March 31 - Ace of Wands

This is a card of initiation and excitement, especially when it comes to a topic or endeavor you're passionate about. I posted these originally on Mastodon... I don't have to convince anyone I think that free and open source are compelling ideas and ethos-es that many have put their inspiration and passion into... sometimes only that, to certain drawbacks.

Can a person represent an idea that big, even if they've contributed a lot to it? Is it good to put someone in that position, where there's the risk of them doing/saying something awful, becoming possessive or doctrinaire about it, or just having a way of going about it that doesn't gel with everyone? Can passion create monsters, or at least very unpleasant situations?

I'm having these thoughts at the end of this journey; a lot of these cards were specific historical figures or events. And I think it's good to rediscover and be inspired by them, but we also can't elevate them to the status of an icon. Transplanted into the present, they wouldn't respond to the way things are -now-, even if we can learn a lot from them or build on their ideas. There's no easy solution we can just extract from the past like a diamond in a mine... in some ways the future is unforeseeable even as we do what we can to build it.

THE END!!! This was fun. I want to practice with my Colman-Smith deck more and maybe figure out more stuff to do with these... this month of draws used less than half of the cards in the deck!