This is the Part II update with observations on anything noticed during Libra decan 3. For all the Decan 3 Libra content and the Telos Tarot of 777 decan-based image, see Part I.
Fittingly, for a decan whose tarot card is called Truce, or Rest from Strife, most of this decan period was spent on a week-long “staycation,” the term for when you take a break from work but don’t go anywhere, just spend it at home “resting”.
It is a bit of a misnomer in this case, because it really wasn’t spent taking a break from work entirely.
It was, in the sense of stepping back from our day-jobs for the most part. But it was pretty much spent doing chores around the homestead. Par for the course in these parts. But it was still a break of sorts anyway.
We are calling it the “peppercation” as the majority of days involved some form of processing peppers. The big frost at the end of Libra decan 2 meant we had to pick all the peppers, as they don’t survive freezing temperatures. Which meant we had boxes and boxes of peppers stacked all over the house for most of Libra Decan 3, and a lot of the staycation involved pepper prep.
Seriously it was a LOT of peppers, both sweet and hot varieties; best pepper year ever. So every day there were peppers being chopped and frozen, stuffed and frozen, chopped and pickled and canned, fermented in a crock for hot sauce, and cooked and eaten daily. Pepper poutine was a highlight!
Other than that, ho hum, other chores happened per usual. Replaced a rotten broken sliding door; entropy happens.
That was a bit of an issue for the cat, as it is a small house with an open floor plan, and he is an indoor cat. I spent a day locked in the cellar with him, while meditatively chopping peppers of course.
It was a fairly boring decan. But no news is good news, as they say.
We did have a great time hosting friends for dinner after the climax of a big work thing they had gone through.
But rest is about to end. I had hoped to get this book out at the end of summer, but I am pretty much almost exactly a month late. Anyway, it is done, and about to drop!
I’ve been collecting quotes during this period for printing the book and am waiting for some info to come in. It is done, it is formatted, it is ready to go. It is two volumes, but printed as one book. It really could have been two books, one on the decans and magic, and one on the deck, but I wanted to do it more economically for me and for you all. So you get two books in one!
The “rest” time also involved some thinking on options for the book.
I ended up reformatting it to include all the tables, and both volumes, into one binding of 598 pages. I also hope to offer a new edition, a mid-size version of Telos, for a more portable size for magic, with a new card back design. I am hoping to have a pre-order page set up at the end of the workweek, so that the book or the book and new deck can be ordered now and delivered in December.
So stay tuned – see you in Scorpio season!