This sense of conceptualized genus loci and the spirits of the liminal spaces. Abandoned, rustic areas hold such magic. It's like the spaces themselves become portals. I dont have these decks, but I feel certain similarities with your Pantagruel deck (although it doesn't have a timelessness like Somnia). Some decks hold that 'from any time' magic and it is beautiful. Lovely hearing your thoughts as always. ❤✨️
I mean, there are many reasons I love the Pantagruel imagery and I totally see it as an extended part of this 'Honorary Addams' kind of world... And yes, liminal spaces!!!! 🕯
have such a deep need for the immersiveness of these kind of movies, that does me so good. love them. and the new wednesday surprised me! i think it toys with shallowness? which i don't mind if it is then unravelling into depths? also just love when immersions change on me with time. oh i've lived those in a material sense! anything about time, yeah the stackup! the old intro song i loved! i'm real weird about carsounds sometimes, i don't like the thought that people at night see out in a forceful machine, bit dramatic but. i appreciate trains on tracks! think learning to drive would ease my mind on this i'm just real spooked by cars insideandout! not chariot-ing em out. oh i attracted biters! lovely type, no? bit feral and tough in touch! interesting the doubling of places+spaces! feel for the nighmarers, i've found i'm good at stripping them off of me if they bunched for a while. never an american city! where the words of "suburban gothic" used to trail me i've felt home. but our highrise buildings around the fashion streetsdown feel very glass window on glass on glass on glass all see-through, feels to me new yorkean when all i've known of it is onscreen. have a pull toward that somehow. i feel my nearest vibereacharounds feel so suburban but the city isn't far and i ache for other cities sometimes: suprised me to at some point. and twas the brits? city-elements of architecture do get me! didn't catch onto the loci! oh amazing!
I love when movies and shows hold up to rewatching and change with us as we grow ^_^ I also feel not-good about cars and can't drive. I've learned twice and hated it each time. :P
I am not sure where to leave this comment but perhaps I might leave it here and on your blog (for the purpose of engagement ✨). Before I begin the of my thoughts because , I just have to say you look so beautiful and gorgeous! Your makeup is breathtaking! The dark tint of the colors you used is so enriching and it stands out soooo amazingly well! 🌹❤ Before I clicked to watch, I was using Somnia tarot myself, inquiring about its essence and the truth of the place and realm it resides, and though I am not in full understanding (struggling to translate what I feel from the cards into words), I felt its liminality and it being a sort of hidden place, a place in the back of my mind, a place I dive into, a whole bodily and spiritual experience only for it to be sooo deep that when I journey back to the top (of the ocean's surface), it all seemed to be a hyperrealistic dream, something that resides deeply within my psyche, only being able to experience it again once I choose to dive in repeatedly (inner changes moreso than outer). Now onto what you talked about within this video; I have a very similar experience about the emptiness of New Jersey, the remnants of buildings, the scattered places of such and wetlands, being able to see the New York City skyline (which has always amazed me as a kid, the way everything is colored in blue, but still so clear). I thought it was only me that was aware of the emptiness of NJ (not that I have people around me that pay attention in sensory ways that I do), and I never thought much about it either, how prevalent the emptiness is, from having and still living and traveling places within NJ, especially the seemingly forgotten about, avoided/ignored places where people still live, or don't. I have seen so many buildings remain as shells of themselves and the mixture it creates with seeing people walking about and living as if those buildings are truly gone is such a strange feeling, a deep melancholy that I am not even sure how to express. There is also the sight of long railroads that have always left me wondering about where they would take me, where the last stop would be, and if they are still operating (I still have such curiosity and a desire to ride a top of one of the trains, being able to be closer to the trees that gather on each side of the tracks). And I of course cannot forget about the permanent dull, foggy, light gray colored scheme (too cool toned for my liking) that seems to follow wherever I go. Life was brighter as a child, but even back then, the gray was present. (I should also mention that I was surprised and filled with an interesting excitement when I found out you lived and grew up in NJ when I read that one blog post of yours. The being close enough to a mall, coming up from a highway is what settled it lol) Thinking about it now, I the color scheme of Somnia, but it also sometimes feel a bit dull to me because it is so familiar and reminds me of my desire to escape NJ one day, because it reminds me of the places I live and have been in NJ, especially since I grew up and still live within the less fortunate part of NJ. I am now wondering if Somnia is tapped into the liminal of this trip-state area, the seemingly spiritual veil that seems to be so easily accessible to me as well, ever since I was a kid. It surprises me too that both Nicolas Bruno and Patrick Valenza are from around here! That gives a lot of merit to this curiosity and exploration of nightmares, tarot, and the tri-state area especially when I can relate so much! I have struggled with sleeping since I was a kid (insomnia), have had my fair share of nightmares (mostly religious in nature), sleep paralysis, spiritual attacks that has been with me ever since I was a teenager until a month or two ago, from traveling (without my will/wanting to do so) to a darkness realm (a spiritual version of my childhood home that I am still living in) that is always dark (no lights or electricity of any kind works there) and being endlessly stalked, attacked, bothered by shadow/all dark beings who I can feel in my body when they touch me and rush at me (a sensation I do not believe I will ever be able to describe because it is so non-human and a sort of coldness that is painful/sharp). (Continued in replies below)
But thanks to Somnia tarot, I stopped visiting the darkness realm for the most part (only have once since then). During July this year, I asked Somnia how to break free from the realm (because at this point, I was tired of being scared to sleep/travel there and being endlessly attacked), and I could not make sense of the cards I pulled (which included 9 of Swords) but that day, when I went to sleep, my reading/Somnia me to being in the spiritual version of my bedroom where light and electricity worked, though things there are always a little wonky; I can tell it is my bedroom though some things seem and are out of place. And outside my bedroom was just darkness, the darkness realm, in which a being approached me to attack and kept trying to get into my bedroom to also make it dark too, only for me to offer a peace contract of some kind that I cannot remember (though I remember every thing else that happened) and the being was gone, then all of the darkness was painted white, and I woke up after that. The first ever experience/nightmare I have had of the dark beings was when I was a kid, aged 9, sleeping in my parent's bed, and for several days, I kept dreaming the same "dream"; me as a kid, holding onto my stuffed bunny, in a vintage nightgown, in the middle of the street in front of my childhood home, only being able to run again and again in the same distance (I could not leave the street at all), and a dark being would chase me endlessly, stretching its hand out to get me, and every day I dreamt it, the closer and closer it got, until one night, it almost got me (or perhaps it did and I never realized because it ended so abruptly). It was the closest it ever got. I never had nightmares before moving to this area and into this childhood home (though I lived in NJ still before moving here). And ever since moving here, I have been afraid of being downstairs or in the hallway at night, especially in the house, but anywhere I go, in the night time, it frightens me deep within.
@@wombofthevoid I wonder if it might also be comforting to read some of what Patrick Valenza has said about his experience of nightmares... because at a certain point, he got them to stop!
I also found the Somnia kind of greyish or washed out which is why I trimmed it. The white borders made it feel like it was backlit or something. It pops a bit more without the borders. :)
@@SaoirseGravesI actually was thinking that I really do like the trim you did of it, it really does stand out more, but I'd only trim it if I have another copy 😅 (any time I have modified a deck, it ends up being given away)
There is so much to process and digest in this video, that I cannot elaborate in the frame of a few lines. I too moved from a city environment to a country town. I guess in italy the general feeling of a city can be quite different from the United States; what I noticed though is that, until I was immerse in that environment I wasn't aware of the ways it affected me and my perceptions. In contrast, now everytime I go from the country to a city somewhere, I feel the shift and I see more clearly the energies infoming that place. Sometimes I can respond accordingly, sometimes not. But improving.
Oh, I love your emphasis on learning (continually) to respond to the differences! I think the same can be said for things like 'urban fantasy' and so on. A lot of people also think folklore is just a rural/agrarian thing but urban folklore is incredibly rich. And it wasn't until I started putting some of these ideas together a year-ish ago that I realised why urban witchcraft is also so potent. The world's cities need their witches! Thanks for your thoughtful comment ^_^
This sense of conceptualized genus loci and the spirits of the liminal spaces. Abandoned, rustic areas hold such magic. It's like the spaces themselves become portals.
I dont have these decks, but I feel certain similarities with your Pantagruel deck (although it doesn't have a timelessness like Somnia). Some decks hold that 'from any time' magic and it is beautiful.
Lovely hearing your thoughts as always. ❤✨️
I mean, there are many reasons I love the Pantagruel imagery and I totally see it as an extended part of this 'Honorary Addams' kind of world... And yes, liminal spaces!!!! 🕯
have such a deep need for the immersiveness of these kind of movies, that does me so good. love them. and the new wednesday surprised me! i think it toys with shallowness? which i don't mind if it is then unravelling into depths? also just love when immersions change on me with time. oh i've lived those in a material sense! anything about time, yeah the stackup! the old intro song i loved! i'm real weird about carsounds sometimes, i don't like the thought that people at night see out in a forceful machine, bit dramatic but. i appreciate trains on tracks! think learning to drive would ease my mind on this i'm just real spooked by cars insideandout! not chariot-ing em out. oh i attracted biters! lovely type, no? bit feral and tough in touch! interesting the doubling of places+spaces! feel for the nighmarers, i've found i'm good at stripping them off of me if they bunched for a while. never an american city! where the words of "suburban gothic" used to trail me i've felt home. but our highrise buildings around the fashion streetsdown feel very glass window on glass on glass on glass all see-through, feels to me new yorkean when all i've known of it is onscreen. have a pull toward that somehow. i feel my nearest vibereacharounds feel so suburban but the city isn't far and i ache for other cities sometimes: suprised me to at some point. and twas the brits? city-elements of architecture do get me! didn't catch onto the loci! oh amazing!
I love when movies and shows hold up to rewatching and change with us as we grow ^_^ I also feel not-good about cars and can't drive. I've learned twice and hated it each time. :P
I am not sure where to leave this comment but perhaps I might leave it here and on your blog (for the purpose of engagement ✨). Before I begin the of my thoughts because , I just have to say you look so beautiful and gorgeous! Your makeup is breathtaking! The dark tint of the colors you used is so enriching and it stands out soooo amazingly well! 🌹❤
Before I clicked to watch, I was using Somnia tarot myself, inquiring about its essence and the truth of the place and realm it resides, and though I am not in full understanding (struggling to translate what I feel from the cards into words), I felt its liminality and it being a sort of hidden place, a place in the back of my mind, a place I dive into, a whole bodily and spiritual experience only for it to be sooo deep that when I journey back to the top (of the ocean's surface), it all seemed to be a hyperrealistic dream, something that resides deeply within my psyche, only being able to experience it again once I choose to dive in repeatedly (inner changes moreso than outer).
Now onto what you talked about within this video; I have a very similar experience about the emptiness of New Jersey, the remnants of buildings, the scattered places of such and wetlands, being able to see the New York City skyline (which has always amazed me as a kid, the way everything is colored in blue, but still so clear). I thought it was only me that was aware of the emptiness of NJ (not that I have people around me that pay attention in sensory ways that I do), and I never thought much about it either, how prevalent the emptiness is, from having and still living and traveling places within NJ, especially the seemingly forgotten about, avoided/ignored places where people still live, or don't. I have seen so many buildings remain as shells of themselves and the mixture it creates with seeing people walking about and living as if those buildings are truly gone is such a strange feeling, a deep melancholy that I am not even sure how to express.
There is also the sight of long railroads that have always left me wondering about where they would take me, where the last stop would be, and if they are still operating (I still have such curiosity and a desire to ride a top of one of the trains, being able to be closer to the trees that gather on each side of the tracks). And I of course cannot forget about the permanent dull, foggy, light gray colored scheme (too cool toned for my liking) that seems to follow wherever I go. Life was brighter as a child, but even back then, the gray was present. (I should also mention that I was surprised and filled with an interesting excitement when I found out you lived and grew up in NJ when I read that one blog post of yours. The being close enough to a mall, coming up from a highway is what settled it lol)
Thinking about it now, I the color scheme of Somnia, but it also sometimes feel a bit dull to me because it is so familiar and reminds me of my desire to escape NJ one day, because it reminds me of the places I live and have been in NJ, especially since I grew up and still live within the less fortunate part of NJ. I am now wondering if Somnia is tapped into the liminal of this trip-state area, the seemingly spiritual veil that seems to be so easily accessible to me as well, ever since I was a kid.
It surprises me too that both Nicolas Bruno and Patrick Valenza are from around here! That gives a lot of merit to this curiosity and exploration of nightmares, tarot, and the tri-state area especially when I can relate so much! I have struggled with sleeping since I was a kid (insomnia), have had my fair share of nightmares (mostly religious in nature), sleep paralysis, spiritual attacks that has been with me ever since I was a teenager until a month or two ago, from traveling (without my will/wanting to do so) to a darkness realm (a spiritual version of my childhood home that I am still living in) that is always dark (no lights or electricity of any kind works there) and being endlessly stalked, attacked, bothered by shadow/all dark beings who I can feel in my body when they touch me and rush at me (a sensation I do not believe I will ever be able to describe because it is so non-human and a sort of coldness that is painful/sharp).
(Continued in replies below)
But thanks to Somnia tarot, I stopped visiting the darkness realm for the most part (only have once since then). During July this year, I asked Somnia how to break free from the realm (because at this point, I was tired of being scared to sleep/travel there and being endlessly attacked), and I could not make sense of the cards I pulled (which included 9 of Swords) but that day, when I went to sleep, my reading/Somnia me to being in the spiritual version of my bedroom where light and electricity worked, though things there are always a little wonky; I can tell it is my bedroom though some things seem and are out of place.
And outside my bedroom was just darkness, the darkness realm, in which a being approached me to attack and kept trying to get into my bedroom to also make it dark too, only for me to offer a peace contract of some kind that I cannot remember (though I remember every thing else that happened) and the being was gone, then all of the darkness was painted white, and I woke up after that.
The first ever experience/nightmare I have had of the dark beings was when I was a kid, aged 9, sleeping in my parent's bed, and for several days, I kept dreaming the same "dream"; me as a kid, holding onto my stuffed bunny, in a vintage nightgown, in the middle of the street in front of my childhood home, only being able to run again and again in the same distance (I could not leave the street at all), and a dark being would chase me endlessly, stretching its hand out to get me, and every day I dreamt it, the closer and closer it got, until one night, it almost got me (or perhaps it did and I never realized because it ended so abruptly). It was the closest it ever got.
I never had nightmares before moving to this area and into this childhood home (though I lived in NJ still before moving here). And ever since moving here, I have been afraid of being downstairs or in the hallway at night, especially in the house, but anywhere I go, in the night time, it frightens me deep within.
There is more I have to say but UA-cam won't let me comment the rest but I sent the whole of it to the comment section of your blog post! ✨
@@wombofthevoid I wonder if it might also be comforting to read some of what Patrick Valenza has said about his experience of nightmares... because at a certain point, he got them to stop!
I also found the Somnia kind of greyish or washed out which is why I trimmed it. The white borders made it feel like it was backlit or something. It pops a bit more without the borders. :)
@@SaoirseGravesI actually was thinking that I really do like the trim you did of it, it really does stand out more, but I'd only trim it if I have another copy 😅 (any time I have modified a deck, it ends up being given away)
You look so beautiful……
Thank you, that's very kind :)
There is so much to process and digest in this video, that I cannot elaborate in the frame of a few lines. I too moved from a city environment to a country town. I guess in italy the general feeling of a city can be quite different from the United States; what I noticed though is that, until I was immerse in that environment I wasn't aware of the ways it affected me and my perceptions. In contrast, now everytime I go from the country to a city somewhere, I feel the shift and I see more clearly the energies infoming that place. Sometimes I can respond accordingly, sometimes not. But improving.
Oh, I love your emphasis on learning (continually) to respond to the differences! I think the same can be said for things like 'urban fantasy' and so on. A lot of people also think folklore is just a rural/agrarian thing but urban folklore is incredibly rich. And it wasn't until I started putting some of these ideas together a year-ish ago that I realised why urban witchcraft is also so potent. The world's cities need their witches! Thanks for your thoughtful comment ^_^