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Fourth of July

Pink Floyd - Sheep

https://youtu.be/aPMeZKOX3yQ

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want

He makes me down to lie

Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by

With bright knives He releaseth my soul

He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places

He converteth me to lamb cutlets

https://youtu.be/LldtyaqMI5w

For lo, He hath great power and great hunger

When cometh the day we lowly ones Through quiet reflection and great dedication

https://youtu.be/Tj2c6vJvyPA

Master the art of karate

https://youtu.be/3rZt7s9Rw-A

Lo, we shall rise up

And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water.

Get out of the road if you want to grow old.

https://youtu.be/d-Qm6P-rW20

XIII. Death

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The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives He releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, He hath great power and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection and great dedication
Master the art of karate Lo, we shall rise up And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water.

The Ace of Cups

From The Key to the Tarot by A.E. Waite: The waters are beneath, upon which are water lilies. The hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which five streams are pouring. A dove, bearing in its beak a cross-marked host, descends to place the wafer in the cup - the dew of water is falling on all sides.

Ten of Swords

From The Key to the Tarot by A.E. Waite: A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card.

XVIII. The Moon

From Wikipedia: The card depicts a night scene, where two large pillars are shown. A wolf and a domesticated dog howl at the Moon while a crayfish emerges from the water. The Moon has "sixteen chief and sixteen secondary rays", and "is shedding the moisture of fertilizing dew in great drops" (totaling 15 in the Rider–Waite deck) which are all Yodh-shaped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_(tarot_card)

Eight of Swords

From The Key to the Tarot by A.E. Waite: A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her.

XII. The Hanged Man

From The Crowley Tarot the Handbook to the Cards by Akron & Hajo Banzhaf: We see the Hanged Man stretched out with his head downwards, crucified between life and death. The snake of life winds around his left foot, binding him to the ankh that appears out of the white light. This ancient Egyptian tau cross embodies vital energy. Head and hands, however, are turned towards the snake of death that rests beneath him in the grave. The background forms a lattice of small quadrants representing the table of elements, upon which all the names and symbols of the natural energies are listed. These quadrants and the crossed legs are symbolic of the number four, always an expression of earthly reality. However, the circles upon which the Hanged Man is nailed have the symbolic value of the absolute and divine, just as the number three expressed by the three nails represents the divine. This then reflects the most common form of the crucifix, where Jesus is nailed to the cross with three nails: the divine (3) is nailed to the earthly suffering (4), hung between the human basic values of life and death. The sense of this sacrifices is redemption. On the level of depth psychology, the ego sacrifices itself in order to be resurrected in the divine self. The indispensable experience for this transformation is the encounter with death (the following card), the central theme of the initiation rites of all mystery cults. The insight into one's own narrow limitation allows the ego to become modest and entrust guidance to the Higher Self.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/15/world/2019-food-stories-trnd

Trump stands with jazz hands proudly presenting McDonalds to the Clemson Tigers in the White House in 2019. On the wall behind Trump is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and above the portrait is a looped hook made of gold, reminiscent of the ankh from XII. The Hanged Man.

From Wikipedia: The dead body of Benito Mussolini next to his mistress Claretta Petacci and those of other executed fascists, on display in Milan on 29 April 1945, in Piazzale Loreto, the same place that the fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese civilians a year earlier after executing them in retaliation for resistance activity. This description is from a different photo taken by Vincenzo Carrese from in front of the building with the UPiM sign. I searched for the original photographer, but reverse image search too me to the following website:

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/after-battle/then-now-531993-12/

Here, I found both the original black and white photo of the dead body of Benito Mussolini from a different angle and in among the crowd along with a modern day comparison shot of the current site where Mussolini was displayed in Milan.

If anyone knows the original photographer feel free to let me know.

XIII. Death

From The Crowley Tarot the Handbook to the Cards by Akron & Hajo Banzhaf: The card shows the dance of death that embodies the eternal cycle of the "dying and growing" principle in its interplay. We see a kneeling skeleton wielding a scythe and harvesting all the withered forms that have fallen through fate's woven pattern. The separation of the mortal threads lets bubbles rise up out of the muddy cesspool where new life is germinating. It climbs up on the threads of time like shining cotton swabs, continuously expanding itself into new formations of time and space. Death itself creates them by stirring them up out of the slag of the unfathomable. This instinctual drive of the eternal is symbolized by a scorpion with a poisonous stinger, brooding between two dead swamp flowers (lotus and lily). Together with the snake, fish, and eagle it is a symbol of resurrection. The Teutons knew from their god Odin that he cold take astral trips into distant, afterlife worlds if he changed his form before doing so. His body then lay there as if it was asleep or dead. However, he himself had turned into a bird or a wild animal (corresponding here to the perilousness of the scorpion), a fish, or snake. According to Crowley, this card illustrates the idea of putrefaction, the rotting fermentation in the alchemical process, which - just like humus - is the prerequisite for new life or for a new push in development.

It's time for a new life in this country, one where the old are buried and rot away to feed the new.

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