In more than thirty years as a writer, editor, and publisher, I have, to my best reckoning, introduced, abridged, issued or reissued, and read nearly every major work of inspirational literature produced or translated into English.
I’ve always appreciated your anti-gossip stance. Gossip is so evil and destructive…..those who “dish the dirt” don’t realize that the ugliness they spew will eventually boomerang back to them.
Word. Talmudic story: A student is walking in a cave and sees a skull floating in dank waters. "How did you get here?" the student asks. "I drowned others with my words," the skull replies, "until they returned to drown me."
And it doesn't even have to be evil to be destructive. Regular, everyday gossip displaces real conversation, and is "disrespectful". Maybe better words will arise later.
As a reluctant Catholic-schooled kiddo whose lived a “curiosity is the fountain of youth” sort of ethos since I was 5 (unknowingly then and knowingly now) — I could never truly give biblical scripture its dues until I started reading Neville years ago. Matthew 10:16 has always been a top favorite to abide by.
My favourites: 32, 33 and 34; 85 is most encouraging!; and 93 should be my personal muse. Re. the 8 of coins: it brings to mind one more rule -- I can never find the original quote, but it's Jung, and something like: do what you must do gladly.
On the whole, this is a wee bit pessimistic to this girl who was raised in the hygge of love and trust in Danish culture...A great deal of wisdom can be summarized in what my mother taught us: "It doesn't matter how other people behave; it only matters how YOU behave."
Occult doctrine for the card however suggests it is not so much a card of work or labor as of passive adroitness, planting one’s seeds skillfully and then relying on the abundance of the usual conditions (which may or may not manifest) to achieve the goals. The pentacles in this card are described as trophies, like the person mainly works to affirm his ego and so displays the products of his labor as signs of his accomplishment. On the other hand, the Three of Pentacles, where the suggestion is made that the master has sublimated his ego in service to a great work, is in fact called “Work” or “Works”. The pentacles are still signs of his accomplishment, but that isn’t the chief point of them. Either could illustrate your theme, depending on where one is in their development as a person and a worker.
I’ve always appreciated your anti-gossip stance. Gossip is so evil and destructive…..those who “dish the dirt” don’t realize that the ugliness they spew will eventually boomerang back to them.
Word. Talmudic story: A student is walking in a cave and sees a skull floating in dank waters. "How did you get here?" the student asks. "I drowned others with my words," the skull replies, "until they returned to drown me."
And it doesn't even have to be evil to be destructive. Regular, everyday gossip displaces real conversation, and is "disrespectful". Maybe better words will arise later.
As a reluctant Catholic-schooled kiddo whose lived a “curiosity is the fountain of youth” sort of ethos since I was 5 (unknowingly then and knowingly now) — I could never truly give biblical scripture its dues until I started reading Neville years ago. Matthew 10:16 has always been a top favorite to abide by.
My favourites: 32, 33 and 34; 85 is most encouraging!; and 93 should be my personal muse. Re. the 8 of coins: it brings to mind one more rule -- I can never find the original quote, but it's Jung, and something like: do what you must do gladly.
https://medium.com/@rillwater/the-eight-of-coins-8638a8660483
Forgive me if I'm not supposed to share my own writing on another's platform: we can add another rule: never trumpet ones own horn :)
Very helpful. Thanks.
On the whole, this is a wee bit pessimistic to this girl who was raised in the hygge of love and trust in Danish culture...A great deal of wisdom can be summarized in what my mother taught us: "It doesn't matter how other people behave; it only matters how YOU behave."
Just survive.
Why the Eight of Pentacles?
A man at work.
Occult doctrine for the card however suggests it is not so much a card of work or labor as of passive adroitness, planting one’s seeds skillfully and then relying on the abundance of the usual conditions (which may or may not manifest) to achieve the goals. The pentacles in this card are described as trophies, like the person mainly works to affirm his ego and so displays the products of his labor as signs of his accomplishment. On the other hand, the Three of Pentacles, where the suggestion is made that the master has sublimated his ego in service to a great work, is in fact called “Work” or “Works”. The pentacles are still signs of his accomplishment, but that isn’t the chief point of them. Either could illustrate your theme, depending on where one is in their development as a person and a worker.
I see no contradiction. I have a more generous interpretation of pentacles.
I'm sure you are very generous to yourself in such matters. But it isn't a bad thing to learn more.
You are in deeper waters than you know. And this isn’t X.
No, it's a place where if you have something to teach, there are people here that will listen. I do not see your waters. So be generous. No?