Jeff Kitchen, Dramatist / Author / Founder / Consultant: The URL is Sabian symbols.com
forward slash the dash Oracle and it's s-a-b-i-a-n.
Film Courage: What's next?
Jeff: I’m really liking how dynamic this story is and how
it's loaded with possibility in a really fun way.
It made me curious, there's this thing that's similar to like a tarot reading that's called the
Sabian Oracle that works with the Sabian symbols. You get like a little mini reading from it.
It was an astrologer sat down in the 1920’s with a psychic and held up 360 cards one degrees two
degrees and she saw an image for each one and he recorded them. You like focus on a question
trigger. It's the same thing in Tarot, you think about a question and then pick some cards
and you get some kind of reading from it. This is not something I'm into. I do it a few times a
year out of curiosity. Sometimes it's not worth much, sometimes it's really interesting and so
just for a story that's this kind of partially formed with a lot of interesting potential
I thought it would be just curious to see what what comes up for it wonderful so
so really I just want to like focus for a minute on what I'm actually questioning
this would be the intention of your story the protagonist's journey it's more like a question
and like so as I'm focusing I'm finding myself in the position of the android like I'm being
the robot and kind of like looking at the world that now confronts me probably the Sun
and in my confusion about the contradictory elements
it's almost like what is this I'm not sure if I'm not sure if I'm vocalizing it right
but almost like what is this story about
and I'm seeing it from the point of view of this like confused robot
the site is what is the URL of the website okay so here's what it said
a nature spirit dancing in the midst of a waterfall
that's what this psychic that's the image she saw a nature spirit dancing in the midst
of the waterfall and then there's like an interpretation so I'm just the image
doesn't do a lot for me right away but I'm curious the paragraph below it what that says
it says this symbol shows skipping lightly over the surface of Life dancing and playing
you may feel emotionally light and almost mischievous the worries of life and the
deeper parts of your feelings are ignored as you effortlessly flit over the surface of any troubles
whilst this is essentially a beautiful symbol of Joy Harmony and a lightness of being there may be
an element of feeling cut off from your body or reality this can lead to a sense of alienation or
difficulty in knowing where to land or evading Problems by ignoring them or Rising above them
effervescent Spirits dancing in a Carefree manner water and fun Peter
Pan attitudes celebrations of the natural world waterfalls Mist nymphs fairies subtle Energies
irresponsibility the avoidance of real situations not taking anything
seriously escapism moving or flying around perceptions of light fear of dark places naive
so that's interesting in terms of this robot and and what's interesting about it is
we talked about the sun corrupting the operating system of this kind of like Super Robot for lack
of a better word and we talked about like seeing Spock like on catnip where he's like rolling
around on the floor laughing and like this reminds me of that and it kind of amplifies that aspect
of this story in an interesting way in other words it's just a what if it's it's kind of
like the 36 dramatic situations like I'm looking at ambition and it triggers a lot of possibilities
as I'm looking at this like the image itself a nature spirit dancing in the midst of a waterfall
I was like I don't know what that means didn't really like grab me but the explanation is great
feeling emotionally light and almost mischievous that's an interesting word
the worries of life and deeper parts of your feelings are ignored as you effortlessly flit
over the surface of any troubles it's almost like this the sun has like gotten them high on crack or
something like he's like this robot that's usually like that's not logical we shouldn't do that like
really organized efficient on top of things all of a sudden like I want to look at the little
birdie and can we wrestle it's like just kind of deliberately like had a wire snipped by the new
owner to make it more malleable and yet it's also plays into well it talks about the element it says
well this is essentially a beautiful symbol of Joy Harmony and a lightness of being there
may be an element of feeling cut off from your body or reality which is interesting for a robot
cut off from reality is one thing cut off from your body is another
but it really is like a personality change
and yet it seems great like you're happier
you don't care about logic anymore like Spock wants to play the guitar
instead of do Quantum calculations or something
Um this can lead to a sense of alienation or difficulty in knowing where to land
see that's the thing of like
I used to be super clear about ethics and how to navigate certain types of things and now I'm like
it reminds me of the what was it um
the the killer robot movie from years ago RoboCop and at one point toward the end of the movie The
RoboCop is trying to go down a set of stairs but it can't do stairs the way and it comes up to
the and it's like toes are like trying to like it's trying to like how do you do this like it
and it fell down the stairs well the idea of like trying to difficulty in knowing where to land like
how do I navigate this terrain it's foreign to me now that I feel more giddy or like the robot's
gonna think this has been a great upgrade in his system but it really it's like snipped a wire
and made him happier and looser which is desirable from his point of view because he wants to be
human it's like data learning how to laugh and yet it's also like this is kind of scary I feel
out of sorts I don't know what's real effervescent Spirits dancing and carefree manner water and fun
remember we kept talking about the beach and being a good Surfer Peter Pan attitudes it's
it's interesting it's like the sun could really have sort of gotten him high what I mean and
it's he's like this is fun I can surf the girls like me it's like I ate a hot dog today it's like
it's tempting
and it's not just tempting it's gratifying and it's also
discombobulating if that's the right word like the lack of judgment
but it's liberating I mean that's it and it see how it fits in with the Dilemma like I can't
let go of this because it's creating me it's the best thing that ever happened to me and I can't
keep doing this because I don't trust it I feel manipulated part of me is like screaming that this
is all wrong and the art other part of me is like let's smoke more crack this is great so it's like
but I know that smoking the crack is bad but I need I'm starving for that human capacity
and then the negative aspect of it is irresponsible irresponsibility
avoidance of real situations not taking anything seriously escapism naivete
so that was just like a fun venture but it really
suggested a highly specific way that the sun could corrupt the operating system
and it's a reward system it's experiencing some of the joys of being human
in a way that's irresistible and yet also
and it's very much wish granting here's your wish of becoming a real boy
and be careful if yeah you get all your wishes but things go wrong too in this type of story
but that was that was an interest ing what if
did you type in a question no okay I just thought about it you just and then just
hit this button and then it brings this up but I was focused you could see me focus
for a minute like I'm the robot I'm like what how do I deal with this and like what's this
story about of this robot trying to figure out how to deal with this and that just popped up
and I probably won't even think about this for
another six months like it's not part of my normal thing at all.