What card am I? Literature clue - 17th June - Solved

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 17 Jun 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Dakota	17 Jun 2004
Okay, here goes, one of my favorite poems: Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness, you must travel where the Mayan in a muddy poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread, only kindness that raises it head from the crowd of the world to say, “It is I you have been looking for,” and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend. Naomi Shihab Nye (the actual card that brought this to mind is one of the adorable Baroque Bohemian Cats.......... :D if you want to look at them, they are here: http://www.bohemian-cats.com/ )

jmd	17 Jun 2004
Strength ?

Satori	17 Jun 2004
The cats were very charming. I say, The Emporer. Because to rule fairly a certain amount of kindness should be used, and a ruler really does need to understand the whole range of experiences her subjects go thru. Well, maybe that is in my world, not the real world.....

MattDouglas	18 Jun 2004
Going into the depths and dissolving in order to find the gold afterwards. Sounds like... The Moon.

tmgrl2	18 Jun 2004
Death What a beautiful passage, Dakota! Terri

Luminessence	18 Jun 2004
Facing the darker things in life so that you can leave them behind and experience happiness... I'd say Judgment.

mercenary30	18 Jun 2004
How about the Hanged Man!

Dakota	18 Jun 2004
Nope times six........... I finally got one that at LEAST made you pause........... :D

Luminessence	18 Jun 2004
Hmm... The Tower, then?

Dakota	18 Jun 2004
Nope, not The Tower, but, Luminessence, you were almost spot on what I was thinking with your first guess, just not the right card.......... :D

mercenary30	18 Jun 2004
The Hermit?

Luminessence	18 Jun 2004
3 of Swords?

Dakota	18 Jun 2004
Nope, nope............. the card is not that obviously about "sorrow" exclusively...........

Satori	18 Jun 2004
strength 3 swords Hermit Emporer Moon Death Judgement Hanged Man Tower I get too confused without the list..... So, What about~ Justice?

tmgrl2	18 Jun 2004
5 pents

Dakota	18 Jun 2004
No and no, but I did ponder the 5 of Pentacles for this poem. The 5 of Pents and Luminessence' comment about "facing the darker things in life so that you can leave them behind and experience happiness... " are the closest so far. :D

Satori	18 Jun 2004
8 of cups then.

Dakota	18 Jun 2004
AND ELF SCORES AGAIN!!!!!! Good going, Elf! Yep, that is what I was thinking of, you can see the card here, click on her to see her larger: http://www.bohemian-cats.com/c_cups.html I was sure Karen had posted an even larger version in her journal but I can't find it right now. There was just something about this cat's sad little face and the path extending out in front of her reminded me of the sense of loss and sorrow in the poem, the need to put sorrow behind one and go out into the world, even though we know "how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness". Over to you, Elf! :D

Satori	18 Jun 2004
Quote: Originally posted by Dakota Over to you, Elf! :D Whew....tomorrow is both mine and my husband's birthday, and a family day, so I will be a little occupied. I will try to at least post something tonight, but if I don't I promise it will be up Sunday! Thanks Dakota! Great poem by the way. I really enjoyed it. And yes, that little kitty looked very pensive. Nice cards.

Dakota	18 Jun 2004
Quote: Originally posted by elf Whew....tomorrow is both mine and my husband's birthday, and a family day, so I will be a little occupied. Well, then, let me be the first to say, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELF!!" How wonderful that you married a man with the same birthday! Is it the same year too? Amazing........... :D

Satori	18 Jun 2004
Yes. My husband is 3 hours older than me. Both 6/19/62...and we are Geminis! Thanks for the birthday wish...we also got married on the same day...so anniversary too. I should do the numerology on it...but I'm stillnew to numerology so I'm not sure what i'd do...anyway, I'm looking for the quote...

Satori	18 Jun 2004
I posted my clue. Good luck!

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