EPISODE 27 - Fleetwood Haddock

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🌟 Welcome to episode 27 of Casual Temple! Dive into the mystical world of tarot with Fleetwood Haddock as he shares his transformative journey with tarot, recognizing it as a potent force.

Fleetwood delves into the intricacies of tarot reading, highlighting the significance of understanding each card and tailoring readings to the querent. He also unveils his method of using tarot for magical purposes, offering a glimpse into the mystical aura of cards like the High Priestess.

As a seasoned tarot reader, Fleetwood acknowledges the challenges learners face, particularly with the elusive PIP cards, and recommends meditation and personal interactions to better understand them. He also discusses the crucial role of timing in tarot readings and how he utilizes the Thoth tarot deck to perfect it, thanks to astrological correlations.

Fleetwood opens up about his personal journey, encompassing fatherhood and eerie experiences in a haunted apartment. He also shares his current interests in Buddhism and astrology, drawing inspiration and wisdom from both.

Definitely check out this engaging episode of Casual Temple!

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00:00:04 Merrily

Welcome to the Casual Temple podcast episode 27, and I'm your host, Merrily Duffy at the Casual Temple. Our mission is to discover our connection to the unseen world of spirit, and how that empowers us to know our true selves and easy and free way to support the show is to follow or subscribe and hit that heart-shaped like.

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00:00:22 Merrily

Here we are episode 27 of casual temple with our sublime guest Fleetwood Haddock. Fleetwood is a divination specialist who shares his talent for geomancy and Tarot using Oracle decks and playing cards. Join us as we delve into fleet which journey with tarot to living in the world of esoterica. In addition to his thoughtful insights on Taro, we learn about servitor magic and the intertwining.

00:00:42 Merrily

Paths of Buddhism and astrology get ready for a conversation that touches on personal growth. Everyday magic, divination techniques, and the esoteric realm. Here on the casual temple.

00:00:55 Merrily

Welcome to the casual temple. This week we're joined by Fleetwood Haddock, who's a tarot reader, and esotericist.

00:01:02 Merrily

Good. I'm so.

00:01:03 Merrily

Happy to talk to Tarot with you today. I'm a casual temple.

00:01:07 Fleetwood

Yeah. Thank you so much for having me. So sorry to be here to talk with you about it.

00:01:09 Merrily

Yeah.

00:01:12 Merrily

Yeah, I'm so excited. I saw you on Jason’s Almond Tree Podcast, which was a really good episode. Everybody should check it out because you go through some different spreads and sort of the cards that you use. And it was a really good explanation.

00:01:18 Fleetwood

MHM.

00:01:27 Merrily

I.

00:01:28 Merrily

That I saw. So I really liked it.

00:01:31 Merrily

So everybody, check it out. Jason does a great job. He's a really good interviewer and.

00:01:39 Fleetwood

Yeah, it was so much fun to talk to.

00:01:40 Merrily

Yeah, he's very fun to talk to.

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Yes.

00:01:45 Merrily

Let's see. Oh, and I guess another shout out because I was like, I know you from Dara Masons spirit box, discord.

00:01:53 Merrily

Yeah.

00:01:53 Fleetwood

Yes.

00:01:54 Merrily

Yeah. And if you guys aren't listening to the spirit box, you should because there is amazing and has also really cool guests and he has a great discord where you can be cool people like Fleetwood and Jason's in there. And I'm in there. I don't know if I'm cool, but Jason and Fleetwood are. Yes.

00:02:11 Fleetwood

You know, it's all such a good group.

00:02:13 Merrily

It's a good it's a really good group.

00:02:15 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:02:16 Merrily

So yeah, a lot of good stuff. So I'm so excited. I've heard a little bit about kind of where you you.

00:02:22 Merrily

Came from and.

00:02:23 Merrily

Your story with you know why tarot.

00:02:27 Merrily

But is there sort of like either like pivotal moment or somewhere where it was like, OK, Tarot is going to be for me or wherever you want to start with kind of that story.

00:02:37 Fleetwood

Well, I always go back to starting with tarot for dummies because it is like, I don't know, I have to chuckle every time I, you know, know that that's how I started down this path. But it actually is a I've mentioned it to a couple other terror leaders and I've never had anyone say.

00:02:58 Fleetwood

Say a bad thing about it that's familiar with it.

00:03:02 Fleetwood

And I still to this day use the right await Smith deck that came with the book is the first deck of cards or first deck terror deck that I got.

00:03:14 Fleetwood

But yeah, that book does a really good job of.

00:03:18 Fleetwood

Allowing you to come to tarot kind.

00:03:21 Fleetwood

Of wherever you are.

00:03:23 Fleetwood

Like at the timeouts coming to it from a very materialist kind of atheist point of view and.

00:03:31 Fleetwood

I I think one of the most influential parts of the journey over the years is how.

00:03:37 Fleetwood

Much.

00:03:39 Fleetwood

The term itself has proven to be otherwise for me in all sorts of different ways, but it's not just a deck of cards that reflects my own psychology is very, you know, it's its own entity that you can talk to and have a conversation with.

00:03:59 Fleetwood

And you know, it's it's really powerful in that regards.

00:04:04 Fleetwood

Mm-hmm.

00:04:06 Merrily

Yeah. Oh, you did see the term that I'm.

00:04:08 Merrily

Very curious where.

00:04:11 Merrily

You got the term atheist materialism from? Or is that the term that you kind of developed for yourself?

00:04:18 Fleetwood

It's it's been, we've kind of heard separately before, but it was kind of the two things that I, I say materialists in the sense that there's nothing like we were spiritual about tarot cards is kind of my feeling at the beginning that it was literally just a set of cards.

00:04:39 Fleetwood

And you know, it just worked from shuffling and.

00:04:42 Fleetwood

Reflecting your subconscious backup at you.

00:04:44 Merrily

Right.

00:04:46 Fleetwood

But like I said, it's.

00:04:50 Fleetwood

I'm definitely not an atheist anymore. I've had a lot of experiences since my early 20s that have led me to not be.

00:05:04 Merrily

Yeah, I definitely think because I think I've heard the term, not that I want to go like, totally into atheism. The term atheist materialism. I've heard, Christopher. Why not say that term quite a bit and that he's an astrological magician? That is amazing. Yeah.

00:05:09 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:05:15 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:05:20 Fleetwood

Yes.

00:05:22 Fleetwood

I really love the episodes of the Astrology podcast with him on it.

00:05:26 Merrily

Yeah.

00:05:28 Merrily

Just so knowledgeable and he explains that what that means.

00:05:31 Merrily

Very well and I just, I love it so much.

00:05:35 Merrily

So would you want to share like what was something that did happen to kind of make you think atheism wasn't the path for you in this life?

00:05:45 Fleetwood

Well, there was a number of different experiences, I mean.

00:05:51 Fleetwood

First of all, having a child was probably it's. It's hard to, there's just something magical about having a kid and watching them grow and grow up in front of you and help shape them and stuff like that. There's just such a.

00:06:08 Fleetwood

Natural magic to that, but.

00:06:13 Fleetwood

Throughout my.

00:06:16 Fleetwood

Daughters upbringing, but I had kind of a tumultuous ride and do that have.

00:06:25 Fleetwood

You know, you know, they say there's no atheists in foxholes and not that I wouldn't worry anything, but it definitely had some.

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Right.

00:06:35 Fleetwood

You know, shaky moments there and I kind of had a haunted apartment that I lived in for a while that just had a a really, really negative energy around it and kind of had to learn.

00:06:37 Merrily

Hmm.

00:06:45 Merrily

Yeah.

00:06:53 Fleetwood

Protection. You know, kind of travel by fire in that sense because it's not like I could move really easily at the time, I was a single parent and raising my daughter by myself and yeah, really kind of.

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Oh.

00:07:10 Fleetwood

Vulnerable to it.

00:07:11 Fleetwood

The time when I became aware and.

00:07:16 Fleetwood

Yeah, kind of messed up a few things.

00:07:19 Fleetwood

In my life there for a while.

00:07:21 Fleetwood

Kind of struggled with addiction and went through a lot of the.

00:07:25 Fleetwood

Struggles that people go with when they.

00:07:29 Fleetwood

Are in kind of darker.

00:07:30 Fleetwood

Moments of their lives but it.

00:07:32 Merrily

Yeah.

00:07:34 Fleetwood

I don't know. Through the dark moments. It's kind of when you find the light, when you need it.

00:07:40 Fleetwood

And I still kind of maintained non religiousness, I guess you'd say.

00:07:47 Fleetwood

For a while.

00:07:49 Fleetwood

Until I started to get into Buddhism, not that I would necessarily call myself a Buddhist, but there's just stuff about Buddhism that really appeals to me with the way.

00:07:55 Merrily

Right.

00:08:01 Fleetwood

UM.

00:08:03 Fleetwood

I kind of went into this in Jason's podcast a little bit, but the formulate nature of a lot of what Buddhism teaches and how it's like, well, it doesn't really matter if you believe in this stuff. If you sit here and do the meditations this way, you will have these experiences and.

00:08:22 Fleetwood

You know, lonely holds if you sit there and do those meditations this way, you will have these experiences remarkable. And you know, there's only so many times you can feel your consciousness expand outside of your body before.

00:08:28 Merrily

Yeah.

00:08:39 Fleetwood

To.

00:08:41 Fleetwood

Can't really believe that there isn't a sullen stuff beyond just material reality anymore.

00:08:50

MHM.

00:08:52 Merrily

So would you say that those practices were was really, you know, kind of like your haunted apartment? And then like for your practices and your like there's.

00:09:00 Merrily

There's something else going to happen.

00:09:01 Fleetwood

Yeah. Yeah. I will say to another kind of pivotal thing was this podcast called Adventures in Woohoo.

00:09:10 Merrily

Yeah, Tommy's podcast.

00:09:12 Fleetwood

Yeah, Tommy Kelly does that podcast. And I just kind of happened to.

00:09:17 Fleetwood

I don't remember how I stumbled upon the podcast. It was blog first, but there was a YouTube video that was recommended by Tommy and his cohort spud on the podcast with this guy.

00:09:37 Fleetwood

In perosi.

00:09:39 Fleetwood

That has this practice called big mind and it kind of.

00:09:47 Fleetwood

It's it's kind of like a hypnosis.

00:09:50 Fleetwood

It's like a two hour long video, but you can sit there and kind of like it's done with the.

00:09:56 Fleetwood

Live audience and you can if you've.

00:09:58 Fleetwood

Kind.

00:09:58 Fleetwood

Of you know, active enough imagination you can kind of sit there and participate along with it.

00:10:04 Fleetwood

And it kind of tricks your brain into feeling what enlightenment is like.

00:10:12 Fleetwood

Umm.

00:10:13 Fleetwood

And the way I've described it is like a helicopter ride over the mountains. It shows you what the view is.

00:10:22 Fleetwood

Like but the.

00:10:23 Fleetwood

It doesn't make the walk up the mountain any shorter, but for that same reason I don't know, I'm just the kind of person that.

00:10:33 Fleetwood

Without seeing the view beforehand, I'm not going to make.

00:10:36 Fleetwood

That walk but.

00:10:38 Fleetwood

After I saw the view, it's like.

00:10:41 Fleetwood

Yeah, I can't not walk in.

00:10:43 Fleetwood

That direction, or at least try to.

00:10:45 Merrily

MHM.

00:10:50 Fleetwood

Yeah, it was a really pivotal moment with that. And since then, I mean that was kind of a renaissance for me. And with Tara that was kind of when I started. I've always been reading for friends and family, but around that time was when I started like, kind of putting myself out there.

00:11:09 Fleetwood

And reading for strangers online and stuff like that and.

00:11:14 Fleetwood

Starting to make.

00:11:15 Fleetwood

A little money on the side doing readings that you know local events, but the.

00:11:25 Fleetwood

More I got of the Taro that led to cartomancy just looking for other means of divination, and that led to geomancy, which led to strategy. These things, all this kind of tie into each other in so many different ways.

00:11:39 Merrily

Oh yeah.

00:11:45 Fleetwood

MHM.

00:11:46 Fleetwood

Like I would say, right now I'm kind of focusing on astrology most. You know, it is such a broad, huge topic that could spend the rest of.

00:11:57 Fleetwood

Us trying to learn.

00:11:58 Merrily

Yeah.

00:11:59 Fleetwood

As many people do. But you know, it's been kind of interested in learning about my own astrology because I have. The more I learn about it, the worse my chart looks.

00:12:14 Fleetwood

No.

00:12:18 Fleetwood

I actually had a professional style. They described it as oops all malefics which.

00:12:26 Fleetwood

I still found playing to this day.

00:12:28 Merrily

That is probably the nicest.

00:12:30 Merrily

Way to deliver that message.

00:12:31 Fleetwood

Yeah. Wow.

00:12:37 Fleetwood

But yeah, it's still been, you know, interesting to learn about and.

00:12:44 Fleetwood

To develop my practice around, because there's just so much.

00:12:48 Fleetwood

So that's magic you can do with this.

00:12:50 Fleetwood

Trilogy. That and they do.

00:12:55 Fleetwood

And someone's astrology in the tarot that that kind of led me into doing magic with tarot that has been.

00:13:05 Fleetwood

Probably some of the best.

00:13:07 Fleetwood

Experiments that I've had go on lately.

00:13:13 Merrily

So what kind of magic would you do with the tarot? Is it like kind of meditation and compensation, or how? How do you approach that?

00:13:22 Fleetwood

So the.

00:13:25 Fleetwood

Typical like banishing and invoking rituals that people have, like kind of loosely based on, like the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram or the the, I think it's called the Roman star ritual. Or there's a.

00:13:44 Fleetwood

A bunch of different ones that like various different chaos magicians, have made and propagated over the Internet that we found and tried out when I was like, first getting into all this stuff.

00:13:59 Fleetwood

But.

00:14:01 Fleetwood

Basically just invoking the different energies of the cards to solve different problems or.

00:14:11 Fleetwood

Find motivation for things or be able to look at things from new perspectives has proven really, really fruitful for me.

00:14:22 Fleetwood

Like.

00:14:25 Fleetwood

I think the card that I've probably tried to work with the most recently is the High Priestess, just because that kind of leader energy has always been.

00:14:30 Fleetwood

Hmm.

00:14:37 Fleetwood

Well, I mean it's it's naturally a mystery, but it has definitely been a mystery that's attracted me for a long time, even though I didn't really have, you know, words to call. What it is like I do now.

00:14:52 Merrily

MHM.

00:14:55 Fleetwood

But that card and that archetype just.

00:14:59 Fleetwood

Is such a rich power to work with the the feminine energy of the universe and its kind of purest.

00:15:11 Fleetwood

Least.

00:15:13 Fleetwood

Kind of coagulated form.

00:15:17 Fleetwood

Where it's just nebulous and mysterious and you just kind of appreciate its nebulous mysteriousness. Instead of trying to.

00:15:26 Fleetwood

Quantifying your catalog.

00:15:28 Merrily

Right.

00:15:30 Fleetwood

Yeah, it's just like these are just perspectives that I have on it because of some of the meditations and work that I've done with the card that I didn't necessarily have beforehand, but I don't really sit any meditating with them.

00:15:48 Fleetwood

It is just very, very fruitful.

00:15:54 Fleetwood

It's.

00:15:56 Fleetwood

Especially if you want to learn tarot, I think that it that is another thing that I've started doing recently is teaching people how to read tarot cards.

00:16:07 Fleetwood

And aside from like intuition tuning practices.

00:16:12 Fleetwood

Which?

00:16:14 Fleetwood

There's a couple that I recommend.

00:16:16 Fleetwood

Like sitting and meditating, especially with the Major Arcana, but I found a couple of students that like intermediate people seem to have the most trouble with the PIP cards.

00:16:33 Fleetwood

Because there's just so much to learn there, I think.

00:16:37 Fleetwood

There's just as much in each card, whether it's the minor or the major arcane, and when it's the like the the picture decks like the right of weight Smith.

00:16:48 Fleetwood

That it can be a little harder to interpret.

00:16:53 Fleetwood

Than like the main archetypes of the Major Arcana.

00:16:56 Merrily

Yeah.

00:16:58 Fleetwood

But in the same regard, it's just like sitting and meditating with them. Or like we'll pick a card and I'll just like talk through it with the.

00:17:07 Fleetwood

And kind of teach them how to pick up on what the card is trying to say in different situations which you know kind of I can do with Jason and his.

00:17:16 Fleetwood

Podcast.

00:17:22 Fleetwood

But it's just even for, I think, season tail leaders to sit down and.

00:17:30 Fleetwood

I think everyone at some point has had to really get to know each card individually to.

00:17:37 Fleetwood

Learn the language.

00:17:38 Fleetwood

Of how to speak with the tarot cards.

00:17:41

But once you.

00:17:42 Fleetwood

Learn each of them in all the different.

00:17:43 Fleetwood

Ways they can be applied.

00:17:46 Fleetwood

You know it's.

00:17:48 Fleetwood

It's a symbols language and.

00:17:52 Fleetwood

It's.

00:17:53 Fleetwood

Very much. You know, it speaks in full complete sentences, paragraphs, stories, even.

00:17:59 Merrily

Yeah.

00:18:02 Fleetwood

That's something I I don't know if it's super like unique to how I read tarot cards, but I don't really ever stick to one particular spread.

00:18:15 Fleetwood

Like the spread that I use will usually be determined entirely on the question, and that's something that.

00:18:25 Fleetwood

I know is it for everybody, but I.

00:18:26 Fleetwood

Definitely recommend people give a try too, because I.

00:18:33 Fleetwood

Feel like?

00:18:36 Fleetwood

Working to spread around the question itself just.

00:18:40 Fleetwood

Instead of trying to fit a question into a pre-existing spread, can just yield so much more direct answers and like.

00:18:49 Fleetwood

You know, it's like if you're trying to get to know somebody, what's the easier way to do a conversation with that person or having?

00:18:56 Fleetwood

Them fill out a.

00:18:57 Merrily

Foreign.

00:18:57 Fleetwood

You know pre show form or questionnaire, yeah, but three is what? Like a pre made spread kind of feels like for certain questions especially.

00:19:07 Merrily

I like that approach. It's very tailored. It's very unique.

00:19:14 Merrily

OK, I have a strange it's a related question.

00:19:18 Merrily

How do you feel about and I I don't. I have my own preferences about like like people touching your tarot cards. Like if you're if you're giving your reading, I think you do a lot of online reading, so you don't necessarily have to worry about that.

00:19:33 Merrily

But if you're in session with a person, do you have them shuffle and pick their own cards or do?

00:19:40 Merrily

You do it for them.

00:19:41 Fleetwood

Yeah, I'll still pick.

00:19:43 Fleetwood

The cards I like to have the person cut the deck once. If I am in person just.

00:19:50 Fleetwood

It it's I found that it's not necessary. I thought it was necessary at first when it first started. Like I don't know you have.

00:19:56 Fleetwood

To.

00:19:57 Fleetwood

Do something like blood on them or.

00:20:00 Fleetwood

Something like that like.

00:20:03 Merrily

Yeah.

00:20:04 Fleetwood

Somehow interact with them because you know, especially back then. I was like not.

00:20:09 Fleetwood

Uh.

00:20:11 Fleetwood

Not into the spiritual side of it at all. So I was thinking if you didn't physically touch it, then how could you be interacting with it?

00:20:18 Merrily

Right.

00:20:20 Fleetwood

But now, especially after doing so many online readings and like this, another thing I recommend for people is there's so many different Tera discords out there.

00:20:33 Fleetwood

You know, just find one and people will just do the rating exchanges like constantly.

00:20:40 Fleetwood

It's both convenient to have other people read for you, and it is really good practice for you to read for other people, because there's there's so much more bias in your own readings.

00:20:56 Fleetwood

Being for yourself is actually the hardest in my opinion.

00:20:59 Merrily

MHM.

00:21:03 Fleetwood

Because and and I think it will help you trust the cards even more, because I've just found sometimes I feel like a reading is like very much channeled and spot on and like I know before the person even responds to it like oh, no, no. I felt this one come through like I I know that I.

00:21:23 Fleetwood

Typed out something that I felt and other times.

00:21:26 Fleetwood

It's like well.

00:21:29 Fleetwood

This is my best guess I kind of.

00:21:31 Fleetwood

Logicked my way through what the cards mean here. I didn't really feel that much, but this is.

00:21:38 Fleetwood

The story that I feel like the spread is telling, and either way, no matter how confident I feel in it.

00:21:47 Fleetwood

I almost always get.

00:21:49 Fleetwood

The person come back and say.

00:21:50 Fleetwood

They. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's spot on. And it's like the the couple times they haven't said. Oh, yeah, that's spot on a week or two later, they'll message me and say that turned out to be.

00:22:01 Merrily

It just took some time.

00:22:03 Fleetwood

Yeah, yeah, I just had.

00:22:05 Fleetwood

To come to terms with what?

00:22:05 Fleetwood

You're saying, but yeah, you.

00:22:06 Merrily

Were totally right. That too, yeah.

00:22:09 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:22:10 Merrily

I.

00:22:11 Merrily

Yeah, I love. I mean, I still read tarot for myself, but I have found, you know.

00:22:17 Merrily

I I set a date in the future like 3 months six months.

00:22:21 Fleetwood

MHM.

00:22:22 Merrily

You know, and I asked a question around, you know, like what's going on in my finances, what's going.

00:22:26 Merrily

On you know.

00:22:27 Merrily

Health, whatever. But I said it in the future because I think if you do it like immediately you have all these like emotions and things you want to happen and it really clouds, you know, and I I'm guilty as anybody.

00:22:31 Fleetwood

MHM.

00:22:43 Merrily

And make it all. Oh, no. This actually this tower card is actually OK, so these are these. Yeah.

00:22:49 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:22:51 Fleetwood

Yeah. Well, that's it's so easy to do. It's like, hello.

00:22:55 Fleetwood

This is this is earth and this tennis series is all that movie beginnings.

00:23:02 Merrily

It's fine. There's see the fun. It's it's going to be.

00:23:05 Fleetwood

It's fine.

00:23:09 Fleetwood

That is, that's the only thing that I've picked up recently that you kind of made me think of is timing.

00:23:16 Fleetwood

Tarot readings is something that can be kind of difficult to work out it. It is nice sometimes to do like you said and just set it in the question.

00:23:26 Fleetwood

Like what will this be in three months or six months? But I really like using the soft parodic, the Alistair Crowley one, because each card, even the pips, has a planet in a sign.

00:23:33 Merrily

Hmm.

00:23:45 Fleetwood

That it corresponds with.

00:23:47 Fleetwood

And so you can.

00:23:48 Fleetwood

Look up on astro.com or whatever. When's the next time that plan? It's going to be in that sign.

00:23:54 Merrily

Hmm.

00:23:56 Fleetwood

And I found that to be a really accurate timing technique, yeah.

00:24:00 Merrily

Oh cool.

00:24:05 Fleetwood

And that was and also using that would really teach you the soft deck and like what all the the different astrological correspondences are like. I just found that using it for timing has been such a good way to learn.

00:24:24 Fleetwood

Both astrology and the thought deck and the way they go back and forth.

00:24:32 Merrily

Yeah, that's a good point about how the planet and the plants initially. I know they're associated like in the lighter weight Smith, but it's not as parents.

00:24:41 Merrily

Right. You know, it's like a level that you.

00:24:44

Know.

00:24:47 Merrily

Yeah, that's a good point.

00:24:49 Merrily

Oh.

00:24:52 Merrily

Yeah, something you're reminding me of is. Yeah, I think there's definitely different approaches to how you learn. Tarot. Tarot.

00:24:59 Merrily

Me it has been because I've been looking at the Kabbalah and sitting that it's the only way I've really gotten my head around the team because I needed to organize the the pits, especially like you were talking about with people you're seeing like the pits. It was like, OK, so all the fours are over here and.

00:25:13

Yeah.

00:25:19 Merrily

They said all the, you know, they're all associated to like the planets and that kind of helps me, you know, figure that out.

00:25:26 Fleetwood

That there.

00:25:27 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:25:28 Fleetwood

UM, the other way. I like to see the pips is as a like a sine wave.

00:25:37

Hmm.

00:25:37

Hmm.

00:25:37 Fleetwood

Grass.

00:25:39

Ah.

00:25:40 Fleetwood

So.

00:25:41 Fleetwood

And I think a lot.

00:25:42 Fleetwood

Of people have a different way that they prefer to do the different suits, but my favorite breakdown of it is as the creative process.

00:25:53 Fleetwood

That you have the the wand of inspiration, the cup of the cup that overflows the sword that cuts away the things that won't work, and finally the physical manifestation of the idea.

00:26:10 Fleetwood

And if you put them in.

00:26:11 Fleetwood

That order, like if you lay.

00:26:13 Fleetwood

All of them out in that order from 8:00 to 7:50 to 10:00.

00:26:20 Fleetwood

It's like the the positivity.

00:26:23 Fleetwood

Goes like the 50, almost neutral and then like the 10s to the.

00:26:30 Fleetwood

Some of the first cards, like the the 10 of cups, is a real positive card versus the 10 of swords is like a real negative card and you can almost see like a sine wave of positivity negativity throughout the whole.

00:26:49 Fleetwood

Series of cards there.

00:26:51 Merrily

Interesting. It'd be interesting to lay them out and then see, you know, see that wave go.

00:26:55 Merrily

Through them? Yeah, that's really cool.

00:26:58 Fleetwood

Yeah, it's kind of a fun exercise just to see it like that.

00:27:00 Merrily

Ah.

00:27:04 Merrily

I like it. I like the visuals because I'm very visual so it helps.

00:27:06 Merrily

Me to like.

00:27:08 Fleetwood

Oh yeah, you too. That's. I mean, that's a one of the reasons why the Terrell.

00:27:13 Fleetwood

Works so well, I think. Yeah, but.

00:27:18 Fleetwood

The I don't know. I think what has helped me go through my day job and and teaching people terror stuff is being able to make visual like, you know, speaking the language and visual metaphors, that's all.

00:27:35 Fleetwood

It's about in.

00:27:39 Fleetwood

I mean, even to some degree with geomancy and astrology and everything, all the different symbols like the I chain and all those different divination systems different.

00:27:53 Fleetwood

Kinds of visual languages that people have used over the years to.

00:27:58 Fleetwood

Follow that positivity and negativity that we all kind of follow throughout our lives or, you know, at any given point on their our lives, we're going to be plotted somewhere along that sine wave.

00:28:12 Merrily

Yeah.

00:28:14 Merrily

That's true, and there's always changing. So so appreciate the good moments and you know, work through the the ones that need some work.

00:28:18 Fleetwood

Yeah, exactly.

00:28:27 Fleetwood

Right.

00:28:29 Merrily

Oh, so did you have any specific guidance?

00:28:34 Merrily

With what? With either learning tarot or sort of even I know you had said that your apartment was.

00:28:41 Merrily

Haunted. Did you?

00:28:42 Merrily

Figure that out by yourself. Or did you have somebody help you?

00:28:45 Merrily

With.

00:28:45 Merrily

That I guess there's two questions.

00:28:48 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:28:51 Fleetwood

Any help with that and unfortunately?

00:28:54 Fleetwood

I was only able to mitigate it for myself, I think even.

00:29:00 Fleetwood

After I moved out, I heard stayed in contact with the downstairs neighbor and they had said that the family that moved in after us had some real issues with it. Unfortunately, yeah, yeah.

00:29:20 Fleetwood

But you know it's Richmond. Is that old enough city here in the South, but there's still lots of old, old buildings with history.

00:29:29 Merrily

Yeah.

00:29:31 Fleetwood

But it's a it's a fun city. For that reason. There's. Yeah, in fact.

00:29:39 Fleetwood

This.

00:29:41 Fleetwood

Weekend, we're going to one of.

00:29:42 Fleetwood

The.

00:29:42 Fleetwood

Old cemeteries in town.

00:29:46 Fleetwood

That's kind of like a family trip, yeah.

00:29:56 Merrily

So with that, thank you for sharing sort.

00:29:58 Merrily

Of you know.

00:29:59 Merrily

You tried to mitigate the the hump thing, but ultimately had to move out.

00:30:03 Fleetwood

Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I didn't really have much guidance until I would say very recently I started reaching out just in the last like three years or so. I think with the whole explosion of the cultism online that was covered.

00:30:20 Merrily

All right.

00:30:23 Fleetwood

It's been a lot easier to find different resources and stuff like that, and through that, you know.

00:30:25

That's awesome.

00:30:32 Fleetwood

I really had some long held beliefs that about myself challenged and kind of upended, and even.

00:30:43 Fleetwood

Got there's another podcast that I really like called the Salty Witches podcast.

00:30:48 Merrily

Oh.

00:30:50 Fleetwood

It's, uh, these two guys that run a UM, a cult store out in. I believe it's Salt Lake City.

00:31:03 Fleetwood

And they do a mostly weekly podcast that is like listener questions about magic and glitching and stuff like that. But they offer services through their shop. And I got a consult with one of the people on the podcast.

00:31:23 Fleetwood

And.

00:31:25 Fleetwood

It's got like a big kind of cleansing spell to do over this last December that was really super effective.

00:31:37 Fleetwood

And.

00:31:38 Fleetwood

You know, since then I've just been kind of.

00:31:42 Fleetwood

Experiencing. It's been like a a new lease on my magical life.

00:31:51 Fleetwood

Just not having this kind of.

00:31:53 Fleetwood

Cloud that I've always had over my head in regards to how I felt spiritually.

00:31:59 Fleetwood

Hmm.

00:32:02 Fleetwood

So yeah, I definitely recommend people. If you've always felt that way, you know, don't forget the mundane solutions like get enough sun and exercise and see the doctor and everything. If you can. I don't. Not everybody has access to it, but.

00:32:21 Fleetwood

Psychiatry has done industry.

00:32:24 Merrily

Yeah, sure.

00:32:25 Fleetwood

But in addition to the mundane stuff, the.

00:32:30 Fleetwood

It.

00:32:31 Fleetwood

I think that's part of living. A magical life is you have to adopt the mundane means as well if you want your magic to work.

00:32:41 Merrily

Yeah.

00:32:43 Merrily

You are the vehicle for it to.

00:32:44 Merrily

Work. You got to keep the vehicle happy.

00:32:45 Fleetwood

Yeah, it's, it's it's got to have something to take root in the physical world too.

00:32:52

That's right.

00:32:54 Merrily

I agree.

00:32:58 Merrily

So would you say, do you have, I know we talked, you have some favorite books that you may have nearby that were helpful or inspiration or inspiring to you. Would you like to share what those were? Yeah.

00:33:12 Fleetwood

At home.

00:33:15 Fleetwood

One is.

00:33:17 Fleetwood

UM.

00:33:19 Fleetwood

It's.

00:33:21 Fleetwood

Mastering it's a super thick, almost like textbook.

00:33:27 Fleetwood

Out. It's called mastering the core teachings.

00:33:30 Fleetwood

Of the Buddha.

00:33:32 Fleetwood

By Daniel Ingram. I definitely recommend this book if you're at all curious about Buddhism and kind of the.

00:33:45 Fleetwood

It's like Buddhism with the magic taken out, is kind of one way people have talked about this book, but like by the same token you can't do all the practices without there being some kind of magical result, even if it's just a perceptual 1. So I definitely recommend that.

00:34:06 Fleetwood

And.

00:34:08 Fleetwood

Also really likes this book Magia by Alan Chapman.

00:34:13 Fleetwood

Yeah, yeah, it's, you know, it's definitely the different discussions around the book can.

00:34:26 Fleetwood

Wax and wane good and bad, annoying and helpful, but I have found you know, it's a really good book for good Etsy. Just like flipping good pages.

00:34:43 Fleetwood

And it is just. It's uplifting. I find, you know, the.

00:34:50 Fleetwood

I remember I don't call myself a Christian necessarily anymore, but I definitely was raised Christian and.

00:34:59 Fleetwood

When I was a.

00:35:00 Fleetwood

Kid, I got a lot of.

00:35:02 Fleetwood

Reassurance from Scripture and that's Magia has been one of the only books that's giving me that same feeling. Since when I was a kid listening to slash, reading the Bible back then. So yeah, there's something special about it.

00:35:21 Merrily

That's good praise. Yeah. Similarly, like my favorite parts of the Bible when I was, I read the Bible when I was like 10. Read it over and over again. But my favorite parts were like the Jesus stuff I'm like.

00:35:32 Merrily

This guy right here, this is good.

00:35:35 Merrily

I like this.

00:35:36 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:35:38 Merrily

A lot of wise words in there.

00:35:40

Oh.

00:35:41 Merrily

But I think for the Magia Magia I I definitely learned about Alan Chapman through Tommy's podcast because he and I would talk about.

00:35:48

Yep.

00:35:49 Merrily

Them all the.

00:35:50 Merrily

Time about Ellen all the time. And I think I read. So he does have like, a a holy guardian Angel kind of chant that you can do and.

00:36:00 Fleetwood

Yes.

00:36:02 Merrily

Yeah, it's it's good. Yeah, definitely.

00:36:07 Fleetwood

He's got another book called Advanced Magic for Beginners. It's kind of hard to find, but it has a hand grenade on the cover.

00:36:17 Merrily

AG.

00:36:18 Fleetwood

And it's yeah. Well, is that one is like about the size of the DVD case. It's a pretty good book. But like, if you want a really F around and find out kind of introduction to magic, it's great for that. If you want your life to be smooth and steady, it's not good for that.

00:36:24

Wow.

00:36:37 Merrily

Good for that. Oh.

00:36:38 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:36:39 Merrily

All right, well, if you want some big changes, I guess that's a great book for you, for somebody.

00:36:42 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:36:43 Fleetwood

Yeah. No, it's it's definitely fascinating, though. I think at the end, I think the eventual end result of me working through that book was finding a house in this market. Yeah.

00:36:55 Fleetwood

Which is this.

00:36:57 Fleetwood

It's a huge, huge thing it took like.

00:37:01 Fleetwood

I think 18.

00:37:02 Fleetwood

Months total for us to like from starting to look to like actually buying, but in uh you know there's a lot.

00:37:10 Fleetwood

Of magic involved.

00:37:12 Merrily

Oh my gosh.

00:37:13 Merrily

Yeah, I live in Seattle. I'm trying to do the same thing. So yeah. Yeah, it's a lot. It's a heavy lift.

00:37:19 Fleetwood

Yes.

00:37:22 Merrily

I'm glad it worked for you. That's awesome.

00:37:24 Fleetwood

I love it. Thank you, Saint Anthony and everyone else that helps.

00:37:25 Fleetwood

Yeah, no.

00:37:32 Merrily

Also, were there any other books or were there the two that you were like these?

00:37:37 Fleetwood

Are the two big ones.

00:37:40 Fleetwood

I I really, really love the deed without a name by Lee Morgan.

00:37:50 Fleetwood

And really, all of Lee Morgan's books are just phenomenal, and all this couple of interviews they've done, like, I definitely recommend seeking those out because they're really, really.

00:38:04 Fleetwood

And.

00:38:05 Fleetwood

He's just got.

00:38:08 Fleetwood

That's a good.

00:38:11 Fleetwood

Take on magic and witchcraft and everything.

00:38:18 Fleetwood

And.

00:38:22 Fleetwood

Yeah, that's uh and Jason.

00:38:24 Merrily

Miller. Yeah, he's great.

00:38:28 Fleetwood

Yeah, Jason Miller has got some really good looks.

00:38:30 Merrily

Is he the one that did? I think he did. I'm pretty sure he did like a.

00:38:34 Merrily

Wealth magic.

00:38:34 Merrily

One where he talks about working with Jupiter and then having the Jupiter club.

00:38:35 Fleetwood

Yes. Yep.

00:38:41 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:38:43 Fleetwood

That's the one.

00:38:44 Merrily

Yeah, that was a good one. I and he has all. Is it the same one? OK. Sorry. Is it? I've I've read so many books. And so the one where he has all the sigils in there. Yes. Everybody that has like.

00:38:51 Merrily

Yeah.

00:38:54 Fleetwood

Yep, that's the well form, yeah.

00:38:58 Merrily

Everybody, the three people I know that have used essentials, it has worked. So that was a great recommendation, yeah.

00:39:04 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:39:05 Fleetwood

Good stuff. Yeah. And I would say almost all of his work is available in audiobook, which I, as someone who's somewhat neuro, spicy and has trouble sitting down and reading is that is a huge boon.

00:39:12

Oh.

00:39:23 Merrily

Cool. Does he narrate or somebody else do?

00:39:25 Fleetwood

It it's someone else most of the time I think there was one of the books that he did, but I couldn't remember which one.

00:39:34 Merrily

Well, yeah, it's so cool that yeah, all these.

00:39:37 Merrily

Like.

00:39:38 Merrily

Magicians and witches are like putting out their.

00:39:41 Merrily

Stuff and people can.

00:39:43 Merrily

Utilize it for their own devices. I love it.

00:39:48 Fleetwood

The.

00:39:48 Fleetwood

It's it's such a awesome time we live in.

00:39:52 Fleetwood

Right now, there's so many awful things about this time that we live in, but so many, yeah. Take advantage of the good where you can find it.

00:40:01 Merrily

Beautiful, beautiful message. I love that.

00:40:06 Merrily

And So what would you say you kind of talked a little bit I think about sort of what your sort of path is but?

00:40:13 Merrily

Mainly I guess my question would be sort of what in what ways do you incorporate either Tara or some form of magic into your sort of either daily life?

00:40:24 Merrily

Or you know.

00:40:25 Merrily

What you know, how is it part of?

00:40:27 Merrily

It for your everyday existence or.

00:40:30 Fleetwood

Well, I would say I definitely anytime I use magic, I always will use tarot beforehand or some kind of divination technique, just to make sure that.

00:40:39

Hmm.

00:40:44 Fleetwood

Because that's what I think. Divination is best at is.

00:40:49 Fleetwood

Really, as kind of a precursor to doing stuff, whether it's mundane or magical, but especially magical workings because it is.

00:41:03 Fleetwood

You know, maybe I'm just a worrier, but it to me, there's all sorts of things that if you really think you're messing around with the fabric of reality, you could potentially mess up.

00:41:16 Fleetwood

Like the example, I always like to use is like even with wealth magic like. Is there some lesson that I really need to learn from being poor right now that I'm going to miss out on you?

00:41:28 Fleetwood

Know.

00:41:29 Fleetwood

And it it could always.

00:41:31 Fleetwood

Be a monkey's paw to some degree and.

00:41:33 Merrily

Hmm.

00:41:35 Fleetwood

I think that's what Terra is best at is avoiding those type of situations. Also sometimes just from moral clarity, I mean.

00:41:48 Fleetwood

These are very rarely black and white these days, and that's one instance where maybe it is more psychological, but I think I like pulling tear cards on moral questions that I have just in general.

00:42:07 Fleetwood

I find that helpful, but.

00:42:10 Fleetwood

It is.

00:42:13 Fleetwood

Are really in the process of like kind of redeveloping your practice right now. Like I said, I just did like this huge cleansing thing like literally for a month, I woke up once a week before dawn and made a big, big cleansing bath and did a bunch of prayers and stuff like that.

00:42:32 Fleetwood

And UM.

00:42:36 Fleetwood

It it really kind of reset a lot of stuff for me so.

00:42:42 Fleetwood

I'm in the.

00:42:43 Fleetwood

But I've been experimenting with servitors and.

00:42:47 Merrily

Hmm.

00:42:50 Fleetwood

Meditating with terror cards again, like I did a long time ago, but now that I've gotten better at journeying or active imagination stuff, it can really take on a whole new level of.

00:43:07 Fleetwood

I don't know introspection.

00:43:10 Fleetwood

When doing those kinds of exercises.

00:43:16 Merrily

So now you mentioned, OK, so you dropped servitors. We haven't talked about servitors.

00:43:21 Fleetwood

Oh yeah.

00:43:21 Merrily

Just yet I I used.

00:43:23 Merrily

Them myself, but would you mind explaining this?

00:43:29 Merrily

The audience.

00:43:29 Fleetwood

Yeah, there's the you need gas.

00:43:35 Fleetwood

Hey.

00:43:39 Fleetwood

Uh, yeah. So servitors are a I like to think of them as.

00:43:47 Fleetwood

Active thoughts that you like.

00:43:53 Fleetwood

It's like the thought version of tumbling a rock down the hill and starting an avalanche.

00:44:01 Fleetwood

That you kind of set the force of will off in a certain direction and it is.

00:44:09 Fleetwood

I I'm kind of an IT nerd, both in my day job and and you know my hobbies and to me service is is like the magical version of programming.

00:44:21 Fleetwood

It can be as simple as having a single task or it can be as complex as having a like an AI companion that you draw on and talk to, but at the end of the day it's something that you power with intent, and whether it's for a specific purpose or for something.

00:44:43 Fleetwood

Even that it is.

00:44:46 Fleetwood

At the end of the day.

00:44:49 Fleetwood

It is.

00:44:52 Fleetwood

Created by you and under your.

00:44:56 Fleetwood

Mm-hmm.

00:44:59 Fleetwood

But there.

00:45:03 Fleetwood

I don't know how.

00:45:03 Fleetwood

I'm trying to say this is thoughts without form, but I don't know. They could still be so potent.

00:45:15 Fleetwood

The.

00:45:19 Fleetwood

The other example that I like to use is kind of like an AI, but the UM, my experience with it has been a little bit different than how a lot of.

00:45:31 Fleetwood

People.

00:45:33 Fleetwood

I think work with them just because I have gotten into working with duties a little bit and.

00:45:43 Fleetwood

Using they're not using but getting.

00:45:48 Fleetwood

Duties to help you make a server there leads to something that is just on a totally different level than making one on your own. From my experience, specifically with the Festus, if you have any kind of sniffing tendency or.

00:46:09 Fleetwood

Quality make conservators with this justice is like.

00:46:15 Fleetwood

Just incredibly potent. Wow.

00:46:19 Fleetwood

Tie this my Kitty again just so I could show her off.

00:46:23 Merrily

Please do ohh.

00:46:26 Merrily

Annie.

00:46:26 Fleetwood

The big football. Yep, that's Annie.

00:46:33 Merrily

I think my kid either sleeping so they're not in.

00:46:35 Merrily

Here.

00:46:37 Fleetwood

She's she seems to be paying attention to my phone.

00:46:43 Merrily

Not having it, yeah.

00:46:47 Merrily

Oh, I totally get that for sure. I like that you. You know I'm not here. Uh, derail totally into servitors. But you talked about it being sort of it.

00:46:49 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:46:55 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:46:59 Merrily

Because I have some video game development background, so I've worked with the team doing programming. I did a lot of the art but.

00:47:04

Who?

00:47:08 Merrily

You know, I've always kind of considered these things as like containers, right, like. And there's containers and programming, right? You're like.

00:47:15

You.

00:47:16 Merrily

Put the you know the thing to do the.

00:47:17 Merrily

Thing inside the container.

00:47:19 Fleetwood

Yeah, exactly.

00:47:22 Merrily

But yeah, that's cool. I never thought, and I haven't heard anybody.

00:47:25 Merrily

Them talk about using deities to help them create servitors, especially Hephaestus as a creation beauty. That's very interesting, so that's cool.

00:47:32

Yeah.

00:47:34 Fleetwood

Yeah, it is. But I can't say I got the idea of all of my own, but it was, you know, through working with people in the discords. And it was, yeah, it just kind of came about that way. But it's been, Festus is really amazing.

00:47:44 Merrily

Ohh, that's just great, yeah.

00:47:54 Fleetwood

Work with and as that I don't know. I hope to write a little bit more about that as that relationship unfolds.

00:48:03 Merrily

Ohh, that'd be awesome. Yeah, yeah.

00:48:07 Fleetwood

Because it is, it is.

00:48:12 Fleetwood

It is one of the easiest things for me to envision.

00:48:18 Fleetwood

I I've.

00:48:20 Fleetwood

Up until recently I've been I've always struggled with kind of active imagination or journeying that kind of side of things. I have really weird stuff around sleep. I've got like, really, really severe sleep apnea, and it was undiagnosed for a really long time.

00:48:35 Merrily

Ohh yeah.

00:48:40 Fleetwood

UM, and as a result, like my dreams have been all always a bit.

00:48:46 Fleetwood

Foggy or kind of. I'll go weeks where? I don't remember any dreams.

00:48:47

Hmm.

00:48:55 Fleetwood

But.

00:48:57 Fleetwood

As a result, like not being able to do dream work and stuff like that and not being able to journey, it felt like a lot of the magical stuff was kind of shut off to me because just so much of people's practice kind of revolves around those kinds of practices in particular.

00:49:07 Fleetwood

Hmm.

00:49:17 Fleetwood

At least that's where it seems like a lot of people get.

00:49:21 Fleetwood

You know, some of the most potent kind of gnosis or personal experiences that they have.

00:49:29 Fleetwood

And for some reason.

00:49:33 Fleetwood

Visualizing around Hephaestus is really easy for me. Your hadn't been for other deities or things for some reason. Just that pounding heartbeat of the forge is easy to tune into, like as maybe because I used to play.

00:49:53 Fleetwood

Browns baby.

00:49:54 Merrily

Yeah.

00:49:55 Fleetwood

It's like you can plug up your ears and hear your own heartbeat or something. It's there's just a natural rhythm to things that.

00:50:05 Fleetwood

I felt like it was easier to tune into with them.

00:50:08

MHM.

00:50:11 Fleetwood

But then yeah, like it it is.

00:50:13 Fleetwood

You know, servitors. You have to keep feeding them, quote, UN quote. Whether like I I prefer servers that you feed with attention just because that's the easiest thing to do. But that's the biggest benefit.

00:50:23 Merrily

Yeah.

00:50:28 Fleetwood

To working with the deity because you can have a servitor that is kind of self-sufficient.

00:50:37 Merrily

Mm-hmm.

00:50:38 Fleetwood

Where that comes to you when they need certain things but doesn't need, like necessarily daily attention, they're offerings or things like that.

00:50:49 Fleetwood

Can it's it's more of a work with you than for you kind of relationship which is you know it's is it a servitor at that point or is it something else like I don't know.

00:50:54 Merrily

Hmm.

00:51:00

Yeah.

00:51:02 Merrily

Pretty weird, yeah.

00:51:04 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:51:04

No.

00:51:06 Merrily

Yeah. Yeah. Well, thanks for going down the servitor Rd. With that, somebody said I was, like, making me think because I was like, yeah, I think I also have sort of a hard time with journeying, but.

00:51:10

Yeah.

00:51:20 Merrily

But the thing about you know, you're talking about hesis the thing that I find easy to do, and this is probably why I like doing, you know, having podcasts because he gets to talk to people.

00:51:29 Merrily

Because I like to like, sit with deities and just like have a conversation like that works way better for me than like I go into a forest and I like, I get distracted.

00:51:33 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:51:43 Fleetwood

That's exactly how I am with that. It's very hard to.

00:51:46 Fleetwood

Stay in one.

00:51:50 Fleetwood

Ohh long imagination path without jumping around. But yeah, like having a conversation like that.

00:51:54 Merrily

Yes.

00:51:59 Fleetwood

It's just so much easier.

00:52:00 Merrily

It's.

00:52:01 Merrily

Much easier. And then generally I find especially doing the meditations around the different spheres and the tree of life. Basically you're being guided by the Lord of the Sphere and they kind of for for me they walk me around their realm and stuff.

00:52:19 Merrily

They have a guide. I'm not alone, you know.

00:52:22 Merrily

Yeah.

00:52:23 Merrily

I just follow them around do anything.

00:52:28 Fleetwood

That's very cool.

00:52:29 Merrily

Yeah. So I appreciate you sharing that because I was, I never thought about it. I was like, yeah, I guess I do sort of have a hard time with, like, just active journeying and even astral, any of that kind of.

00:52:39 Merrily

Stuff I'm like.

00:52:40 Fleetwood

Yeah, it's it is. You know, I, I've. I've wondered personally if it's like the sleep stuff or just other, you know.

00:52:52 Fleetwood

Medicine that I might take or things with my neurochemistry or whatnot.

00:52:57 Merrily

Mm-hmm.

00:52:59 Fleetwood

But it is, you know, it is what it is. And you work with what you got.

00:53:05 Merrily

Yeah, I'm fine having conversations. It's way more fun for me. Yeah, well, cool. Well, so how? So? I know you work with your different clients. How would you say that?

00:53:09 Fleetwood

Exactly.

00:53:21 Merrily

You tend to assist people or what do they come to you for? I know most people come like for for most terror reader readers of certain main subject areas. But how do you tend to?

00:53:31 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:53:32 Merrily

Work with folks with.

00:53:35 Fleetwood

Well it it.

00:53:37 Fleetwood

Depends on if it's like a paid client or if it's just someone. I'm like reading with like you know, sometimes I'll just post in the discords that I'm in either exchanges or just like one question three card readings, just things that are simple like that.

00:53:54 Fleetwood

Old.

00:53:56 Fleetwood

Give them like a paragraph or two. Interpretation, but I.

00:54:02 Fleetwood

You know, I I prefer to write up the interpretations just because I feel like I can.

00:54:07 Merrily

Hmm.

00:54:11 Fleetwood

Eventually get there when I'm talking.

00:54:14 Fleetwood

But when I'm writing I can.

00:54:18 Fleetwood

Write all the chaff out and then erase.

00:54:22 Fleetwood

It, yeah. And just leave the the the good stuff.

00:54:28 Fleetwood

It's. I feel like it's easier to be more succinct and helpful when I'm writing and when I'm doing live terror readings with people, but as a result, like you know, I tend to the longer term readings that I've done that have been like, you know, 20 page PDF's and flip the pictures and everything and then because.

00:54:48 Fleetwood

Yeah, it it's. I hate going on them and it's hard to stop, but that's kind of why I like it. It's a very.

00:54:56 Fleetwood

It's hard for me to find things that really.

00:54:59 Fleetwood

Totally encompass my brain and.

00:55:03 Fleetwood

Terror interpretation is definitely one of.

00:55:05 Fleetwood

Them.

00:55:07 Fleetwood

It's so much fun.

00:55:09 Merrily

So it's kind of like because that's pretty much what you did with Jason, right, the?

00:55:12 Merrily

Reading that you.

00:55:13 Merrily

Did with Jason, you had the example? Well, that's really cool because you kind of are like as the person receiving the reading, you're kind of learning at the same time the way you do it, yeah.

00:55:13 Fleetwood

Mm-hmm.

00:55:14 Fleetwood

Yep.

00:55:20 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:55:22 Fleetwood

Yeah. And that's where I, you know, I.

00:55:28 Fleetwood

Imagine my clients as.

00:55:32 Fleetwood

People that could be coming to it from any point of view and so I want to put as much of the explanation as possible in the reading so that if there's something because, you know, I always say like take what resonates, leave the rest. And so part of that is you got to kind of cast the net.

00:55:48 Merrily

Great.

00:55:54 Fleetwood

Far and wide so that they can.

00:55:57 Fleetwood

We can make sure to catch what's going to resonate with.

00:56:00 Fleetwood

Them.

00:56:01 Fleetwood

But it's like I said before, it's funny how often I have that.

00:56:06 Fleetwood

Attitude. And then the person says, oh, though every word was like spot on and then like.

00:56:12 Fleetwood

Who's?

00:56:14 Fleetwood

Kind of out there with some of those predictions, like the King of Swords didn't have to be your dad. But I said it was. And it was like it's just sometimes you get those kinds of feelings and you just gotta roll with them and.

00:56:22 Merrily

MM.

00:56:30 Fleetwood

I don't know.

00:56:31 Fleetwood

To me, nothing but experience could have taught me that.

00:56:34 Merrily

Yeah.

00:56:35

Sure.

00:56:38 Fleetwood

But that's also.

00:56:40 Fleetwood

When I teach people how to read, that's one thing I really recommend is that you spend some time with a binary divination system, whether it's a coin or a deck of cards, or even just using Google.

00:57:00 Fleetwood

To flip a coin. Now everyone knows that, but if you Google the phrase flip a coin, Google will actually flip a coin for you.

00:57:08 Merrily

Wow, cool.

00:57:10 Fleetwood

So as long as you got a smartphone, you can put the point discreetly.

00:57:15 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:57:15 Merrily

Need an answer? Yeah.

00:57:17 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:57:19 Fleetwood

But you can also use the deck.

00:57:20 Fleetwood

Of playing cards like.

00:57:23 Fleetwood

Where you pull out three cards and Reds or yeses, blacks or nose, and just don't even pay attention to what card it is just the color.

00:57:33 Merrily

Rent.

00:57:35 Fleetwood

But I've the whole trick to that is when you only have a yes or no answer.

00:57:43 Fleetwood

The questions that you asked have to be much more finely tuned.

00:57:49 Fleetwood

UM and.

00:57:52 Fleetwood

As a result, you.

00:57:56 Fleetwood

You just get much better at asking better questions, and that is so important for tarot, like being able to ask the questions in such a way that the cards can respond to you is.

00:58:10 Fleetwood

Uh, uh. It's you gotta learn to speak their language just as much as you learn to read it.

00:58:16 Merrily

MM.

00:58:18 Merrily

That's interesting. Yeah, it is hard trying to figure out it's. I've tried. I work with a pendulum.

00:58:23 Merrily

And it's not the same thing. It's like usually like a yes or no. Or like, if it's like your question is does not make sense.

00:58:30 Merrily

It just goes.

00:58:30 Fleetwood

Yeah, exactly.

00:58:33 Merrily

So at least that's helpful. But yeah, that's.

00:58:36 Merrily

A good point, like learning how.

00:58:37 Merrily

To ask like a good question.

00:58:38

OK.

00:58:41 Merrily

I know that's hard to articulate like what a good a good question would be. Would it be, would you say it would be like maybe not a not good question would be something that's too general.

00:58:44 Fleetwood

Yeah.

00:58:52 Merrily

And maybe not as.

00:58:53 Fleetwood

Specific or it's easy to ask a question that.

00:58:59 Fleetwood

Doesn't.

00:59:01 Fleetwood

Have a good answer. Like let's say you.

00:59:10 Fleetwood

Wanted to know how to.

00:59:15 Fleetwood

UM, But what's a good example? If you know how to make your?

00:59:21 Fleetwood

Bank account bigger.

00:59:24 Fleetwood

And let's say.

00:59:25 Fleetwood

You thought about it firstly that way.

00:59:32 Fleetwood

Even if that's your end goal, you know that you can't just sit there with like an air pump and like a cartoon, just like, literally inflate your bank account to make it bigger, you have to, like work and earn money.

00:59:46 Fleetwood

MHM.

00:59:48 Fleetwood

So.

00:59:52 Fleetwood

Like you know, you could get an answer from the tarot cards from that question. That's essentially like they'll just add more decimal places on the end of the number is essentially the answer from it. But asking a question that is.

01:00:12 Fleetwood

What can I do or how can I invest my time that will yield more money in my bank account?

01:00:23 Fleetwood

Is like a what you're putting into the question to get out of the question.

01:00:30 Merrily

Yeah.

01:00:31 Fleetwood

It's it's a much more full.

01:00:33 Fleetwood

Way to ask like.

01:00:38 Fleetwood

Because you're not like you don't go to the tarot and say, like, what's the winning lottery numbers? I mean, like, I don't.

01:00:45 Fleetwood

Know maybe some people.

01:00:46 Fleetwood

Do that and but lottery numbers, they salvatera pulser card decks or something like that, but.

01:00:55 Merrily

Hmm.

01:00:57 Fleetwood

A lot of the times you're going for.

01:01:01 Fleetwood

Sentence style questions and sentence style answers or even like story style answers where you're looking for a narrative to be told.

01:01:08 Fleetwood

Hmm.

01:01:14 Fleetwood

You're saying, like, often the center car of the terror reading is where you are now and you'll get a car that's like a past, present, future. You want to see the arc of what's going on, where you know two points in it and you're looking for the third. And I think trying to always frame.

01:01:34 Fleetwood

Question and so that.

01:01:37 Fleetwood

Not just you get a binary. Yes, no answer, but so that you get an arc like that. So you because you know what the past is, you know what the present is and you get told what the future is. It's being able to draw those three points.

01:01:56 Fleetwood

Make it it just gives a much fuller picture than only having two points to draw between, and that's maybe a really round about what you're saying that you should have a outcome in mind with the question, not just information gathering.

01:02:16 Merrily

That's really good. I like that you said like kind of like input output, right? You need to have some sort.

01:02:23 Merrily

Of like.

01:02:25 Merrily

Action that you're going to potentially do like in your example of like what can I do to make more money here? You know, for to.

01:02:32

Yeah.

01:02:35 Merrily

Still, my bank account? Yeah, that's a good point.

01:02:38 Fleetwood

Hmm, you're good.

01:02:40 Fleetwood

The other example that.

01:02:43 Fleetwood

Came up before or recently was someone was asking what they could do to make their their be more successful with their band.

01:02:53 Merrily

Mm-hmm.

01:02:53 Fleetwood

I am.

01:02:56 Fleetwood

And they're like, you know, how how should I ask about the music? And it's like, well, what do you want? I want my band to be successful. And it's like, OK, so.

01:03:07 Fleetwood

How can I make my band as successful as possible?

01:03:11 Fleetwood

Like that is the.

01:03:14 Fleetwood

I think phrasing we wound up coming.

01:03:15 Fleetwood

Up with but.

01:03:18 Fleetwood

It.

01:03:20 Fleetwood

You know, I think that's some people don't.

01:03:23 Fleetwood

Maybe want to get a terror reading, but just don't really know what they want to add.

01:03:28 Fleetwood

Yes, it can be kind of a difficult hurdle for some folks to overcome.

01:03:34 Merrily

MM.

01:03:36 Fleetwood

But it's uh, you know, even when I'm doing a free readings online, they're on discord. They're a lot of times just like, oh, give me, uh, just one of my vibes right now. What's the message from the universe for me? I don't have a specific question.

01:03:55 Fleetwood

Then I think that's how a lot of people.

01:03:58 Fleetwood

Would look at it if they were more open to it, but it's it can be so much more useful than that if you let it.

01:04:01

Hmm.

01:04:05 Merrily

Right. Oh, yeah. It's a good. It's a good point. Yeah. It made me think of all sorts of things about, like, phrasing questions. It's kind of similar in magic, too, right? Because a lot of what you learn and doing it is the the end result, right. What is the? And it's kind of similar.

01:04:22

Right.

01:04:26 Merrily

The way you're talking about it, but it's also trying to maybe trying to get those two other.

01:04:32 Merrily

Points in there like what do I actually do instead of being like the actual end result that you tend to do with magic, but you do get the other stuff in there too?

01:04:36 Fleetwood

Yeah.

01:04:46 Merrily

Cool.

01:04:47 Merrily

Well, thanks for walking through that. Yeah, that is. Yeah. You made me think a lot harder now about not harder, but it made it easier, actually, to figure out how to.

01:04:56

Yes.

01:04:57 Merrily

Phrase questions, so that's great.

01:05:01 Merrily

So I knew.

01:05:02 Merrily

In your bio you described yourself as an esotericist.

01:05:07 Merrily

Like how did what? What does that mean to you? And what about esotericism attracts you?

01:05:13 Fleetwood

Well, to me that is just a really good kind of catch all word for like esoteric things are.

01:05:18 Merrily

Hmm.

01:05:23 Fleetwood

Things that maybe don't fit into.

01:05:28 Fleetwood

Science categories. But you would still call a study of like, you know, we say we practice magic the same way that, like, lawyers have a practice because it's it's never finished.

01:05:46 Fleetwood

And.

01:05:49 Fleetwood

I like that term.

01:05:52 Fleetwood

Because it's frankly non offensive at.

01:05:57

This.

01:06:00 Fleetwood

You know you can.

01:06:02 Fleetwood

There's lots of terms these days that maybe you've found. Turns out they're stepping on other people's toes or like as much as I love the discussion around animism and the.

01:06:20 Fleetwood

The whole philosophy of the animism is amazing, where the name comes from. Unfortunately, he was from a really racist guy trying to describe tribal religions.

01:06:30 Merrily

Hmm.

01:06:32 Fleetwood

And you know, stuff like that, that.

01:06:38 Fleetwood

I I think uh occultist is a.

01:06:42 Fleetwood

More fun word.

01:06:44 Fleetwood

But Esotericist I think is a less offensive version of that and maybe offensive isn't the right word there either, but.

01:06:48

Hmm.

01:06:52 Merrily

Approachable or.

01:06:54 Fleetwood

Yeah, approachable. Yeah. There you go.

01:06:57 Merrily

I think you're right.

01:07:00 Fleetwood

In that sense, I don't think of myself as an occultist because, you know, I got to work and work with computers every day.

01:07:10 Fleetwood

So sit in the basement with robes and.

01:07:13 Fleetwood

Wear hat my.

01:07:15 Fleetwood

My altars are very bright, sunny place.

01:07:19 Merrily

That's so funny because, like, I'm like, I do consider myself an occultist. I don't. I do have some robes. I don't wear them though during.

01:07:27 Merrily

This.

01:07:29 Fleetwood

Yeah.

01:07:29 Merrily

And my altars are in like the sunniest room in the house, so that it was really funny that you're describing that.

01:07:36 Merrily

But I will say you're right about because I think I even was like because to me and then in certain circles, I mean, I'm like, oh, I called this.

01:07:42 Merrily

Yeah, blew it. Whatever.

01:07:44 Fleetwood

Yeah, definitely.

01:07:45 Merrily

But then just I described myself to like a family member and they were like, whoa, what? Whoa, whoa. And I was like, hold on.

01:07:53 Fleetwood

Yeah. Yeah. Like, if you want me to say.

01:07:54 Merrily

No.

01:08:00 Fleetwood

Ah, how I really feel. I would be a like Appalachian spoke magic, conjure practitioner or something like that. Like.

01:08:08 Merrily

Yeah.

01:08:10 Fleetwood

I think that's the closest thing to what I do, but.

01:08:15 Fleetwood

I don't actually have any direct.

01:08:18 Fleetwood

Family ties to that, like my family, comes from Appalachia, but no one in my family taught it to me, so to speak.

01:08:26 Merrily

Right.

01:08:27 Fleetwood

It's it's kind of funny. I'm a.

01:08:31 Fleetwood

Uh.

01:08:33 Fleetwood

My mom's generation. She's one of five children and I'm an only grandchild.

01:08:40 Merrily

Wow.

01:08:42 Fleetwood

UM.

01:08:43 Fleetwood

And so a lot like, you know, the whole family kind of follow down on to me, I don't have any cousins on my mom's side.

01:08:47 Merrily

Yeah.

01:08:51

Oh.

01:08:52 Fleetwood

And I've always kind of found that fascinating.

01:08:54 Merrily

That is fascinating.

01:08:55 Fleetwood

It's whatever went through the family. It's like I'm catching all of it generationally.

01:09:00 Merrily

Maybe that's why the the oops malefics were happening. You're like.

01:09:03 Fleetwood

Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

01:09:08 Fleetwood

Yeah.

01:09:10 Merrily

Well, I'll just say it's personally, you're just like a lovely person. Like you're just very warm and very knowledgeable, so.

01:09:17 Fleetwood

Nothing, yeah.

01:09:18 Merrily

Politics, as far as.

01:09:22 Fleetwood

No, I think they all, it's the UM.

01:09:25 Fleetwood

There's an episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns goes to the doctor and they show, like all the different diseases and germs and cancers that are trying to kill them are getting stuck in the doorway, and all of them are stuck and no one can get through. Yeah, that's how. Like, battered.

01:09:41 Merrily

Yeah.

01:09:45 Fleetwood

Mars and everybody are just like, all stuck fighting each other. So.

01:09:50 Merrily

Have fun over there. Thanks.

01:09:52 Fleetwood

Yeah.

01:09:53 Fleetwood

OK.

01:09:55 Merrily

Oh my.

01:09:58 Merrily

Yeah, that's very fascinating. So thank you for sharing that.

01:10:01 Fleetwood

Yeah.

01:10:03 Merrily

So you did already kind of share some sort of interesting esoteric folks kind of in your your book recommendations are there?

01:10:10 Merrily

Anybody else that you thought?

01:10:11 Merrily

Were interesting that folks should know about.

01:10:19 Fleetwood

Well, I would say just as.

01:10:24 Fleetwood

People to work with besides the Festus, I would also recommend St. Martin of Tours is not the most well known St. but be someone that was known for tearing his. He was a Roman soldier before he was a St. and he was known for tearing his Cape.

01:10:33 Merrily

Yeah.

01:10:44 Fleetwood

In half and giving it to Cole the bagger on the side of the.

01:10:49 Fleetwood

Rd.

01:10:52 Fleetwood

And he's really good for helping people in desperate situations, so definitely recommend.

01:10:58 Fleetwood

Working with Saint Martin of Tours. That's been uh, I think pivotal for me in some ways.

01:11:08 Fleetwood

I would.

01:11:10 Fleetwood

Recommend the books by Orion Foxwood and there is a book called.

01:11:24 Fleetwood

Marriage.

01:11:26 Fleetwood

I want to say sounds like us. It's escaping me at the moment, but Orion Foxwood is mentioned in that book too.

01:11:28 Merrily

Familiar.

01:11:36 Fleetwood

Hmm.

01:11:38 Fleetwood

And but it's a.

01:11:41 Fleetwood

He's got a few really interesting books about mountain route work and fairy seership and stuff. Along those lines has a very.

01:11:53 Fleetwood

Appalachian backgrounds that I really appreciate.

01:11:57 Merrily

Yeah.

01:11:59 Merrily

Oh, cool. Yeah, I'm definitely interested in sort of the Appalachian part of.

01:12:05 Merrily

Of the US, because that's kind of, you know, not really talked about people just forget.

01:12:10 Fleetwood

Yeah.

01:12:11 Merrily

About that, it's kind of over there.

01:12:14 Fleetwood

No, it's it's. It's a quiet, just kind of everybody's making.

01:12:18 Fleetwood

Their own way.

01:12:19 Merrily

Yeah.

01:12:20 Fleetwood

But the I think as more people move into the cities, down from the mountains, there'll be more transplants like me.

01:12:25 Merrily

Hmm.

01:12:32 Fleetwood

Oh good.

01:12:34 Fleetwood

Yeah.

01:12:35 Merrily

Well, I hope you know y'all like kind of tell your stories and your practices because that would be like a really good wealth of knowledge for folks to learn about.

01:12:44 Fleetwood

Yeah, I'm definitely still. I've got a lot more to learn and do and practice for sure, but it's.

01:12:53 Fleetwood

I mean.

01:12:56 Fleetwood

Hoodoo and group work and conjure you know. No, they're not closed practices which I know they are at some places and you know, I try to be careful to not.

01:13:07 Merrily

Hmm.

01:13:11 Fleetwood

Step on those toes, but the concepts behind them are just so sound. Paying attention to the Earth and the all around you and.

01:13:27 Fleetwood

Paying respect to the spirits that.

01:13:30 Fleetwood

You know.

01:13:33 Fleetwood

Who is in the Jason Miller books? He says you pay attention to the ancestors, the spirits you may have wronged, the spirits to look out for you and.

01:13:47 Fleetwood

The gods themselves, and I think you know all four of those together, is just such a potent combination of things to look out for and make offerings to.

01:13:59 Fleetwood

Especially the experience that you may have found as a I'm an avid disc golfer. That's my other hobby besides esotericism.

01:14:08 Merrily

All right.

01:14:09 Fleetwood

And.

01:14:11 Fleetwood

I always believe in my prayers and apology to the trees I hit with my Frisbees.

01:14:17 Merrily

Yeah.

01:14:19 Fleetwood

Because they're definitely out there. And if you go on the.

01:14:22 Fleetwood

Disc golf course.

01:14:24 Fleetwood

You'll see the trees with all the notches and then go down the sides.

01:14:26 Merrily

Oh no, I'm sorry.

01:14:32 Merrily

Oh yeah, I like that.

01:14:33 Merrily

Yeah, paying attention to them is also living beings that were.

01:14:39

With.

01:14:39 Fleetwood

Just paying attention to the impacts that you make in the world, no matter how small or large, they all matter.

01:14:47 Fleetwood

A little bit.

01:14:50 Merrily

Yeah, that's a good I, yeah. Couldn't agree more with.

01:14:56 Merrily

So would you have any sort of upcoming either projects or events or anything that you would like us to know about that you may maybe upcoming for you?

01:15:07 Fleetwood

Not necessarily upcoming or ongoing, but you know I.

01:15:15 Fleetwood

We would hope to keep getting more terrorist students if anyone out there is looking for someone to teach, then Tara, one-on-one I'd be really happy to do so and I'm getting better and better at it. My hope is to eventually.

01:15:32 Fleetwood

Take my like lesson plans and maybe make a book out of them on how to learn Tara. That would kind of go full circle since I learned from a book to start with, I would love to kind of give that back, but who knows, we'll see what the future brings in that regards.

01:15:49 Merrily

Yeah, that would be really cool.

01:15:52 Merrily

But you know, however, you know.

01:15:53 Merrily

However, it works out that.

01:15:55 Fleetwood

Yeah, exactly. I've definitely never written a book before, so we'll see.

01:16:01 Merrily

Well, there's plenty of people that.

01:16:02 Merrily

Haven't you know, written a?

01:16:04 Merrily

Book before and they do it anyway.

01:16:05 Fleetwood

Yes, yes, exactly that stopped me.

01:16:06 Merrily

So yeah, you'll be fine.

01:16:09 Merrily

Yeah.

01:16:12 Merrily

So where can?

01:16:13 Merrily

Folks find out more about you, like learn more about you.

01:16:16 Merrily

Or and also find out about.

01:16:17 Merrily

The services that you.

01:16:19 Fleetwood

Offer well, the best place to find out about those services on fiberitsfivr.com/treefish.

01:16:31 Fleetwood

Arrow.

01:16:32 Fleetwood

It's like tree and fish and tarot, but all one word. I'm also on Instagram at Treefish tarot.

01:16:45 Fleetwood

India offer Tara readings of you know, different sizes and types and stuff, but also lessons on there.

01:16:54 Fleetwood

And you know, beyond that out there on in discord land, you know, if you join a terror discord, you may get a reading exchange with.

01:17:05 Fleetwood

You one day.

01:17:06 Fleetwood

But other than that, yeah, five is definitely the best place to reach me. If you're interested in the services or anything.

01:17:14 Merrily

Very cool. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody definitely check out Fleetwood Fiber and you can see an example of the reading that he did for Jason on Jason's podcast Almond Tree.

01:17:26 Merrily

Very thorough. I was like, oh, yeah, I was very thorough.

01:17:30 Fleetwood

And I'll say 25 is kind of nice because if.

01:17:34 Fleetwood

You're, I'm sure. What kind of question to ask. You can message me on there. My, you know, my deals are also open on Instagram, but fiber allows for messages and stuff to go back and forth. So feel free to hit me up. Anybody out there in cyberspace.

01:17:37

Hmm.

01:17:55 Merrily

Definitely.

01:17:57 Merrily

So kind of the final thing. You've already shared a lot of wisdom with us today. Or is there any partying words of wisdom that?

01:18:05 Merrily

You would like to leave us with?

01:18:07 Fleetwood

I guess.

01:18:08 Fleetwood

The parting.

01:18:11 Fleetwood

A little bit is I kind of said this before, but if there's one thing I've noticed in the magical community, it's the propensity to maybe ignore the mundane solutions and the mental health professionals and the medications and things like that and the exercise.

01:18:31 Fleetwood

Good diet and stuff that we can all do to take good care of ourselves and it's.

01:18:40 Fleetwood

You know, I carry crystals around with me too, but I also take my pills every morning so.

01:18:45

Right.

01:18:47 Fleetwood

Encourage everybody to be as holistic as possible, and that means even stuff that's not magical.

01:18:54 Fleetwood

Oh.

01:18:56 Merrily

That's great advice. I love it. Love, love, love, love, love. I'm definitely taking it to heart because I'm I'm very big on like taking care of.

01:19:04 Merrily

Your.

01:19:05 Merrily

Your body and your mind and your emotional well-being love it.

01:19:07 Fleetwood

It's it's just so important because they're all so much rely on each other. Your spiritual and emotional and physical health are also just tightly, tightly around. And so if you don't know where to start.

01:19:21 Fleetwood

Just going out and going for a walk because sometimes be the best things. Wonderful.

01:19:28 Merrily

Oh well, thank you, Fleetwood. I'm so happy that you agreed to spend time with us here.

01:19:34 Fleetwood

Yes, I'm so happy to do so and had such a blast. Thanks for having me on.

01:19:40 Merrily

Thank you.

01:19:42 Merrily

It was a joy having the multi talented and thoughtful Fleetwood Haddock on the show today. You got to check out Fleetwood Tree Fish Tarot account on fiber and get yourself a specialized in custom reading. And as always, the contact information is in the show notes. Do you remember to like, follow and subscribe on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform? It really helps us grip. Thank you for listening and being an important part.

01:20:03 Merrily

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