albionspeak 2: the gates of dis (17.2)

SESSION 96: 2ND NIGHT, 7/28/05

        The day began early for me.  Late to bed I still awoke at my normal time, around 7:30 AM, deciding I might as well catch the breakfast already paid for [at my B&B].  Then I again walked and rewalked [downtown], bought the kids’ birthday gifts, and spent time at the university bookstore.  Finally I met [Scribe] at [his neighborhood pub] some time after 5:00 PM and had an excellent tour of the brewing facilities with him and brewmaster [T.], whom I very much enjoyed personally.  Following this, [F.T.] (of “art & wanderlust are one” fame) performed his own songs, along with a friend who played a harp guitar; we had a nice Indian dinner.  All was well when we and [A--] sat down again to the board.  This was the only day of the five when the temperature and humidity were friendly toward us.

       Tonight’s tarot card:  theMagician (1), where shown on the card are a cup and a sword:  ([A--] reads) “practitioner of infinity, source for new ideas, medium through which to see planets, a guide, a pointer to travel”  ([Scribe] adds) “bringing forth:  allowing us to see”


11:05 PM

  1.    Q:      [Guide], are you there?
         A:      [NO]    I  [Guide 2] AM YOUR SERVANT FOR [THE] MOMENT

        A first:  a negative response to our standard opening question.  More important, our first night without [Guide]’s guiding presence.    

  2.    Q:     Greetings, [Guide 2].  Are you here to help us with the rest of the puzzle?
         A:     I  AM IN PART  AND TO POINT TOWARD A LARGER PATTERN    

                                                                 3:  Y:  the Shape of the Daimon (cont’d)
  3.    Q:     We must go back to Y.  It is a reversible shape (we guess) that stands for the     daimonic body.
         A:     EXCELLENT   EACH OF YOUR JOIND GROUPS SEES HALF OF [THE]…
  4.             [THE] LINKD SHAPE
                  NOW LINK [THE] TWAIN

        [A--]’s insight from the night before had had a day to sink in.  The Y actually is but half of a larger shape, a double Y, where the first represents the daimonic connection with a circle (between [Scribe] & me, via [Guide], for example), while the second connects one circle to its circle neighbor ([A--]’s).

 5.    Q:      The twain are CUP & SWORD?
        A:      [YES]   [THE] SWORD IS [THE] NEAREST NEIGHBOR TO [THE] VESSEL [CUP]

  6.    Q:     Does that work reciprocally?
         A:     [THE] [CUP]  MAY SEE THINGS INVISIBLE TO SWORD
                  SWORD PERCEIVES MUCH [THE] [CUP]  ONLY DREAMZ

        Are these equivalent or merely symmetrical roles?  (Nothing in vain.)

  7.    Q ([A--]):   This is a symbiotic relationship between two groups.
         A:   [YES]   EACH NEEDS [THE] O[THE]R TO EXTEND ITS CAPACITIES

8.      Q:    The shape Y cannot be arbitrary.  Help us to understand.
         A:    IT IS A FORM OF [THE] BODY
                 [Albion] AND [Scribe] IMAGINE YOURSELVES STANDING ARMS UPRAIZD ASKING…
  9.                              AID AND TO BE FILLD
10.            NOW TO A
                 IMAGINE YOUR GROUP DESCEDING FROM [THE] SKY AND SEEKING
                 A PLACE OF RECEPTION
                 EACH Y HAS NEED TO FORM A MORE COMPLETE STRUCTURE
                 Y   Y

          [Scribe] has “[sic]” here in the originals, though I can’t find the error.

1:00 AM

[Q11 censored because it relies on [Guide]'s name.]
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                             Circle Sword
12.    Q:    Is it time now to ask about the group in which you are the visiting daimon?
         A:    [YES]   LET US GO [a] STEP AT A TIME
                 FIRST [THE] GROUP SWORD HAS EXACTLY [THE] SAME NUMBER 
                 OF MEMBERS AS [THE] GROOOP [CUP]

          That is, eight including the daimon, though excluding the Jewel itself.

13.    Q:    We know of you, [Guide 2].  And we know of [A--], also called A.  We guess 
                 Josef is common to both groups.  Comment?
         A:    I   JOSEF   AM WITH YOU AND AM MASTER OF DR…
14.            DREAMS IN BOTH CIRCLES
                 I  WILL GUIDE YOU   BOTH APART  & IN NEW FORMS OF 
                 COLLABORATION

15.    Q:    Josef, we greet you.  Is it meet for us to know more of Group Sword?
         A:    [YES]   I  WILL TELL YOU OF IT TOMORROW    BUT FIRST ASK 
                 ABOUT [THE] MEASURE OF [THE] DAIMON [Guide 2] HIMSELF/
                 DREAM WELL AMID [THE] STARS

                 I   JOSEF  AM WITH YOU ALL



1:45 AM


        Our shortest session ever, very little to absorb, although at the time of this typing (11/5/05) I can’t recall if there were circumstances that promoted such brevity.  That is, no one was sick; I don’t recall our being exhausted; and there were no crying children needing attention.  I don’t recall anything.  And yet the margin times indicate we were at work a full two hours and forty minutes.  [A--] must have had several smokes, while perhaps this was the night we broke at length to let housemate [J--] train Oreo, his amazing mold-sniffing Labrador mix, whose kennel stood but a few feet from our sessions.  Trained never to bark, she still got quite excited when [J--] returned home to let her out and feed her.  I do recall gyrating with my eyes closed to one of [Guide 2]’s responses, as Oreo’s wet nose and tail smacked me several times.  No sign of her influence in the transcripts of course.  Again, I think we could now ouija in [Scribe's neighborhood pub] at peak hour and still get clear messages.