Final Reading

My final reading went as detailed below:

Significator Card: Justice (see: previous post)
Spread: Celtic Cross

Questions:
1. Present: How is Cabot Koppers?
2. Immediate Challenge: What does Cabot Koppers want to teach Alachua County?
3. Distant Past: From where did Cabot Koppers come?
4. Recent Past: What does Cabot Koppers want to be?
5. Best Outcome: What is at the top of Cabot Koppers' Jacob's Ladder?
6. Immediate Future: What music does Cabot Koppers produce?
7. Factors Affecting Situation: What is the appliance of Cabot Koppers?
8. External Influences: How does Alachua County want to dance with Cabot Koppers?
9. Hopes and Fears: What does Cabot Koppers dream about?
10. Final Outcome: How can we help Cabot Koppers?

Answers:
1. Queen of Wands --> Rimbaud
2. 2 of Swords --> Telephone Poles
3. 7 of Cups Reversed --> The Rhizome
4. Temperance Reversed --> Louis the Chiropractor (Jacob's Ladder)
5. 4 of Swords --> My Bed
6. 6 of Wands Reversed --> Surveillance Camera
7. 3 of Cups Reversed --> Cabot Koppers Shake
8. The Tower Reversed --> The Inferno (Jacob's Ladder)
9. 8 of Pentacles Reversed --> Messy Room
10. The Chariot --> Helicopter (Jacob's Ladder)

General Reading: Cabot Koppers is not just a disaster of spatial proportions, but an accident of necessarily temporal dimension. In this sense, we cannot merely follow the telephone poles spatially to Cabot Koppers, mapping them as such, but rather we also need to follow the telephones back to the knotted desire of our past that engendered such an accident in the primary position. In this sense (truly!), the telephone poles function generally as analogues for pepper: the spatial strategies of their mapping only gestures towards our future disaster (such is the accident: the shipwreck was invented by the ship [Virilio]). To this end, the immediate challenge for Cabot Koppers is not merely spatial, but more importantly temporal: we have already mapped and demarcated the Superfund site, and we know where the poisons are (dioxin, arsenic, etc.); the question is how to move, in active, dynamic process and production, towards a place that not only adjusts Cabot Koppers in the service of well-being, but does so in a manner that prevents the next accident-cum-disaster? The Chariot as the Final Outcome is quite fitting: the entire spread, regardless of the nuanced hermeneutics of the poetics at hand, inevitably rests upon that of will power and determination. The potential aesthetic power of this electrate method means nothing if it collapses back into stagnant epistemology and blind-spot lethargy.