Red-haired druid holding a torch and staff in a rune-carved cave

Tuatha Dé Lee

Poetry, Magic, Literature

  • Any room, at desk, 6 February ’26

    Armored Monkey King holding a glowing staff in a waterfall-filled jungle cave

    Antonio Damasio

    The Affective Scheme

    “Affect”: based on duration, intensity, origin

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    1. Emotion: automated, physical programs of action triggered by stimuli; unconscious, universal, and brief; essentially biological data points.
    2. Feelings: conscious, subjective experience and mental labelling of an emotion; cognitive and personal; can be non-emotional (homeostatic or cognitive).
    3. Moods: sustained emotional states that are less intense but more lasting than emotions; backdrop that colours all other perceptions.
    4. Temperament: stable, trait-level disposition toward certain types of moods and emotions; biologically rooted and enduring over a lifetime, default emotional setting.

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    Bedroom, going to sleep, 12 July ’26

    NORTH; WATER (Shū / 水); EAST; WOOD (Mù / 木); FIRE (Huǒ / 火); SOUTH; WEST; METAL (Jīn / 金); EARTH (Tǔ / 土)

    Less screen, more fire and water. Find a home on the road. Trade willingly. Pair your fair share. Do not steal; instead, kill your pride.

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    You are water, grass, ground, poison, ice, flying, fighting, electric, mind-using being. What you do with resource matters more than what you have.

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    It is all in the understanding that life without pressure is better and lighter. Understand narratives while creating them.

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    Victory road looks scary for a babyface. It is an exciting struggle. The elements provide questions and answers. There are useful lessons to be learned in the duels.

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    Now, we start to prepare with method and with feeling. There is no superior element, just balance. There is no superior phase, just the Xing.

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    The five, the four, the three, the two, the one, no one. Learn the language. Walk the way. Take what you must. Give with a good heart and a good mind. Evolve. Let go.

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    Clean up.

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    Mind Monkey,

    Lee

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