Back will have a gluesticked text block and handwritten notes. This is a first attempt and may change. They’ll have to be cropped to fit a 4×6″ print. Vote for your favorite! I’m leaning towards the first one with what looks like an EU flag in the back or maybe the second. https://shoestringoperations.com is unfinished […]
3 More Sample Readings Using The Key of Sparrows
Full key: https://tkos.dev The symbols were selected using random.org which uses ‘atmospheric noise’ (I think electromagnetic noise) to generate true random numbers. The system was designed such that you can use three coin flips to generate a binary number to select the column and roll a dice for the row.
Save the Oxygen Postcards
In addition to The Key of Sparrows, I was also planning to get these printed before trying to do something about the 2024 election took priority. So now I have finally gotten these printed too. I think this is a pretty potent and concentrated message. Text:
Some sample The Key of Sparrows readings from postcards
One of 6 readings: Might suggest (if accurate) the recipient getting a housemate or moving in with a partner: “Ordering thoughts. Rethinking, reorganizing your mind. The order in which things are done is important here. The meeting of two minds. Two people. Two mindsets. Coming together as a household. Don’t we all contain multitudes?”
Knots & Spiderwebs
We are here to tangle, to knot, to spiderweb, and to all run together.
The Key of Sparrows Product Launch
Got my first The Key of Sparrows product online, available for purchase. 12×18″ laminated print with brief instructions on the back.
A modern non-tarot oracle, with symbol choices oriented towards science, psychology, mindfulness, modernity, and realism.
Without Hesitation or Lists
[…] Wake in the morning from peaceful dreams, and spin through the day without lists or hesitations. Walk without thoughts of need for an audience. […]
Dreaming Plants
Writing, ring-toss ’round the rosies, limits of imagination, checkerboard pattern of climbing vines straightened with Backbone Growing all through the night bedroom, the jungle, where the wild things are & limits unlimited, the mind unbound untwisted untwisting the madness free associating and unwinding on these small pages Cranking out the thoughts like so many fireworks […]
Space
How a space is organized (or un-organized) matters. Where is your jar of pens? Do you have one? Are they scattered everywhere, or forever going missing? What do you see from where you sit? Is it demoralizing? Is it pleasant? Is it beautiful? As I sit here, there are 8 containers of pens and markers […]
Standing Before the Mirror Unadorned
Inserting the pleasure. Finding no connections between plan & act. Alighting — the pathway of lightning. The lightning alit on the pla[i]n[e]. The lightning dismounted the towering, charging storm-cloud. Rhythm. Stop. Spot. Ought ex em, clap thunder, run, pitty-pat. Answer beside. Sit beside. Answer back the talking drum. Keep clear of the combine. Athwart the […]
Lost in Mist 