From the Victoria Regina Tarot, the Prince (Knight) of Swords; from the Alchemist's Oracle, Embrace:
Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, was Queen Victoria's daughter. Once married and settled in Germany, she realized her new husband was lacking in intelligent conversation and shared few of her interests. Rather than moan and groan, she began to pay close attention to the social concerns of the lower classes. She visited the homes of the poor to learn about their living conditions in hopes of improving them. She would eventually found the Alice Society for Women's Training and Industry, for the purpose of educating women, and the Princess Alice Women's Guild, an organisation devoted to training nurses. Embrace encourages us not to accept "a life that is less than the one you are capable of living" (Nelson Mandela). Like Alice, we must discover what we're capable of instead of being content with what we've been assigned.
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