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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Urban Grimoire: A Modern Spell for Use with Large Corporations

I have had two interesting experiences recently of using a modern spell - literally words to make a change.
Usually I'm not terribly taken with online reviews  because usually they are too easily manipulated, but I have seen how leaving an online review can genuinely impact on a large company's reputation 
Regular readers will remember my shitty previous employers. I left a simply terrible review on a well-known recruitment website for them. At the time I left my review all the others were glowing, so mine was the odd one out, and could have been seen as someone with an axe to grind. I have recently gone back to the site and found that my review has given other people the courage to leave bad reviews, and so now anyone going on that site sees that they are a terrible employer. The lesson I suppose is that one person's courage in the face of bullies encourages others to speak out.
I also left a poor review for the local office of the large national company which 'manages' the building I live in. (I have long accepted that my lot in life is to be the one who points out that somebody is being a turd, it isn't solely that I'm a miserable bastard. True to form, other poor reviews have followed, and I was amused to see on a large review website that my review, while bad, wasn't even the worst because someone had already left a review calling them criminals!
It just goes to show that speaking something brings it into being.

Monday, July 8, 2019

Tarot : Getting the 2 and 3 of Wands Confused

Today I was sat on the canal bank reading a book about the tarot. The author said that she insists on her students rote learning the book meanings of the cards, so I immediately flipped to the appendix to look at these two cards and found she'd given the same meaning for both!
I have therefore had a fresh think about it and resorted to the genuinely old French method of seeing the minors as the manifestation of their majors, which has made all clear. The 2 is from the High Priestess so relates to things hidden and the 3 relates to the Empress so is things expected. In other words the bloke in the 2 could but doesn't know it, and the bloke in the 3 will shortly be able to!
I do like, perhaps in a reaction to Pixie making the cards too alike, Barbara Walker has gone her own way with these cards.