No Expiration Date

From the Vision Quest Tarot, the Princess of Fire (Page of Wands); from the Bird Cards, the Dodo:

I think there’s a little bit of wanderlust in each of us. This underneath-our-layers desire to explore, to discover, to fall in love with what we’ve never known or seen.

―Marisa Donnelly

This young woman offers sage to each of the four directions. She's quite aware that there are worlds beyond where she stands and cultures outside her community. Such knowledge creates a burning curiosity and an insatiable hunger to discover more about these strange places. The Dodo was an extinct, flightless bird native to the island of Mauritius. The first recorded mention of it was by Dutch sailors in 1598. In the following years, the Dodo was hunted by sailors and invasive species, while its habitat was being destroyed. Last seen in 1662, it has become a symbol of that which is obsolete and outdated. Yet its message is not to let our own curiosity expire. As the poet James Stephens said, "Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."