Money is empty like broken sperm | Channeled Message from the Morrigan, Badb

Are you energized by the passage of time? Eager to see what wealth awaits at the end of the road? Money cannot buy time. It may purchase medicine, but even the best pills and injections do not make you immortal. Even the healthiest bodies break down at some point. The strongest men still will always decay. The most beautiful women will still turn to ash, be forgotten, taken by the non-discriminating claws of Death.

To be awake is to know this. Not just to know its name, to know of its shadowy existence somewhere in the future. Enlightenment comes with the bone-deep understanding that Death is just as common as life, that I am right behind you at all times - at your side, and up ahead. You barely understand Life. Do not patronize me and tell me you understand me.

This is the respect that I command: learn my name, see my prevalence, understand my role. Death is the greatest motivator to live a life well.

One day you'll be dead

And nobody will know

How do you wanna feel

When the curtains close?

Did you remember your lines

Say them just right?

If you fucked up real bad

We'll be here all night

Cards:

• Submerged: Accept your fate. This is the only way forward. Face your deepest fears.

• Onslaught, reversed: The end of a crisis. Regaining a sense of control and purpose.

• Stagefright, reversed: Confident, self-assured. Prepared and ready for what's to come. Embracing imperfection while also appreciating your talents and abilities.

Fate requires no unnatural action. No conscious decision to be something you are not. It costs you nothing and gives you what you've been looking for.

Are you stopping yourself? Forcing yourself to sit on your hands or take actions that feel empty? "Actions speak louder than words." Yes, but nothing you do will ever drown out the screaming banshee. No performative action will ever outrun your destiny. A loud lie can never kill the silent truth.

Men think too highly of themselves. Always filling their pockets, boasting of the bulge in their pants. Money is empty like a broken sperm. You can enjoy the chase - EROS - the anticipation of it, but then what? You're not going anywhere, doing anything. Climb the ladder until the tower falls. Now what?

Those who refuse their fate are destined to repeat it. There is no law but this.