IN SHORT:
UPRIGHT: The importance of writing, and journaling as a practice. Nurturing, pragmatics of being honest with oneself. Working parents and eventual financial returns.
REVERSED: Creating a home for oneself to build worlds within, self-care, work-life balance.
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IN DEPTH:
In the Queen of Pentacles, a woman sits on a modest sofa, surrounded by an eclectic library, spanning topics as far reaching as Plants, Vampire novels, quantum theory, and theological texts about Angels.The queen of pentacles approaches the world as narrative—one meant to both be read, and written.
Above the shelf of books, a lush indoor garden. Many plants clearly propagated by nearby herbs, ferns, or succulents. Wherever she rests her attention, entire worlds begin forming mirrored reflections of her interior machinations. There is a solemn pact within this kind of writing, for which she is rewarded a lifetime of the incomparable joy of creating worlds with the written-word.
Our Queen of Pentacles takes her lessons from the American sci-fi writer and preeminent Afrofuturist, Octavia Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006). Born in Pasadena, California this shy child found her sense of belonging at public library. At the age of 12, she watched the movie Devil Girl from Mars (1954) and concluded she could write a better story than that. In response to this impulse she drafted what would later become the basis of her greatly celebrated ‘Patternist‘ novels. Despite initially having to work a slew of unfulfilling side-jobs, she would inevitably gain great recognition and celebration of her talents. Some say she is a prophet, others a genius. Regardless she enjoys the opulent pleasure writing for writing sake. She doesn’t distract herself with public perceptions, because she knows that’s notwhere the magic happens.
The Queen of Pentacles finds her pleasure in purpose, her purpose is writing—and it always has been. That is her gift.
“All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
― Octavia E. Butler
“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.”
― Octavia Butler
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