I woke up the next morning feeling slightly under the weather...what was that smell? Must be the scorpion ejaculate; that was potent strong stuff!
wew
Okay, big glass of cold water...I gotta road trip
...to the Alabama Gold Camp:
http://www.alabamagoldcamp.com/
Sure enough, when I got to the general store, there he was in his old dodger hat. He smiled, "the Sun is really shining this morning. There is gold in the air." (Surely he meant in the ground).
He pulled gently on his pipe and leaned his chair back against the wall, "What can I do for ya?"
"Why did you have me use the eight-sided pan?"
He leaned the chair forward from its precarious tilt and set the pipe down, unzipped a pocket in his bibbed-overalls and said "that's not really why you came here, and that's not the question you came to ask," as he pulled out a pack of cards.
(I caught a waft of sassafras in the air).
The answer to your questions is in this pack of cards. The suits are like the corners of those square pans over there. You put them over your pan and pour the water and dirt through. The big nuggets, mostly rocks, stay in the square pan. Throw them to the side. It's the normal ordinary stuff, dross.
You used a pan like that eight sided pan because its easier to catch the gold with those steps. Take a square and cut the corners off and you have the octagon. Continue this process and you get a circle. You were not ready for the round pan yet. There are steps to this work.
You see the round pan only has this small lip to catch the gold. You kind-off think it into the pan. The circle is the fifth suit in the pack of cards, and it is one all over again.
He fanned out the cards where I could see the images. It was the Alchemical Tarot Renewed (ATR). They had been trimmed and they were perfectly broken in. I saw the Sun card and remembered the day outside.
(There is gold in the ground). I paid him for my pass to dig and pan manually, no machines for me.
What was that on his computer? It looked just like the World Card from the ATR, but it was a CD case. It was titled "The Process". He saw me notice.
As he put the ear-buds back in his ear he said, "Go to the Tarot Garden and look for the process. It's all in the cards, but you won't see it if you're blocking"
The water was cold in spite of the Sun, but the earth began to warm, the wind was brisk. I looked at the hamburger grilling over the open fire and a saw a small flame. Then there was no thought. I was still sifting the dirt, panning for gold, working, without a thought.
..then a thought came to me. The only Tarot Garden I heard of was in Italy. I'm gonna get cleaned up tonight and go back to that bar. Maybe Dan or Umbrae can tell me more about this.
Maybe he's gotten that scorpion ejaculate smell off. What was he doing anyway. I thought he went to smoke another for the Raven...
...and who was that singer? She was out-of-sight! (Fer-mitten).