Day Nine. October 23rd. Nine of Pentacles.
Still two days behind. When will I catch up. Will I catch up? Stay tuned ‼️
Definition: The traditional interpretation is material well-being.
Detail: What is the Elsewhere Tarot presenting?
So yeah, the Eight of Pentacles showed a futuristic city, but it was a fully temporal and earthly city. Now with the Nine of Pentacles we’re in another world beyond. It’s a cosmic world, a quantum reality. There’s all sorts of cosmic stuff going on in the sky. And there’s a robed figure at a small table or altar with primary solids, Pythagorean regular solids on it and on the ground near it. The figure is small and simply done, and robed, like the floating figure on the Eight of Pentacles, but feels to me like the Magician in Pamela’s RWS deck.
And…hmm. Has the robed figure from the Eight of Pentacles departed the temporal world for this realm? I think so. The living, spiritually purposeful contention with the commodified world is transcending it and coming into your power to make alternative worlds. The robed figure from the prior card has transcended it and come into their power here.
Day: I’ve traveled to other worlds playing journaling games. I really loved Ian Cheng’s Emissary’s Guide To Worlding, and have come to think of myself from my journaling game play as having the ability to make worlds. How do I know the figure is a worlder? Well, I feel it. And what else would a magician be doing from a vantage outside of the temporal world?
Discovery: I super like Pamela’s Nine of Pentacles. I’m not sure why. Maybe because there are a zillion wealthy yoga moms at my son’s school, wrapped up in their own realities, without any particular money challenges in their lives, for whom it could be their significator. It just feels like such a true card. It feels almost like a court card. And people say it’s a card that means stability and security, because the woman is in her own vineyard demesne, which is not uncontrolled or wild, and because she has many coins and luxurious clothing, and I feel this aspect is connected to the Elsewhere Tarot Nine of Pentacles. When I was a kid I had several persistent and similar fantasies. One was of being on my bed out in space, protected by a force field, and with my books and comic books and other possessions on shelves and in cubbies underneath it. Through the transparent force field I could see the stars. I could sit and read and enjoy my time without stress or expectations of others. Another was of being on a large area rug with my bedroom furniture on it, also out in space and protected by a force field. They were fantasies of being safe, apart from the temporal world, unbotherable by its stresses, in full control myself of how I would spend my time. So I see the Magician in his cosmic landscape, outside of the temporal world, as having that same kind of security that people associate with the woman in her vineyard. And maybe also…someone who makes worlds, like they both do, whether they’re physically outside the temporal world or not, has power against its threats anyway.