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a fish hook, an open eye – These Blue Bones

I recently purchased These Blue Bones by Rose Bae, and I am genuinely so thrilled with it. I bought the version printed on eco herbage paper, and it absolutely did not disappoint.

My first impression was honestly that the cards felt thin — but considering there are over 100 cards in the deck, it actually feels like the most practical choice possible. After sitting with it for a while, I realized the texture and weight match the emotional atmosphere of the deck perfectly. It feels exactly how you think it should feel. Fragile. Dreamlike. Worn around the edges in a way that somehow makes it even more intimate.

The very first card I pulled was A Fish Hook, An Open Eye, and immediately I thought:

I need a guidebook for this.

Not because the deck lacks depth — honestly, the opposite. The imagery is so layered and emotionally loaded that I wanted somewhere to put all the feelings, symbols, astrology, and psychological threads it was pulling out of me.

So naturally, instead of doing something reasonable, I decided:
I’m going to create my own guidebook for all 128 cards.

Which is admittedly a massive undertaking.

But I’m not in school right now, I’ve been wanting to reconnect with my decks in a deeper way, and honestly? I’m going through some things in my personal relationships and this feels like the perfect deck to unpack all of that with.

This project feels less like “studying tarot” and more like emotional archaeology.

I’m pulling from:

And I know this part is controversial to some people, but yes — I do use AI as part of my creative process. Not to replace my voice, but to help sharpen it. I work smarter, not harder, and I run my final edits through AI because sometimes I know exactly what I’m trying to say emotionally, but not always how to structure it cleanly.

I think there’s a clear difference between using a tool and letting a tool speak for you. This project still feels deeply personal to me. If anything, the process has helped me articulate thoughts I probably would have left floating around half-formed in my journals otherwise.

So this is the beginning of that project:
a personal guidebook for These Blue Bones.

The first entry is for the card:

A Fish Hook, An Open Eye

A card about limerence, haunting, emotional attachment, and the strange space between awareness and release.

And honestly?
Starting here feels a little too fitting for the times. Below are my thoughts on this card, my personal interpretation, and what I learned from my research thus far.

These Blue Bones

A Fish Hook, An Open Eye

Source / Inspiration

“You Fit Into Me” — Margaret Atwood (author of the handmaids tale)

you fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

Keywords

limerence · entanglement · longing · vulnerability · awareness · haunting

Interpretation

There is a difference between being loved and being held. This card lives in that space.

A Fish Hook, An Open Eye speaks to limerence — not love exactly, but the involuntary haunting of it. The replaying mind. The memory that arrives uninvited. You are not choosing to remember. You simply cannot stop.

The eye is already open. Awareness is present. And yet the hook remains embedded beneath the surface — barbed, curved, intentionally difficult to remove. This card often appears when the heart already knows something the body has not yet learned how to release.

The imagery holds tenderness and exhaustion in the same breath: a vintage embrace layered over churning waves, a dark orb suspended above like an eclipse or an unanswered question.

She is held.
Or she is caught.
Both are true.

When this card appears, emotional attachment may still outweigh clarity. You are not blind. You are hooked. It can point toward:

Reversed, the hook begins to loosen. This may signal emotional awakening, reclaiming boundaries, or finally recognizing the difference between love and emotional survival. But the shadow of this reversal is emotional shutdown — detachment so extreme that vulnerability itself begins to feel dangerous.

This card asks you to notice the difference between remembering someone and still belonging to them.

Astrological Associations

Correspondences

Tarot Parallels

Element

Timing

Questions to Ask

The eye opens long before the heart lets go.

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