This morning, I drew the Fool from my RWS deck. I'm still following my tarot blogging template from the Tarot Connection #71 (check yesterday's post for further details). Basically, in the morning, I pull a card and describe it, in the evening I write about my day (like a regular journal) then I check a LWB or other document about tarot to tie it all together.
AM: The Fool depicts a young person, with no home, obligations, on a vast journey. The Fool doesn't notice the dog warning him that he is about to walk off the edge of a cliff. To me, it looks like he's holding a Yorkshire rose delicately in his fingertips.
PM: My day today- pretty typical. We are experiencing a pretty yucky rainy windstorm in Nova Scotia today, and it was very cold at work- I found myself trying to find things to do in other parts of the museum to keep warm, because the part of the facility where my office is kept is cold like whoah. I left work early for an appointment at the bank (they now know my married name- so exciting!). Then I came home and had tex mex for supper with my darling husband. We are now listening to Queen and watching Olympic culing (women's).
Interpretation: Today, I'll be using "A Complete Guide to the Tarot" by Eden Gray. A classic, it's novel-sized, and therefore easy to transport, and was recommended by a friend when he saw on my facebook that I'm learning to read. Let's see what Eden Gray has to say about The Fool in the reversed position.
Well, Eden Gray says a lot of things- this is the first time that I've cracked open this book, actually (I had a library book I wanted to finish first). Gray goes to great lengths to describe the card, and she's pointed out a lot of things that I noticed too (though she calls the rose simply a white rose- I guess I'm projecting my time spent in England onto the Fool). She also points out things I didn't see, like the fact that the Fool's hobo bundle is more of a purse of bag with an emblem of an eagle (I would have said it looks more like a stag!). Gray's divinatory meaning section is quite small, and says a lot of the same old stuff about the Fool, like how the Fool is a dreamer, and how he has the desire to accomplish a great goal but must be careful to make the right choice. In the reverse, the Fool means indiscretion, thoughtlessness, and making the wrong decision.
Hmm! I've definitely had my head in the clouds lately; I'm very preoccupied with money (earlier in the week, my Ace of Pentacles was actually more of a bad omen). I'm short 4 days of my contact this month as I've already worked and been paid for them earlier in the year, I hadn't realized I'd done that much overtime and now this month, I will monetarily suffer for it. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to make up the difference and I have a couple of aces up my sleeve, I hope. Maybe my drawing of the Fool, at what is the end of my work week and month (though not the calendar month *yet*) means I have to think carefully and keep my eyes open so I don't do something stupid.
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