Waiting For The “Drop” — A Situational Response Spectrum

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Serving as a (welcome?) bit of relief from my relentless Lenormand commentary, here is an approach to situational awareness and response based on the idea that a particular activity described as a set of circumstances or facts can be foreseen to precipitate a “second act” of a countervailing nature (a divinatory parallel to the “equal and opposite reaction” of Newton’s Third Law of Motion); we push and the Universe impartially pushes back. While this resistance may only be a plausible result of our initiative and not an unavoidable conclusion (sometimes “the fix is in” no matter how hard we might try to sabotage it), the idea of “waiting for the other shoe to drop” immediately comes to mind. Below is an accurate definition of what I’m proposing. (I fancy it as the “trickle-down theory” of the Three Stooges: Moe hits Larry but Larry is afraid to hit Moe back so he hits Curly instead.)

“To wait for the other shoe to drop means to wait for an expected and inevitable event to occur. The event is most often negative. When this idiom is used, it is after some event has occurred and another event is expected to inevitably follow.”

This assumption aligns with the opinion I share with Joseph Maxwell that “each individual has a presentiment about his own destiny,” and — while this is not carved in stone and may not be a rational premonition — there is a strong bias for events to play out according to the subconscious script we have written for ourselves. We may be contemplating doing something a bit bold, we know where we stand at present and we have at least a hunch about how it’s all is going to work out for us if we stay on course. This could be based on past experience or on a judgment call after considering the likelihood, but what is not known with any certainty is how and when we’re going to get there. The “how” part can be clarified through divination, but the “when” is usually less predictable unless developments are on a fixed schedule with a deadline. This spread attempts to cast the scenario in “human” rather than “cosmic” terms but does not envision a time-frame, so the reader can use any preferred method if that question is posed.

Originally published at http://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com on September 14, 2023.