Do You Do Woo Woo? [DOT 15/8/23]

15/8/23 Elliecoo 64
Abracadabra

As always, it is up to you bright lights to bring the current events, politics, and weighty matters we should consider. I’ll bring the spells, sigils, and seances.

Most folks I know poo poo the woo woo – they look askance at any expressed interest in astrology, tarot, feng shui, spells, sigils, runes, seances, and all things paranormal. Me? I like it all. I find it no more ridiculous than many religions and am entranced by the ancient concept of Qi and the medieval concept of aether.

As you know, aether was a medieval fifth element or quintessence, a material that fills the region of the universe beyond terra firma.  And Qi is the ancient Chinese concept of a vital force forming part of any living entity. Isn’t it interesting that these invisible forces could be scientifically described at a sub-atomic level? Or is that idea a bunch of baloney?

Please tell us your thoughts on this subject, beginning with your astrology sign!

No time for the esoteric and metaphysical arts? Not a problem – tell us about whatever is on your mind. This is, as always, an all-inclusive DOT.

Wishing you a happy Tuesday!

avataravataravataravataravataravataravataravataravataravataravataravatar
About Elliecoo 602 Articles
Four dogs, one partner. The dogs win.

64 Comments

  1. I was born on the cusp of Aquarius and Pisces so I never really knew which one I was. I had a friend in college who was super into it so I had her do my chart. Turns out I’m zero degrees Pisces. Now I know. It has no bearing on my life but at least I solved one riddle.
    Bill Wilson was fascinated by all things spiritual. Didn’t matter if it was a particular religion or any of the woo woos—he loved investigating all of them. He saw them all as valid means by which people could have spiritual connections.

    • This, 100%: He saw them all as valid means by which people could have spiritual connections. I also learned yesterday the the rising sign “is what determines the image you project out into the world and it offers insight into your skills, talents, and strategies you might adopt to make your way in life.” So if you know both your sun sign and your rising sign you may wish to read both horoscopes. (I’m Capricorn sun, Pisces rising.)

  3. Horrorscope for Gemini (specifically June 14) : Time to re-evaluate your life as it implodes around you. Family, alleged Friends and colleagues are not to be trusted as they’re ready to sell your orange ass out in a pathetic attempt to save their own. Not a good time to buy/sell foreign real estate or flee to a country that has no extradition treaty.

  4. The older I get the more pagan I become. Technically I guess I’m a pantheist. I believe that everything has a spirit, for lack of a better word. And that we are all spiritually connected.
    I’m a Capricorn but I don’t follow astrology. Only because I’ve never bothered to have a real chart done and I doubt the generic magazine type predictions are accurate.
    Now magic is a whole other thing. I’ve talked to @myopicprophet about this a bit. My daughter is very interested in Italian Folk Magic. And has begun practicing in small ways. It’s not the same as being Wiccan. There’s no religious element. For her it’s a means of connecting with our Italian heritage. (Getting in touch with our own ethnic roots is a great way to unpack whiteness.) She got interested in it because she has a good friend from Appalachia that practices Granny Magic, which is basically Irish and Scottish folk magic. Granny Magic has a long and fascinating history. It’s very cool. And there’s a lot of information about it online if you’re interested.

     

    • I adore magical possibilities. Often, I find that intentions can manifest through meditation or magic (although sigels can be scary, to me, as in “be careful what you ask for”).

    • My maternal grandmother was one of those Sicilian “cunning women”.  There was a lot of Italian folk magic in her house.

      And I was surprised to find how accepted the magic stuff is here in Appalachia.  There are spirits in these hills.

    • I recently read a novel from a series that is deeply researched as far as time and place, and includes some magical realism. It was set in England during WWI and noted the efforts of local magical folks casting protections over the island.

  6. Virgo. I still read my horoscope every day but it’s nonsense. I do think there may be some personality traits shared by various signs. Those seem to track pretty well to people I know, but I don’t pay too much attention to it.

    Though I’m largely against woo, I do find the concept of qi plausible. People do give off an energy and we all feel it. Just sit next to a dead body for a while. You can instantly tell the difference. But I think the concept of the Force expresses it more eloquently.

    Supposedly debunked things that I do believe? The full moon causes people to act crazy. I first heard this from hospital nurses years ago and personal observation (I was a security guard) confirmed it for me. I don’t care how many statistical analyses are done — that shit is real, and every single first responder knows it. They factor it into duty schedules.

    • Lunacy is a word that reflect moon-fever, eh? And according to Armstrong Bail Bonds (established in 1926, and who are in a position to have data) full moon issues are more confirmation bias-based. However, there are statistics that support hot weather as an indicator of a crime increase. I believe you, BryanL, I too have seen increased instances of folks acting out during a full moon.

       

      • That touches on one of the problems with the moon analysis, in my opinion. What I believe is that the full moon affects behavior overall, not just increasing crime. At the hospital, you got more accidents, more illness, more bad behavior, more manic behavior, more domestic issues, more death due to natural causes, more births, increased dementia by the elderly, more of every kind of problem you can think of. Even today I see more aggressive driving when the moon is full.

        Crime statistics are only one aspect of behavior. Most people are not criminals, and their behavior doesn’t reach the point that it’s reported to the authorities. So the correlation misses all the other behaviors that shift, even incrementally, when the moon is full.

      • Heat is definitely a factor.  The summer I moved to Jackson, MS, they had just broken a 10 year old murder record–and it was already mid-June.  It was also hotter than a motherfucker.  The week before I got there, a guy who had been running a soup kitchen for one of the local churches got blown away by one of the people who had been–until that point–eating there regularly.  It shook the whole city up.

    • Working with kids, I 100% agree with you, on the Full Moon thing, @BryanLSplinter!

      But I don’t believe in the “woo” side of it, as much as I believe that it’s *mostly* just people not sleeping well in the days around the full moon, and that folks get kiiiiinda odd, when we don’t get enough sleep.

      I’ve discovered that *many* of my kiddos who get worked up around the time of the full moon, often have blinds in their bedrooms (or no/open curtains!), and their grownups are typically shocked when I ask ’em, “Do they have blinds on the window of their bedroom, and is that room on the east/west side of the house?

      Every case except one *has* been!

      So I recommend they try blackout curtains in the room, and *that* usually fixes the issue…

      The issue being that, as the moon moves across the sky, it passes from the edge of the blinds, to each of the *holes* in those blinds, to the other edge, with the moonlight alternating from “blocked” to “shining in one’s eyes & waking them up” alllllll night long.

      I discovered it, a few years back, when I was living in the townhouse, and had blinds in the bedroom where I stayed.

      A co-worker mentioned that his two year old was being a terror the previous day, and when I asked if he had blinds in his room, and ever slept with his eyes slightly open/ sleepwalked, my co-worker’s mouth dropped open, and they asked, “HOW did you know that?!?”

      That’s when I told them *I’ve* done the “sleep with your eyes open sometimes” thing since childhood, and that the full moon moving across the sky *that night* had woken me up every hour or two, as it went from the crack at the first edge of the blinds, to every string-hole, to the *other* crack between the blinds & the wall😆😂🤣

      I got diddly-squat for sleep, just like his son, because I forgot to sleep with my head *under* the blankets like I typically do🤣

      And it turns out, that nearly *all* the kids I’ve worked with since, who get squirrely around the time of the full moon are apparently similar, because so far, all but one have had blinds and those east/west facing windows in their bedrooms, too😉💖

    • Willis wasn’t messing around.

      One of the basic tactics Trump’s defenders will try to pull is to split apart each case and then nitpick whatever they can, to create the impression that if this bit or that doesn’t move forward, everything is doomed.

      That gets a lot harder now, although it won’t stop the worst hacks.

      • Although the reverse is going to be true too, and we’ll see the tactic that says this is all too big to be treated by the criminal justice system, or that wants to just collapse it all into one piece of “Trumpgate” and treat it like a single lump under a couch cushion that can be otherwise ignored.

        It’s going to be crazy watching how people try to rationalize away the elephant in the room, and the growing piles of elephant manure.

      • Yes, the RICO charges mean that Willis has to lay out her case IN FULL. So it’s going to take a while, and she’s got to go through it step-by-step. “Then Rudy said this.” “Then Sydney Powell sent this email to Mark Meadows.” Every. single. bit.

        Willis likes the RICO law because she gets to tell the entire story, and bits and pieces can’t be taken out of context. Reportedly, Trump is aware of this, and he’s scared shitless.

    • My thinking on all of the indictments is that the NY one is the only one with a real chance to deliver some consequences to that fat sack of shit.  Georgia has way too many rednecks and it only takes one to hang a jury.  The federal cases will eventually wind up with Trump’s buddies at right wing SCOTUS (assuming they don’t get delayed until after he cheats his way into another election, thanks to all of the state law changes in 2021) and by the time it gets there, Loose Cannon will have ripped the case to pieces.  So, NY is really the best chance we have.

      • That’s entirely plausible. But there are also some beneficial side effects to all of this:

        1. Court dates are going to prevent Trump from campaigning nonstop. A big chunk of Trump’s “successes” are his ability to sway MAGA crowds. Constant court dates will eat into that.

        2. Legal expenses are going to drain his coffers, and there are strong signs that his horde aren’t as willing to shell out money as they have been.

        Trump’s indictments are having diminishing returns for his political fundraising

      • As far as Georgia, you will soon be hearing racist attacks on the Atlanta jury pool by Trump backers because he’s worried about the lack of his conspiracy nuts there.

        I also suspect we’ll see a lot of patronizing dog whistles from the DC pundit class wondering whether those people are able to handle the complexities of the case.

        The NY Times reporter Jonathan Weisman notoriously lectured people on Twitter about how John Lewis (who represented Fulton County) wasn’t a “real” Southerner. The bias among that group is palpable, despite all of the patronizing talk about how other people needed to understand real Americans.

        But Fulton County is a well-educated, diverse place that doesn’t fit their stereotypes. Their pool will be fine. Even if the jury hangs on every count, Willis can go for a retrial. And Trump would need a holdout on every count. If they crack on even a few counts, he’s hosed.

        His only hopes are still still winning the election or a coup, with either followed by martial law. We have to hope they don’t happen.

        • The other question is, who will be first to roll over on Trump? All those co-conspirators are going to be looking for a deal to get out from under this.

          My money is on Rudy.

          • He may flip, although I don’t know how useful he’d be as a prosecution witness. He’d be a nightmare on the stand even if he was trying to tell the truth, which is probably one reason Trump used him.

            Other witnesses are definitely holding back for now who are recalculating. They need to jump soon before they lose their chance.

  10. Virgo. Deeply un-woo (not a surprise, I imagine, given my sign) but I also believe that there’s more to the universe than just what we can perceive or explain through science. I don’t think the stars of my birth have much to do with anything, I’m quite sure there’s nothing after death, I *wish* karma existed and I’m definitely out on invisible sky fathers … but I’m also pretty confident that there’s more to us than just being upright sacks of meat.

  13. Atheist and not woo woo at all personally.

    But I do firmly believe that for folks who do have beliefs, that they are useful. Anything that helps people make sense out of both their world and their choices is important. Like whatever I think about it but a friend going to a tarot card reading doesn’t matter one fuck because they benefit from processing thoughts on the situation they discuss with the expert.

    • I had fun three-card spread (past, present, future) mother peace deck reading on Saturday. Because the cards are round there is and additional option of fluctuation/in transit for when a card comes up sideways, as opposed to the reversed or true options from a traditional rectangular Rider Waite deck. The young lady set her table up outside market, and I had the lucky privilege of being her first customer on her first day ever of tarot busking. All three cards invoked creativity and how to best manifest it; it was a fairly synchronous, in-your-face reading.

    • From the Texas Tribune story in that link:

      the sheriff’s report that said Jackson tried to care for the patient by putting a gumball in her mouth as a way to elevate blood sugar. Jackson suggested to Young that he did that because she may have been hypoglycemic; Young said she was anemic and Jackson disagreed, telling Young he does not have the medical knowledge to know that.

      Putting a “gumball” in the mouth of a teenage girl having a seizure? What?

    • Shaq, didja see this story over there, too?

      https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/kimberly-guilfoyle-delivers-incredible

      Sammy The Bull, talking *directly* about how they worked with ‘Ol Trumpty-Dumpty, himself…

      I wonder who’s gonna be *This* Teflon Don’s Sammy the Bull?…

      Which one do y’all think it’ll be?

      Meadows, ‘Vanky, or will it be Melania herself, who flips for their own freedom?😈😉😆

       

  17. i woo-woo

    you know…in my own way

    im agnostic

    i believe i’ll find out when i die….or not

    and everyone else can believe what they want….long as its not hurting people

    anyways…. im a sagittarius sun virgo rising

     

  18. I guess I’d best be described as at least *a little* woo, or at *minimum,* woo-adjacent😉

    Too many odd things have happened in my life–incidences of Deja-vu, where I saw a scene months or *years* before it happened, the fact that I’ve typically “guessed correctly” on *multiple* co-workers’ babies, months before being told what that baby was (boy/girl), known that my cousins were pregnant *before* the announcement, and even knowing/having a dream where I “met”/saw the then-future son of my younger cousin, a few years before he was born–shortly after she miscarried their *first* baby**

    It’s not uncommon, in the French/Dutch side of my Dad’s family, and Mom’s Irish side had some folks who had… odd gifts, too.

    One of my other cousins “knows” things the way I do, and our Great Grandma apparently always knew when her girls were pregnant & what the baby was going to be–sometimes, like in *my* grandma’s case–Even before her daughters knew THEY were pregnant!🤣🤣🤣

    She TOLD Grandma she was pregnant, with one of my Dad’s siblings. Grandma *insisted* she wasn’t… a month or so later, she called her mom & apologized for telling her she *wasn’t* pregnant–turns out, she WAS!😉😆😄

    I knew to go back into the house, and give my Grandpa one last hug before getting in the car, the last time I saw him…

    It was the last time I saw him. I felt “off” all day, the day my Grandma died of a heart attack, and as soon as my cousin knocked on the door, I knew she was dead somehow. I called my other Grandma’s stroke as a stroke, when I was 16, and I knew when I woke up that night last November, that I NEEDED to go upstairs & verify the time, because I was nearly positive, that the reason I’d woken up, was that Dad had died. And I was right.

    It’s not a gift, exactly, but also not a curse, it’s just sorta like my ADHD or Autism, the fact that I have wavy hair, or am short–it just *is*.

    But it’s something that’s happened often enough in my life, and i know *juuuust* enough about science–and that time isn’t exactly as *linear* as plenty of folks think–that i suspect that once in a great while, some of us have the ability to… I dunno? maybe skip around a bit, when we sleep?–i don’t get *how* it works…

    I just know that once in a while, I have these REALLY strange dreams, where I see something/someone, and a few months–or sometimes YEARS later, I’ll look around me, and realize, that I am *suddenly* standing *exactly* where I was, in that REALLY goofy dream, which was *so* incredibly strange & vivid, that I’d TOLD my friends/roommate/family member about it, when I woke up the next morning…

    I can’t explain how it happens, and I can’t *make* it happen. But because the dreams were *so* just weird, I *have* told people about them, and then went “WOAH!” later when the irl version happened… like that whole thing, about seeing that little boy at the family gathering at my godparents’ house–my cousin’s mom & dad’s house. I had no idea who he was, as he ran around outside with our *other* cousins’ kids, then he turned, and I thought, “Oh, he looks just like (cousin’s husband)! That must be (cousin’s) little boy!”

    When I woke up, I knew she was going to be pregnant soon, and that was going to be their little dude… then I went to Christmas, and discovered she’d recently miscarried. So I caught her in a quiet moment, and told her about that dream–and reminding her that our Great Grandma sometimes had that ability, too. Turns out, her big brother had had a similar dream.

    And she had that little boy, less than two years later😉

     

    **fwiw, he WAS a little blonde, and YES, he *does* look almost *exactly* like his dad, and always has!😉😆😂💖

    • Eta, I am SO glad that my cousins are all pretty much done having kids–because the way I knew that the ones I was closest to were pregnant, was that *I* ended up gagging every morning & dry-heaving, for the first half-hour or so of every day, unnnnntil I’d have the thought “Someone’s Pregnant!” pop into my head.

      *Every* time, I’d get a call 1-3 days, after having that cycle of gags & the thought–and YEP! another baby-cousin was on the way!🤣

Leave a Reply