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Is it possible make certain channels active?

Question: I am a sacral generator but every gate from my spleen is active and my spleen is defined… does that mean that it has comparable authority to my sacral?

Yikes! I was very briefly dating a girl that was sort of solo poly dating, but at the same time was partnered and in a hierarchical poly relationship! What a fraud. It turned out that she needed permission to try specific forms of intimacy with me! She was going to try out a specific form of intimacy. Her partner said NO. His reason was that he didn't like the way that it made him feel. I got vetoed. That is an unhealthy relationship dynamic. To be with someone and deal with a third person holding veto partner over what forms of intimacy are allowed. Especially if it's said veto power is exercised out of jealousy. HELL NO. DEAL BREAKER. Unfortunately, I was deep into NRE when that was revealed to me, and lacked the strength to walk away even though I had no other choice. I was devastated when it ended. Seriously? To have another man exercise authority over what forms of intimacy I'm allowed to engage in with a girl I'm seeing based on his jealousy? That's very patriarchal. That is an overbearing usurpation of power, and highly problematic. SMASH THE PATRIARCHY!!!

This is great! Did you find the chords or pick them up by ear?

I can’t express how grateful I am to have found this video and your channel! I have been trying to find ways to connect with the earth as someone who does not particularly enjoy being outside, and this video felt like a warm spiritual/mental hug. Your takes are so profound, I even wrote down a few of your quotes as reminders to myself. Thank you! 🌻

How do you use the cards? Are they like tarot for divining the energy?

Hi Avory, Thanks for this. It really helped me to have a better understanding of my chart, particularly my open centres and the connecting gates to my hanging gates. It filled in areas I was not clear about. I’m a 6/2 Reflector PLR DLR, LAX Protection 2, dyslexic, some aspects of Dyscalculia and I think I have ADHT. She/Her Straight. I’d love to ‘sample’ your newsletter. How do I sign up to it please? Thanks Mac ✨🦋🙏🦋✨

Very insightful video and you have such a beautiful voice!

I'm very new to this and decided to learn about tarot by slowly making my own deck, learning through analyzing and giving an archetype to each card. Your video made me realize that Lilith is (imo) absolutely perfect for the High Priestess

So for now ignore all those lit gates that i have or learn about their connection and if i have opportunity "hook" them ? Focus on my connected channels and work there and if following strategy and authority I will automatically align with the other energies ? Pfff ....

Thanks for the kind shoutout friend! 💜 I have never thought of or heard of this thing of decks being stacked on top of each other feeling squished. I totally stack mine and maybe it's not personifying decks, I don't know, but I feel pretty fine about it. I like all my decks on one shelf (or, two shelves beside each other - a tarot one, and an oracle/everything else one). I do a "to explore" list for decks (tarot, oracle, etc. are all on the same list). It's not a "wishlist," because sometimes I just see something and think 'oooh! that looks intriguing' and list it, look at it in more detail, decide for whatever reason NOPE, and scratch it off again. Today a task I've sat down to do, as I listen to you, is cut my Goodreads 'to read' pile -- some of it is just duplication (like, the same book will be on 'To Read' and 'Read' but in different formats) so I'm cleaning that up, but also... I started adding things to that list in 2015 and clearly I'm not reading a ton of the things on there. I don't feel bothered by the list, but I like the idea of it being more functional. I am happy about it and excited to re-fill the TBR with lots of new books I want to read. 😀 I have never done a list for courses, but I also don't find myself to be someone prone to spontaneously buy those - I have taken a good handful with Kelly from the Truth In Story but mostly, I haven't done a lot of courses (outside of work-related professional development, which for me at this time does not include things like tarot/astrology/etc). I do love a good course though.

I’m currently having all sorts of thoughts around the concepts of “best”, “highest”, or “most aligned” self that are not yet fully formed enough to leave any meaningful comment. I did, however, want to let you know I was here and that this video has helped contribute towards those thoughts 🙂

I am so tired of the decks that just say omgggggg we have one 2 of cups that is two women kissing were soooo queer! Unfortunately i am a person who needs both esoteric principles and queering and noone does both. The Lost Hollow deck that has been shown is incredibly shallow and does extremely poor job with Thoth inspiration side of things, which as somenoe who found comfort in Thoth's tarot, its removal of christianity and no sex-negativity is massively disapointing. I am reading books about queering esoteric concepts such as Qabala just so I can read esoteric decks more queerly and its hard work but noone does the work and I dont have skills to make my deck, so alas. I deeply love my Fyodor Pavlov deck, because it oozes queerness from itself, from many cards. I dont think I have ever beem on a similar mind lenght as a creator before. Its so sad to me Lubanko Tarot went out of print because that tarot also deeply inspires me with its rawness and sometimes more open and freeing approach to queer experience. both of these decks are just a salve to me. New choice marseilles has massive flaws of being white dominated and thin bodied deck but idk. noone else is queering marseille decks in a way that I like (i dont enjoy cartoony styles AT ALL), and a lot of figueres in that deck and their flymboyance makes me feel at home. People constantly yell about how we dont need pretty moden decks and workhorses will ALWAYS be RSW and Marseille. But I find that viewpoint to be deeply insulting to the marginalized, who have been hurt by the thinking and archetypes exhibited at those decks. Personally I am happy people are making new decks for many different folks. I deeply appreciate this video cause I have been using it to build my deck collection. :), Sorry for such a long comment year later but yea, I am a newbie and starting to read.

Im a Scorpio , and have been drawn to this deck for some time , so when you said if you are a scorpio ! That was it .,...ordered .😂. Beautiful deck .

Thank you, I've just received the 3rd edition and was wondering specifically about some of those cards. I might pick up the digital guide from etsy :)

thank you for sharin this! very interesting and informative

thanks for trying, but... so much confusion in your explanation. open a lot of circles.

This is a brilliant discussion of open centers because she describes in a granular way how to know intimately what that experience of the open center is and then how to respond to it and discern what is your’s and what is not. Thank you Avery.

Very helpful, thank you!

How would you interpret the case where someone’s personal card is the same as the collective years card? Also, I love that strength card! Gorgeous! Strength is also my personal year card and my birthday card.

Omg you are the only person I have ever seen that spells their name the same as me.

I love the word of the year as a practice - for me it also gets encapsulated in a sigil of the year, and sometimes I'll find a few quotes or other things that speak to it; these go in my planner, right up front. ❤I felt you talking to me a bit with "so you've never tracked before but are going to watch all the planetary transits this year?! probably not." 🤣I do like setting up my planners for the year every year + making some goals, but I'm working on letting myself change them as I go -- if something's not working I'm not going to make myself do it for an entire year.

Great suggestion !!! ❤

Maybe I’m “off” but I see two people reclining within his paws- 1 brown , 1 tan

I love this! Longtime organisation-obsessed neurodivergent reporting for duty 🙋 I have several home bases for my decks, but I'm also constantly shifting my decks around, it helps me stay on top of what i've got and it's fun. I will try to do a VR to this!

Ooh, I love this and will totally VR. I have similarly experimented with this. Alphabetical lasted about a week before I acknowledged I hated it (my books are largely alphabetized but decks? no).

😓 "promosm"

Thank you so much 🙏🤗🌹

For the sake of clarity, a note on the terminology: According to RA, Hanging Gates are the colored gate on an Undefined Center - Dormant gates are the colored gates on a Define Center. Not the other way around. So many teachers in the HD community get this confused…

I love this! Yesterday I pulled a card for the first time in a really long time and the idea came to me to ask "where can I find strength today?" and it was so helpful! I hadn't really considered it to be a formula I could use again, but after hearing you talk about it I am definitely going to keep it in mind. It seemed to be a much clearer and more satisfying reading than when I've asked a question that was maybe too broad/general, like "what do I need to hear today?"

This was a really enjoyable video Avory. I always enjoy all your content but I do especially love a good tarot chat 😊

Wait wait there is a Many Queens travel size?! (Not the point of the video I know but I had no idea and hope it might still be in print - will be investigating). Enjoyed this tarot chat. <3

Rescue list!? I fucking love that. Did you come up with that? Do you have a video about that? I'd love to learn more!

This is such an interesting video! And completely explains why I am determinedly learning astrology in order to feel comfy using its correspondences in tarot. And I'm really trying to hold my horses on learning the I Ching for the reasons you've explained here because I think it will be really interesting and valuable but I need to convince my AuDHD brain that I can only go down so many rabbit holes at once 😅

A lot of really good points raised here! And I agree, I tend to look for the underlying philosophy or organization behind associations. There is always benefit in learning about other systems, whether or not you're going to use them, if only to continually remind yourself that all systems are rooted in the cultures they're created or used in. I sort of have a question, or at least something I'm grappling with. And sorry if this question doesn't make any sense, I'm sorta struggling to crystalize it here! Basically, on the one hand I really like Hellenistic astrology. I understand it's not a "perfect" system, it's rooted in a particular culture that had, among other things, a lot of ideas of inherent superiority that ended up influencing the attitudes of the western world that lead to a lot of sh*tty things. It does not always line up with my concepts or values. And of course I know it is not the only or "best" system. But at the same time, I'm hesitant to take the "not my Mars" approach of "well to me, Mars means this and doesn't mean this". Partly it's because I really like having the stability of a "pre-existing" set of meanings associations, archetypes, etc. -- I do not agree with all of them (gender being a huge obvious one), but having something there is at least giving me something to critique, ya know? Also, I worry about whether certain ideas or biases from that system will always show through, or if they'll subconsciously influence me/my work in a negative direction. Sorta the whole problem of "we live in a capitalist world, and by living in it you are forced to participate in capitalism to a certain extent no matter how against it you are". "If you're using a Hellenistic system, you're forced to participate in some negatives of that systems no matter how against them you are." Not to mention the issue of not even knowing or being able to decide what some of my underlying philosophical beliefs are, which are sort of the underpinning of everything. (How am I supposed to build a magical system if I can't even decide if I'm an animist or not?) Okay this got really long here. I guess the central question--is there ever a way of mitigating harmful biases without giving up [any given system's] supportive structure?

Commenting so I hopefully remember to come back fellow neurodivergents in this space is soooo welcome <33333

Hello 2022 Avory! This is a very helpful video. I have watched it twice now (this time, notetaking!) and am entertaining getting the software to be able to use the biwheel -- I find the graphics in Honeycomb good, but being able to quickly visualize where things are at at a given moment alongside the chart feels like it would be very useful. <3

But why is your "design" the unconscious part of you? Does it mean you can never know it? Most people have "personality" issues that they are totally uncoinsious of. "Design" sounds like it should be an important part of your soul. "Personality" is very hard to change even if you know about them. They are engrained tendancies. Your "design" sounds like it is your true essence but no one discusses it!

Your chart is very intriguing to me! Some dormant Gates in my chart are 33, 12, 1, 44, 53, and 38. Two of (of just three) hanging Gates in my chart are 4 and 43, and the only full channel I have is 61-24. There are SO MANY electromagnetic connections between us! (Plus a couple of compromise channels, which are fun to explore too) Overall, what would likely be a powerful 9-0 connection! I really love how you explained everything, your delivery resonates very strongly -- which doesn't exactly shock me, given the connections 😅 Edit: I commented right before you mentioned completely open Centers -- my Emotional Center is totally undefined, and I can confirm that emotions/emotional energy have always been a huge hassle for me

I so appreciate this video and system! Not ADHD myself but definitely a spoonie and depression has fcked up my relationship with planning. This looks really interesting and I'm definitely going to take another look and try to follow along and try to actually make myself a schedule/plan with this. Something about this has just made me realize that planning is just another form of information organization. It's made the whole thing feel a lot more friendly :3

And what is the difference in the experience of a hanging red gate vs black gate or even a completed red line between 2 defined centers?

thank u for this video avory!! v helpful--a video abt masking would be v helpful if u havent done one already

This video is too long for my ADHD. 😂

Hi. You’ve posted so many vids of interest. Thanks for what you do here. (Posted prior to watching the vid in full.. kinda like pulling a card before reading the guidebook, right? 😂)

More please!! The way you provide this information is very, easy to digest. Speaking of which I’d love your info on how to read our determination/digestion, part of our chart. Honestly, I wish you’d explain it ALL :) thank you.

Loved your thoughts on this deck. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏾

As a Scorpio, this is my favorite deck 😂

Great news. The left are fanatical lunatics.

Now that you have had it for a few months could we have a real review, please? Other than on Dani's website I don't see anyone who has reviewed it AFTER using it. Does it work?

"Does anyone need to be exploiting others for profit, maybe noooooot" - I love you and your political angle!