Since last Monday, I’ve been beginning my work day with a Tarot pull. Today brought me the Daughter of Cups alongside the chariot. This is the patron card of a multipassionate. Bakara Winter says the daughter of Cups is sitting on a pile of unharvested talent and is uninterested in monetizing it. She pursues what she finds beautiful or interesting, for its own sake. It me. Card is from the Wayhome Tarot by Bakara Winter and Autumn Whitehurst
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.