Rosario Ortiz (reluciente) wrote in nevermore_logs, @ 2023-10-10 09:56:00 |
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Entry tags: | merlin, rosario ortiz, urania |
WHO Rosario, Urania and Merlin
WHEN Wednesday 11 October
WHERE Merlin’s library
WHAT Why, uh, how do you do, fellow human
WARNINGS TBA
It all began with the Fool. According to the cartomancy texts Merlin was still adding to her reading pile, the Fool was the card of new beginnings and opportunity. Look beyond the name, the wizard had told her. The Fool was no common simpleton, but rather signified the divine innocent who set forth in joyful exuberance, untroubled by the obstacles he might encounter on his journey. Considering the guy on the card was one dangling step from the edge of a sheer drop, this seemed to Rosario like the definition of stupid. The card reversed represented a different kind of dumb: this Fool was either reluctant or reckless, resisting what was already in motion or running forward too hastily. Like all divination, it was infuriatingly subject to interpretation, and the only thing Rosario was sure of as she cut the deck to find the dancing, dangling idiot for the second time running was that somebody, somewhere was calling her a fool. On a good day, Rosario might be pressed to admit that she maybe, sometimes, potentially didn’t entirely hate tarot. It was stupid, but at least it was a kind of stupid that came with reasonably consistent rules and strictures. Seventy-eight cards, four suits, twenty-two trumps, laid out methodically in rows or crosses, each position with its own assigned meanings. It wasn’t logical, but it had an internal kind of sense to it. Today was not a good day. Today she was tired and irritable and her fingers itched, and as she shuffled the deck a third time she surreptitiously slipped the Fool onto the bottom, just to be petty. She cut the deck, drew, and glowered across the table at Merlin. “You did that,” she accused. The Fool lay exposed between them, dancing across an inverted sky. |