The Queen of Pentacles

It's not rare to have cards stuck to me for a year or so, especially in these years of great changes and important lessons.

This one has been appearing so many times in the spreads for more than a year, but I had never exactly figured out how it is possible to achieve a status anywhere near the level of her attributes. How is it to have that long a list of qualities? How do I go about achieving them? How do the people around her feel?

Sometimes the lessons don't come so easily in the way of showing the answers to these questions I have, and this is one of those times.

They didn't show me how the people around her presence feel while she's providing for them, nor do they show me how to become someone like her. This time the lesson was taught by removing her presence from the crowd. It is a lesson learnt through loss, not through a tangible gain like how one might have expected it to be.

And as a matter of fact, its impact was greater.

From the way she was being remembered, the most treasurable qualities surfaced, leaving behind all the misleading voices which were blocking the view of the route all along.

Hmm...

So it took more than a year for the real lesson to reveal itself, huh?

At least it came luh(: