Author: David Schwarm
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This week we are guided by the Two of Pentacles
The image is of a man standing by the waves of the sea, deftly juggling two pentacles that represent juggling different situations in life (for example, work and home). It is about choices and priorities. You might feel as if you don’t have the heart to choose one thing over the other. You might choose to focus on one thing and ignore another temporarily, keeping both alive. However, this allows neither to thrive.
Sometimes, juggling two things can also be a lifesaver, allowing you to have a failsafe in the event things don’t go your way.
The Two is, as always, bound up in the forces of change, and of balance. Like its brothers, the Two of Pentacles can mean good or ill, but it as a strong indicator that the status quo will be disrupted. There will be challenges in your future, but your fate is largely in your own hands in the sense that the final outcome depends own how you respond to these challenges. The suit of this card suggests your best outcome is one that can be reached through prioritization, time-management, multi-tasking and careful planning.
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From “The Uncured World” by Elisabeth Frost
I decide to name my body. Jane. Jean. Janet. I’ve never liked names that begin with that uncertain sound, wobbling between consonant options like a bowling pin on the fritz. But I need to embrace a thing I have never cared for. As a kid I loved the game of telephone, one mishearing after another, the transformation, the delight at the end when the secret of the final whisperer was unveiled. Incense, insect, instant. Drench, trench, wrenched. Language, languish, anguish. We played at the margins of the senses, pretended loss where there was none, made the privilege of hearing into a game. One erasure, another erasure. Janet—unfixed, unmoored, unwell—time to mobilize.
David Given Schwarm 