alleyman's tarot - day five - the three of books

[obliviousally]

04/05
time-ish: evening, after work

[The Three of Books] ⇩

The beasts of our hearts and minds are brutish and cruel. But they don’t have to be. The Three of Books is about teaching your instincts better manners, gaining control over your desires, and applying logic to choice.

We all sometimes want some simple things. We all have desires, don’t we? but we’re also adults, and can educate our worst selves to make better decisions.

in more rare cases, this can be applied to you teaching another person, or being taught. In either case, the one doing the teaching views those being taught as being untameable, wild, and impossible to deal with.

in reverse, there is a teaching downwards happening here that is wholly inappropriate. the one being taught is no fool, and the one doing the teaching must come to terms with the fact that they are not a better person than those they teach. i think it’s impossible to skip the racist connotations of this card with colonialism’s history of ‘educating’ native populations and assuming the colonizers know better.

end of day thoughts
noted.