IN SHORT:
UPRIGHT: Legacy. Family and groups who share interests and or beliefs, irreplaceable contributions. The ability to utilize differences and criticism to ones benefit and self-betterment.
REVERSED: Extraction from the social for personal profit. Regarding the world around you as ‘research’. Beware oppressive family or social dynamics. Be open to criticism, challenges and self-improvement.
KEEP SCROLLING DOWN FOR IN DEPTH EXPLANATION
Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”
― Ulrike Meinhof, Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don’t: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
IN DEPTH:
You’ve heard about her. When the Page of Pentacles speaks, people listen. She is a writer, and editor, an incredible mobilizer of radical public sentiments—she is the intellectual life of the party. When you meet her, it feels like you are being asked “Will you accept this quest”? The writing is on the wall, if you accept: your life and the world may be forever changed. But you might also be wiped off of the face of the planet, lost to your friends families and comrades.The Page of Cups is not playing around, but she finds all sorts of fun in “making shit happen.”
Ulrike Marie Meinhof (7 October 1934 – 9 May 1976) was a German left-wing journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany. Often referred to in the press as the “Baader-Meinhof gang”. Her book, ‘The Urban Guerilla Concept’ (1971), is a RAF manifesto that fervently rejects reformism and draws from weaves a revolutionary perspective built on the post-war student-movement, Mao Zedong, the vanguardism of Marxist-Leninism. Meinhof, who took part in many of the RAF militant actions, was arrested in June, and by November was sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted murder durning the May 1970 liberation of Andreas Baader from prison. From 1975, she stood trial on multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, with the three other RAF leaders. She was found hung to death in her cell in the Stammheim Prison, before the trial’s conclusion. The quick official finding of suicide sparked controversy and one year later, two RAF members assassinated Federal Attorney-General Buback in retaliation. The Meinhof Page of Pentacles is looking around the room and knows who among her is ready to act on the ideas we are developing here. She looks at her hand as though it is holding a pentacle painted on the wall. After much discussion and strategizing, she needs to know if you are up for the challenges ahead.
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