I don’t know if you are noticing a theme here. A shopping, spending money theme. It’s usually a symptom of someone who is bored, or in a rut. Which I am. However, it’s not my fault that I keep stumbling across things that need to be mine. Remind me to tell you about the Sanyo Xacti C6 I am going to need very very badly, when it’s released in the US, later. [it comes in red!]

So, I bought the shoes, but they were not that expensive. Pretty cheap, actually. And I was showing Mr. Moon the Manga Death statue I was going to want in my new home, when I move…. sometime this year. No sense in getting it now, when most things are packed away. [I also like the porcelain Death statue, in case, when the time comes, anyone is looking for a house warming gift for me.] And then, I came across something …. so beautiful… I am still weeping. The Vertigo Tarot deck.

As you may, or may not, know, I collect tarot decks. I just get the ones that appeal to me, usually for the art or tone of the deck. This would be a personal jewel in the crown of a merely adequate collection. I don’t do it for money. I take the cards out of the box, spread them around, look at them and enjoy them. I’m not one of those girls who can leave an action figure in it’s shrink wrapped condition my whole life, you know? This deck is, apparently, hard to find. I can find it on ebay, and if I want the first edition, which comes in the coolest box with hard cover book and why would I not want the first edition, I can have it now. for $225. Holy Major Arcana! That’s a level of tarot collecting I have not entered yet. I haven’t delved into the rare and hard to find. I just collect what I find organically. Usually in a store somewhere. [With the exception of the Edward Gorey Tarot, which are ridiculously rare and probably even more ridiculously expensive. So, even tho I occasionally look for them, as a lark, I probably would not be able to afford them.] But how cool would that be? Answer: so cool.

I have to apologize for the quality of blog posts lately. They’ve been, in my mind, unusually dull. I’m not fishing for compliments. I’m just stating I haven’t been very inspired. And nothing much has happened to me lately, to reflect upon. I wrote something last night, about the 12th anniversary of my father’s death. Which was Monday, but it was depressing. And not really all that good. Depressing is fine, if it’s a good post. But it wasn’t. And it made me all weepy. So I didn’t post it. Things should pick up, in February. I have plans in February. If nothing else, some of these plans might make for good blog fodder. In the mean time, we’ll have to just keep shopping, ok?

I was discussing Tarot cards, down below, with River Selkie, and I thought I’d list off the decks I own in my collection. Not all of them are traditional tarot. Some I got as gifts, the rest I bought because something about the artwork appealed to me. I don’t read cards for other people, I barely read them for myself. But when I do, it’s the Voyager Tarot I use. I’ve attended many workshops taught by the creator of this deck. And I’ve forced upon him many of my friends for readings. Which I am sure he enjoyed as my friends are all unique and special little flowers.

Besides the Voyager, I think my next favorite is the phantasmagoric theatre tarot. But we’ll see how that stacks up the Housewives Tarot, once it arrives. Because those cards are pretty swell. The Victoria Regina just blew my mind when I saw it, I had not purchased a deck in a long time, until I found that one. I could spend days just looking at those cards, there is so much detail, and so many things hidden within them. You can see images from almost every deck in existence at aeclectic.net. Except for the rare and infamous Edward Gorey Tarot. Man would I love to have that deck.

Shakespearian Tarot [no image]

Morgan’s Tarot [no image]

hey dear internet friends, guess what i did for you? instead of just going home after working, and being an antisocial little shut-in, i went to a work shop at a new age bookstore. simply so i could possibly have something to write about today! i did it for you. because i am perfectly happy being a hermit. hermitess. whatever.
off topic side note: i am typing at a speed not previous experienced. i have not had THAT much dr. pepper, but my fingers are FLYING. it’s kind of scary. they are moving at 45rpm.
back on topic.so voyager tarot’s dr. wanless was in back in town. i mentioned that earlier… that he’d be here.
you know, off topic again, my blog is out of control, i can no longer easily find old entries to link back to them. it’s been over a year now. i need some kind of category system. i imagine i could spend some hours not working at work, assigning categories to my entries.
back topic. evildeb was not in town to go with me, and so we couldn’t’ get drunk ahead of time. so i would have to go alone. but i was feeling kinda guilty about the drunk thing, and i didn’t attend the last workshop, (see above feelings about drunkenness. ) so i decided to go. it was a much smaller class and i think evildeb would have enjoyed it much more. even sober. it was more interactive. i’m sorry she wasn’t’ there. because at one point, i was asked to work with the person next to me. now, those of you who know me, know i don’t really read tarot cards. i just like them. i get readings from james [dr. w.] every couple of years, because he’s so proactive and positive. and not really about the fortune telly stuff. but i don’t’ read other peoples cards. i use them for myself. i will, however, pull cards and have conversations about them. but i don’t really do readings.
and, those of you who know me, know that i am somewhat of an introverted extrovert. and the last year has been much more about self reflection, and less about other people. so selfish! so how am i supposed to look at a card, and look at this stranger, and have any feelings about what that card means for them? seriously, this is something i could have done two years ago. but things are different now, and so am i. i’ve pulled in. so i just sat there, in my way, looking at the card, and looking at this very nice woman, who’s name i have forgotten, babbling. she said, “go ahead, i can see you are just bubbling over with stuff to say.” and she’s right, i am. but nothing about her. i took her card and immediately thought about what that card would mean to me. see what i mean? it sounds so selfish, which i write it. if deb were there, or anyone else i knew remotely, i would have been able to have some thoughts about the card. but whatever sensors you possess, to pick up on other people’s energy, are at half power for me right now.
james came over and we started talking about my card, and what she saw in it for me. much more interesting to me, of course. the question was, put ubersimply, what path do you need to take to achieve a sense of WHOLE. and my card? the hermit of course!! now see, can you understand why i can’t pick up on other people’s shit, if i am supposed to be shutting out worldly distractions? hello? anyways, me me me… the moon at the top of that card is a harvest moon, which james said can also mean a time of great creation, especially in this fall season. so i told them about NaNoWriMo. more lovely discussion about me.
however, then he wanted to know what i saw in her card. which was, the moon. and i tried to explain my lack of insight [pls. refer to my card, people, the hermit.] but the nice woman again mentioned my bubbliness. and james seemed to concur. so i said, “bubble on, jodi” making a little xena joke. cracked myself up. bubble on, jodi. and hence the title of today’s scattered blog entry.
in the spirit of last nights class, i’d like to provide you with a soundbyte of my april 2000 reading with james, in which he calls me an alien and i giggle like a school girl and then explain to him i am a supergenius.
supergenius.mp3
bubble on, indeed.