Playing cards come solely as triggers for my ancestral spirits' words, but they especially like to come with poetry + embedded codes when divining this way.

Let us see what they have to say to us (me, Black people, the world) today.

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4 OF DIAMONDS

Something eludes you sweetly. There is a sweet bliss in ignoring or having a thing not interact with you directly. Not meet you with its eyes. There's a picture there, and it fears to let you see it.

Will you glance anyway? Will you set aside the sweetness that your pseudo-innocence grants you, as you take another step away from the truth? Or will you pick up the plates and eat the bitters? Are they for you?

Turning around isn't always safety. In fact, the back that it leaves you with only becomes easier to stab. Do not let the puncture reach you. Turn. click. Eat.

Beware of which light you turn to and which path you avoid. Deception is the finest key to getting ignored. To getting thrown. To branching off— thrown into the bushes with no concern for your well-being. Watch yourself, little-one.

ACCOMPANYING SONGS FOR THOSE OBSERVING

THE RECORD OF JULY:

No More Room x Emily King

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Water x Joy Postell*

*TW: An explicit mention of Anti-Blackness in the beginning.

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