July 30, 2009
- Today’s Stitchomancy -
Not that I take it all too seriously, but there’s this site where you can get daily tarot, i ching, and other divinatory readings, based on your name and birthday. I check it daily, because:
1) why the hell not?
2) I’ve occasionally found them to be useful as a sort of foil for my thoughts.
3) my computer at work is usually really slow, so it’s generally good to have something quick and easy to read open in the background, as I wait for the “print” box to open…
Every once in a while though, they can be really good. My stitchomancy “reading” for today is a particularly poetic excerpt, so I thought I’d share it here. Stitchomancy, for those unfamiliar with it, is the divinitory act of closing your eyes, randomly opening a book, and pointing to a passage, which you then open your eyes and read. Anyway, they’ve got a digitized version that picks from a bunch of classic novels and other texts (once I got something from the Bible, for example).
Today’s is from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad:
God!”
A shriek inhuman, vibrating and sudden, pierced like a sharp dart the white shroud of that land of sorrow. Three short, impatient screeches followed, and then, for a time, the fog-wreaths rolled on, undisturbed, through a formidable silence. Then many more shrieks, rapid and piercing, like the yells of some exasperated and ruthless creature, rent the air. Progress was calling to Kayerts from the river. Progress and civilization and all the virtues. Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice
I’ve had good results from that as well especially the i ching and tarot.
Comment by Ted — August 4, 2009 @ 10:20 pm
Try asking them this question, Ian and show me what you get!
Comment by Ted — August 5, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
whoops here is the link:
http://www.facade.com/tarot/personal/?Date=8%2F5%2F2009&Query=what+card+represents+my+essence%3F&Name=Ted&Deck=aquatic&Reading=single&UID=355587&Reverse=on
Comment by Ted — August 5, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
So does that reading mean you got a job? ;) Hope the travel in Alaska went (or are going) well.
For personal stuff, I prefer using my own deck. But what the hell, why not:
http://www.facade.com/tarot/personal/?UID=210540&Date=8%2F7%2F2009&Name=Ian&Query=What+does+the+future+hold+for+everyone%3F&Deck=&Reading=&Reverse=on
(for those not into parsing the code, my question was “What does the future hold for everyone?”. Put in my name and the date is included automatically. Left everything else up to the system.)
Comment by Ian — August 7, 2009 @ 1:24 pm