#dailytarot single card pull: The Knight of Chalices (Son of Cups),Tarot of Pagan Cats. It seems right that for my first pull, I pulled the card that when reading #wtfistarot I thought, "Yes, that is me." @bakaraw calls this the Art Bro. It’s a uniting of masculine & feminine energy (very me) in someone who is creative, but has found ways to use that creativity within a structure and turned it to profit. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role of creativity in academic writing and just finished writing my most personal and creative piece of academic writing to date last night. When I look at this cat, I see somebody who isn’t completely out of touch with the waters of emotions, but who has harnessed tools that help keep her dry. Her steed carries her deliberately, and is a steed that does thrive in the water. She is in touch with emotions and intuition, but not drenched or drowning. The message I take from pulling this card today is that I should be me 100%.
I acknowledge that I live and work on unceded Lumbee, Skaruhreh/Tuscarora, and Shakori land. I give respect and reverence to those who came before me. I thank Holisticism for the text of this land acknowledgement.
We must acknowledge that much of what we know of this country today, including its culture, economic growth, and development throughout history and across time, has been made possible by the labor of enslaved Africans and their ascendants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking of their people, chattel slavery, and Jim Crow. We are indebted to their labor and their sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the tremors of that violence throughout the generations and the resulting impact that can still be felt and witnessed today. I thank Dr. Terah ‘TJ’ Stewart for the text of this labor acknowledgement.