Salvador Dali Tarot
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I trained in Dallas traffic. I grew up with some of the shortest freeway entrances in history. I regularly commute in Austin — I’m used to bad traffic. I respect Houston drivers.
In San Antonio, I’m quite prepared for the unexpected — since it has happened to me. Bad drivers, and maybe I’m one of them? But bad drivers don’t scare me.
Phoenix, in rush hour, is whole different story. Surface streets, themselves, where the right-hand lane is the fast lane? Used for passing at twice the speed limit?
Must admit, I appreciate trying to double the posted limit, but seriously, seems a little over the top aggressive — especially when the roadways are clogged with cars.
Pulling into one baseball lot in Tempe, maybe Mesa, Scottsdale, I’m not sure, but pulling into one lot, a cop was directing, and then he yelled at me, “Use your blinker!”
Why?
No one else did.
Blinkers, turn signals, and common courtesy?
Strictly optional — apparently.
Simply aggressive driving. Like, riding right up on my tail; no offer to buy me dinner. The speed limits, strictly a number posted on the side of the road, and it also showed up in the on-board, heads-up display, those purported, posted limits.
On one freeway, suddenly, everyone was going 55, limit was supposedly 70, and at 70 MPH, I was passed several times, like I was standing still then, over an imaginary township line, and suddenly the limit hadn’t changed, but the attitude did.
No rhyme, no reason.
Not complaining, merely observing.
Other notes:
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Today in San Antonio — at the Rim — with some answers to questions….
Sunday! In San Antonio!
Curious as to the astrological details?
There are two sources of data, seeing me in San Antonio this Sunday — or the weekly horoscopes.
Portable Mercury Retrograde – Kramer Wetzel
Portable Mercury Retrograde: astrofish.net’s Mercury in Retrograde
“First to arrive gets the best deal.”
Was Shakespeare predicting our current state with policies and politics? I was working on a horoscope for the future, and I got stuck in a bit of a downward spiral with the history of performance for Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Richard II.
In the historical timeline, and I’m doing this from memory, but I’ll check later, the tetralogy of the Henry history plays, runs Richard II, then 1 Henry IV, followed by 2 Henry IV, then the great Henry V.
In a similar vein, the performance history, has 2 Henry 6, with burgeoning sequel-itis, 1 Henry 6 followed by 3 Henry 6, and all of that, in the earlier seasons. 1591? 1593-4? As a footnote, subsequent “computer” and linguistic analysis suggests that Shakespeare was a co-author on the early Henry 6 play, but maybe not all by him. Helps pad out text books, though.
Back to the history plays about Richard, Henry, and Hal? Looks like Richard II is earlier, while the rest of the plays were a few years later.
Look: either I copied that material from something online or it came out of a textbook. Not fact checked, but the material itself seems to stand and is accepted across several bodies of academic sources. See fineprint for details.
There was, at one point, a revolution, and the aging queen, Queen Elizabeth, there was supposed to be an uprising, and the revolutionaries paid to have a single afternoon show of Shakespeare’s Richard II put on, hoping to spur an uprising.
What I was thinking, started in context to a horoscope, but then I found the idea might be worthy of more space, more an exploration rather than a specific point, but at some point, for a single performance, Richard II was revived with the goal of inspiring the masses to revolt.
Historical anecdote is here.
Plot failed spectacularly, but it was a worthy note, and Shakespeare and company didn’t get in trouble for putting on a paid performance that was supposed to support the revolutionaries failed coup attempt.
The current corollaries?
Media, claims, counterclaims, and where the facts might be.
There are distinct allegories, corollaries, and prescient understanding, even in the current political climate.
Does stand up to scrutiny.
#shakespeare
Baseball teams and their logos, in last November horoscopes.
3/5 Milwaukee Brewers 8 San Francisco 13 Scottsdale Stadium. Small ball. Best peanut comment? “Look, that guy’s number isn’t even on the roster. They got him the parking lot.”
3/6 Dodgers 12 White Sox 9 Camelback Ranch (Glendale) in the Shadow of Cardinal Stadium. The Camelback Ranch field is super-nice. Lucked into incredible third baseline seats right behind Dodgers dugout. Incredible fan action for the first five innings, concentrating on two Japanese stars, Otani and Yamamoto. Bit weird as both clubs call this park home for spring training.
3/7 Cleveland Guardians 2 Oakland A’s 1, canceled at the end of the third. Hohokam Stadium (Mesa) is the smallest yet remarkably clean, tidy, and well run. Bonus for giant corn dog with honey. Finally got an Oakland A’s hat with the logo1.
3/8 Mariners 5 Cubs 9 Sloan Park Stadium in Mesa, largest so far, 12K plus in attendance and still room for more. Food trucks took cash. Easy ingress, long line out. Called “Wrigley of the West?” Hyperbolic, at the very least. Nice? Yes. Wrigley? No.
3/9 Cincinnati Reds 7 AZ D-Backs 5 Salt River Talking Stick Stadium (Scottsdale) at the casino or something. Really nice place. First spring training built on native land, I think.
3/11 Texas Rangers 15 Los Angeles Angels 5 Tempe Diablo Stadium (Tempe), feels even smaller than Hohokam, but is marvelously convenient to the east side. Lots of fans. Rather intimate, and was nice to see Evoldi pitch, up close — he’s cool. Wonder if a decent home run could land on the freeway.
3/12 Arizona D-Back 2 San Diego Padres 2 Peoria Stadium (Peoria) is new, or the grounds around it are new, like a fresh, giant strip center popped up, ongoing construction in the parking lot. Game was fun as D-Backs were playing more back-bench, and the Padres were cooler. Really good ballpark hot dog, bucking the trend. Foot-long, char-grilled with onions and peppers, behind the outfield.
3/13 Chicago Cubs 8 Cleveland Guardians 3 Goodyear Ballpark (Goodyear). Redone park, kind of nice, not big, not small. Clean with an apparently adequate supply of bathrooms.
Not in every game, but in many, the best players would be replaced by the 5th inning. Some players I would recognize and others, not even a name on the jersey. Up for the minors or back-bench ? I’m unsure, but interesting to watch.
“Wasn’t that guy out in the back lot, charging for parking?”
Or the minor league tryout guys, they looked so young, “Wait, does minor league mean they’re underage?”
Merch: Oddly enough, the only logo item I wanted was an Oakland A’s shirt or cap with the old-school cool elephant logo. In San Antonio, I once saw, might have an image, of the logo for the “The baseball fields at the Ghost Tracks.” The ghost tracks themselves a local myth and optical illusion of spectral circumstances. The logo was skull over crossed baseball bats.
There was noise that last year’s World Series contenders, the Arizona Diamondbacks might be moving, and if so? If it’s another state, but the same name? I’d like one of those, too.
“Go D-Backs!”
There’s a “Mexican” D-Backs shirt that looked good, but I couldn’t find it, serpientes on the front, in script, and then festooned with Arizona Diamondbacks logos. Think it’s their “City Connect” pattern.
Still, wearing a Boston “B” hat garnered more positive comments than anything else.
Not really a fan, just liked the hat, lobster rolls, experience, and then?
I want the emotional resilience of a Red Sox fan. I aspire to have that strength.
“… and the moist star
Upon whose influence Neptune’s empire stands
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.”
Horatio in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (I.i.119)
“sick almost to doomsday with eclipse”
There are companion eclipse actions in the next few weeks. The first is 3/25 at 12° Aries – Libra, consider it a super full moon, and then the one noted because it passes through my hometowns, 4/8 19° Aries. Visible overhead, so to suggest.
What’s does this mean?
In part, perhaps in whole, I’ve included interpretations for the individual signs, in my own enigmatic style, in the weekly horoscopes. That’s the correct forum for that data and what it might mean.
However, individuals kept pestering me for more data about this, and what it means, individually, and the answers are simple: book a consultation, and I’ll look at the individual points in a chart, where those fall, and what it might be symbolic of.
An eclipse is neither bad nor good, insert that other Hamlet quote here, but “Eclipse actions are neither bad nor good,” but I’ve observed, repeatedly, there’s an intense kind of unstable, but possibly productive energy present.
Think of this as localized insanity, and think of it as trouble, but just for a moment. The other, easiest observed phenomena? The duration of the effect of the eclipse itself? That tends to follow the cycle of the moon.
Short hypothesis, then. The lunation is typically a two-week process, New, 1st Quarter, Full — two weeks. So it follows that the typical cycle is unsettled and lacking cogent direction, for up two weeks after the eclipse. Add a second, following eclipse and that hammers home the crazy-making period for another two weeks.
When I started on this, I began with a single page, then left the bottom half the page blank. That’s the message itself, leave the bottom half of the page blank to fill it in as we go with ideas, edits, ideas that piggyback on other ideas, and then, a snippet of poetry, followed by a cold calculation. All part of what can go on that blank page.
Not bad, not good, not anything but a world of possibilities.
Data points:
Passed the sign, heading back to the motel one evening, “Look at that,” and the name triggered an archetypal memory. Stopped in for a leisurely Sunday morning breakfast, as is my wont.
Diner food. Real diner food.
Good food.
Made famous as a location for some TV show. Wiki and IMDB both had an interesting backstory to the location, just a sign, nothing else.
“All it takes is some grains of faith
And a few kilowatts of sweat and grace.”
(Ray Wylie Hubbard, Snake Farm, 2006)