“A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.”
― Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture
“Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
“Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear.”
― Aimé Césaire
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IN SHORT:
UPRIGHT: Positive omens and useful alignment with chance. A new season or chapter. Acceleration towards a perceived destiny. Life-altering events.
REVERSED: Aversion to change and self-awareness. Beware spiritual bypassing. Stagnation and the need to break deep-seated cycles. Bring skeletons out of the closet. What goes around, comes around.
IN DEPTH:
The Wheel of Fortune card asks us to step up on to the stage and take our turn in life. This strange carnival wheel
offers up a peculiar set of prizes. Depending on how you spin the wheel, you could walk away with radically expanded political or personal horizons. This great wheel is surrounded by a series of
Egyptian artifacts that have some how escaped the museum. Anubis (the death god) serves as gatekeeper to the foreground, reminding us that when we enter a new chapter this also means ending the previous one. Directly behind, sits a massive snake unfurling around the goddess Sekhmet and Hathor. These goddesses oversee with maternal eyes a snake, who possesses the spirits of past wrong-doings and painful traumas—spirits known for world-ending vengeance and rage, but also poetic dances capable of bringing the most callous of humans to tears.
These deities of death, power, and fertility have left the museum, they have left behind a reality they are confined to the walls of a mausoleum for cultures past, they are being called back, out into the world of the living, and now they are calling to you to do the same. Life, death, oppression, economic systems, social conditions, empires: nothing lasts forever, but also everything comes back around. So be mindful of how you construct your world-view, what you put forward, and what you leave unspoken. When we are called upon to take our spin, all of this will come into to play, in ways just as unpredictable as Hathor’s snake.
If you are willing to broaden and even decolonize your purview, the wheel of fortune can bring inexplicable and swift positive changes. If this stage of infinite possibility feels intimidating, chaotic or scary: close your eyes, breath, meditate, and spend time with your guides (this can include: books, trusted friends, spirits, and ancestors). Commune with these forces, hold open-hearted and dialogue, interrogate your generational traumas & violence and ask for help where it is needed. Keep an eye out for synchronicities and other clues gifted from the universe, because sometime help comes in the simple form of feeling seen by a world beyond ours, or just a butterfly on a bad day. Along your path, there are many forces beyond your awareness that want to see you heal, succeed and flourish in your goals, do not forget this world needs you. The wheel of fortune wants you to know that now is the time to accept this next big challenge, because it is the opportunity of a life-time. So, ‘step up, and take your spin at the wheel’: you could go home a brand new cultural avant-garde; or find yourself visiting the ‘decolonized’ wing of the museum; or with the right spin you might score 700$ or even better an eco-feminist utopia!’
FURTHER READINGS:
Discouse on Colonialisme, Aimé Césaire
Click to access zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf
Suzanne Cesaire, The Great Camouflage
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