{"id":28,"date":"2012-10-22T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2012-10-24T04:48:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T08:48:15","slug":"daily-draw-joie-de-vivre-tarot-102112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Daily Draw (Joie de Vivre Tarot), 10\/21\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Five of Wands<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"post_message_3311815\"><em>Description<\/em>: A walking tree crosses wands with an androgynous human figure (my first impression was that it was male, but upon looking closer I really can&#8217;t tell). Amid the tree&#8217;s branches are three more wands in a pattern that is clearly missing two pieces &#8211; the wands the two figures spar with are actually FROM the tree, and it&#8217;s an open question how they came off. A bird with a flower in its beak perches on the tree; a small argumentative creature is leashed to the human figure.<em>Interpretation<\/em>: I am not planning to go out today, so I suspect this battle is between me and myself, not me and another person. (The human figure, in high-heeled boots, certainly has my fashion sense.) The tree represents nature, that which grows organically, with the bird (inspiration?) offering a gift that is being ignored due to the struggle. The human figure may represent how I&#8217;m perceived or how I perceive myself &#8211; in fancy clothes, with those sharp boots &#8211; dressed up and no place to go? The small creature leashed to the human looks like it wants to bite, unlike the close-mouthed, flower-offering bird on the tree. I think my energy\/creativity, represented by the wands (which COME from the tree) is going to have to fight my self-consciousness, the part of me that nips at my own heels and uses my creativity against me. I&#8217;ve been feeling like I want to start a new creative project and I haven&#8217;t been able to make myself do it; so who&#8217;s going to win today, the tree or the human? Can I accept the bird&#8217;s beautiful gift or will the toothy creature bite me back again?<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow-up<\/em>: This turned out to be very apropos! I was revisted by inspiration for my Avian Tarot work-in-progress (the bird is especially symbolic this way), had to beat back my self-doubts about my drawing skills, which card to start with, where the heck my reference images had gone and what to do when I couldn&#8217;t find them&#8230;the heck with that, though, I picked a new card to work on, found new reference photos, and got to work. Thank goodness, the tree did win today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five of Wands Description: A walking tree crosses wands with an androgynous human figure (my first impression was that it was male, but upon looking closer I really can&#8217;t tell). Amid the tree&#8217;s branches are three more wands in a pattern that is clearly missing two pieces &#8211; the wands the two figures spar with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,4,39,30,3,7],"tags":[75,29,47,42,44,19,10,33],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-of-wands","category-daily-draws","category-joie-de-vivre-tarot","category-minor-arcana-wands","category-readings","category-tarot-decks","tag-5-of-wands","tag-daily-draws-2","tag-five","tag-joie-de-vivre","tag-joie-de-vivre-tarot-2","tag-minor-arcana","tag-tarot","tag-wands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tarotorat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}