The Heart of Dis-ease, Card 3: Overburdened
Today I’ve pulled cards for the third position of the spread “The Heart of Dis-ease”; a spread by Christine Jette, from her book Tarot for the Healing Heart. The question was: What illness or symptoms do you have that keep repeating themselves? What do you gain when you are ill? The card that I received was Ten of Wands.
There is not much joy in this peasant woman, carrying wood on her back, and a cradle in het arms. She has a heavy burden to carry. The symptoms that repeat itself, is that I feel overburdened. I work too hard, I often feel a heavy a responsibility to do all things very well, and sometimes I assume responsibility were I do not have it (summing up all my sins now). My muscles and tendrons are very soon tensed and strained by this. That is a revolving door. What I gain by being ill is that I must stop. I must take a break when my arms hurt badly. Illness in that sense means much needed rest. This card is related to the first card -every card must relate to the first one- because it shows that I need the breaks that are depicted on card one.
On a positive note, I finished the paper about tarot and complementary healthcare I must deliver at the end of the summer. Working on it did wear me out too much, happily.
There is not much joy in this peasant woman, carrying wood on her back, and a cradle in het arms. She has a heavy burden to carry. The symptoms that repeat itself, is that I feel overburdened. I work too hard, I often feel a heavy a responsibility to do all things very well, and sometimes I assume responsibility were I do not have it (summing up all my sins now). My muscles and tendrons are very soon tensed and strained by this. That is a revolving door. What I gain by being ill is that I must stop. I must take a break when my arms hurt badly. Illness in that sense means much needed rest. This card is related to the first card -every card must relate to the first one- because it shows that I need the breaks that are depicted on card one.
On a positive note, I finished the paper about tarot and complementary healthcare I must deliver at the end of the summer. Working on it did wear me out too much, happily.