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today, the Australian government voted in a bill that will massively hurt disabled people, which disabled people have been arguing against, and they rushed it through.
being a disabled person myself, i decided i was going to ask my oracle dice (a divination tool, like tarrot cards) about it, how it will effect me etc.
I get up to go get them and discover on the floor one of the dice had managed to escape being put away last night. the actions die. and the face it had rolled was sacrifice.
it definitely feels like an omen.
i did later go and do a proper reading, and it mostly just reflected my emotions but it was good to see them confronted at least, and that will help some with what i do going forward.
and it doesn't have to be a bad or a good omen, it could mean i should join in protests, at the sacrifice of some of my health, it could mean we will loose the whole ndis, or it could mean many other things. the dice are meant to be read together, so its sort of like finding a single tarot card on the ground, it has little context.
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I am interested in this, at the expense of your more pressing issues, could I bother you to tell me more about these oracle dice?
As for a single tarot card, each card has a meaning of it's own, so a lone card without further context still provides quite a bit of information and could be considered an omen in itself. I do remember once I pulled a book and the Hierophant (or was it the Hermit? bad memory) fell down from it's pages.
"Good" and "bad" are just tags that we attach to an omen, a reading, etc. Of course, "sacrifice" may be a bit of an uncomfortable kind of omen, for one thing, I could interpret it as it meaning that the bill itself will cause you to sacrifice something in your life. I have no idea what that bill is, so I may be way off, but it seems like a natural sort of interpretation. On the other hand, sacrifice by itself is not a "bad" thing, for sacrifice implies some tradeoff, or perhaps a change in lifestyle or habits, I don't know. There may be other forms of sacrifice you (and others) may take to turn this issue to advantage. Are you sure it is worth sacrificing your health in order to join some protest? Protests are a good way for people to voice their concerns and for politicians to completely ignore them.
But what if it feeling like an omen is due to seeing it as and/or assuming it is an omen, and you might have seen/assumed differently, and then that would have seemed the reality.. and so maybe the way out is to take not a single thought seriously, including this one...?
It's hard to say, because saying things implies thinking about them, which seemingly strengthens/prolongs them, which makes them seem more "a thing" than merely a thought whose seeming grip is actually one's own clinging.
My condolences on your several major difficult cards dealt.
That said, it seems that in this world, if it's not one thing, it's another, and our own things always seem bigger than others', even when we try to empathize. Like I have this ongoing mania, and I don't know that there's a more accurate term, or psycho medical diagnosis, or whatever. And it could all be "just" (my least favorite four letter English word..) imagination run wild, words fanning word flames.
The only solution I've found is to vehemently attempt to find from whence said thoughts arise. That search invariably finds *nothing*, which is oddly comforting, because I believe that suggests that what's being emitted therefrom (thoughts) must be nothing too - including the thought that seemingly makes something of them....
Does that make sense?
Maybe a good analogy to thoughts is poison ivy itch, where scratching makes it worse instead of better....?
Anyway, I've been on a bit of a crusade in the direction of less thinking - which, of course, is at odds with this here word/thought-centric activity, which makes me a little sad, because I've spent decades hoping/wishing something other than frustration would come of it. But for the most part I mostly sigh, feeling somewhere between avoided and misunderstood. This activity has, in fact, been very much a poison ivy itch for me. I guess I just need to make the big leap into being done with it altogether, using the damned computer just for practical things like banking/purchasing, and writing the occasional Lua script.