{"id":12876,"date":"2016-09-01T01:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=13524"},"modified":"2016-09-02T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:13:30","slug":"seeing-the-signs-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2016\/09\/01\/seeing-the-signs-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

divination on Pinterest<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Long ago, before the Internet, if you wanted to know about a certain subject, you went to the library. Perhaps you started out with an Encyclopedia \u2013 Encyclopedia America or Encyclopedia Britannica, generally \u2013 also as we got older, we were taught how to use the card catalog and how to research our subject in a more adult manner. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, people still use the library and they still use the catalog for research, although it\u2019s now computerized \u2013 the card catalog is generally a thing of the past. But nowadays, when people want to research a subject, they go to the Internet first, and generally they Google whatever it is they are researching \u2013 maybe they use Yahoo or Bing \u2013 but unlike the early days of the Internet when there were dozens of search engines, now there are just a few \u2013 and most of them are powered by Google. <\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to turn this into an anti-Google diatribe but the problem with Google is that after you do a little research on it, you tend to see the same things over and over again. Which kind of defeats the purpose of research. I mean \u2013 I already saw <\/span>that<\/i><\/span>. Yesterday and the day before that and last week, too. I want to see something new. <\/span><\/p>\n

If any of you have ever visited my poetry blog, \u201cno commas\u201d at http:\/\/www.crystalapplequeen.wordpress.com<\/a>, then you know that I have been working on a series of poems based on the images of the Tarot. Not only I have been writing poems but I have been making collages for each card \u2013 admittedly rather crude and even childish at times, but I enjoy making them and it\u2019s not like I\u2019m trying to put together an actual deck for divination. They\u2019re just illustrations for my poems. But before I work on a particular card, I go to the Internet and search out images to help trip my brain into creativity. Since I tend to see the same things over and over again on Google, I started using Pinterest for ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am <\/span>sure <\/i><\/span>many of you \u2013 if not most of you \u2013 are acquainted with Pinterest. It was launched in March 2010 by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. I remember getting my invitation to it and not really understanding what it was all about. But I soon caught on. Pinterest is a fabulous tool for getting ideas for almost anything at all \u2013 from engagement parties to that special recipe for Thanksgiving dinner to how to clean an annoying oil spot off a beige rug to vintage pictures of your home town. And once you start collecting \u2013 it\u2019s like a digital scrap book \u2013 you\u2019re given ideas for more collecting \u2013 boards and other collectors to follow \u2013 so in a very short time, you can have so many ideas for whatever you\u2019re working on that it can be quite overwhelming.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what does this have to do with divination? Well \u2013 on my own Pinterest page, I have two boards, one for Tarot and Oracle Cards, and another for divination. The Tarot and Oracle Card board I\u2019ve had for a couple of years now but the divination board is brand new. I don\u2019t know why it never occurred to me to create a board like this before! Last night I was looking for examples of the Star card for a new poem and I stumbled on pictures of crystals and how to use them and I thought \u2013 gee, this is really fabulous. Naturally I wanted to save it, so I created the board. And \u201cpinned\u201d it \u2013 and so far, 42 other wonderful ideas for divination!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"seeingthesigns\"<\/p>\n

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Looking for things to pin, with Radar<\/p>\n

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I will still be visiting my local library and using books for reference \u2013 I am quite old-fashioned that way. But I <\/span>love <\/i><\/span>technology and believe that it can only aid us in our quest for knowledge \u2013 whether we are researching a subject for school or things more esoteric for ourselves. <\/span><\/p>\n

And if you see me on Pinterest, friend me! I am always ready to make new friends. Merry Meet!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

divination on Pinterest Long ago, before the Internet, if you wanted to know about a certain subject, you went to the library. Perhaps you started out with an Encyclopedia \u2013 Encyclopedia America or Encyclopedia Britannica, generally \u2013 also as we got older, we were taught how to use the card catalog and how to research our subject in a more adult manner. Of course, people still use the library and they still use the catalog for research, although it\u2019s now computerized \u2013 the card catalog is generally a thing of the past. But nowadays, when people want to research a subject, they go to the Internet first, and generally they Google whatever it is they are researching \u2013 maybe they use Yahoo or Bing \u2013 but unlike the early days of the Internet when there were dozens of search engines, now there are just a few \u2013 and most of them are powered by Google. I don\u2019t want to turn this into an anti-Google diatribe but the problem with Google is that after you do a little research on it, you tend to see the same things over and over again. Which kind of defeats the purpose of research. I mean \u2013 I already saw that. Yesterday and the day before that and last week, too. I want to see something new. If any of you have ever visited my poetry blog, \u201cno commas\u201d at http:\/\/www.crystalapplequeen.wordpress.com, then you know that I have been working on a series of poems based on the images of the Tarot. Not only I have been writing poems but I have been making collages for each card \u2013 admittedly rather crude and even childish at times, but I enjoy making them and it\u2019s not like I\u2019m trying to put together an actual deck for divination. They\u2019re just illustrations for my poems. But before I work on a particular card, I go to the Internet and search out images to help trip my brain into creativity. Since I tend to see the same things over and over again on Google, I started using Pinterest for ideas. I am sure many of you \u2013 if not most of you \u2013 are acquainted with Pinterest. It was launched in March 2010 by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. I remember getting my invitation to it and not really understanding what it was all about. But I soon caught on. Pinterest is a fabulous tool for getting ideas for almost anything at all \u2013 from engagement parties to that special recipe for Thanksgiving dinner to how to clean an annoying oil spot off a beige rug to vintage pictures of your home town. And once you start collecting \u2013 it\u2019s like a digital scrap book \u2013 you\u2019re given ideas for more collecting \u2013 boards and other collectors to follow \u2013 so in a very short time, you can have so many ideas for whatever you\u2019re working on that it can be quite overwhelming. So what does this have to do with divination? Well \u2013 on my own Pinterest page, I have two boards, one for Tarot and Oracle Cards, and another for divination. The Tarot and Oracle Card board I\u2019ve had for a couple of years now but the divination board is brand new. I don\u2019t know why it never occurred to me to create a board like this before! Last night I was looking for examples of the Star card for a new poem and I stumbled on pictures of crystals and how to use them and I thought \u2013 gee, this is really fabulous. Naturally I wanted to save it, so I created the board. And \u201cpinned\u201d it \u2013 and so far, 42 other wonderful ideas for divination! Looking for things to pin, with Radar I will still be visiting my local library and using books for reference \u2013 I am quite old-fashioned that way. But I love technology and believe that it can only aid us in our quest for knowledge \u2013 whether we are researching a subject for school or things more esoteric for ourselves. And if you see me on Pinterest, friend me! I am always ready to make new friends. Merry Meet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}