8:3
1)
I’m going to look at the VR 5 of Pents for this:
Accepted metaphors:
I used “down but not out” for the RWS 5 of Pents in apprentice step 8 and I think it applies here as well.
On the VR 5 of Pents a woman is holding onto a hand-made cross as she, simultaneously, holds her son outside the steps of a building.
There is a weariness in her face as in their clothes. “Times are tough”, comes to mind as well, but the times can also (and have been) worse.
Both “times are tough” and “down but not out” make me think that I’ve been blessed with a sort of optimism, to my core. I may complain, be puzzled, appear less than stellar at times, but, I do believe, my actions have been forward looking, ultimately.
2)
Deleted metaphors:
I find it funny that one of my rejected metaphors was “mother’s little helper” from apprentice step 8. This seems to strangely fit the VR 5 of Pents and speaks of recent events in relation to my own mother. When I read through my rejects I laughed because they all spoke to me to one degree or another, now.
“practice makes perfect”
“long and winding road”
“bringing down the house”
“a life less ordinary”
I felt all these to one degree or another for the last three months. Having to run things myself at work, taking over her clients (mother’s little helper), doubting if I could do a good job (bringing down the house), fearing I would damage business for her. Learning while on the job (practice makes perfect), the long hours on my feet (long and winding road), having my day to day schedule disrupted (a life less ordinary), and being changed by it on many different levels.
For the VR 5 of Pents, the boy comes to my attention when I think of “mother’s little helper” as he sits, and shares his mother’s fate. It was my mother who broke her wrist and yet I also became affected in a different manner in regards to the circumstance. I think this little boy will be compelled on some level to never experience poverty ever again as an adult. I believe it will be upper most in his mind as he grows.
That’s just what I feel from this card, along with a deep, abiding love for his mother.
3)
I will have to be the
boy in the VR 5 of Pents:
It is so cold I can barely stand it this morning. We woke up so early as we always do, so that we can get to the soup kitchen, and mother sell her crosses. Sometimes I get scared, what will happen if mom isn’t around anymore. What will happen to me?
I love her so, and worry that she is killing herself with father leaving and now us not having a home. I love her arm around me, it makes me feel warm, even now.
I’m very close to my mother, very close, and many times it had seemed as if it was just the two of us against the world…lol, another metaphor!
This card hit close to home and I am surprised as to how the simple words from the boy, were, in fact, my words, in my heart.
4)
The VR 4 of Wands:
Switching shifts
now…
~What metaphors for your card most surprise and delight?
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get up and go!
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where there’s a will, there’s a way
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don’t rain on my parade
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strike up the band!
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making the hard look easy
~Which do you find fresh and intriguing?
“strike up the band”
These gals in the VR 4 of Wands maybe a bit raggedy, but I sense, they put their whole heart into that performs. It is their
intent to please and entertain, and it will be the same intent to transform them into a rousing success.
~Which depict an improvement in circumstances?
“get up and go!”
I think it is in the peace and happiness that is on the girl's face, the one in the crowd. Hey, if you can make just one person’s day a little better, mission accomplished(metaphor?)!
~Which challenge you to become a better person?
“where there’s a will, there’s a way”
Again, a reminder to tap into that core optimism that make things happen.
~Which require that you use and increase your skills?
“making the hard look easy”
Learning for me has always been better when it is a (metaphor alert)hands on experience. For my profession (hairdresser) that fits rather perfectly, but it really has to be done over and over again.
In the last 7 years since I started doing hair, it has gotten better, and I can make something look easy…something that I really did put my (here we go again)
blood, sweat, and tears into
~Which ask you to do something you’ve never done before?
Probably
“making the hard look easy”, but not in terms of profession.
It’s one thing to read something out of a book. The words can be meaningful and touching giving to some thought. It is the changing of attitude and thought that is a challenge to me every day. With the VR 4 of wands, the four does promise stability in my life, but it will take work. Wands is about what inspires, to get out of those things, the habitual ways of thinking/being that wear a person down. To drop it. In this 4 of Wands, I think this musical crew is challenging the crowd to drop whatever worries they may carry for just a few minutes. To enjoy a show, a song, a dance, and to have that spirit/energy raise them up. With the 4, that little happiness may endure far longer than anyone ever suspected.
~Which metaphors share something in common with your goal?
“where there’s a will, there’s a way”
Sometimes it seems that everyone and their brother have a goal, and in some of the teachings I’ve been reading, the word “goal” come up. For the longest time, I thought of what my own goal was about. I am a seeker, first and foremost. I can’t help it, I am drawn to knowing something bigger than myself, it is just my thing. Can’t really earn money from it, but it gives me a peace that is priceless. The VR 4 of Wands isn’t the London Symphony, and yet, they have their place in the world, and in what they give to others. The only way to give, for me, is to understand where I’ve been, where I want to go. As I make my way to an enduring inner peace, I find that I can give a little more of myself to others. This, in turn, brings me moments of quiet happiness. I will work toward this goal, and play my part as best as I can…just like this little raggedy crew of performers(VR 4 of Wands).
