A Small Sicilian Tarot Reading

 

This is the Tarocco Siciliano. I've been studying the Bolognese thanks to Moderately Quick Silver's wonderful blog and Germana Tartari's Tarocchino Bolognese. The book is in Italian, but we have Google Lens these days. No more typing text into online translators!

These Italian decks are refreshing. Straight-up cartomancy with no meaningless navel gazing! No new age bullshit! Nothing that allegedly smells like Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina!

So of course I had to get a Sicilian deck, too. I only have one resource for it so far, Arianna Montalto's Tarocco Siciliano. But she gives you the card meanings, plus some useful tidbits like "When you are in conflict or competition with someone, look for the 5 of Batons. The card behind it will reveal the solution to the problem."

The deck is structured differently than the Tarots people are used to. For more information on that, I'll refer you to wikipedia.

But anyway:

After that shameful fiasco Yam Tits pulled on President Zelenskyy (who is everything a President ought to be), I just want him OUT. I always wanted him out, always voted against him to begin with, but this goes beyond that. He can take Space Karen and Couchfucker with him.

I want to say here that I can't detach from this issue and feel neutral about it. But I still get a clear reading because the cards have clear meanings. There is no ambiguity.

Sending migrants to Gitmo is a repulsive display of bigotry. Looting the benefits that we paid into is a major crime. But this felt like the final straw. I don't want my country to be aligned with Russia and Dobby the Dacha Elf. This shit is not only revolting and stupid, it's extremely dangerous. Not just here, Europe too.

I asked if he could be out in the next six months. I used a simple PPF spread from the Montalto book: Past, recent past, present, near future, future. 8 of Coins is debilitating, but it's flanked by Love and Constancy, showing that so far he's had a way out. He surrounds himself with loyal toadies. The 9 of Swords is a card of obstacles, so that's something to look forward to. In some ways, he's painted himself into a corner. And the last card is Justice. I like Justice. From Montalto via google lens:

He'll get his. Not as soon as most of us would like, but it's coming. So get your heart off the ground. Resist. Don't cooperate.

Italians historically don't like fascists.
Here's a busker who is NOT being ignored. Bella ciao!

Dogs Behaving Badly: Stopping Fights & Attacks

 

There's something I've used to break up dog fights, a guy told me about it in the 90's and it works. You really need two people though, if it's a fight between two dogs. If you just need to get a dog off of someone, you can do it yourself. You pick up their hind legs like a wheelbarrow and they'll let go - it's like magic.

And spraying an attacking dog in the face with a fire extinguisher works if you have one handy. A school bus driver got a pair of pits off a lady and her small dog she was holding doing that. That's what he had, so that's what he used and it worked.

 

https://winknews.com/2022/03/08/collier-county-school-bus-driver-saves-woman-during-dog-attack/ 

 

Everybody has pits these days and a lot of idiots let them run at large, so I have to be ready. I have Shelties. A couple of shakes and it would be over for them. I don't care what the pitmommies say about "pibble nannydog cuddlebugs" - they might be fine at home but once they start, they don't want to stop. It's the "gameness" that's bred into them, they'll keep fighting with their guts hanging out. Look at this carriage horse attack - the dog only stopped when the horse stomped it to near-death. It died soon after. One well-meaning soul tried to help by hitting the dog with a spatula. (Didn't work, lol.)

And sometimes they go after people. Statistically, it's rare (if they were as psycho as some people would have you think, we'd all be dead) and yes, other breeds can be aggressive too sometimes. In the interest of fairness, here's a non-pit and a crazy no-good owner. Dog parks are stupid - would you get on a subway and start trying to interact with everybody? Your dog isn't much different. 

 

But it's mostly the pits and the pit mixes. I don't think the breed is inherently human-aggressive (animal aggression is another story) but there's so MANY of them. No-good owners get them cheap or free and let them run at large.

People need to know what to do instead of standing around being ineffective.

 

ETA: The guy at the end of this video uses the Wheelbarrow Method. The dog doesn't redirect on him, it's safe. It worked beautifully when nothing else was working at all.