#transcendental experience

[alyssumflowersgarden]

The Fool

Everyone points out the, well, foolishness of the character in the Fool card: hasty, not paying attention, so distracted by that butterfly he’s about to fall off the cliff. It’s easy to mock those who don’t know any better, isn’t it? We forget the Fool is the beginning of the Journey.

There’s two points I want to make about that (“the beginning of the journey”):

inexperience. When you first start anything new, you will bumble it. Think back to when you first started something you’re good at now, doesn’t matter what it is. Maybe you’re just starting something now and feel foolish with your first attempts. Babies wobble. No one walks or runs perfectly on their first try. Don’t come at me in the comments with some weird ass exception(s), I stg. I can hear Loki giggling and my Mother reminding me not to speak in absolutes. You know what I mean, damnit. I could ramble on about how it’s okay to make mistakes, to be new at things, but I think you’ve probably read as much enough times in other things. Why bother reiterating it here?

catalysts. Every story needs a catalyst, needs a turning point. Change isn’t happening if everything is sitting in a still, perfect equilibrium. I’m not sure I’ve met anyone who got into magic who didn’t have some kind of Experience tm or other Reason which compelled them to explore. The world, the universe, is wondrous and rich, but you’ll never experience it if you do not step outside your door.

There is a dog yapping at the Fool’s heels. Is it warning him? Or egging him on? The Wolf has been snapping at my heels, trying to force me to leap off the cliff’s edge. “You cannot be prepared for everything, every situation. Sometimes you just. must. jump.” I’m told. I waffle when the Wolf demands I choose. I want it all. The result of my choice is irrelevant. It is my hesitation that frustrates. I refuse both to show my neck in submission, and also refuse to meet his eye or bear my own fangs back. I could say it’s meant as respect, but the Wolf knows better and so do I. Stand the fuck up. Take the damn leap. How can you start the journey if you forever refuse to take the first step?

It’s not the first time I’ve been urged to leap. I struggle with Change, and with Choice, especially if I’m not given the time to contemplate it, or prepare somehow. I want to min-max, to optimize, but we don’t always have time for that in life. Some things must be chosen without any idea of the outcome. Sometimes that’s precisely the point of that particular choice. I only ever seem to notice when I do that and fail. The failures resonate, stick to me, a residue I can’t seem to wash off. That doesn’t mean that the leap always results in failure. It’s just so hard to remember when it doesn’t.

#the wolf #fenrir #fenris ullr #fenrir god #the fool #the fool tarot #tarot cards #personal #daily tarot #we'll see if i actually do this daily lmao #major arcana #rider-waite #choices and leaping and change #transcendental experience #magick #witchblr #prayer

[nohugsgiven]

Holzhausen, Germany

#photography #i took these! #idk what core this is but thinking about the spider poem again #nature #this was on a barely visible trail off the beaten path #and i was listening to the new koan sound album #transcendental experience

[trve]

i am such a slut for pasta. and with cheese??? i'm obsessed.

#just had the most bitchin carbonara of my life #transcendental experience #izzy speaks

[dismalswamp]

I want to get high and make out so bad I'm going to lose my mind

#transcendental experience #religious #gay

[sgt-celestial]

im at the petrol station and i just saw a dude in FULL cowboy attire (hat, poncho, boots) walk out with this hardcore biker guy and get into a truck along with like 4 other people all wearing cowboy hats. i feel like i just saw god

#transcendental experience #emi's meandering jotts

[mcdonaldszaza]

sometimes you just need to eat a whole pickle

#transcendental experience #its the electrolytes #i saw anti whole pickle slander and i felt the need to correct this mistake

[athenaefilia]

society will heal when everyone will have flip-phones again

#slamming your phone shut??? transcendental experience

[cats-in-video-games]

Cat (left) from The Sims

#cat #unnamed #the sims #look at this cat having a transcendental jazz experience

[venacoeurva]

Hey there accidentally phallic candle

#wips #PUT THOSE GRIPPERS AWAY #Also heilung is a good band to listen to while drawing things but I also did just spend way too long being growled at in one of their #song intros so that was a thing #one time I listened to their live recordings while high and I don't know if that was a good experience or not but it was transcendental

[hamletthedane]

turns out you can spend $18 million on your filmed production of Hamlet and cast all the great Hollywood stars of the 90’s to act in it, and it will still never beat that one performance by a kid in a texas barn with an audience of 40, performed during in a 110F heat wave

#anyways I saw a production of hamlet that knocked my fucking socks off in a barn in 110F heat #the whole cast was ranging from good-for-local-theater to actually-really-good #but hamlet was something else entirely. transcendental theater experience #anybody in or around central texas/Houston/Cstat who wants to see an incredible Hamlet performance hmu for details #female actors cross-casted to play Hamlet just feels so very very right #hamlet #willy shakes #this is a Kenneth Branagh Hamlet hate blog

[s-lycopersicum]

#oshi no ko #hoshino ai #hoshino ruby #hoshino aquamarine #gif #watching this was a transcendental experience #i went in knowing next to nothing about this anime #was expecting the usual 20 min didn't even look at the ep length #and then got taken for a ride #i'm going insane

[quietwingsinthesky]

im just saying. three person mechs. no listen to me. listen. three person mechs with time lord pilots and human “companions” who keep it running beneath their control.

#like if the pilots are the brains and body of the mech. then to be a companion is to be the blood that runs through them. and it’s #a transcendental experience. and it destroys you. it does. #and yes. excuse to make thoschei drift compatible. yeah.

[nihilosphere]

"Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, at an arm's length... It has always been watching you. It always will until the day it taps you."

"How can anyone feel so important when we know that Death is stalking us?"

"The thing to do when you're impatient is to turn to your left and ask advice from your Death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your Death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you."

"Death is the only wise adviser that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your Death and ask if that is so. Your Death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your Death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.'"

- Journey To Ixtlan

Carlos Castaneda

1972

#Death #journey to ixtlan #carlos Castaneda #awareness #consciousness #conscious experience #fourth dimension #higher functions #meditation #existentialism #ascension #hermeticism #shaman #shamanism #native american #transcendental magic #Transcendence #mortality

[alatariel-galadriel]

The greatest kindnesses you will ever receive are from absolute strangers. it will mean nothing to them and everything to you

#I just had. A transcendental experience #I’ve had a huge amount of medical debt due to referral shenanigans that has been plaguing me for the last year and a half #And this woman. She fixed it. In less than an hour #She was the kindest person I’ve ever met. She was patient and kind while I was crying & got righteously angry on my behalf #And then fixed EVERYTHING. In an hour. I have been trying to get this fixed for over a year. I work in the field.I know how much she did #She already had gone way beyond her job function and THEN she called the debt collectors with me to make sure everything got smoothed out #Like. It sounds so mundane written out but I am so serious that this meant everything to me #Never ever forget the kindness of strangers #Jesus I’m actually crying over this. I hope she knows how much she’s helped. #whispers from the ally

[twiafom]

still losing my absolute shit over hannah's art oh my god the transient nature of hijack. the staying and the leaving and the war between what they want and the limitations of their existence and how there's nothing more selfish than being together

in summary

#talking tag #HIJACK IS A TRANSCENDENTAL EXPERIENCE

[transingthoseformers]

Thinking more about Megatron holding a human kid and it's like when you hold a tiny tiny little kitten

#maccadam #transformers #tfe megatron #holding a really small kitten is a transcendental experience but it also gifts you such an anxiety inducing experience #like #it's so small #so tiny #too tiny #and relative to you fragile #but the little fucking mews and warm and soft #kiTten #this is why that plotline exists