March 9 - 7 of Pentacles

The seven of pentacles, the Whole Earth Catalog. Around a globe above a garden is the year 1968 and the motto "Access to tools." Below a central cloud encloses the phrases communications, understanding whole systems, community, shelter & land use, industry & crafts, nomadics. A cloud on the left says "unofficial handbook of the counterculture" and a cloud on the right says "Introduced to many: general systems theory, cybernetics, geodesic domes, ecology. A man labeled Steward Brand stands in the middle of the garden, in front of a geodesic dome, beneath the dome is written "conceptual forerunner to world wide web"

A positive vision of investment, seeing your goals, ideas and work finally bear fruit.

And it couldn't be a more beautiful card... The Whole Earth Catalog not only was the inspiration and dream of a living, accessible information infrastructure the internet was envisioned as, and can still, at its best moments, be... It contained so many ideas about distribution, handing people the tools they need, and empowering them to be able to DIY whatever crazy idea they wanted to run with.

This is not just the precursor of the parts of the internet that I love, and that I find make being an overly online weirdo occasionally worth it, but the source of many of my beliefs about zines, gamedev, art and culture in general. Unlike many of the last few cards, a card that made me happy to look at.