Call of the Wild

This is interesting. My mum received a ticket for speeding yesterday. At 66, it's the first she has ever had and it worried her. We were all quite surprised by it, even though she was only a couple of miles per hour over the speeding limit. What was interesting was that I flipped back over the blog to see what had been going down on that day in October and saw that the card I'd pulled was Justice. At the time, I had likened the couple in the illustration from the Celtic Dragon Tarot to my parents, as they stood beneath the great dragon of the law, who held up a piece of paper. At the time, it made sense to see the dragon as our solicitor, but now, I wonder if he may have been holding up the speeding fine to them both, since they were together in the car at the time of the incident, probably returning from their weekly grocery shop. Sometimes, I think we have to be open to the tarot images. It was easy for me to see the solicitor in the card on that day because the house move was on my mind. Some people find it difficult to read for themselves for that reason, because we can jump to very narrow conclusions and not be open to ideas which might not fit at that exact moment. If I had been more general and suggested a situation with the law, regarding some kind of legal paperwork, I would have been that bit more on track. All of this aside, it is interesting to use this experience as a way of learning to provide more useful readings. It's hard to try and not pinpoint details, since that is part of the fun of reading, but we must listen to the tarot, rather than enthusiastically shove words into it's mouth.


As I thought, my visit to the Job Centre yesterday was near to pointless. I spent half an hour there, while the woman clicked boxes on her computer and printed out stuff I didn't really need. The only thing I really wanted her to do was change my home address, so she gave me a form. Can you believe that to change my home address for correspondence, I have to fill in a 47 page booklet (yes, I did say 47 pages). What ever happened to the paperless office? I came away from there with my usual feelings of apathy and did some grocery shopping for my parents, since they couldn't get out due to the guys still fitting the boiler and working on the bathroom. Regardless of that, my mother's leg is still providing great pain, so walking away from the home is not something she has been able to indulge in for the last few months. My own fatigue has been a problem too, so shopping for stuff after my appointment at the Job Centre really tired me out.

So, what have we got for today? The Fool. I like how this card from The Mountain Dream Tarot sits in the framed mount I added. I found these online some time ago, where a user was offering them up for use free of charge and thought they would be nice for the blog. This particular old photo works nicely with this frame, which I adapted to make the hole bigger. In fact, I've changed the holes about from mount to mount and altered their size and the elements around them with a little Photoshop jiggery-pokery.

This fool has taken his eye off of the road. I guess he's trusting in either that flower for luck or the little dog to tell him if he's about to walk into danger. Sometimes, it's good to look about and appreciate your surroundings. I was saying as much to a blogging friend the other day. So many people are set on their goal that they don't see what they have at the moment. I have sacrificed so much of my enjoyment in the present by worrying consistently about what's in the future; whether that is not being where I think I should be in my career, or whether it's my anxiety over health and stability. There's a beautiful world out there that I am missing. Skip the diet for a day, apply for a job you know you'll probably not get or just take a walk in the icy but beautiful Winter breeze.

I finally heard from my mate yesterday and the cards had been right in suggesting that she'd disappeared beneath the waves of depression. After scraping about at the bottom of the seabed, she says that she is now on her way back up again, thank goodness. I am set to speak with both her and my pregnant friend this afternoon, before possibly helping my mum with the Christmas tree. As The Fool is about taking chances and throwing caution to the wind, I will also find five minutes to shoot a few emails off to some jobs I have seen advertised. I'm not particularly sure I am the right candidate, but with this energy in play, what have I got to lose?


Illustration from The Mountain Dream Tarot by Bea Nettles