The first of my sea monkeys have hatched! They're just tiny flecks skittering in the water right now. I was chanting, "Yes! Swim!" at them like a joyful Disney villian!

I learned today that you can sing "Baby Got Back" to the tune of "Sound of Silence".

If I have to know that, y'all have to know that.

I don't like the advice I give myself. It's too sensible.

It says I can't do anything to "fix" what's causing me distress today, and finding peace and healing has to come from outside of thinking of it that way. And trying too hard can just create blocks. Stay focused on treasured things that bring healthy support. Insight about the past can lead to growth and abundance. And while I don't want to hear it, yes...healing takes love and time.

I've been thinking of my 10th grade geometry teacher today. My dad told me a joke the year before, and every time that poor woman said "pi r square", she had to hear me say, "Pie are round!"

I started divination with very structured systems, like tarot. I eventually started working with more personalized tools for practices like osteomancy and lithomancy. I resisted charm casting until someone pointed out how the idea of it not being a valid practice was elitist gatekeeping. They were right, so I got into it. But the set changes over time and mine is working its way back to mostly bones and stones.

Distilled water and "purification powder" added for day one. It's s actually some of the eggs and stuff that gives the water high salinity. But I guess that is purification for brine shrimp.

Hopefully tiny Deep Ones will come out and swim around their plastic
Y'ha-nthlei in the next week!

I got Sea Monkeys! I had some years ago, while married to my first husband. He poured them out. When I told my husband about that, he bought me the ones that have a little castle in their tank. I'm going to start setting things up tomorrow!

When I say I "may and may not be catsitting for a guy named Schrödinger" and someone tells me I typed "may and may not" instead of "may or may not"... I just can't.

I've written an updated version of doing a divination reading based on the Litany Against Fear from "Dune". This one is focused on working with gaming dice.

Even I am impressed with my ability to continue taking "weird nerd" to new levels.

https://diydiv.substack.com/p/updated-litany-against-fear-reading

The seasonal shift and my arthritis are not getting along. It's been weeks of "mostly okay as long as I don't try to do physical activity". Today, though! I have done three things that I had just been glaring at on my list! The things weren't super important, but they matter enough to need to be done and I'm glad I could do them.

Sometimes it hurts when I have to explain to someone how I approach divination as a psychological tool for sorting through what you already know to be true and making decisions about action. It's exciting to explain to some people! Others...it hurts.

I know why they want to believe I have some secret knowledge about the future. Or that someone does, if not me. That's why it hurts. But I won't lie to comfort them.

Okay, the poll has closed... I'm now going to devote way too much of my life to finding out why my sister-in-law and 39% of you who voted call a skein of yarn a "skeen" of yarn. That word is "skayn".

Wow! To create examples to be used in the book I'm writing, I did four different types of divination readings on...well, writing the book. I feel like I just called myself out four times.

When I get anxious about this, I need to remember to go back and read what I wrote down for those readings. I really do believe in myself. I just don't always remember that.

I know someone who pronounces the word "skein" a way I have never heard it. I have heard, and said, that word many times throughout my life so far. MANY times. But not like they say it.

Skein, as in "a skein of yarn" - How do you say it?

@Alfred Why didn't Harpo Marx speak?

I want to see Grover from Sesame Street and Grover Underwood hang out together and be loveable furry ol' Grovers.

Y'all! Percy Jackson just found out who his father is, which confirmed what I was suspecting! And he found out who his favorite teacher actually is, which confirmed another thing I was suspecting! And it's after 1am but I might have to stay awake and finish the whole book!
#CoSoBooks

My new dice are here! The blue and purple ones are the new ones. The swirly purple ones are the ones I've had for some time. Now I can explore more options with dice divination because I have two sets with different looks.

Both sets are Elder Dice, so they're different but also go together.