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Bad day or bad juju?

 
 
lilyofthedragon
14:39 / 30.06.06
Let me get your opinion on this. Have you ever had such a bad day that you were sure that a message was being screamed at you but you couldn't figure it out? Maybe I'm just thickheaded. I will describe the following occurences which took place Wednesday.

I was woken up by a the sound of a loud crash just outside my window. I jumped out of bed and looked outside to see my patio furniture trying to commit suicide by attempting to jump over the balcony. I went out on to the patio to rescue it from the apparent windstorm and realized that I had left the patio umbrella open, which was attached to the table. Although the umbrella and was now broken and inverted it waws still somehow propelling my heavy glass and wrought iron table over the balcony. Additionally, the lattice work that I spent weeks designing with vines, a golden apple and other various decor (a makeshift altar to Eris) then came loose from the patio wall from the bottom and started smacking into me from across the patio. OUCH! So I had to stop rescuing the table for a minute to yank the LARGE lattice work down and bring it inside. I was then finally able to get patio furniture back over the balony and bring it indoors. Bruised and beaten, I proceeded to calm myself and get ready for work.

After stopping at my grocery store for breakfast (chicken salad?) I arrived at my office and began eating and checking my email. The chicken salad was in my mouth for about three seconds when I realized that it was completely spoiled, mayo, chicken and all. I will not go into any further detail because the memories are enough to send me into the bathroom, face in toilet.

I then went out to my car get something else to eat and saw that someone had run into my Jeep! There were huge scrape marks on the front of my car and of course the driver left without a note (as would I!).

When I finally got home from this miserable day and I decided to relax in front of the TV. However, it seems that my cable was not functioning because the patio table had smashed into my satellite dish and therefore misaligned the signal.

That about wraps up the day's occurences. I am glad that things weren't any worse, no was was maimed or killed, etc. But come on, what was all that about? If I could at least piece together a sensible message, it would make me feel a little better.

Any thoughts?
 
 
illmatic
14:47 / 30.06.06
I don't think anyone can answer that for you, because we're not living your life. What do you think it means? Do you have any other stresses and events in your life that you feel this string of events might be connected to? Are you doing any magical work at the moment that you feel is connected? If you're not, I'd look for the "causes" if indeed there are any, elsewhere.
 
 
lilyofthedragon
15:05 / 30.06.06
The only thing that I am really focusing on right now is getting photography work. Paid, or unpaid. I'm trying to get experience working with other people and gain more confidence in my abilities before I take any steps into starting my own photography business. A tarot reading didnt turn up anything significant. Only that goals would be reached, obstacles moving out of my way, wheels in motion, etc.

Hopefully, after a few days meditation it will all make sense to me.
 
 
Unconditional Love
15:18 / 30.06.06
What has happened since? Have things occured around these events to try and repair the sattelite for example, or the erisian shrine, whos repairing your jeep? what are these things leading too. Ive started to see reality slaps like this as life oppertunitys. Now the day of stress is gone how does it feel?

What was the purpose of the erisian shrine? without one you could well of just been asking for a display. Or it could all just be a bad day.

Who or how did you make yourself feel better?
 
 
Quantum
15:30 / 30.06.06
Bad day not bad juju.
 
 
lilyofthedragon
15:36 / 30.06.06
The shrine was basicly just for reflection and meditational purposes and to pay tribute to Eris in a beautiful way. I have not yet repaired the lattice or patio because another storm was brewing and I wanted to wait until the weather calmed down first.

I did think that perhaps my inviting Eris on to the patio encouraged her mischievious presence and maybe resulted in the chaotic downfall of my decor. You know she has a strange sense of humor at times. Also, I am trying to switch gears with regard to my career and everything seems to be telling me I am the only thing holding myself back - via self doubt. Maybe my getting smacked in the ass with my lattice / was a figurative kick in the ass to get going and move forward. That may be a stretch though. Additionally, I was surprised at my own strength by all the heavy lifting I had to do to rescue my table and other deck items.

I do plan to repair everything over the next few days. Maybe I will be further enlightened in the process. Thanks for taking me seriously
 
 
foolish fat finger
20:41 / 01.07.06
lily, I gotta say, I really like your thread summary!

myself, I have had a pretty bad last decade... I didn't understand why everything was going so wrong for me. then I had an experience of my previous life, where I hurt a lot of people (see thread on reincarnation). that made sense of my suffering. so now, when I remember that, I understand it, I almost welcome the suffering, as paying off some of my karmic debt.

I am not saying that is necessarily your situation. sometimes life just throws us a few curve-balls, just to see what we're made of, y'know?!

great to have you here on the boards, by the way
 
 
lilyofthedragon
12:34 / 02.07.06
Thanks FFF for your input. I will have to check the reincarnation thread as I have not done so yet and the subject interests me. I was told by a psychic that I have some karmic debt to repay too. I love the summary as well. It almost made the day worth it just to have it turn into poetry.
 
 
Quantum
19:05 / 02.07.06
All part of the Temple service, we go the extra mile here.
 
 
faintwhitelights
02:39 / 08.07.06
in the past two days... i have had the crank on my bicycle pop and spin, knocking me off whilst biking uphill, me landing on the ankle i fractured 3 months ago, folding it a bit again. the screen in my cellphone got cracked because for some reason i had it in my back pocket as i was taking a seat. the headstock of my guitar collided into the screen of my 8 month old laptop, shattering it. and then today, my 1983 lovely little analog monophonic synthesizer fizzled out and died on me. none of this stuff can i immediately replace either. much of it costing quite a lot to repair/replace.

hardly life shattering events, sure. but all of this at once? why? i guess i have some serious work to do...
 
 
Kerry Thornley
05:02 / 08.07.06
Lily, you've already figured it out. It doesn't matters if it's just a coincidence (=bad day) or if you're dealing with pernicious forces of elsewhere. You made sense of it, as your second posting stated; you've incorporated it in your's life narrative, and everything is all right. Just work on preventing such events don't repeat on future, and take the lessons (you built).
 
 
The Ghost of Tom Winter
06:05 / 08.07.06
I thought the coincidences too out standing to not post.
Today I awoke 15 minutes late, some how. Snooze button perhaps. Fifteen minutes late anyways. I drive to work and get assaulted by a little old lady in her car via beeping and mouthing of “Asshole.” I kindly give her a thumbs up. Go to work and realize I do not have my ID to get through the gates. I call my supervisor, no answer. I call his supervisor, they said they’d call. Fifteen minutes later, no call. I finally get through and get to changing into uniform and realize I no longer have the belt that goes with the outfit. So I change and get a new belt and raincoat (storms are a brewing… foreshadowing?) so I am another 5 minutes late. I walk to my location because I missed the bus by about ten seconds. End up being ten minutes late. So after all this I finally get a lunch break, then as I was loading a ride (I work for a theme park) I forgot to put down one of the harnesses and the whole fucking place goes up into a shit storm and long story short I got suspended for a safety violation. So I head home, forget to pick up my check on the way out so I walk half a mile back to get it, walk back, forgot where my car was parked and carefully drove to my girlfriends being mindful of everything after noting the strange patterns of negative events.
Eventually I come home and see this thread at the top of temple and feel compelled to write.
 
 
electric monk
17:50 / 08.07.06
That is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. With interesting juju.

...

Which theme park did you say you worked in again?
 
 
The Ghost of Tom Winter
20:59 / 08.07.06
Islands of Adventure, Orlando Florida.
 
 
The Ghost of Tom Winter
21:01 / 08.07.06
Oh, I forgot to mention. I was heading off to shoot some fireworks with some friends, I stopped by 7-11 to get a lighter and picked up a white one. Apparently this is bad luck in itself. Later that night while shooting the fire works I lost my car keys but found them an hour later after searching through thousands of blades of grass. The above bad luck day happend the following day.
 
  
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