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If you have a question, I'll be happy to use geomancy or the tarot about it. That said, divination is like weather forecasting not a tablet of truth handed down from above. The conditions that divination taps into are in constant flux, the same as atmospheric pressure and the Moon. There might also be some intense readings, but by and large, given that most of us have ordinary lives, the readings have an ordinary tone. One more note, it is very common for people to look for comfort and hope in divination, in my experience that is a bad idea, so only ask questions to which you really want to know the answer.

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And here is another one. If you have a question, I'll be happy to use geomancy or the tarot about it. That said, keep in mind that divination is like weather forecasting, not a tablet of truth handed down from above, so take the advice I give you through the reading as such. The conditions that divination taps into are also in constant flux, the same as atmospheric pressure and the Moon.

Instructions Please leave your question stated below with a little bit of background about your situation. I would appreciate very much if you replied back to it so that we can both work towards making it useful for you and also for me to refine my divining skills. If you want to know how your week or month or the likes is going to look like or you want to gain insight into a situation, I'll be happy to assist you.

Please note Be sure to ask questions to which you want to know the answer. Also, divination doesn't always tell you about things you already know about, actually, it almost never does! My suggestion is that you question yourself, especially on things that make you think or flinch if any, and consider the points mentioned from a stance of possibility not of confirmation bias or it's diametrical opposite, falsification bias. Any actions taken from the information of the readings are entirely the responsibility of the querent and do not replace nor pretend to be professional legal, medical or psychological counseling.

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Evil Eye is one of those things in daily life that exhibit a clear magical effect --the eyes and thoughts of others directed at you when they turn into jealousy, envy, anger or just plain attraction. The Kabbalists call it ayin horé, the Italians maloccio, the Scottish droj shuil, the Mexicans mal de ojo, the Romans oculus malus etc. People with sensitive nervous systems know this very well and if you start paying attention, you can almost tell what is happening when it is at work. Let's take the example of a compliment about your new charming piece of jewelry. What is the other person thinking as she does this innocent act? Many times, it is a genuine comment, but many other times it isn't actually a compliment but a reaction to mask the actual feelings of jealousy that we all feel from time to time when we see something that we like or would like to have. There is a distinctive quality, for example, between jealousy and a compliment and that is the direction the energy is taking. One gives and the other draws.

It is the latter that we need to treat with some care, and more generally with noxious energies and foreign desires, for the same reasons that we wash our hands before eating. It is not a big thing by itself but add it up or make someone really, really angry and you might lose your keys, hit your little toe against the furniture's corner or even get a headache. One way or another, especially when someone is fuming about, they might be doing unintentional magic against you as their thoughts are quite literally calling on you --calling you by name, and by image-- even if so in the split second that happens in between two moments of self-awareness and without real ill intentions.

This has happened to me too many times to ignore. I lost one of my Tarot decks to a barista that approached me, looked at it with some clear fascination when I was offering readings at my favorite bar and a few hours later it was gone. I lost the deck as soon as I went out and I was sure it was in my bag. It is as if someone called its name and jumped right out of it!

What can we do about this? It is one of the most widespread bits of folk magic in Mexico that wearing a red string of yarn or similar on the left wrist or ankle, or both, prevents those energies from hitting you and your possessions directly. The same piece of string, we attach to street facing plants to prevent them from withering out of the jealousy of neighbors and others; to newborn babies and children specially, to protect them from receiving this energy during their development with all the attention they get from all sorts of people; to our things so that in our daily errands they stay tied up to us and even pets.

I don't happen to know why such as simple charm can have such an effect, but it certainly seems it does. I have them on me and on my backpack for example and ever since I do, I also noticed something interesting. People just look at them less, as if they became invisible to a degree or as if it absorbs it, cutting the connection. The fact that the color red is the lowest frequency on the visible spectrum might give us some insight as to why this is. We could attempt to draw some symbolism from the knots and the circle too. Circles and closed loops contain, so do knots, belts and girdles for example. The path the Sun traces around the sky ties us into existence; the magician's circle protects him during his operations; a hairband prevents hair from becoming a mess; and in this case it creates a protection from the weight of people's eyes and minds.

Its origins are equally mysterious. Mexico been the deeply syncretic country it is I don't think it would be easy to trace it in its modern form, if we can point at single version at all --these days you can see red strung wrists and ankles from CEO offices to the most distant villages in the middle of Oaxaca as well as on Lionel Messi's wrist and several other celebrities. Some say it's origins can be traced to the Jewish story of Rachel; some others say that the story was a later addition ascribed to the folk practice in order to Judaize it since the red string tied around one's finger is mentioned in the Tosefta, in the Mishnah, Shabbat 7 Halacha 1, as a custom of the gentiles and therefore not allowed for Jews to imitate. In its present form you can find it sold as souvenirs near the Western Wall with little pieces of paper that have the Ben Porat prayer printed on them or anywhere else in the world in esoteric shops and the likes.

The Bible tells the story of the matriarch Rachel, wife of Jacob who gave birth, after many barren years, to two sons, Benjamin and Joseph to which's end she passed away from this world and lies buried on the roads in between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Complicated cultural and historical reasons aside, today people wear pieces of string that have been tied around Rachel's tomb seven times as a charm for protection and so do many other people outside of Judaism. If they are related or not, it seems hard to tell but today it is widely used among the people that follow the traditional guidance since, for example, it is said that on a baby too much eye can cause crying or even fever. I don't have a baby but reading sites about "what to do when people look at your baby" or "how to diagnose evil eye on your kid" suggest that it is a thing. It certainly has been my experience.

There are many versions, the ones I know are more or less variations of the same. My school has it that the color red connects you to your ancestry by blood and thus it carries the full weight of your lineage; another way of seeing it is that it is the color of the planet Mars and so on. There are versions with little blue eyes on them, given that it is harder to commit something hidden if you are being watched; there are versions with seven knots around the string or the string tied with six successive knots after the first one that unites the ends. You can probably knock yourself out about it, but here are some instructions of how I do it.

Get yourself a piece of red cotton yarn, any other red string or a red ribbon. I have found that plain, unbraided threads work better to keep the circle symbolism. You can add beads to it, deer eye seeds or other amulets that you associate with protection. Traditionally the thread needs to be tied by somebody else on you, or you need to tie it for somebody else. It is said that it is more powerful if your mother or grandmother does it, but I have done it by calling on the Mother Earth or just by reciting an incantation and tying it myself with good effect. There really isn't much to it, you just grab the string and tie it on the left wrist or ankle. Some other people put a ribbon covering the hara the area about two inches below the navel, like a belt around the waist for children and curanderos and traditional dancers wear a red belt in the same area for a similar purpose. You can use symbolism on top of it, 7 knots on the Kabbalistic version mentioned above, yo can just tie it normally and do seven knots in the end, or three knots, one per ray of the Three Rays of Light for example; or even the union of opposites into a single whole, etc.



Here are some sample incantations:

"By the power of Jesus Christ may this thread keep you from all evil, now and always. Amen"

"By your mother, grandmother and all your lineage; by the power of your father and your grandfather may you be always protected by their vigil. Ometeotl"

"Dear St. Michael by your might and your sword, protect me."

The Ben Porat or other protective prayer can be prayed over too.

If the string falls, get rid of it by burning it, burying it if it is a natural fiber or throwing it away in the trash or on the sewer. That usually happens when it is already 'done'. If for some other reason you want to take it off or replace it, don't use metal to cut it. Either break it, untie it or burn a bit of it so it comes loose and then dispose of it. As with all magic, it works even better if you yourself abstain from gossiping or murmuring badly about someone but neither of the points above are something that needs extra caution or concern.

Overall, I have found this bit of research fascinating and I hope it helps get an idea of its traditions and how to do it. There seems to be more avenues to it than I expected, and its history seems to go very far back and across cultures. With that in mind I hope you can enrich your practice and that it be helpful against the constant panopticon we live on today. So there you go, the read thread. Let me know how it works for you if you do!

Does the covid vaccine cause heart attacks and other serious diseases in a considerable amount?



The amount of Pobl's (people) really makes for an interesting pattern, since there are four of them of which the Llawenydds is the same amount. The rest of the figures are Merch (girl), Carchar (prison) and Gwyn as Left Witness, Judge and Right Witness. It is strange to see such an emphasis on Pobl but it makes sense since this is a reading for a public health matter. For this reason, I have not interpreted the triplicities the same way that I would do on a normal shield chart at all but just the judge and witnesses.

Overall the situation is hard to tell from the perspective the people because of Carchar and perhaps deliberately concealed, it is an unfavorable figure. Merch is unfavorable with unfavorable figures and tells me the situation has been manipulated heavily and it is also concealing something else.

In a statistical significant sense, it seems that the serious side effects of the covid vaccines are big enough to be considerable, more than it is accepted, but the amount of how much that would be seems to be perceived greater than it is, given that statistical casualties don't necessarily mean personal tragedy but it seems to be a really serious matter nonetheless.

Llawenydd is bad for secrecy, and we have four, specifically on the position of the world and the past. I wonder if this is due to the fact that vaccine side effects have become hard to hide from the people and that some clarity about what they actually do is starting to come up. Things seem to be changing considerably on that aspect and the current developments of the matter, with respect to a year or two ago, seem to agree.

Another month has passed so here is another divination offering, so if you have a question, I'll be happy to ask the coins using geomancy about it. That said, divination is like weather forecasting not a tablet of truth handed down from above, so take the advice I give you through the reading as such. The conditions that divination taps into are also in constant flux, the same as atmospheric pressure and the Moon. Any actions taken from the information of the readings are entirely the responsibility of the querent and do not replace nor pretend to be professional legal, medical or spiritual counseling.

Be sure to ask questions to which you want to know the answer. Also, divination doesn't always tell you about things you already know about, actually, it almost never does! My suggestion is that you question yourself, especially on things that make you flinch if any, and consider the points mentioned from a stance of possibility not of confirmation bias (or it's diametrical opposite, falsification bias).

These offerings that I give are geared towards helping you by finding a way of incorporating the replies of the oracle into your own personal life so I am happy to discuss in the comments to compensate for the lack of visual contact to create rapport with your situation and thus provide more useful readings.

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We can go ahead and dust off the card-o-scope and check what the Astral Light is up to today, this week or the coming months. So if you have a question, I'll be happy to ask the cards. If you had a question I didn't answer in a previous Tarot Tuesday let me know and I'll get back at it. I might already have notes of it.

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I will repost this on the last Tuesday of every month and will try to answer your query within the week or two of posting. That said, divination is like weather forecasting not a tablet of truth handed down from above, so take the advice I give you through the cards as such. The conditions that divination taps into are also in constant flux, the same as atmospheric pressure and the Moon. Any unfortunate situation you get yourself into is entirely the responsibility of the querent!

If you wish to make a donation for the readings, though it is not required, you can do so through Paypal by clicking the pentacle. Other than that, if your situation requires urgency, privacy or a more elaborate reading and conversation message me and we can arrange a 45 minute Tarot reading through Zoom or other virtual lobby software and look into it. Thanks for stopping by!

I've seen some people use some sort of HTML tag or other setting to make their posts that are longer than a few paragraphs be hidden under a "Read More..." link when using Dw in the Reading page. I looked it up and I tried but I guess it only shows up for other people on their Reading pages so I thought I'd ask. How do you it? I honestly think that should be the default as some people seem to write longer pieces, which is great.

Edit: After thinking about it, I started the post as a place for the controversy regarding ethnic and cultural movements in society and their polite discussion but I think if I make another it would be about other things as well, given the jolly reception, with an opening line of a theme perhaps, as we did with this one about immigration. Is there an interest in a particular theme about Mexico and Latino related things? If yes let me know in the comment section and if not, the next post will be about food. A recipe perhaps? Odd dishes of far away local markets?

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Something I've noticed in the past five years is that some people are very touchy and yet curious about immigration matters; the nations involved and their culture and the corresponding implications in the societies of the nations involved, but most people I've tried engaging with are afraid of getting down to real talk to not offend, me or somebody else. I appreciate the gesture for sure given today's broad hysteria and conversations can get tough, but this I intend for such things to be discussed without them becoming personal.

Me? I like that immigration matters are brought to the fore after centuries of imperial immigrant abuse, but I also think that many of my fellow Mexicans and latinos here in the U.S seem to be enjoying too much the attention that SJWs have given them and turned capricious or they have been dumped by their apparent saviors and switched sides. They have good points but they also have blindspots --and some of their supporters magnify those with wishful thinking, that seems either self-sabotage or just ignorance about politics and economics. And even others, who used to favor the wall vehemently, now live in Puerto Vallarta or what not.

The image is the stunning sculpture Promerica by Polish American artist Stanisław Szukalski and it depicts his vision for the Americas: science and mysticism; engineering and magic; european and indigenous, working together. Oh, and when the wind hits it in the right way, the whole monument hums. He wanted it to be in the border between Texas ans Mexico where a university would be founded. He meant it as a mexican priest blessing an american engineer's blueprints but it can go both ways in today's America. It could very well be a Druid, Wiccan high priestess or Sioux medicine man blessing the code of an Ecuadorian software developer.

Ask me anything about being Mexican in the US; growing up in Mexico and it's history; Spanish language and mesoamerican esoterica; culture shock, food, art or religion; the differences between the US and Mexico; what I think about immigration policies, stereotypes. You get the idea, controversial, pleasant or just curious, I'll gladly answer it. You can just drop by and I'll listen too.

At the middle of the pandemic it was suggested that people that live in Seattle and surroundings that hadn't been infected by the deadly woke virus in its latest mindless panicking variant meetup and chat. I am opening this space to do so and chat and perhaps get organized to meet.

I friend of mine gave me a push to start posting out there in public what I write, not out of some skill in the art but of an urge of adventure. That motivates me in the right way for I tend to judge the quality of my output not the joy I get from it. So before I turn into an old grumpy man prematurely, here is the first of a set of posts that I intend to write about Mexican and more broadly perhaps Mesoamerican spirituality, shamanism and the scientist --yes, you read that right-- the scientist that has brought the field into the eyes and ears of the public whom now even has an award winning film by Ida Cuéllar that dramatizes his life and work: The Secret of Dr. Grinberg which you can watch for free on Vimeo.

Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum is surrounded by mystery and controversy not only for the topics that he liked researching but because of the fact that he ended disappearing until this day without notice leaving everything behind him untouched. People around him claim wild hypotheses about what happened. From becoming enlightened and dropping the body and its manifestation in a rush of energy which wouldn't leave a trace behind to him being kidnapped by the CIA.

I don't intend to write much about the conspiracies surrounding him since I personally find them as speculative entertainment but not much more than that. What I intend to focus on in this series of posts is on the work regarding consciousness and the Mexican shamanst hat he developed while at the institute he founded at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): The National Institute for the Study of Consciousness that was an offshoot of the Psychology department at the time. This I intend to explain and comment from the lens of occultism.

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