Enough Already!

So....I've been reading the books on the Haindl Tarot by Rachel Pollack. Well, the one on the major arcana so far anyway. And I was doing just that around 4 oclock this morning...and then I just couldn't anymore.

For some reason a lot of problems really escaped me when I was reading the books the first time, back when I first got them.

So the deck...if you haven't seen it, the symbolism and all is a pretty decent balance of male/female and various other dichotomies. But Pollack's books, I dunno what's up with this woman, but everything...EVERYTHING is symbolic of the patriarchy overthrowing the goddess. Everyhting in the deck, everything in mythology, everything in...well, just every fricken thing. And everyhting else is a symbol of fertility and female genitalia. A pebble on the ground? Oh, that symbolizes girly bits. A couple of blades of grass? Yeah, they do too. Okay, so I'm exaggerating, but only slightly.

But it's insanely irksome.

What makes it worse is that she can't seem to decide if she wants women to be considered superior on general principle, or if there needs to be a male/female balance in the world.

The actual descriptions and discussion of the imagery of the deck is great, and the delving into various myths...but great scott, I don't think I can continue to read this book.

Oh...and no bibliography.

I kinda have to wonder what Hermann Haindl thinks of what she's written into these books about his deck...but I read somewhere that he authorized the books, so I'm guessing he's ok with it.

Therapeutic Letter Writing

Dear Guy At Hechts:

So it's not really that big a deal that you didn't hold the door open for me on the way into the store despite the fact that I was an entire armlength behind you, but did you really have to attempt to pull the door closed behind you as I grabbed the handle to walk through? Both times?

Cordially,

Fuego



Dear Prospective Employer,

If you're posting a help wanted ad, and the job in question requires

1. That the employee own a car and
2. That the employee engage in a certain amount of travel as part of the job duties,

Would it not be most prudent and expeditious to state those facts in the ad so as to avoid wasting my time sending a resume and your time calling me only to discuss that AFTER offering me an interview?

Sincerely,

Fuego