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How I Got Started in the Horoscope Writing Business
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Chapter 35
This is how spells are broken:
by changing your name
by bragging about by telling nothing but lies for 24 hours
by staring at yourself
by confessing profound secrets by forcing yourself to laugh nonstop for one hour by acting with absolutely no ulterior motives
by dancing alone
by pretending to be dead
by burning down the dreamhouse by communing with the Televisionary Oracle Artemisia went to her acupuncturist, Dr. Lily Ming, in need of relief . for her menstrual distress. Ming gave her more than the usual array of needles, lightly pounding the nail of Artemisia's big toe with a small silver hammer for a few minutes. "Why?" Artemisia asked. "Good for the uterus," the doctor replied. Indeed, Artemisia's cramps diminished as the doctor thumped, and she was not troubled by them for the duration of her period. After the session, the usually taciturn Ming surprised Artemisia by disclosing a traumatic event from her own childhood. It seems that during the occupation of her native Manchuria, she was forced to witness Japanese soldiers torturing people she loved. Their favorite atrocity was using hammers to drive bamboo shoots through their victims' big toes. The moral of the story? Dr. Ming has accomplished the feat of reversing the meaning of her most traumatic imprint. Can you do the same? Your secret identity and your magical nickname are brought to you by Dyke Punk Witch Talismans.
These handsome, handcrafted power objects
have been carved exclusively from the wood of the pomegranate tree. Each features a secret compartment that contains the last breaths of some of the most famous wild women in history, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Virginia Woolfe, Joan of Arc, Billie Holliday, Emma Goldman, Josephine Baker, Lou Salomé, Bessie Smith, Anaos Nin, and H.D.
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