Thirteen
Agreed! Good call on that card.Aleiste Crowley simply called it "Failure" and considered it to express utter passivity, the abandonment of all labour. No amount of waiting was going to fix that....the RWS version always made me think the man was exhausted from his efforts, pausing more in resignation than in patient anticipation of resuming the harvest.
Well, but I think my version isn't totally out of line with Barleywine's nor that Barleywine's view is all that pessimistic. We do work at things, hit failures, and get tired and discouraged. We may even give up. The card, essentially, tells us that this is the challenge we are facing and we need to find a way to get ourselves motivated and moving again, rather than continue staring in depression and defeat at something we can't fix--not by more toil or by waiting.I see it more "positive" than the RWS version and Thirteen's explaination fits with it to me.
You can't brood on failure or stare at it wishing and thinking about what you might have done different. You need to turn away and look for new opportunities.