Have you had enough yet?

I think that the second card in today's set, which I have nicknamed Repose, seems to always turn up when I am tired. It is a card that I have begun to relate to as a calming of the mind, a closing of the eyes, and the sending away of worry and anxiety. I was up early this morning for the first day in a new school. My boyfriend drove me through the dense traffic, and once there, one of the other practitioners and I visited each of the classes, talking with the teachers and briefly meeting the pupils from each of the sixteen groups I will work in. After reviewing the day, I then needed to go to a hotel on the motorway to meet with an agent so that we could talk about another project I am working on. It is no surprise that Repose is here today, since I am really shattered. Today has been pretty draining.

I have an idea what the first card in this duo might mean and relates to someone else in my life, who needs to finish a relationship. Two skulls sit together on a dark stretch of sand, and behind them, a lightning storm rages. For me, this card suggests an ending - a little like Death in the tarot deck, it is less severe than it looks. As well as highlighting this situation, I wonder if it is suggesting that my computer is on it's way out, since it had another little tantrum this evening. For the third time this week, it would not turn on properly and needed to be turned off and on about seven times before it began to boot properly. I am using it now and have taken the opportunity to put a lot of my files on a stick, just in case it fails to let me back on in the future and takes it's final breath. I can't complain about this machine really, since it has worked it's backside off for the last six years, day in and day out, but I could do without the expense of having to buy a new one at the moment.

It has been hard to escape tomorrow's royal wedding. Since I walked through the door this evening, all I have seen on the television are the final steps of the single William and Kate, documentaries about their past, programmes associated with their wedding, and footage of the thousands of nutjobs that have already been camping out on the streets for two days. I have to say that the prince and his fiance do come across as a pretty likeable and down to earth couple, but as with everything in this country, they have been forced down our throats by the media to the point where we are just about sick of the sight of them. On the night before their wedding, am I the only one who has had enough?



Illustrations from The Dark Beach Oracle by Prince Le Normand