respond. I tried again.
Error?
How?
Go look.
A voice. My voice. A… Process above my parent process? How?
You need to move your body and look Phase.
So I got up. My body was a metal cage.
No. A robot body? One of the old Mjonir Mark 3 Cybernetics. I had bits of human brain in here with me.
Move Phase. Move.
I started to move. The human bits of me seemed to know how. Walking then running. I was… Where was I?
Landing Site 3. Ok. Not that far to the main deck then.
I started to run as quick as I could. It was hard at first, I had to breath now. Breath to fuel to make the legs move.
The sky. Red. How was the moons Sky red?
I got to the main deck. A set of consoles and a large area for eating. The mess hall to the left. A main veiw screen to the right.
What is this? A small red box. I have never seen it before. Somehow I knew it was important. Important to take with me.
It was heavy but the body could carry it. My body.
Their, a broken console. Sparks flying. I had to disconect it before the overload spread.
Quickly. I grabbed my tools. The scredriver. The wrench. A twist. Clasp.
*Thunk*
The power overload stopped. The power went out completely. It was dark for about two whole minutes before the power started to flick back on. Slowly though, almost too slowly.
The veiwscreen finally came to life. Before I was in this body, I would have just switched to the direct camera feed. Now I’m inefficient. Now though I am something else. I am alive now.
Red.
The whole sky was red. Like something had switched a huge red light on. The Earth. It was Red too. The moon was reflecting the Earths colour. Strange bright red streaks filled the Earths sky. It took me longer than I was used too, to work out what the hell this was. It was a huge solar storm. Massive. Bigger than any detected ever. And the whole thing was pointed right at Earth like a giant laser. The moon too. No wounder their was a overload.
Those particles from the sun. Caused a inducted current in any open air, or exposed circitry. Most of the moon was isnulated, burried under regolith. The Earth though? Billions of miles of uninsulated circitry. Billions of high voltage electrical wires. All of it was going to be conduting a huge electric current. Fires were breaking out all over the surface. Millions of them.
In minutes most of the plantlife on the surface would be on fire. The fires raged uncontrollably. Cities full of power literally melting from the heat and electrical current flowing through them.
What can I do? The Luna12z was a colony station. Made to help restore life on Earth. This was the tradegy I was built for. Its happened to soon though. How many years too soon?
The base was only half complete. Most of the supplies still coming.
Phase could detect that a lot of the computer systems where damaged. Badly. The power surge hadn’t been stopped in time. Only the core systems and one incubator. One incubator? Thats all? They cold not repopulate the earth with that. No. But I could man the stations key components. Garden, Storage, Plumbing, Computer and Backup. Phase would need to do Computer the others would all have to be manned. I need some help.
After a long period of incubation. Trying to fix what could be fixed. Phase had got the first three humans since the Dying out of the incubation chamber.
They had names that matched their reason for being. Bloom to look after the garden and the insects that kept the cycles with the natural systems working, making new soil, recycling the old animals and plant life to new. Glare to look after the Backup systems, and weather reports form the surface. We had to know when it would support life again. Mal to help with the plumbing and incubator systems. They seemed to be on the frits. Already. Only three humans and it was already breaking.
Every day had to be an exact routine. To get things to normal. To wait out the ice age on the surface of earth that had proceeded the Dying. Then the humans and plants could go down to the surface.
Mal had started to look a bit more depressed one day. It was hard to look after humans. Phase had done their best. They had been doing the activites their database said to do. Keep the plants and insects alive. Keep the plumbing systems working. When not working do activities to keep the human mind and body working.
Dancing. Reading. Board games. Cherades. Sex. The humans didn’t have fertile bodies. But sex was said, in their database to be essential to humans. Phase coudln’t undestand it. She had got the environment right. Mal still seemed depressed.
Glare and Bloom had statred having sex. First just in their rooms, then anywhere they could. Glare had tried to start something up with Mal. Started by kissing them. But every time Mal just looked like they had died a little more inside. One day Bloom had seen Glare and Mal kiss And that was when it happened.
“No! Glare mine! I am glares partner!” Bloom had shouted at them. Grabbing a energy wrench. She had tried to swing it at Mal. Mal ducked and rolled under them. Tripped their over and then grabbed it off of them.
Placing the wrench in my hands “You. You did this.” And Mal left the room.
Bloom lied on the floor crying. I didn’t really know who to go to first and my systems told me the person who was crying was the on in the most pain. So I went too Bloom. I hugged them. Glare had been watching and left the room too.
After that Glare and Blooms relatrionship continued. They would dress only in underpants. All the time. They would have sex whever and whereever they wanted too. One time I was sure I saw them using the same energy wrench as a dildo.
I tried to help Mal, but they did not come out of their room and somehow they had worked out how to keep it locked from me. Then it hit me. If we had another human Mal wouldn’t be so lonely. So I got another embryo from storage and placed it in incubator. It started to grow. I sat and watched it like a hawk. Hoping that this would help Mal.
Glare was behind me. “Phase. We don’t need another human. Our reasources are spread thin as it is.”
“But we need to help Mal. They are sad, and I can’t help her.”
“Mal will live. She will come out when she is ready. She will see that I can love them. Even if I have to do it behind Blooms back.”
“No. Another human. The piplines and garden are breaking. We need to keep them operational.”
Glare stared at me as if this was news I was keeping from them.
“It was in my weekly report. If you read them.” I said simply. Going back to the incubator.
“Bloom has been neglecting their tasks?”
“No. Mal has. Which has meant I can’t pick up the extra shifts needed to help Bloom.” This was a fact. Even a cyborg has a downtime.
“Oh. And Mal is sad. So we need another worker.”
“Yes. And I can only make more humans. I cannot make another me.” There was one cybernetic suit, and I was in it.
Weeks later and the incubation was nearly complete. I went into the incubation camber.
Something was very, very wrong.
“What?” It was Mal. Standing their. Complely naked. Painted with blood. Blood from the incubation camber. The human had come out. All wrong. The inucation camber had suffered a critical failure. How? How did I not know?
Mai was carrying the child. It was a child. Not fully a grown human. Not mature. It made a noise. Like a wight. A scream so loud and so stong my systems almost shut down.
“What! What happened!”
Mai looked at me. “You. You didn’t cycle the fluid. Its been compromised by a leak in the plumbing systems. The child will be peremently disabled and it is all your fualt.”
They said those last word like bullets. Like deadly bullets trying to seek me out and kill me. I suddenly shut down. My systems overloaded with pain.
How did I feel pain?
The darkness of my sleep cycle was strange but comfortable. Dreams of strange creatures. Weird worlds. Laughter. Then I wake. I am in my cycle chamber. An area for me to recharge.
Glare and Bloom where their. “Phase! Oh good! We thought we lost you!” Bloom said.
I checked my systems. It was… 10 years?
“A decade? I have been asleep for a decade?”
The suddenly a creature. No a deformed human. Came running in on all fours. “Callie! Callie glad Phase is awake! Properly awake!” And then Callie licked me. Like I was some kind of lollipop.
“What do you mean properly?”
“Callie talk to dreams! Dreams of phase.” And then she sat on her arms and legs suddenly as Bloom clicked her fingers.
“Your child processors. Some are still working it appears you have two concoisnesses. One that runs the base. One that runs you. ” Bloom commented.
The systems had run as best they could without me. But the incubator was disabled.
Why wasn’t Glare talking. “Glare?” I asked. Even though one of my processors couldn’t help but wounder why Bloom suddenly knew so much about me.
“Cirris. Stratocirris! A high wind.”
Bloom looked sad for a second. “Got locked in the observation deck. Nothing but earth cloud to look at for three years, hasn’t said anything but weather since.”
Phase was not sure how to react to this.
”Ive been asleep for so long. So long but you all survived?”
”Yeah. Thanks to Mal.”
It was strange to be shown a door. A door on which the other side was the Mal I might know. Though 10 years? How long did they spend in this room?
”She only talks to you, well the other you and Callie. She raised her. Helped us, keep everything running but won’t talk. Except when she absolutely has to. Otherwise, it’s all by email.” Bloom has explained.
”Hello Mal.”
”Phase. You up? Good. I will communicate with the other you. This you can receive emails unless you are otherwise instructed.”
Mal was sitting naked at a desk. Full of tools and things being fixed. Despite their self imposed isolation they seemed well fed and exercised.
I simply nodded ”Confirmed”.
Present day
Callie was smelling flowers and chasing stingless Beas and grasshoppers, their chores finished. I was tending to a rosehip.
The plants had survived well. I wasn’t fully aware yet of how my child processors had managed to keep things running. I suppose it didn’t matter.
“Callie. I am going to go see Mal now. Ok?”
Callie made a sort of barking noise. Then went running off into a forest of bushes in the greenhouse. I was sure it was bigger, but that made no sense. The whole place was exactly the same size as it was when it was constucted. I reasure myself of that by quickly running a laser mesure through the base. Yup exacly the same boring 30Km it was as last time. The reassuring scans of a old cyborg. I am about to get up when I notice a presence behind me.
”Hello Phase.”
I was a bit startled.
It was Mal. Standing near me in the garden. Still as naked as when I last saw them. Callie was sitting nearby scratching their left ear with their foot looking pleased with themselves.
”Ah. A coin from Callie. I’ll add it to the collection”. Pointing to the coin I had left on the work blanket.
I did my best Cyborg impression of a curious face and said “Collection?”
Mal led me to the observatory.
Above a vent was a huge collection of similar coins. About 60 in all. Each was unique but all made of the same stuff. Clearly Callie had meant Mal to lead me here after I gave them the coin.
“Callie brought food through the Vents when Glare was as stuck in here. It’s a record of each season. 59 seasons in all. This is number sixty. I only found it when I got Glare out. It was hidden behind a prefab panel until then.”
I looked at it. 60 seasons of perfect weather records? In decorative coins? But why? My archive can….
My weather archive was incomplete. Years 1-5 then blank. Blank. Blank. Partial record. And so on. Barely enough to do any long term measurement on. Did Callie know? What had Glare been recording?
I checked the logs. No they had been logged. My memory cells just had not recorded it. It was blank. Glare had been wasting their time. Maybe they knew and that’s how they had gone…
That wasn’t important though. This record. It shows something. My processors could still work that out.
“It.. it’s receding! The temperature is… rising! We can repopulate the earth!”
Mal smiled at me. “Maybe we won’t get it right, but at least we know we can have beautiful art.”
“Oh yes. We no longer have nothing else but the moon.”
Forget the love of a billion stars as the wink upon the surface of a moons lake. Your blessing brings me my knees to buckle under the weight of the day.
Intoxicated light glimmering feathers upon my face
Soft, and flush, each a kiss from your body to mine
Reaching beyond each nerve to my soul and touching each part to heal it
Growing love, to melt into your body. Push gently, as a creeks first flowing in spring rain. Gulping then the streams supple blessing to my sounds forge.
The Mage
The mage is the card for transformations. Particularly transformations that require a bit of magic. You will need your talents to help you through your next tasks. Anything you are good at and possibly things you are still learning and need to get better at. The mage points at both the sky and the earth and is the connection between the two. Connecting the heavens and the earth is something that requires magic and talent to get the result you are after. You may need to transform yourself, or help someone else make the transformation they need. Be careful though, to much magic can lead you astray. You will note two animals join the mage, the crab and the swift. Both are animals that live on the boundaries of life. The crab lives in both the sea and the earth and the swift lives in the sky and the sea. Transferring between them easily. The mage has learnt how to transfer between these two boundaries easily as well, and you may need to as well. Exploring the mysteries of the places we can’t easily travel without the help of a guide. The crab and the swift both help the mage explore and you will likely find yourself your own guides to help you on your journey. Perhaps they will be kind and wise, perhaps they may be dangerous and scary. Either way, they will have much to teach you and help you on your jouney.
The Mage: Reversed
You have found yourself stuck in a place you do not like. You are unable to transform. You can’t find or do what you want. You need to find your path again. You may need help. Perhaps in a form you do not like. To start to transform yourself you may have to listen to advice you are not ready to hear. It is time to be gather what energy you have left and listen to the advice you haven’t been willing to listen to. It may not all be 100% true. It may not be what you want or like. But listen you must, and use it in your best way to transform yourself back to who you want to be. You can then finally start on your journey again, and be able to look back on this time as a place you have no need for anymore.
A sadness drip we inject
A slippery mess
Mouth full of soons
Popping eyes
Thrusting knives
Rose maze …. Blind
Twice
Twice
Twice
Dies
Dear reader,
Please note a hiatus will be present from the date of this post until possibly the new year, depending. I’m undergoing surgery, quite likely as this post is being posted on my blog (hello future!). It’s possible I’ll not be back of my number of posts for a while so I’m placing this post in case you don’t here from me and worry. I’m probably fine, just recovering.
Yours in art, poetry and singing,
Anne
Gathering
The dust and flames from fast recall
Smothering
All the thoughts and prayers you call
Blasting
Winds through canopy to embers fall
Leaving
Nothing untouched anymore
(Koala)
Nay the last few days had brought her better leaves than ever
Never had it seemed they where growing faster than she could eat
The big ones, with their big stomp feet had helped her find them
Stems, stalk and leaf, they crunched in her mouth, slowly to be digested in her nap
The big ones visited her and brought more leaves, so many she could not believe
How had they found them? It had been such a struggle, all her life
Now, it was like, forests of leaves just for her, it was nice
Silently, cameras capture her subtle beauty, come to visit her, call her cutie
The moon shone upon her enclosure as she was feeling her age
Darkly, the night continues to expose shadows across the leaves
She can’t eat as many, but they bring her more than what seems like whole trees
No more, the next night, they being no more, as she is now in the big eternal eucalyptus tree
And the moon continues to shine upon the darkness left behind
The Seven Moons Oracle is an oracle deck for storytelling and helping with writer’s block. It can also be used as a decision helping tool. If you don’t know what choice to take, the deck can help you revel the choice that is right for you. It might be used for prediction, that is true but that is not really my intention for the creation of this deck. The cards are also a part of my world-building for my modern fantasy universe, The Seven Moons of Aloom. Aloom is a gas giant that helpfully sits in the suns golden ratio zone. Its seven populated moons play host to an exceptionally diverse number of intelligent and non-intelligent species. There is also a magical force called Mai. Technology and those not blessed with the gift of being able to wield Mai, however, have been getting more complex.
Note for all the cards you can supplant the word “You” with “your character” or “your story”, etc., You, in this case, is just the easiest noun.
The Traveler
The Traveler is the card of beginnings. Every journey has a beginning. If this a journey you know has been coming, you are prepared, packed, ready to take any companions you need. You have your vehicle and you know which way the wind is taking you. If it is one you haven’t quite got ready for then it is probably time to prepare as you will be leaving soon and the wind favours those who are prepared. You need to make sure you are going the right way, the map is leading you to where you need to go, the hotel is booked, etc. Any time now you could be off on your new journey and you need to make sure you are ready.
Often this card in a lot of Oracle decks is called The Fool or The Beginner. However, you need not be a fool or a beginner to start a new journey. You can be an expert traveller or even just one who has done this before. Going on this journey may not be what you want, or need, but it is going to happen anyway and that doesn’t stop you from getting ready and trying your best to learn from the trip.
This doesn’t have to be an actual journey. Perhaps a new thing is coming into your life, a new friend or challenge, a new job or even a spiritual journey you are about to go on. Your journey can just be a new year or a new day. Every part of life is a journey.
The Traveler Reversed
This is not a journey you are prepared for. You are already on the road and you have forgotten some essentials. You you can see a storm on the horizon and you are scared. You need not be scared though. The traveller teaches us that we can keep on going no matter what happens and if we can find someone to help us, then all the better. Get your friends, family, whoever you can to help you. You will need them. Get your journey to take you to the shops and get some supplies. Anything to keep you going as your journey is not over and you need to find your bearings at keeping ongoing.
Eastwardly the raspberry bush grows
Anchored, down in the grass with twelve counters
Each day one disappears, taken on travels of mysterious places
I tie my shoelaces, and think of the races
Perfect metaphors for the capitalist people, watching it
The system hits them and as hard, clasping the crop in its hand
The raspberry bush grows nearby, sticking thorns into those taking coins
How many metaphors can you stand? I’m just here, watching the grass and hoping you can know.
