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today's energy is a flicker rather than a plan. something you keep thinking about and keep putting back down, usually within the same minute, usually with the word impractical attached.
ace of wands sits at the very beginning of a want, before it has any justification. that is the stage where most of them die, and not because they were unrealistic. they die because a woman of our age has been trained to run every desire past a committee before she is allowed to feel it.
the committee asks whether it is sensible, what it costs, who it inconveniences, whether it is a bit late for that. those are reasonable questions for a decision. they are the wrong questions for a want, and asked too early they end the conversation before you learn anything.
wednesday is the flattest part of the week, which is oddly the right day for this. a want that survives a wednesday afternoon is worth taking seriously. and wanting something is not the same as committing to it, which means you are allowed to look at it for a while before deciding anything at all.
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