Counter with Integrity

From the Touchstone Tarot, the Queen of Wands; from the John Waterhouse Oracle, Ophelia:

          Kat Black describes this Queen as confident and passionate, a woman who has the ability to draw others in (like a moth to a flame). Watching the U.S. this past election year, I've seen people lose their common sense and their common decency. It would serve us well to reflect on our strong attraction to certain people and what that magnetic pull says about our character. As Matthew Gindin stated, "There is an essential connection between truthfulness and personal integrity. If one goes, so will the other." Ophelia is depicted right before she drowns (either by a broken willow branch or by her own choice). Scholar Tina Packer argued that this dutiful daughter was trapped in a world of noblemen, and the only way she could escape was to lose her mind (and eventually her life). Yet we all have a choice, even when those around us try to tell us otherwise. 

Complacency is countered by integrity, which is an unswerving love of the truth and a willingness to live it. —Jack Kornfield