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oracle dice
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.
I like the idea of "tarot cards" and "oracle dice" kinds of things as potential tools in reducing what might be called "the delusion of free will scourge".
But then it occurs to me (lol... originally typed "I occurs to me"...) such tools might constitute unnecessary complication, as in instead of shuffling/dealing cards or rolling dice, why not simply "roll with the (life) punches", i.e. as though unfolding events are themselves omens?
It seems to me the key/goal with respect to the potential benefice of ascertaining "omens" is to become free of the aforementioned scourge by learning to accept everything that comes one's way, thus avoiding of the frustration of things "not going one's way", i.e. "not going the way one would have willed them". To me, adding cards/dice atop what is going to unfold anyway is just extra work.
Or is there some kind of net gain the cards/dice provide?
yeah maybe not the best analogy hehe
oracle dice you usually roll a handful of them together, each with its own set of faces, and the reading comes from the interactions between the die more then the dice themselves, you typically would use at least 3 in a reading. in my later reading i did 6 dice and got stuff like the journey face, the performance face, the water face. each has its different meanings and they all relate to each other, as well as their location relative to each other and the mat.
they are very fun and interesting, "The publishing goblin's oracle dice" if you want to search up more!
and yeah, i do usually heavily weigh if it is worth my health to protest, im a very opinionated person and would attend many if i was able to, but i am physically not. however due to this being a direct impact on me and my community, a direct attack, it seems right and worth it.
in america, the way disabled people got their rights was the capitol crawl. where many people including disabled folk literally crawled up the steps of some american monument to dramatize how bad the accessability standards in america were. i am feeling like here in aus we need something similar. that feels like the only way we will get their attention.
a tiny but similar thing happened just yesterday in parlement in fact. during the voting on the bill, the greens (our only good party but a minor one) all stood at the back of parlement with the only disabled politican, as there is no accessible seating in parlement. there is no way for the disabled politican to actually get to the parlement floor. so the greens stood by them as part of represnting the inequality this bill would introduce.
but yeah, its all interesting and good/bad are definitely just descriptors. in the end, the sacrifice dice doesn't mean bad things inheritly. in fact in a normal reading it can mean many good things, its just more the thoughts i was thinking at the time and the chance that i had dropped the dice the night before and it had lannded on that face, only to be discovered when i was thinking about what had happened.