Tug of Interest

From the Albano-Waite Tarot, the Page of Pentacles; from the Rumi Cards, 'Boiling Sea of Passion:'

          Unlike his cousin, the Page of Swords, this Page is not interested in debate and discourse as an intellectual exercise. He could care less about how many angels could fit on the head of a pin. The studies he engages in are for practical purposes that can be put to use in the concrete world, whether that involves learning how to raise chickens, creating haiku, or changing the flapper in the toilet that keeps running. The Boiling Sea of Passion encourages us to follow our passion in order to turn our minds towards something positive and constructive. Study of any kind can help us discover embers of curiosity that we can fan into flames. Rather than sitting immobile in the mud of despair, anxiety, anger or apathy, we can follow the tug of interest and feed our inquisitiveness with some fresh air.

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

― James Allen