Scary Tarot
Scary Tarot: The Card That Leaves the Grind Behind
Let go of hustle and embrace flow with the Ten of Wands
A weary figure bears a bundle of 10 rods as it moves down a dark road. In certain lights, it might appear that they are not a willing ferryman, but instead trapped within the poles. What is their final destination with this burden, I wonder?
Three writers’ faces are illuminated in iMac-blue. They type, then delete. Struggle, then push through. The three wend their way through a first draft, then a second, then a third. On the wall above them, amid movie posters and photographs, is a framed card.
In curving pink and gold, it reads:
She believed she could, so she did.
The writers toil beneath this sigil, beneath this mindset.
We are inundated with a veritable Pinterest board of slogans like this one, all softened in their looping text and pastel florals, but the messaging is much the same:
Dreams don’t work unless you do.
Make it happen.
Good things come to those who work their asses off.
Under the guise of mantra and affirmation, these words perpetuate the “work hard” mythos. They tell us that…
