The Brute, the Brute!
Daily Draw July 10, 2009
From the Etruscan Tarot ( a new favourite in artwork):
VIII – STRENGTH
I hear people complain about the usual depiction in this card of a man clubbing a lion. Well duh, it’s Hercules and the Nemean Lion, not a random act of violence. I often wonder at the lack of curiosity in tarot people. I was speaking once on a forum after a complaint about the Washer at the Ford, depicted in some Celtic decks in a literally bloody way, but that’s the story, you know? Work with it.
Okay, he’s clubbing his muscles into submission and realizing that inactivity is causing his chronic pain and muscle spasms. He must go back to the cave and rest and then go outside and move and frequently do the exercises from the book Pain Free to get those muscles to let go. He understands that Canadian Tire has bicycles on sale for $99 CAD so he’s going to try and get one, and damn the money! Damn it I tell you!! There is no money, but he’s the Action Man and he needs the strength to get well.
Well, the booklet doesn’t say that, the booklet says that the brutish man is fighting against a fair beast. Each has the power to hurt the other, it is a confrontation of intelligence and force, like right and wrong. I am the fair beast who is being strangled by brutish muscle spasms and misalignment of my structural body. Look at those freakish muscles pulling at my neck. . .
Tags: Etruscan Tarot, Strength
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