The Elephant in the Room

From the Mary-El Tarot, the Queen of Swords:

"For instance, you may not want to call a spade a spade. You may prefer to call it a spatulous device for abrading the surface of the soil. Better, however, to stick to the old familiar, simple name that your grandfather called it." ~ Joseph Devlin

We have a lot of crows in my neighborhood, and they are better watchdogs than most dogs are.  The other day I heard a group of them cawing and carrying on, and looked up to see a red-shouldered hawk flying overhead.  If I hear them making a racket, I know there is something nearby they consider a threat.  The Queen of Swords is alert and savvy; she refuses to sanitize what she sees as truth.  If there is an elephant in the room, she has no problem pointing it out and addressing it.  She may be blunt, but she is honest.

From the OH Cards come the image and word "dead end" and "expert:"

There are people who look at certain problems or questions and judge them to be be unsolvable.  Then there are those who see a complicated snarl of knots yet have the patience to sit and slowly but surely untangle them one at a time.  When I want to see the truth as the queen above sees it, sometimes the fast and easy explanation just won't cut it.  My ego doesn't want to dig deeply - better to blame it on a person or event in the past and leave it at that.  But like the cop that chases and finally corners a thief in a dead end alley, sometimes I have to peel away not-so-pleasant layers to find the truth underneath.