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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  The Queen of Swords is more cool than I thought.  I usually only liked seeing her for her honesty.  That is, she is invariably a clear-cut “yes” or “truth” card in asking yes/no questions (just like most of the sword court cards).   

Fun isn’t something I usually associate with the Queen of Swords.  But ever since my friend, Grace, commented about it being one of her favorite cards, it seems the Universe has been trying to show me that this queen isn’t so bad, that she’s even pretty darn good ;)  And I knew she was good, strong and smart (achieved through rough times), but I always tend to associate her with seriousness and lack of emotion and, well, those rough times – and especially the un-fun process of “cutting” away from a relationship that isn’t working, and, well-yeah, being alone…  She’s the “widow,” and some older meanings put her in a very not so favorable light.  Generally, if “ill-dignified,” or she comes up reversed, she’d be seen as kind of, er, a be o-tch, a very not-nice person ;)

The other day, I started thinking it would be fun to ask the cards for representations of certain things.  Like the first one that came to mind was, what card would represent a lot of laughter.  I thought maybe the Three of Cups, since it often represents a lot of joy, getting together with others, celebrating. 

I’ve mentioned that I have Tarot decks all around my apartment, I like to have them within arm’s reach of my most frequented spots :)  With that laughter question in my mind, I walked up to my Goddess Tarot deck by my computer.  Didn’t even shuffle, as I often don’t, and I said, “Show me a card that would represent a lot of laughter.”  Again, I just cut the cards, placed the bottom half on top, and drew the top card.  It was the Queen of Swords :)  I immediately thought, “Oh, that can’t be right.” lol ;)  In fact, I would have thought she would represent just the opposite. 

And then it popped into my head that I had read somewhere that the Queen of Swords had a great sense of humor :)  And as that thought came, I cut the deck again to get a card for more clarity on this.  It was the the Six of Wands.  Well, that is a very positive card, a card of success and celebrating success (usually someone riding a horse through a victory parade, the rider being the victor).  Me and the Tarot are tight ;) … so to me that was affirming my thought about the sense of humor and this Queen.  The Tarot was, with this card, saying, “That’s right, girlie.” lol  ;)

My logical mind wanted more confirmation of the truth, so I went and rifled through my multitude of Tarot books to see if I could find the “sense of humor” thing.  And sure enough, there it was in one of the best books ever written on the Tarot, “Learn the Tarot” by Joan Bunning.  Here are her key words on the Queen of Swords:  Honest, Astute, Forthright, Witty, Experienced  

She elaborates further under each of these words. 

Under “Witty,” she has,

“has a delightful sense of humor”
“diffuses awkward situations with a funny remark”
“never takes anything too seriously”
“laughs at everything including him or herself”

So there ya’ go…  She’s good at making people laugh.  So my beloved Tarot was indeed showing me, in its special way, ”Lotsa laughter.”  :)   

Hugs,
Dove

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LOL!  I’m sitting here laughing out the wazoo – I can’t stop laughing!  Ya’ know how something hits ya’ and it’s so dang funny… and you keep thinking about it and it keeps crackin’ ya’ up.  And the thing is, others might not find it that funny at all, but you don’t care, ’cause it’s so funny to you — ya’ can’t stop laughing — and that’s a good thing!  *truly laughing out loud*  

I don’t watch TV that often, but I’ve seen this “According to Jim” show a few times, and honestly I don’t like it that much — but the short, blonde, heavy guy, he’s Jim’s wifes’s brother.  He’s the only one on there that is reeeally funny.  He kinda reminds me of the SNL guy, Chris Farley, who always cracked me up as well. 

Anyway, I’m still laughing at something he said on this episode I just watched.  He was in charge of bringing the minister to the other sister’s wedding.  And, of course, with Jim’s help, he screwed that up.  They get another minister at the last minute,  and (of course) they don’t check him out or anything.  So the funny blonde guy saunters up to this new minister with the wedding in full swing, thinking everything is gonna be fine now.  Then the minister starts relaying that he was kicked out of his church and he’d started his own religion…and that said religion was spurred by his “sitting naked in the woods meditating…and an angel appeared to him disguised as a bear.”  LOL, hilarious look on the blonde guy’s face.  The funniest line was when he ran to tell Jim that they’d screwed up again.  He was freakin’ out and said, “This guy is talkin’ to bears, man!”  Jim casually said something like, “Can he get us tickets?”  heh  And then the funniest line, the blonde guy shoots back, “No, you don’t get it, this guy’s seein’ visions, bay-bee!”  LOL!  I think it’s a combination of the look on his face, with the mega emphasis he put on ”visions” and ”bay-bee!” that I can’t shake — especially right after Jim had told him not to call him “baby” at the construction site, LOL!  Oh-muh-gawd, so funny! :) 

The way he looked, the way he said that, my eyes are watering as I’m laughing and typing this.  I dunno, sometimes things just hit ya’ like that — and ya’ can’t stop laughing!! lol  Okay, I’ve totally lost it! LOL! 

What’s with that? ;)  I dunno, but it feels good — so I guess TV isn’t totally “bad” if it can spark such things in us on occasion, eh? :)  Okay, yeah, it pretty much sucks in general, but every once in a while there’s a healthy tidbit of a treasure there.   So ya’ just never know  ;)

Okay now for something compleet-uh-ly different, haha! ;)  Yeah, I used to love Monty Python, SNL, Friday’s…  Man, what happened to TV, it used to be highly treasured up with shows like those.  Hmm, I think the more our freedom goes, the more our creativity goes…  Hey, there’s a poem/song in there somewhere ;)

Dove