Sunday, April 11, 2021

April 11, 2021: XVIII The Moon and 3 of Swords.

 

Interesting cards for today, considering. 'Nuff said.

My Inner Focus card is XVIII The Moon.  The image on this card shows a woman who appears to be putting on or taking off her clothes, standing next to an open window.  Through the window we see a naked man from the chest up who appears to be hanging onto the window sill, with a startled look on his face.  Behind him and blowing in the wind is a shirt.  There is a bench below the window inside the room, and the woman is slightly bent over with one knee resting on that bench, grasping the clothes that are piled there.  She is wearing something on her head and there is what appears to be her blouse looped around her shoulders, but her arms are outside and below the blouse.  The woman's wide-eyed gaze is facing into the room and out of our view, and she appears panicked.  Her other hand is turned toward the window, with her palm facing the man, as if gesturing for him to get away.  The key phrases for this card are: the unexpected can ruin plans but perhaps the undertaking was flawed, and there is a risk of things being blown out of proportion.

Ugh, the dreaded 3 of Swords!  The Decameron 3 of Swords image shows a man with a toothy grin leaning against a stout wooden door in a stone block masonry wall, peeking through the keyhole in the door.  The key phrases for this card are: jealousy, the fight for possession, and morbidity.

There is one commonality between these two cards: perception.  The image on The Moon of the Decameron deck seems to show a woman who was caught in the act of some tryst, trying to shove the man out the window so they won't be caught.  She is obviously worried about how she will be perceived if she is caught; we can tell by the wide-eyed look of horror on her face.  The man appears stunned, as if he was wondering how he went from having a woman in his arms to hanging naked outside a window with his clothes floating in the wind.  We can very easily imagine that the man in the image of the 3 of Swords just pounded on that heavy door, and is peeking through the keyhole to see what is going on inside the room.  

Illusion and visualization are related concepts, and there is a danger inherent in them both if we take them alone, without knowing other factors within a situation.  We can panic in anticipation of something bad and have our actions make things worse.  We can make a judgment only based on what we see through the keyhole, without taking into consideration background and periphery facts.  Today I need to remember that I should not panic or judge without knowing the other side of things, and I should be wary of allowing those effects to influence me if they come from outside of me.  

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