my description:
a bright mosaic of red and gold and yellow. This card shows a plane of squares, deeply layered, covering the view as far as we can see. In the center of the card, there is a square hole (as if the squares might be draining out the bottom)... more squares as far down as we can see... four wands, stretching down, down, define the corners of the square hole... holding them apart. The wands have lit flames on the end of them. From the reversed perspective, the floor of squares becomes a ceiling, the four wands holding them up - but them seem to be caving in. The upper edge of the card (bottom edge when upright) now clearly seems to be fraying, sliding. It appears as if the stability shown in the card is about to break loose and bury the scene under a mountain of paperwork.
What a different image from the usual RWS's wedding scene! Although, this one probably describes the back-end details of wedding planning and the transformation of otherwise sane people into rigid bridezillas determined to have everything just so.
But moving back from the wedding metaphors, this looks like putting ones' energy in a very stable way into the service of maintaining order and stability. The squares on top of squares on top of squares are all those routine chores and needs - the variations on color remind me of some sort of to-do list prioritization scheme. And without those wands there, this would just be an endless sea of things to do with no way to find a starting point or to know if you're getting anywhere. The Wands here provide not just fire to get moving on all this, but create an opening to send these tasks away after getting them done. You can't wipe out the red tape without plowing through it, but an orderly plan for tackling all of life's routines can chip away at it, at least.
The message of this card: create stability by focusing on the detailed tasks of the day.
My mind is still on our friend - I had a call around 6 am with an update. He did, in fact, have a 'minor' heart attack (hard to apply that word to this). Until certain enzymes started spiking after midnight, they weren't convinced of that and were ever considering sending him home. Then the nitro and whatever else they put him on created some kind of bad reaction and he was bleeding in his mouth (I have no idea what that means, and I was about 45 seconds awake when I heard this, so I may be getting some details wrong), so it was a very, very good thing that they didn't send him home - and probably good that they had no bed to move him out of ER where he would be constantly monitored. This morning it's clearer that we might well have lost him yesterday.
But today he is more stable and they know what they are dealing with now - this is just the beginning of a lot of red tape and tests and a pretty drastic reorganization of his lifestyle. But for today, stable is good.
Meanwhile, this card will be my inspiration to chip through some of my own routine tasks and continue to act as the stabilizing conduit for the family members - I'm about to send over a thermos of decent coffee and run a load of towels for those that might want to grab a shower. (Most of the family live about 25 miles away, while I'm just a couple blocks from the hospital.
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