Secrets

This week I'll be using the Deirdre of the Sorrows Tarot, a self-published set created by Deirdre O'Donoghue and illustrated by Wayne McGuire. Along with it, I'll be drawing from the Victorian Flower Oracle, created by Alex Ukolov, Karen Mahony and Sheila Hamilton; it was published by Magic Realist Press. Today's draws are the Knight of Swords and 'Camellia:'

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

~Richard P. Feynman 

This pairing of a truth seeker and a secret keeper remind me of Lancelot and Guinevere, Romeo and Juliet, and a busload of politicians. But as Feynman states, nothing stays hidden in the dark forever. If we truly grasped how our covert behavior would eventually be hung out on the laundry line for all to see, how it would hurt us and so many others, would we still be so eager to engage in it? Probably.

We have a secret, just we three, 

The robin, and I, and the sweet cherry-tree; 

The bird told the tree, and the tree told me, 

And nobody knows it but just us three. 

But of course the robin knows it best, 

Because she built the—I shan't tell the rest; 

And laid the four little—something in it—

I'm afraid I shall tell it every minute. 

But if the tree and the robin don't peep, 

I'll try my best the secret to keep; 

Though I know when the little birds fly about 

Then the whole secret will be out.

~The Golden Book of Poetry (1947)