Good morning!

You may recall that a couple of days ago, my first blog entry was a bit negative, moany and very much in the spirit of the Four of Cups. I mentioned the fact that a subsidiary of a well-known charity in the UK had decided it was okay to publish one of my articles under someone else’s name.

Yesterday I pulled the Justice card from the Mythic Tarot. Didn’t give it a great deal of thought about how it might to relate to current circumstances – I’m like that…  of course it isn’t about me… wrote the blog post and published it. Later on yesterday afternoon, I received a phone call from the ‘Properties Administrator’ of the charity concerned. She was lovely; she apologised profusely and told me the invoice for £250 I’d submitted with my complaint was being processed.

I felt awful, almost as if I’d done something wrong. I almost said I didn’t want the money but remembered that the charity is huge, very rich, and is nothing to do with children or animals 😀

Wasn’t until this morning that the penny dropped about the Justice card appearing for me four hours before the phone call came. Duh, I’m thick sometimes. Just goes to show, you can take the tarot literally and it is possible to predict the future. As long as you are paying attention, of course!

Today, I have selected to play with Shadowscapes Tarot. This is not the sort of deck I would buy for myself, but my DuH (Dear un-Husband) bought it for my birthday. It’s a pretty-pretty deck, populated by sylphs, faeries, dragons and other mythical creatures. It’s beautifully done with gorgeous muted watercolours. Not a deck I would pick for a reading. Nevertheless, I’m going to draw a random card and see if it has something to tell me.

It says: What the hell are you doing talking to a card?

Okay, I’m going to leave that there – my son decided to make a contribution to my post while I was momentarily distracted. He’s sort of right though, why does Tarot involve a two way dialogue? “Tarot: ideas generator tool for writers and creatives” looks at how and why one would want to talk to a card… but, y’know, it’s what we do 🙂

Shuffling, shuffling… Three of Pentacles. A beautiful silver and green card depicting a semi-robed man hoisting up a similarly dressed woman so that she can fix some ephemeral-looking disks up on a wall. A bright green lizard-type-thing sits on the man’s shoulder, looking a little incongruous, as it defies the law of gravity. Let’s have a look at the Shadowscapes Companion book. I have a minor irritation with the book — the headings for each minor simply say “Two” or “Seven”. They don’t indicate the suit, so you can’t easily flit to a page you want unless you are very familiar with the book’s layout. And I’m not.

“They work together as one, creating a human ladder and climbing upon each other’s shoulders… Into the stone wall she inscribes her pentacles and circles They form a chain of overlapping arcs like her interlinked relationships… It is a mathematical equation of human relationships and interactions.”

Ah, so she’s drawing the disks with her finger, not hanging a Christmas decoration. No mention of the green creature. Perplexing. Google then. Nothing, although I did find an interesting ‘interview’ of the deck here. Perhaps the lizard is standing in for the third person who usually appears in the Three of Pents?

This is an apt card for me right now. Our two children are home-schooled, so the three of us have to work out ways to integrate and cooperate constantly. It’s a learning path for each of us. There are things I want them to do. There are things they want to do. I have tasks to accomplish each day, and so do they. Recently I have felt as though we are out of step; that the children need to engage more in organising themselves. They are often content to leave it up to me and I am becoming somewhat irritated with having to micro-manage stuff for them.

My partner and I spent some time discussing the problem last night, we both agree that I need to step back and allow the children to experience the consequences of not being ready on time or not completing homework for their creative writing course. This morning, they seemed to make an effort to get themselves moving. They both tidied their rooms and helped a bit around the house. In turn I made myself available to help with their studies, so there was definitely a real Three of Pentacles thing going on. I’m going to think about it and see if there are more ways to bring the energy of cooperation into our days.

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