i think a lot, these days, about the imaginative work of abolition. we are so steeped in the carceral mindset that it can be hard to think of what a world could look like without police or prisons.
personally, it helped me to read woman at the edge of time by marge piercy, which shows what a possible future could look like: a utopia where people care about each other, even during disputes, and where people have the resources they need and the freedom to do with their lives as they will.
i also think about the work of killing the cop in my own head (or, as i saw on twitter, “retiring” the cop in my own head). i think of when my therapist asked me if i wanted justice or revenge on my abuser, and how the answer was revenge. revenge would be easy, whereas i don’t even really know what justice would look like.
this work is hard, and necessary. the three of stones, or wands, is here to support us in that work, to envision a future where, for instance, the police are not out there tear-gassing and beating citizens every night for 45 days. where my twitter feed isn’t full of short videos of police brutality. where we are all free.
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this week’s deck: the wooden tarot
this week’s crystals: selenite