Filene 🌠🌠🌠 @Filene@witches.town

@Eve Thank you for placing a sigil on my iChing request jinx, and channeling it!

@ThatVeryQuinn do you warm up before you try singing the higher register songs? I find myself in a similar situation, and I'm not sure if it's a coated throat I keep clearing, or vocal discipline I haven't learned. Warming up with a song or two helps me. Not you?

@Sylvhem thank you for sharing my outreach attempt; mercí beaucoup!

If you're a national of #China, #Taiwan, #Korea, or any other country where #iChing or studies of the #bagua are part of your culture, please reach out to me. I've been taking my Practice of #iChing as seriously as I might without access to Mandarin Chinese, and I'd like to avoid as much cultural appropriation in my Practice of divination as possible.

Thank you!

I did an #iching reading and got earth over earth changing to lightning over earth, both really indicative of the wisdom I sought. I was concerned when the epiphany I needed, and felt cusping, might arrive.

On the way here (my spouse's work,) I heard two songs from Van Canto on my playlist that really spoke to the inner life I need to rejuvenate: "I Stand Alone" and "She's Alive," which I feel are related to one another. Other songs (Starlight, Hero, and King) have all been of inspiration recently, but weren't the two I spent the car trip singing.

Arriving, I do feel that innermost freedom like rivers coming home, and maybe I'm alive and know it inside.

@kara_dreamer let's be fair, not only is that a great novella, but there is a lot of emotional ground to cover. :3

@kara_dreamer I haven't looked to it, but if it's under 2,000 words, I am more likely to speculate finishing it, so we'll see when I revisit the thought :o

Sitting here, watching cars roll by with my kid watching alongside me in their stroller. I haven't gotten to meditate in the last five days, not long enough to sit well with me. I could probably do it now since they're beginning to relax.

I'm getting a pretty invisible "to do" list. Dealing with my financial problems are on paper, alongside writing and antifascist propaganda posters.

Yet I have this unease I can't explain, and the caffeine might be contributing.

I'll walk around and hopefully coax the little one to sleep..

@kara_dreamer I love that you'd give Toriel space to grieve, mourn, and grow in a fanfic, I don't think she was afforded much in the original game..
And I can relate, since I'm still dealing with all my own grief..

@djsundog @mona @kara_dreamer @mona

As long as it's someone else's story and not mine

@grime_witch I was thinking about what "putting someone in check" really means; I imagine someone forcing you, like blackmail or violence threats, and you NEEDING to move. But other other half of this is only needing you to move until they don't need you anymore, and any move you make will benefit the aggressor.

Here, in this discussion/argument you have, I get the air someone has cornered you, and any move you make simply means you've lost.

What could be said to turn the chess tables on this kind of judge and jury of arguments? Hmm.. "No, stalemate since I'm about to make a move you don't recognize or consider" ?

Hmm'm..

@TipsyTentacle wow, we're a week apart! Mine was the 7th. :D

@guerrillarain that person abused you. I forget which playbook it comes from--narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath--but the end result is similar: manipulating your expectations while denying you power from escaping their clutches. I wish I had more specific words here. :(

@kara_dreamer @kel I've never heard of psilacetin.. *reads on*

@kel maybe that didn't seem to make sense.. I'm sorry, I'm busy thinking of business models instead of simply pleasurable creation. I really need more of the latter. :x

I'd still love to see a few sticks you craft!

@kel yes, yes definitely. The more strength and character, the better. Ideally, if you're seeking to make these for sale, I'd rather see them as personal gifts alongside more expensive purchases, until the sticks have their own reputation to price your efforts. Either way, I'd love to see them. :3

Ok. Not checking the Sabbath, going to spend some moments scraping some words together for my third book in the Constellations series.

@egypturnash super real.