New Perspective: 56: You'll have to get over it.

While on the road this morning, I was thinking about my system of using three dice to consult the Minor Arcana and wondering if there were any way of modifying it so as to incorporate the Major Arcana as well. As I was thinking about this, a motorcyclist pulled in front of me wearing this jacket (photo from the Internet):

This motorcyclist stayed right in front of me for several minutes. Since there are 56 Minor Arcana, the message on the jacket seemed synchronistically relevant to what I was thinking about. At first I thought it was a rejection of my train of thought: "The 56 Minor Arcana alone. That's the new perspective, and you'll just have to get used to it." After a little more thought, though, I reached the opposite conclusion. Right now I can roll two dice for the 21 Trumps Major or three for the 56 Major Arcana, but I have to get over --i.e., exceed -- that number 56. The number I need is 78, and it will take a new perspective to get it.

This took place while I was on my way to a barber shop to get my head shaved. There was a new employee there, a woman with tattoos on her arms, and she was the one I got. On her left upper arm there were three tattoos: at the top, a lemniscate infinity-sign; below that, the words "things will turn out fine" in all-lowercase blackletter; below that, the familiar figure of the Grim Reaper -- a skeleton in a black cowl -- but holding a steaming mug of coffee instead of the usual scythe.

I connected these tattoos with my reading for November, posted in "I am that Enkidudal boy":

The lemniscate appears on the Strength card. The Death card shows the Grim Reaper without a scythe; he has instead a black flag with a white five-petaled flower on it. Black is the color of coffee, and the flower of the coffee plant is white and has five petals. The remaining card, the Tower, shows a building in flames. In meme world, a building in flames is associated with things being "fine." The meme has a cup of coffee, too.

When I did that reading, the first thing I noted was that all three cards were Major Arcana, so that syncs with the idea that I "have to get over" the 56-card deck.

I also noticed this at the barber shop:

I recently read a book about the history of Jewish punk rock in New York, but as it happens my most recent post -- "A 'strolling' Clash concert" -- is about an English punk rock band.