Re: My Planetary Week # 24: November 3 - 9
Posted: 10 Nov 2018, 18:25
Wednesday, ruled by Mercury: Interactions and Change
Today is my birthday, so when I pulled this card my first impulse was to put it back and choose another one. But the tarot always gives us the perfect card and this is no exception. Simple-minded and absurd, so maybe a little endearing as well. A phallic symbol given precedence over the head - a common pose for Scorpios (which rhymes!). But the drumstick also looks like a radio antenna for picking up distant signals, which is useful for a tarot card reader: Mercury is the planet of interactions. The element of Fire is linked to this suit: the flash of intuitive inspiration. The Beatles as a band achieved their special magic only after Ringo replaced Pete Best as the drummer, so the Ace of Sticks is the force that gets things started. The music can't begin until Ringo brings the stick crashing down. The Ace of Sticks is at the beginning of the suit, just as we start projects with a maximum of raw potential energy at our disposal. But the question is whether or not this stick is going to be held aloft eternally and the music never gets started. One of the words associated with Mercury is change, so I wonder if nothing in my life is ever going to change.
Ace of Sticks (suit of Ringo)Today is my birthday, so when I pulled this card my first impulse was to put it back and choose another one. But the tarot always gives us the perfect card and this is no exception. Simple-minded and absurd, so maybe a little endearing as well. A phallic symbol given precedence over the head - a common pose for Scorpios (which rhymes!). But the drumstick also looks like a radio antenna for picking up distant signals, which is useful for a tarot card reader: Mercury is the planet of interactions. The element of Fire is linked to this suit: the flash of intuitive inspiration. The Beatles as a band achieved their special magic only after Ringo replaced Pete Best as the drummer, so the Ace of Sticks is the force that gets things started. The music can't begin until Ringo brings the stick crashing down. The Ace of Sticks is at the beginning of the suit, just as we start projects with a maximum of raw potential energy at our disposal. But the question is whether or not this stick is going to be held aloft eternally and the music never gets started. One of the words associated with Mercury is change, so I wonder if nothing in my life is ever going to change.