Tarot challenge: final words
Apr. 7th, 2018 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodygranuaile Look, it's been a long week, OK?
I dropped Wyntercraft's 30-Day Tarot Challenge with two days left, so today I'm doing Day 29. The draw question for, uh, today was simply "Any final words?"
I drew Major Arcana VI, "The Lovers," represented in the Fairy Tale Tarot by "Jorinda and Joringal," a German tale I was unfamiliar with. Hunt's advice for this card is basically about the mutually reinforcing benefits of having strong social and community bonds--that by helping and supporting others, we will also grow and be supported, rather than depleted. This is probably good advice for me since I do have a bit of a tendency to be afraid of people Getting In My Way and Taking Up All My Time, even though I know that my life is much better when it has many great friends and comrades in it--I was kind of a lonely child and I remember how much it sucked. But I guess the idea here is to make sure I'm forging real, mutually supportive relationships with people and not just packing my calendar for the sake of packing the calendar.
Biddy also points out that the lovers can represent not only mutual support, but also the establishment of your own belief system and clarification of and commitment to your values. More vaguely, the Lovers represent choices you have to make--possibly difficult ones and/or ones with a strong moral dimension. So that's clearly something to think about.
I dropped Wyntercraft's 30-Day Tarot Challenge with two days left, so today I'm doing Day 29. The draw question for, uh, today was simply "Any final words?"
I drew Major Arcana VI, "The Lovers," represented in the Fairy Tale Tarot by "Jorinda and Joringal," a German tale I was unfamiliar with. Hunt's advice for this card is basically about the mutually reinforcing benefits of having strong social and community bonds--that by helping and supporting others, we will also grow and be supported, rather than depleted. This is probably good advice for me since I do have a bit of a tendency to be afraid of people Getting In My Way and Taking Up All My Time, even though I know that my life is much better when it has many great friends and comrades in it--I was kind of a lonely child and I remember how much it sucked. But I guess the idea here is to make sure I'm forging real, mutually supportive relationships with people and not just packing my calendar for the sake of packing the calendar.
Biddy also points out that the lovers can represent not only mutual support, but also the establishment of your own belief system and clarification of and commitment to your values. More vaguely, the Lovers represent choices you have to make--possibly difficult ones and/or ones with a strong moral dimension. So that's clearly something to think about.