{"id":14,"date":"2012-10-16T20:22:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-10-23T09:40:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:40:38","slug":"daily-draw-dark-carnival-tarot-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Daily Draw (Dark Carnival Tarot), 10\/16\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joker of Axes (=Page of Swords)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Description<\/em>: Amid swirling gray mist, a jack o’lantern headed figure raises a double-headed axe. It’s hard to tell if he is smiling a bizarrely-toothed grin, or has a gag or mask over his mouth – I get the feeling that he can’t speak for some reason. His axe has a tiny jack o’lantern finial; unlike his own pumpkin head, the one on the axe is frowning.<\/p>\n

Interpretation<\/em>: Traditionally the “student card,” this possibly-speechless apparition makes me think of the literal meaning of the word “sophomore” – “wise fool.” When it turned up in a reading I did for someone else, I also used the phrase “the Headless Non-Horseman.” There’s something unfinished about the figure, despite his I-dare-you grin and boldly-wielded axe; I’d say he’s all bark and no bite, but I’m not sure he can bark either! He’s still learning – for instance, that’s NOT the way to hold a battleaxe – even if he thinks he’s learned enough. And this really did resonate with me today, I am in charge of training new employees at my company and apparently I haven’t kept up with the company’s newest procedures. I’ve been authoritatively telling new hires to do things that are no longer technically correct, although they were correct when I learned them myself several years ago. My self-confident attempts to cut through the fog for others have belied the fact that I’ve been in a bit of a fog myself! I need to get more humble and learn more from the company’s decision-makers about what they’ve designed and implemented over the past few years. I need to be a good student so I can continue being a good teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joker of Axes (=Page of Swords) Description: Amid swirling gray mist, a jack o’lantern headed figure raises a double-headed axe. It’s hard to tell if he is smiling a bizarrely-toothed grin, or has a gag or mask over his mouth – I get the feeling that he can’t speak for some reason. His axe has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,17,18,3,7],"tags":[27,29,11,12,19,28,26,25,10],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-draws","category-dark-carnival-tarot","category-minor-arcana-swords","category-page-of-swords","category-readings","category-tarot-decks","tag-court-cards","tag-daily-draws-2","tag-dark-carnival","tag-dark-carnival-tarot-2","tag-minor-arcana","tag-page","tag-page-of-swords-2","tag-swords","tag-tarot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}