Decan Walk: Sagittarius decan 3, Ten of Wands

This is the Part II update, with musings on mundane ways the Sagittarius third decan correspondences manifested. For more on the decan correspondences and deities, see the prior post for Sagittarius decan 3 Part I.

For me, the beginning of the decan period involved a whole lot of heavy lifting, thanks to Saturn, the ruler of the decan. This is when I had to do shipping and receiving and shipping again, for the big heavy Scions of 777 books and the new holographic editions of Telos Tarot of 777.

Boxes and boxes of heavy books and tarot decks were shipped to one location, loaded into a vehicle, unloaded and brought into the house, stacked in one room, moved to another room etc. Then the boxes were moved one by one to a staging area for packing individual decks and books. The packages then were boxed up into heavy boxes of shipments to customers, loaded back into vehicles, brought to the post office, unloaded and carried in, etc etc etc. Got quite a workout.

Speaking of the “800 lb gorillas,” corporations, and governmental agencies I associate with this decan, the USPS postal service is one. When shipping tons of packages, care must be taken to follow every rule (Saturn), as there is no mercy and no recourse. It is a behemoth entity, so much so that even finding information if you have a question is often nigh impossible. Same could be said of ginormous overly powerful entities like Amazon, what with all the holiday shopping people are doing.

Similarly, still dealing with my web host, another huge entity. You may have noticed that you need to refresh the browser for the latest of these posts to show up. It is a bummer for me, as I have been on time with all of these posts, two posts in every ten-day decan period. Yet visitors to the site may see whatever post they saw last time they visited, depending on what browser and device they use and when they last visited. I’ve been asking the web host for help for months. They tell me to do things, I do them, report back that they don’t work or ask for more info, then wait days for another response. Sometimes the responses conflict with previous responses, or whoever next responds tells me to do things that I don’t think I should have to do, or make me uneasy. Sometimes one responder will contradict another. But I’m helpless in that I just have to hope I get good information even when I start to lack confidence in what I’m being told. And on it goes.

If you are here and you do read this, note that in the future if old content shows, refreshing the browser will show the latest content. But most likely, because of this issue, unless you are a new visitor you won’t even see this post until who knows when, maybe never. Maybe I’m talking to myself. So an entire almost year of my posting feels like an exercise in futility, as because of this issue it looks like I have not been keeping up, when I HAVE been, faithfully, doing the work and carrying the load decan after decan. I mention this because Saturn-ruled Sagittarius 3 is a decan of endurance in the face of duty and obstacles!

These large powerful entities aren’t really helpful., though sometimes you get someone who tries to be. It really is a crapshoot. You are kind of at their mercy if something goes wrong, and often stuck with chatting with robots and/or getting unhelpful boilerplate responses designed to make you just go away. So it goes.

But all in all, the shipping of the pre-ordered books went very well. I think the employees at the little local post office might have found it briefly an annoyance when I showed up with ridiculous number of boxes of packages to repeatedly carry in for them to load into enormous trolleys. But the other customers in the lobby were amused and impressed seeing how many pounds of stuff we carried in, over and over and over again.

Then there was cleanup of the aftermath, and reorganization of the chaos of the inventory left. A certain cat was very glad when the stacks and stacks of boxes of packages and inventory was finally out of his territory, after days of being everywhere.

Certainly did a lot of awkward heavy lifting in this period, like the guy in the RWS Ten of Wands! After that there was some assembly line work, cutting ribbons, making deck boxes and booklets, restocking inventory for the new year. Saturn stuff – getting tasks and obligations done.

Also, possibly relevant is I had an external hard drive fail, seemingly of old age (Saturn). Luckily I am obsessive-compulsive about redundancy, so I had almost everything also saved on another drive. Of course that backup drive was a year older than the one that died and probably due to fail soon too, so I immediately bought two more drives and spent two days copying over data to two new drives. It took a long time as it was a lot of HUGE graphic and large scan art files for all the editions of decks and books over the years – I consider it the data equivalent of big, heavy boxes to lift and move to new locations.

Next up we have the New Moon in late Sagittarius in this decan, followed by the Sun’s entry into the next decan, Capricorn I, at the Solstice, the time of maximum darkness. So it is dark of the Moon, AND darkest time of the Sun. Going within. Capricorn is my solar 12th house of rest and solitude, so I’m looking forward to some introspective time, though it will first involve getting through all the holiday nonsense and related travel; thankfully just driving.

As we head into the weekend, it’s time to get ready for some Solstice celebrations, both at home and with others.

Happy Solstice to all! The Solstice is a good time to do a reading, take stock of what the year has wrought and what may lie ahead as the light increases.