Oztological Addenda

Oztology, the ontology of the Land of Oz
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Tarot part 10

O of A   Red of Purple   Action of Reflection

Five of Cups - Reunion  New alliances  Partial loss  Regret

(( For an Oz Tarot

Button Bright ))

Friendly and helpful, but he wanders. He's always a reunion, always a partial loss cause he always comes back. Eventually. He'll express his regrets but it won't change what he does. On the other hand, sometimes getting lost is the only way to find what can't be found.

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O of E   Red of Green   Action of Perception

Five of Clubs - Quarrels  Challenges  Negotiations  Obstacles

(( For an Oz Tarot

Su Dic ))

If you want the Su Dic to do what you want there has to be something in it for him. He's not much for favours, but he is reciprocal.

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O of I   Red of Yellow   Action of Limits

Five of Coins - Good substructure required  Loss  Failure  Error

(( For an Oz Tarot

Bal Loon ))

And a good superstructure. Pretty free within the constraints that are predefined. On the other hand if something comes up that has not been preaccounted for, too bad.

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O of O   Red of Red   Action of Action

Five of Swords - Pay the piper  Payback time  Come to terms

(( For an Oz Tarot

Cor ))

Hostage situations so seldom work out well. Only the least little thing has to go wrong and everything's up the flue. And putting to sea on the Nonestic if you're not a buddy of the mermaids has got to be the dumbest choice in the book. Whether this world is the product of exploding quanta or coagulative recursion, superior cooperation is what wins the day. Regardless of any disasters that might have helped things along, I'm guessing that the mammals evolved a quantum jump in cooperative living and just plain out cooperated the smaller dinosaurs in every ecological niche except flying. And all dinosaurs start out small.

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EE of A   Blue of Purple   Rulership of Reflection

Six of Cups - Relief required  Inability to change  Memories

(( For an Oz Tarot

Nimmie Aimee ))

She got both her boyfriends at once. Good luck, he seemed like a grumpy cuss to me.

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EE of E   Blue of Green   Rulership of Perception

Six of Clubs - Unexpected difficulties  Advancement through effort

(( For an Oz Tarot

Guph ))

A leetle too much coppering his bets there. Under the circumstances, if it had come to a simple confrontation, the Nomes would have won hands down without all the allies. Of course it would have come unstuck anyhow, but at least they could have won for the moment.

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EE of I   Blue of Yellow   Rulership of Limits

Six of Coins - Tit for tat  Opportunity  Gifts  Selfishness  Envy

(( For an Oz Tarot

Lavender Bear ))

Truth without context. You have to ask the right questions. But to know what the right questions are, you have to know the answers beforehand. Typical of skrying. Like the great book of records. All oracles seem to take that road too. Apparently adding the context would screw up the truth of the information. If a predicted truth is obviated through foreknowledge then where does the reputation of the oracle go? When what was predicted didn't happen. Really honked Jonah off, it did.

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EE of O   Blue of Red   Rulership of Action

Six of Swords - Dreamtime  Impasse  Headstrong attempts

(( For an Oz Tarot

Cap'n Fyter ))

Sometimes the only thing that will work is a cavalry charge regardless of odds. On the other hand marching the troops across no man's land in a human wave doesn't work out so well in the face of machine guns. Any of the numerous times it was tried. Spontaneity and surprise is important if you're going to do something stupid.

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