The Silent Harlequin Tuxedo Jupiter made a surprising appearance. Deceptively light of foot, he took me on a waltz around the solar system. As he led me to alight between the moons, he moved us as bolts of lightning zapping through space. (It was a dream, okay.)
I made a cheeky reference to Zeus, and his propensity to fuck anything that moves take dominion over everything he can.
Jupiter brought me to a complete halt. He lifted the carnival mask just enough to see a millimeter of what it hid.
In a flash vision I saw all the representations of all the different types of governments in the world. It didn’t matter if they were democracies, republics, theocracies, oligarchies, autocracies, or even a stable form of anarchy. If there was a power structure, forced or given, he was the spirit behind it.
I blinked, and the Silent Harlequin had fitted the mask back in position. I still don’t understand why he looks like a lanky teenage boy, all long bones and sharp joints. Government drags. Government grinds. Government is settled in old age and can barely get out of its own way. (That’s what revolutions are for.) Right?
He reached behind my ear and with a mountebank’s gesture, pulled out the amethyst pendulum. He clasped it to his chest, confirming the association with him. He then produced a deck of tarot cards, and dealt 16 cards in a four by four square. He did not do it in a straightforward manner, one by one to fill a line, line by line to fill a square.
I saw a strange, almost floral pattern in the way he dealt them. I reached out to turn over a card and he lightly slapped me on the wrist. Calling the cards back to him again, he dealt them again in that strange pattern.
“Wait. You’re dealing them in the numbering of a magic square, aren’t you.”
He called the cards back to the deck, laid the pendulum upon it, and placed both in my hands. He smiled, then swiftly kicked me in the chest. The action ejected me from the dream.
Rude. Typical government action, though, if you think about it.
(After posting I looked up the dealing pattern and found it was in the order of the Jupiter kamea. Alrighty then.)