Joules
Isn't synchronicity wonderful?
Hello again, and thanks for the warm welcome. Emma says it's lovely to be appreciated - it makes it all worthwhile!
On reading this, I checked my own pack and found that that square is indeed blank. But it certainly wasn't on the proofs (I've scanned and posted the proof of card 24 here - http://joulestaylor.com/24.jpg ), so the 'error' must have happened at the print stage - though quite how I have no idea!
HOWEVER... I am actually rather pleased that it's happened. Card 24 symbolises work, and to a large extent concerns all those restrictions laid upon us from outside, from the need to provide for ourselves and our family - which holds true even if we work for ourselves. We are bounded by those restrictions and needs, and may often find ourselves frustrated and unfulfilled. Yet there is always a way to escape, to break free from our workwise limitations, or to impose our own wishes on our daily labour. So that open square can be seen either as a way out, or as a blank slate on which to write our own desires, our own agenda, to keep us going through the day. It's most opportune that it's positioned at just after midnight or just after noon, according to the clockface: both are times when the pace of life changes, either quickening in preparation for the challenges of the coming day, or taking a deep breath and firming up the determination in order to complete the day's tasks before taking a well-earned rest.
Well, that's how my day works, at any rate!
Overall, then, it's a very happy accident, and one I will have to bear in mind for the future, should I ever be asked to create another pack.
Hello again, and thanks for the warm welcome. Emma says it's lovely to be appreciated - it makes it all worthwhile!
On reading this, I checked my own pack and found that that square is indeed blank. But it certainly wasn't on the proofs (I've scanned and posted the proof of card 24 here - http://joulestaylor.com/24.jpg ), so the 'error' must have happened at the print stage - though quite how I have no idea!
HOWEVER... I am actually rather pleased that it's happened. Card 24 symbolises work, and to a large extent concerns all those restrictions laid upon us from outside, from the need to provide for ourselves and our family - which holds true even if we work for ourselves. We are bounded by those restrictions and needs, and may often find ourselves frustrated and unfulfilled. Yet there is always a way to escape, to break free from our workwise limitations, or to impose our own wishes on our daily labour. So that open square can be seen either as a way out, or as a blank slate on which to write our own desires, our own agenda, to keep us going through the day. It's most opportune that it's positioned at just after midnight or just after noon, according to the clockface: both are times when the pace of life changes, either quickening in preparation for the challenges of the coming day, or taking a deep breath and firming up the determination in order to complete the day's tasks before taking a well-earned rest.
Well, that's how my day works, at any rate!
Overall, then, it's a very happy accident, and one I will have to bear in mind for the future, should I ever be asked to create another pack.
Ever since getting it, I always carry it in my bag wherever I go....it's the perfect portable deck! The cards and images never fail to uplift me, answer any question and inspire my imagination.
