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CDC #183 IT’S IN THE CARDS – August 15, 2016
card XV The Devil (from the Vampire Tarot, that I made up)

The card represents: Being seduced by the material world and physical pleasures; lust for and an obsession with money and power.

Also: Living in fear, domination and bondage; being caged by an overabundance of luxury; discretion should be used in personal and business matters.
The Devil is not a good thing to get this card in your reading, with the exception that it may be the confirmation you need to end a dysfunctional relationship.
The core of this card is a negative relationship that you have with someone or something. It might be a lover or a boss. It might be marijuana or alcohol. It might be a friend who you knew was a bad influence and yet you deepened the relationship. This card carries all of the negativity surrounding the twin terrors of addiction and codependency. Toxic substances, toxic relationships and our deep denial about the depth of our situation conspire against us. The Devil card says your only hope is to abandon the current state of hopelessness.indicates prisoners of a lifestyle of their own choosing.

The Devil is simply a metaphor for the thing to which they have surrendered themselves: addiction, anger, lust, interpersonal emotional games disguised as love, etc.
The Devil appears to be beconing to come to him, indicating that most people willingly go into serving the thing that enslaves them and build a loyalty to this vice. this indicates the severity of servitude and the ruin caused by surrendering love to materialist and sensualist pursuits at the expense of all else.
Meaning in Past, Present and Future Positions
When your Tarot reading begins, cards are placed in locations that have specific meaning. Your past, present and future are signified.

Some cards are stronger in different positions than others.When The Devil card is in the past position, your dealings with a domineering person or situation are over and done with. The foundation on which your life operates has the experience of this intense relationship at its core, but you have new structures in your life from which to operate and excel. It is good news to have The Devil in the past position. The chains have been broken.
In the present position, this card’s appearance is your wake up call. You are hooked into something and may not even realize it. It could be the mindset of being a victim, or it could be the need to have a buzz before facing the day. You are being held back by something that you willingly embraced, at least initially. Perhaps your once great lover has become an embittered hater who takes out his resentments on you with verbal abuse. Whatever the case, The Devil card here acknowledges that a terrible connection in your life right now is chaining you down from being whom you truly are.
In the future position, this card is a warning. You are setting up structures in your life that are attracting people who are users, takers and not good for what you hope to accomplish. The Devil in the future position looms as something that can be minimized or avoided if you work hard to spot the areas in your life in which you lie to yourself in order to just get by or get along. A rigorous self-examination is needed in order to move forward with confidence in the beauty and value oflife.
Card Combinations
Cards that join together to make your reading also influence each other. They can change each other’s meaning ever so slightly. This combining of energies is what makes your reading unique.The card with the closest relationship to The Devil is actually its opposite: The Hierophant. This card represents surrendering to the greater good and to the established order. When these two are in a reading together, the tension will be whether chaos or order reins supreme in your life.
Most other cards of the deck add a better definition of who The Devil in your life may be.
The Lovers card combined with The Devil indicates an affair. The Chariot indicates your pursuit of victory will destroyeverything in your life – this combination is particularly terrible to receive if you are in litigation.
Combined with The Empress, The Devil card indicates that someone to whom you are attracted is too closely associated with bad people to ever really trust.
One card that minimizes The Devil is The Fool. This card puts you in a safety bubble as you move through life interacting with people whose agenda is destructive. Even the Tarot has insurance cards!

August 17, 2016
(Keeping the entries short this time. Sorry about the first one’s length)
Entry #2 THE MAGICIAN
Honorable Mention!
Marcus was born with occult power being a homo magi. He studied history, legends & lore, world religions, antiquities, ancient languages, and occultsm to become even more powerful and become the hero

Magus

Entry #3 STRENGTH
Leon the Lionheart
the personification of strength, his flowing mane, golden eyes, pointed ears and golden tanned muscles hint at a leonine power in him.

CDC #182 – WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN August 10, 2016
(I KNEW I should have entered earlier, 3 cats, 2 of them Bast.:) but great entries so far)
Entry #1
This super hero incarnation of Bast was born to 2 mortals
Leon, an Egyptiantologist
Abigale, Abbie, Feline Zoologist
The two met flying to Egypt. They talked on the flight and immediately bonded.They continued to see one another and fell in love,which led to marriaage and eventually a child who they named Eleanor.
Eleanor,
Alias(es): Leanor, Lea, Elean, Ellie, Elle, El, E (depending on who is talking to her)
Ellie modeled through college and got a buisness and communication degree, with that and her charm, looks, poise and fashion sense she is the PR person: the face and voice for her parents endeavers.
Elle was sent Egyptian artifacts by her father from Bubastis city and temple of Bast
Being reunited with the artifacts gave Ellie amazing energy, taking effect as to give her the ability to call on the power of Feline Mimicry: ability to use a feline’s keen senses, or see and hear through any cat’s eyes and ears, to have catlike agility, running, leaping, climbing, claws, teeth, a lion’s strength, a cheetah’s speed, feline communication, feline summoning as well as others.
She heals herself or others quickly, with a few licks of her tongue
She apparently has 9 lives
Her family, being in danger, she goes to find them, and free them
Fortunately or unfortunatly during the 3 days of the full moon she changes into a were-panther, wether she wants to or not.
Here she is fulfilling her aspects of Protector of Family and Cats,with a deep abiding love for both
* IF you wish to listen, Appropriate music:
http://search.aol.com/aol/video?q=catwoman+egyptian+theme&s_it=video-ans&sfVid=true&videoId=E32CA69DCCF4777EB07DE32CA69DCCF4777EB07D&s_chn=prt_btest5-g&v_t=comsearch
Entry:

(I admit I named Abigale and Eleanor, from two cats we have lived with. Ellie was a tiny thing with matted eyes that was walking right for a lawn mower, but was seen luckily. Our friends thought she was a chipmunk or something. Since our friends had a dog they brought her to us. We cleaned her up and fed her by bottle and hand, which ever she would take. Now Ellie is is still with us and 11 years old now … and demanding very LOUDLY to be fed right now.)

WINNER CDC #182- Walk Like An Egyptian (Aug14, 2016) – Bast
This was a tough decision, but I think what put Cliff on top this week was the way he mirrored details of her jewelry / accessories in both her transformed, and non-transformed self. The character’s story was clearly evident even without the the accompanying description.
Well done you!

POP QUIZ TWIST  August 7, 2016

Well crap! i missed the deadline. We had company all morning.

Congrats Herr D!

Here was my entry anyway since I did this just for the Pop Quiz. Hope

ya enjoy.

the whole spy fi thing was huge in the 60s: Avengers, Bond, Flint, Get Smart, I Spy,, Man from Uncle, Girl from Uncle, Matt Helm, Mission Impossble, Prisoner, Secret Agent Man, etc etc

He is a superhero with 60s cool spy motif. A mix between superhero and spy. a super spy.

Spy superpowers:
Heightened Strength
Heightened Dexterity
Heightened Endurance
Chamleon,
Night Vision,
X ray Vision,
Super Hearing,

Equipment:
radio
photo-glasses
rope
chain
breather/air filter
glass cutter
wire cutter

JUST FOR FUN

I’ve had a multi gold medal olympic gymnast of Soviet decent who became a hero.
Dmitry Blitzerchev became Gyros
He fought crime in New Edinburgh, Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward, Ottawa, Canada

the first 2 pics are early no frills attempts

I wanted to make a sidekick for Gyros

So Dimitry was coaching gymnastics to a new Olympic hopeful
He is also dressed in gymnast floor exorcise togs and is called Tumbler

yes he needs a different name.

Here is my Pathfinder (which is a first for me to play it) RPG character.
He’s a Faun Bard named Aulos

FACE:

JUST FOR FUN

I wanted to do a gypsy Ravnos vampire

Bre said it looked more like a zombie than vampire , and suggested he neede exposed fangs.

I admit I like the first one better though.

any other opinions?

JUST FOR FUN

I saw a female pose I wanted to do, for an effeminate gay character Jesse.
So here it is

CDC #179 INSPIRED BY MUSIC July 23, 2016

Entry #1
Music: Jonny McGovern “The Gayest Of All Time”

Picture:

This is satyr Justin McKinney dancing at Elysium during PRIDE week! 🙂

Entry #2
Music:
On The Beach – Queen Of The Damned

(the actual core inspiration starts at 1:08- -3:25, although it all works, I

like it best cayuse it has the drum and chanting as well as violen. I

don’t expect you to listen to the other two versions, although all three were the complete inspiration.

After that I would let it go to just the violen
Queen of the Damned – Beach Scene (Original movie soundtrack),

performed by Marissa Licatta,

and then to the movie version with cast
Lestat’s Violin in HD

Picture:

I was into Elves AND gypsies last week when I created this 🙂

I am currently enjoying a lovely cold(or flu? I know what you are thinking as I typed that ENJOYING, well, you see IF you HAVE to have something anyway, why suffer thru it? )

Song on now Rock the Casbah by the Clash!