What's been going on in my neck of the woods.

 Dear Reader,

I haven't been doing exactly too great over here. The tarot reading business that I was running I had to shut down because the site that I was working with has become too predatory in their approach towards advisors. It's bad enough when the cost of overhead for having a listing is 53% of your income. That was why I shut it down before. Then I came back, raised my prices and said if I had a brick-and-mortar site I was working at, that I'd have a good chunk of income go towards that and swallowed down that uptick (when I started with them, it was 30% of your income). 

The company that I was working with to have that listing changed hands again and they made changes to how they assessed metrics and the policies were punitive to part-time advisors. They were also screwing over people who had been long term (as in working with this place from when it was founded in the late 90s, long term) advisors with changes they were making to internal policies. Thrown on top of this, the company was no longer providing technical support advice via forums that had been set up for it, put the onus for trouble shooting problems with their app on the advisors, and made it practically impossible for you to get ahold of someone to actually address problems on the site for advisors, I had to walk away for good. Especially when they started erasing posts in the advisors only forum where advisors were discussing the challenges faced by policy action and posting a 'notice' (read warning) that only 'uplifting' posts were permitted. Sorry, Friend Computer, but happiness is not mandatory so you can go right to Hel.

I've been in a bit of an emotional tailspin for the last month or so because of this. It's made for a huge change to my daily schedule that I am struggling to cope with. It's further increased my social isolation due to the fact that I live in the boonies and I have a hard time socializing because of my social phobia. It's been a rough couple of weeks, y'all. It also looks like a writing gig that I had set up is falling apart despite the fact that I did a lot of work. It's emotionally really hard to realize that about three years worth of work and emotional investment is ultimately not going to go anywhere.

And then there's the writer's block that I realized was panic that all of my work blogging and writing was futile and a powerful wave of despair. So, in an effort to combat that despair, I am going to resume working on blog posts. I've got more time now. I am also going to get to work on the list of books that were supposed to be done but I was working on that other gig and forgot about those. The books are going to take a while because I have to get my notes in order and transfer stuff from old format to new format and rewrite a bunch of things. That's all before the dreaded editing process.

Next week, I will be back to posting stuff about Runes. We've got six left out of the Elder Futhork to cover and then that series will be finished. I will do a wrap up post that puts all of the links for each rune on it. After that, I haven't decided what direction I am going to go next on the divination front. I have to review what I have up here to see what I have missed. (Side note: sometime late summer <if everything goes according to plan> I will have the condensed version of the handbook for psychics out.)