RE: The Augur's House of Weal And Woe
04-27-2016, 06:31 PM
Sanzh: An annual reading is one I've been wanting to play with for a while, so we're going to look at the shape of the next twelve months. I'm starting with May, for obvious reasons; May suggests a time of renewal of things you've been depleted on, especially things related to your mental and social well-being. In particular, I get the impression you may have been struggling with maintaining hope and hopefulness, which May should restore somewhat for you. Focus on keeping yourself sane and happy, and take some time to maintain non-physical needs you have been neglecting; treat yourself a little.
Keep an eye on your surroundings, however, as you face pretty significant challenges once you're back at full strength. It looks like the root of a lot of your problems for much of the summer are going to be rooted back to one particular source, either a paucity of material resources like money and time or a person or institution that is actively deceiving or cheating you. Whatever primary obstacle you face, it's mostly going to result in difficulties related to work and school; you'll find it hard to juggle all the responsibilities you feel you have to maintain, and it will be hard for you to continue developing your skills and knowledge because you're so tied to material concerns. The spread itself suggests little in the way of advice for how to deal with these issues, but warns that the primary influence over the next year of your life will concern the balance of reality and fantasy and the effective use of imagination and creativity. My inclination is to suggest being very careful to catch yourself indulging in unrealistic pessimism or unhelpful optimism.
The end of the summer will either bring a very abrupt and unforeseen change to the trajectory of your plans or an event that causes significant delay.
It looks like you're likely to view this change as very negative or have a hard time adapting to it, but stay flexible. While you're still struggling to adapt, you'll find something to hold on to; this something is quite, in fact almost overwhelmingly, likely to be a person, and probably a person that is already in your life at this point. The fall will be a time of social cultivation and the sharing of wisdom, and it will be lead or inspired by a single guiding beacon; start exploring the people in your life you wish you knew better now, because they're going to be the catalyst for very fulfilling change in your priorities and philosophy. Again, pay special mind to the veracity of your own thoughts and feelings, and be ready to be proven wrong. It will be worth it.
Winter is going to be the time when things have stabilized enough that you're going to start to feel like it's time to take the reigns of your life back, but impulsiveness is your enemy right now; it just sucks that impulsiveness is also going to be sitting at the back of your mind a lot, urging you towards action that will end badly because you feel like it's what's right or necessary in the situation. You are still in a period of regrowth, now not because of problems wearing you down but new opportunities and important changes requiring a new set of mental tools and assumptions. As spring finally starts to come around, a window for action will arrive: you have the chance to either achieve great romantic success, likely with the person who was so influential to you this year, or to seize a life-changing opportunity. Probably not both. It is important that you make the correct choice here, but the deck is again being coy on what that choice is; take time to know yourself and your new desires fully before making that choice, but follow it faithfully once you do. Don't forget to ensure your reasons for making it are valid and uninfluenced before you do. Correct isn't even a good word here; more like "best for you". There is no wrong decision, just make sure you make the most Sanzh-appropriate one.
Interestingly, a temporal analysis breaks down at this point. It's rather adamant that it can't say much beyond the beginning of the end of winter because your choices in the intervening time are so crucial and varied. Any number of things can happen, and -- beyond a few upcoming hurdles -- those things are all going to depend on what you do and say rather than the vagaries of chance. Next spring represents a new beginning for you, a beginning for a future that will stretch far into your lifetime. There is no sense of urgency, so you don't need to feel rushed to make your choices. Quite the opposite in fact. Just keep in mind that the world is a bigger, more complicated place than you feel like it is right now, and it's okay that the future you want now won't always be the future you strive for.
Change is not inherently bad. If you don't let illusions and misconceptions push you into ugly situations, you will find yourself with the whole world in front of you. Your greatest enemies are lies and the human tendency to deceive itself.
Keep an eye on your surroundings, however, as you face pretty significant challenges once you're back at full strength. It looks like the root of a lot of your problems for much of the summer are going to be rooted back to one particular source, either a paucity of material resources like money and time or a person or institution that is actively deceiving or cheating you. Whatever primary obstacle you face, it's mostly going to result in difficulties related to work and school; you'll find it hard to juggle all the responsibilities you feel you have to maintain, and it will be hard for you to continue developing your skills and knowledge because you're so tied to material concerns. The spread itself suggests little in the way of advice for how to deal with these issues, but warns that the primary influence over the next year of your life will concern the balance of reality and fantasy and the effective use of imagination and creativity. My inclination is to suggest being very careful to catch yourself indulging in unrealistic pessimism or unhelpful optimism.
The end of the summer will either bring a very abrupt and unforeseen change to the trajectory of your plans or an event that causes significant delay.
It looks like you're likely to view this change as very negative or have a hard time adapting to it, but stay flexible. While you're still struggling to adapt, you'll find something to hold on to; this something is quite, in fact almost overwhelmingly, likely to be a person, and probably a person that is already in your life at this point. The fall will be a time of social cultivation and the sharing of wisdom, and it will be lead or inspired by a single guiding beacon; start exploring the people in your life you wish you knew better now, because they're going to be the catalyst for very fulfilling change in your priorities and philosophy. Again, pay special mind to the veracity of your own thoughts and feelings, and be ready to be proven wrong. It will be worth it.
Winter is going to be the time when things have stabilized enough that you're going to start to feel like it's time to take the reigns of your life back, but impulsiveness is your enemy right now; it just sucks that impulsiveness is also going to be sitting at the back of your mind a lot, urging you towards action that will end badly because you feel like it's what's right or necessary in the situation. You are still in a period of regrowth, now not because of problems wearing you down but new opportunities and important changes requiring a new set of mental tools and assumptions. As spring finally starts to come around, a window for action will arrive: you have the chance to either achieve great romantic success, likely with the person who was so influential to you this year, or to seize a life-changing opportunity. Probably not both. It is important that you make the correct choice here, but the deck is again being coy on what that choice is; take time to know yourself and your new desires fully before making that choice, but follow it faithfully once you do. Don't forget to ensure your reasons for making it are valid and uninfluenced before you do. Correct isn't even a good word here; more like "best for you". There is no wrong decision, just make sure you make the most Sanzh-appropriate one.
Interestingly, a temporal analysis breaks down at this point. It's rather adamant that it can't say much beyond the beginning of the end of winter because your choices in the intervening time are so crucial and varied. Any number of things can happen, and -- beyond a few upcoming hurdles -- those things are all going to depend on what you do and say rather than the vagaries of chance. Next spring represents a new beginning for you, a beginning for a future that will stretch far into your lifetime. There is no sense of urgency, so you don't need to feel rushed to make your choices. Quite the opposite in fact. Just keep in mind that the world is a bigger, more complicated place than you feel like it is right now, and it's okay that the future you want now won't always be the future you strive for.
Change is not inherently bad. If you don't let illusions and misconceptions push you into ugly situations, you will find yourself with the whole world in front of you. Your greatest enemies are lies and the human tendency to deceive itself.