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the empress is the card of the one who provides, and on a saturday she asks a question most of us have never actually sat down with. what were you before you were useful.
the providing was real work and it went on for decades. and then the volume drops. they are grown, the calls get shorter, the house has a different sound to it on a saturday morning and nobody rings until sunday.
the usual reading of that is that you are wanted less. the more accurate one is that the job changed shape with no handover meeting. love outlasting closeness is the ordinary condition of a family with adult children in it, and from the inside it looks exactly like neglect while being nothing of the kind.
saturday is the day the house tells you the truth about this. the quiet is real. so is the fact that you now hold hours belonging to nobody, and those hours were paid for with the other thirty years. they are yours to spend badly if you want to.
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