Play Your Own Music

From the Wildwood Tarot, the Seven of Arows (Swords):

This woman reminds me of one of those movie starlets of the fifties who played a damsel in distress. The kind that nearly always make me groan and roll my eyes. The authors assign this card the keyword "insecurity." How do insecure people act? Some, like this woman, may play the victim (though she is more a manipulator than anything else). Others try to impress by mimicking the dress, words or behavior of someone who is respected. They may even take the ideas of someone else and claim them as their own. In some strange twist of reasoning, they feel entitled to do these things because they don't have what they want. Unfortunately taking from others is not going to fill that gaping hole of insecurity; the skull and bones engraved on the boulder she stands on is a clue for the consequences of her behavior.

From the Shaman's Oracle comes the "Shaman of Song:"

The shape above this figure's head reminded me of the magic that occurs with the mix of sunlight and water - a rainbow. Last weekend I went to a concert put on by the symphony orchestra; for the holidays, they had invited a Celtic group to join them. It's been years since I've been to the symphony, and I had forgotten that "fullness of the heart" effect of such music. By the time the Celtic group was finished, I was grinning ear to ear and felt like I was close to bursting with so much energy. This shaman suggests that I have many ways to transform my feelings; I don't need to tie my boat at the dock of another person and try to live vicariously off their happiness. I've got my own music to play.