Edax Rerum
Interpretation & Meaning
Time’s tummy’s rumbling again and everybody feels on edge.
On a regular day, it feeds off quiet afternoons or uneventful evenings, yet occasionally it’s grandma who gets gulped down without a proper toast.
It snacks and snacks, nibbles and devours.
It throws dinner parties without specifying if you’re the guest of honor or the main course.
Even when you trap it on your walls – wooden frames and all – Time feeds off your days and the bigger it gets, the louder its chewing.
Inescapable, you know you’ll end up on the menu one day.
When this card shows up in a reading, you need to face the terrifying and exhilarating doings of time.
Your life is a patchwork of moments that are dancing, crashing, fleeting but also an intelligible narrative with an end in painfully plain sight. It’s both big and small, coherent and ungraspable, fated and random.
Maybe you’ll have to look at your existence with an eagle eye in order to spot patterns, lines and directions. Or maybe you need to nosedive into the microscopic, short-lived joys of your memories in order to find meaning.
This card is about the daunting task of balancing the micro and macro within your perspective, narratives and existence. Whatever problem you’re facing, it can be solved by looking at your life’s story both at a chapter level and down to every breathing punctuation mark.
Keywords: micro vs macro • patterns • aging • moments vs existences • facing mortality • big picture • history • legacy
Homework & Practice
| Places | Memorial, Graveyard |
| Jobs | Strategist, Entrepreneur, Director, Historian, Anthropologist |
| Situations & Life Events | Funeral, Anniversary, Birthday |
| Activities | Writing a will |
| Archetypes | The Big Picture Thinker, The Strategist |
Homework & Practice
In order to embody the teachings of this card, you can:
- Write your obituary: what do you want to be remembered for once your life is over? What memories would you want your loved ones to recall when thinking of you? What tangible, lasting impact would you want to have made on the world?
- Go through your diaries or photo albums (aka Instagram) and immerse yourself in specific memories from your life. Try to relive them in your mind as accurately as you can and feel the individual perfection of each moment.
- At the end of each day, fill out a two-column diary entry. On the left column, write one single moment that you want to remember. On the right column, reflect on how the day as a whole fits the narrative of your life and whether it played a role in moving that narrative forward.
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