darwinia
When does confusion become anxiety? When I look at these sevens I am almost totally confused. Feel free to help me overcome my anxiety <g>
7 of Wands
Fireworks, carnival rides, celebration, tree and flowers, summer fun, exuberance, joy. Man enhancing and overriding (pun!) the natural world with his own light against the night sky, more brilliant and colourful than the stars.
Yikes, I don't see the classic R-W confrontation here or the victory of defense. Understand that when I say that, I am not objecting to the change with rigidity, I am merely puzzled as to meaning.
I never got the association of juggled objects or illusion and diverting attention. She talks about creativity and giving yourself praise for that, which I sort of picked up in man's creative light. I often get confused with the 7 and 9 of Wands anyway, and this only sent me into a spin of bafflement.
7 of Swords
Papyrus, stone and chisels, tools to carve hieroglyphs. Hidden messages, learning, having the tools to speak and teach. Leaving something for history.
Her message was pretty clear here, but the 7 of Swords in the R-W is about deception, trickery, theft, sneaking away with someone's property--that sort of thing. Here she depicts the Rosetta stone. Help me I'm falling off the cliff of perception. She says it's about communication and understanding, about enhancing and illuminating the message. Translation and meaning, understanding. Which is great, the symbolism makes this clear, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with sneakiness.
I don't get it. Where is the dishonesty, the classic meaning? I don't have to adhere to the classic meaning, but it's so hard to get a fix without some sort of marker. I like this card, and being keen on history myself, I can instantly see where she's going with regard to interpretation and enlightenment but I cannot resolve what I see as a huge difference in meaning to the R-W.
7 of Wands
Fireworks, carnival rides, celebration, tree and flowers, summer fun, exuberance, joy. Man enhancing and overriding (pun!) the natural world with his own light against the night sky, more brilliant and colourful than the stars.
Yikes, I don't see the classic R-W confrontation here or the victory of defense. Understand that when I say that, I am not objecting to the change with rigidity, I am merely puzzled as to meaning.
I never got the association of juggled objects or illusion and diverting attention. She talks about creativity and giving yourself praise for that, which I sort of picked up in man's creative light. I often get confused with the 7 and 9 of Wands anyway, and this only sent me into a spin of bafflement.
7 of Swords
Papyrus, stone and chisels, tools to carve hieroglyphs. Hidden messages, learning, having the tools to speak and teach. Leaving something for history.
Her message was pretty clear here, but the 7 of Swords in the R-W is about deception, trickery, theft, sneaking away with someone's property--that sort of thing. Here she depicts the Rosetta stone. Help me I'm falling off the cliff of perception. She says it's about communication and understanding, about enhancing and illuminating the message. Translation and meaning, understanding. Which is great, the symbolism makes this clear, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with sneakiness.
I don't get it. Where is the dishonesty, the classic meaning? I don't have to adhere to the classic meaning, but it's so hard to get a fix without some sort of marker. I like this card, and being keen on history myself, I can instantly see where she's going with regard to interpretation and enlightenment but I cannot resolve what I see as a huge difference in meaning to the R-W.