Counting Cows

[kiya]

I've been in a cow-counting kind of mood.

(Which is a reference of only partial general sensicality -- context on it is that I wrote a piece, entitled 'Cattle Magic', for teriel's wealth magic anthology, and with that in my mind I've been trying to actually implement the relevant paradigm more consistently.)

Gotta know what cows I have.

This has led to a few things, like completely reorganising my wishlist on Amazon (where I stash all the things I mean to get at some point) so that I could find things; I now know how much it would take to get all the Egyptiana I want that's readily available, which managed to clerically transform by the magic of counting cows the "Wow, that's a lot of investment, beyond my current means, waugh" into "Okay, I have a specific sum that that will take. I can budget for that." (And then luellon pointing me at addall helped with that further.)

The last few days have been full of wanting to make statues. (Specifically, icons. I've promised Khnum my first icon, but Big Red has been sticking His Roman nose into my imagemaker lately for various reasons.) And while we're nearly to the point of being able to afford to set up my studio, I'm not there yet, not in a place where I can sink my fingers into the clay.

So I went off into the wilds of the internet doing research about glazes, finding soruces for the low-fire glazes I'd want for detailwork on icons, overglazes to do gilding, trying to figure out what to have on hand for glaze construction, dithering over the question of whether I want to get things like a commercial clear glaze to save myself that level of effort, and so on.

Then I prowled local Craigslist for stuff ....

... waiting to hear back if the $400 kiln is still available.

Counting cows.

(Divination using the Cummings stichomancy method on the subject of this round of counting cows produces:

this out of within itself moo
ving lump of twilight squirts a two
ne like nothing verdi slightly knu

as and some six cents hit the whigh
shaped hathole thangew yelps one shi
ly glad old unman who is eye

Within itself moo, indeed.)

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[kiya]

Did my reply not get through? These email bugs are maddening.

All of your changes looked fine by me. I'll see if I can track down where that went to on my end.

counting cows

[(Anonymous)]

I've been in a cow-counting kind of mood.

This a Hathorian sort of thing?

(Which is a reference of only partial general sensicality -- context on it is that I wrote a piece, entitled 'Cattle Magic', for teriel's wealth magic anthology,

Have you perchance perused Dave Lee’s lovely little book on that topic?

and with that in my mind I've been trying to actually implement the relevant paradigm more consistently.)


You are, of course, aware, that Fehu, one of the Runes most commonly associated with wealth, is also associated with cattle as the form of that wealth, yes?

I want that's readily available, which managed to clerically transform by the magic of counting cows the "Wow, that's a lot of investment, beyond my current means, waugh" into "Okay, I have a specific sum that that will take. I can budget for that."

Yeah- I’ve started implementing a similar approach to my wish-list of Things I Want too.


(Divination using the Cummings stichomancy method on the subject of this round of counting cows produces:
this out of within itself moo
ving lump of twilight squirts a two
ne like nothing verdi slightly knu

as and some six cents hit the whigh
shaped hathole thangew yelps one shi
ly glad old unman who is eye


Within itself moo, indeed.)

Odd, for some reason, something yesterday reminded me of a post from a while ago where you’d signed off with “Dua Hetharu! (moo)”…

Jai Chinamasta,
Tzeenj

Re: counting cows

[kiya]

The fehu rune was a major part in the cognitive genesis that led to the piece. The relevant bit of spellwork is recorded over here.