Here comes the toe-stepping

Right, I was going to write a really long entry (in fact, I started it last week Sunday) to step on toes (which is not a deliberate action, but would have been a side-effect of the blog.

This morning I was, like, "Aah, fukkit!"

Long and short:  If you don't like how someone dresses, tell them.  If you don't like how someone puts knowledge across, discuss it civilly.

Issues like this have been popping up in quite a few of the groups I'm involved in, and I was fine with it because there will always be one or two who have something to say.  It broke my heart, though, when it happened in my the Cape Town Tarot Association.

Ladies and gentlemen, we read cards.  We are neither a riligious or spiritual group, nor are we a political entity, a school or a fashion house deciding the fate of the world's fashion sense.

We read cards, which in itself is slightly on the cookie side.  So, discounting someone in the group because of how he or she or they dress is NOT on.  Discounting what they are teaching because it's different from how you were taught (and here I count myself), is NOT on.  So the Tower means Disruption.  It also means sudden change, an impulsive decision and rough times ahead.  But no, you only learnt about Disruption, so you're sticking to your guns.

And you call yourself a cartomancer?

Yes, I make the same mistakes.  I get so stuck on the first meaning that I learn for the card that I forget there are other ways of interpreting it, but I try.  I try taking a step back and looking at it and saying, "Huh!  Who'd'a thunk it?"  The difference is that I DO NOT shoot someone else's theories down because of what I was taught.

There are some who read my blog (and I know this because there's a traffic counter on my dashboard) who will read this and get offended.  There are some that will read this and go, "Oh, well, whatever."  And then there will be some sending me messages or comments going, "Wow!  Good on you!"

Be open to learning new things without putting your own biases or judgements first, just because you don't agree.