Open Wider, Please

From the Vision Quest, the Seven of Air (Swords):

Because this deck is based on Thoth-type meanings, this card is subtitled "futility." Instead of action and decision-making (which is needed), the Seven of Air represents passivity and apathy. I can relate to thinking and feeling this way, especially when it doesn't seem like what I'm doing is making a difference. I sit in my self-pity while I point at that broken spear tip and sing:

Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
(Roy Clark and Buck Owens)

Instead of singing, I need to shed the "poor me" mentality and take responsibility for my life. No knight is going to rescue me, so I might as well start working on a new spear head.

From the Bird Cards this morning was drawn the "Pelican:"

A funny old bird is a pelican. His beak can hold more than his bellican.

~ D.L. Merritt

The Pelican has been associated with attachment in this deck. But it can involve more than being attached to the constancy of people and things in my life. It may also refer to rigid thinking - I believe a situation should be resolved in a certain way. I can imagine no possible deviation from the solution I've decided will fix the problem. The Pelican reminds me it may be time to open my mind wider to incorporate other options and answers.