This is an unsettling pair of cards, now isn't it. It's a rather unsettling day - my plumbing problems look like they may be about to get ugly, so we're avoiding water usage while I try (in vain so far) to contact the landlord.
So the 5 of Coins describes the external theme for the day - lack and abandonment. I lack the ability to use water (see? it's frozen - not usable), and am abandoned by my landlord who won't pick up the phone. If this problem is what I think it is, incoming storms are going to create a bad situation if she doesn't get someone out here.
This card shows Danae, cast out by her father, making her way in the cold, cruel world with her infant son - at this place in the story, things look very grim indeed. I'd like to hang onto the rest of the story, where help does come via the help of the gods and her own ability to care for her family... but right now, I feel cast adrift and need to get professional help in here before it's too late.
The internal, spiritual response here isn't exactly inspirational either... the 8 of Arrows (Swords) shows Psyche at the point after she's been abandoned and rejected by Eros, stuck in the mud with arrows pelted down around her. Her posture is dejection and despair - no way out and nowhere to go. I don't like the look of all that mud much, either.
Sometimes it's like that... I'd love some higher lesson or meaning for crappy situations to make up for the pain of them, and sometimes the best I can come up with is 'this sucks'. Until I can get my landlord in on the situation, I'm pretty much just stuck and bereft. And in need of a shower, some clean dishes and few loads of desperately needed laundry.
I will make note of one thing though... the figure in the 8 of Arrows has turned her back on the actual situation to wallow in that mud - there is some good possibility here that I'm catastrophizing the problem more than I should - the woman on the 5 of Coins is slogging it out... on the 8, the woman has given up. I'll try not to internally make this more difficult than it is.
Update: I have spoken to the landlord twice now (and called about a dozen times trying to get her on the phone). The first time, I got her husband and explained the problem.... and waited... and then she called and didn't have a clue what the problem was, so re-explained, and was promised someone would be out today. And now it's nearly 7pm and no one has been here. I need to be able to use my water! And I'm afraid the delay is going to cause a huge mess to deal with in the basement - the last time this happened, it went from 'hmm something's wrong' to a horrible mess in just a couple days and it's about to rain a lot.
grr. sigh.
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