crystaldream47

This morning has mostly been nice.   I woke up at 5:30 lit the shrine, did the dishes, washed my face, feed the cats, walked the dog, woke up h, made coffee, photographed the sunrise, walked the dog once more, ate breakfast and  sketched for about 20 minutes.  I started this on New Year’s Eve which is when I determined I would like to stop buying canvases in favor of other mediums.  I still have several canvases lying around though and I hate to waste things so I plan to use them somehow.  I’m considering this specific piece a doodle which really frees up some room for creativity.  

 Update:  I was staring at this beginning of a painting while drinking some tea and realized that I’ve copied some of this from a Salvador Dali painting of a camel.  So, I’ll either have to rework it or (more likely) will need to spray this thing with a solvent to try again.  

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This is really bumming me out. lol


I’m using the same exact code as I used to insert my tea image a couple days ago.


Smh

Whatever. Regarding my goal of taking 53 sunrises I’m down to 52. These links include a couple photos of sunrises and a photo of a pretty cloud I saw on the way to the dump to drop off the boxspring.

I don’t attempt to read tea leaves often, so I’m not particularly sure I’m an expert. I certainly don’t do them often for myself. The last time I did was election night. It was quite easy to find a T and an Aries sign. Which is a bit spooky if you don’t think about it or if you really allow yourself to think of it as some sort of divination. Really it’s just a meditative tool to help you extrapolate your hopes and fears. I started thinking about this last week (maybe last month?) sometime after reading about the Baba Vanga World Cup 2026 alien prophecy. Which, if you haven’t been down there already, is quite a fun little rabbit hole, sensationalism or not.

So, what did this cup say about my upcoming year? That little lump at the bottom lies between the area of sorrow and hate and it points up to that big mass at the top corner which is associated with contentment. When you read tea leaves you spiral from the bottom clockwise letting you mind draw associations between shapes and the zones they lie in. For the most part, this cup lacks shapes but the distribution of these tea leaves falls on mostly on areas which symbolize simple aspects of life that bring happiness or at least make it more comfortable: beauty, wealth, love, honor, fidelity, art, generosity, endurance etc… with very few of the bad sections speckled with tea at all. To me, that says that the worst struggles in 2026 for me, will be concerning issues of hate and sorrow but that I will be given plenty of chances to create contentment through the good things in life like love, friendship and helping others.

Of course, like I said, that’s just how my hopes and fears are reflected through this cup of tea if I take the time to stare at it and think about life for long enough but it's enough to help me feel a bit better.