River-of-Heaven Open-Topped Ferry-Ride by Nepomuk Onderdonk

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  I'd track the gamma ray bursts on there too, and it would be a kind of astrological observation, how people's lives are interacting with the plangent dark cores of the distant universe, dark objects the early alchemical warlocks never had access to, without an internet connection and space telescopes sending down free data. Not astrology exactly, it's a combination of Chinese astrology, modern cosmology and astrophysics, and my own wan wu honey comb theory of the universe, so is it "charlie astrology"? Well, yeah, I guess it's "socio-politico-magico-religico-astro-cosmo-sino-charlie" astrology. I'd have a year to put this together, then present the whole thing at the Chinese New Year parade a year from now, with a petition to heaven to let me stay to finish out the 100 year project, for the benefit and salvation of humanity, so I'm thinking maybe they'll allow it. My petition for a year of planning and preparation then a 100 year allotment from heaven to implement, be the caretaker for, and director of, this 100 year bible, the dark core plangence measuring device, a device to help humanity communicate with the dark cores that will be proven to be shaping their astrological destinies, to listen to plaintive candles in the wilderness, and let them sing their song; as the harmonics of the spheres and the ticking of the hyperclock ring at the speed of chi throughout the wan wu honeycomb; I have a plangence monitor, I use my mind to tune it, during my long quiet exhales; I'm tuning it to the music of the dark cores. The plangence monitor has to be focused in on a particular chi storm to call it all down, among all the mutually ignorant rays of the cacophony of random chi that trickles in comparison to what can be pulled down.

  Above, the one year design, 6 petals of 60 days each around the 9 hollow cells in the honey comb; cells not all squinched up next to eachother, but luxuriating in the surrounding couch of antitime, the calendar providing separation between the individual units.

  Then for the 100 years, 100 of these hexagons, in a fractal pattern that of course also has some hollowness at the center, a calendar that teaches philosophy at a single glance.

  On the one year and the one hundred year charts, there's time, there's anti time, and then alot of pure beautiful nonexistence, like a pool to bathe and nourish the time units, the time/anti time configuration suspended in it. The time starts to breathe, through antitime, into the great nothing beyond with the growth of luxurious non-existence. A 100-year chi magnifier, this tablet is designed to create energy, point is to hold it in for 100 years, then release in a quasar jet straight into heaven, and because emptiness and danger create energy, and this spirit tablet is the epitome of both emptiness, with all the spots between the hexagons, and danger, cause those are the days of the future, it's full of danger until each day is captured and tamed, and perfected. The one year chart, of 360 days, is a snowflake, with six similar stems, but each year takes on a unique life of its own, and so is very much a snowflake.

  After the first 60 day period is successful and the silent consent has been granted at the parade for the next one year installment, I'm going to be receiving two amazing gifts, so I hope this isn't about attachment, but I'm not getting silver and gold, or the sun and the moon, it's a magic cap and the number five.

  I have to go start putting the hat together and when I go to the parade the magic will be activated. - four small buttons sewn into the inside of it - red for the southern heaven in the front, black for the northern sky "dark warrior" in the back, green for the green dragon sky at my left in the east, and white for the white tiger at my right in the west, as I permanently face Southern Heaven, along with Han Xiang zi, who had the same configuration tattooed on himself when he became an immortal. Separately the spirit remains pointed in a single direction, facing the universe in one continuous meeting, the better to communicate effectively. The hat places me in the universe at the center, in a stationary direction, no matter which way my body points or turns, in order to place an ethereal antenna for my "ethereal antenna yoga", which is what that Taoist 4-direction-and-5-at-center ritual is.