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Tarot Card for Today: Seven of Vessels—Mourning
Description
A human skull painted with an array of designs, including spirals, zigzags and wavy lines lies at the foot of a tree. Around it are scattered typical grave goods: five cups, an oil lamp, and an offering bowl.
Meaning
This is a time to honor what is dead and mourn for what has gone. Learn the lesson of letting go by offering thanks for cherished memories and being at peace with the past.
Reading Points
Mourning begins the process of recovery after failure or bereavement. This process may even be unconscious, for we often do not realize what things were significant to us until they are gone. Mourning serves to realise the process of being at peace with loss and honour the passing of what is important and significant in a personal relationship. It allows the tidal flow of emotions to rise and fall naturally through the psyche and bring a sense of closure or completion and peace. This may take time, of course, and some losses are felt more acutely than others as mourning is a very personal and individual process, sometimes taking years to complete. In Ireland, the wake exemplifies one way of processing and dealing with loss by turning the ritual into a celebration of life and achievement. The celebration of the completed journey and the beginning of a new one has been a part of the human mourning process since the dawn of time. Whatever the loss, whoever the wake is being held for, let them go with love, and honour their passing with fond memories. Hold the golden, beautiful moments of life close and let their passing not go without a note of reverence for a life fully lived.
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November 12, 2024 2:21 PM (EST)
Dear Allison & the Onyx Savant,
How are y'all and my Canid Shadows of the Stygian Forest? 😋 I woke up extraordinarily late today. 1236, like I’m practically in college or something. I also stayed up until 0300 for no particular reason. I took my meds late yesterday, and I did cut the dose, but I guess not enough. Also the light is messing with me at this time of year. It always takes some getting used to. Why can we not leave well enough alone? Smh.
I got a new tarot deck on Saturday. It’s lovely, imho, and quite magickal. It’s The Wildwood Tarot by Mark Ryan and John Matthews. I think it has more masculine energy than the Rackham Tarot, which is based on illustrations from magazines and fairy tales. Some might even call this deck masculine, but I think it is more neutral than anything. I like that, really, having grown up in a very patriarchal, religious tradition I am not eager to swing the pendulum to the other direction out of spite. I always just wanted equity and equality in spirit. This deck feels like that. Where gender may be different but not unequal. I think it will make any manly men feel more comfortable getting a reading if they felt so inclined. Just saying. You know how “rational” guys can be about these things. (It’s already a tarot deck. We’re not doing chemistry experiments and titrations and things.)
I have a lot to do. We’ve been kind of living in squalor through the holiday weekend, but it is time to get in shape. Ms. B has Ben terrorising me with her staring lately. I am trying, trying to ignore it, but it’s like getting a D&C along the back of my skull and spine all the time. I guess just the C part of that, but regardless. The US military needs to find a way to weaponise this, I'll swawney to my soul. O.S., I know I poo-poohed you when you mentioned Chingo doing this in the past. Please forgive me for all my many and multitudinous failings. You were right and I was wrong. Put that in your diary and smoke it.
I am going to get up and pretend I am not psychologically tortured by her. Go-go-gadget dissassociation! I hope you both have a brilliant day and get a lot more done than I will. Have a blast and be safe.
Love y’all more than pumpkin pie,
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