Threshing Floor

This week I'll be using the Tarot of the Masters, created and self-published by James Ricklef. (I'll also be referring to Ricklef's Tarot Affirmations book.) The oracle deck I'll be using is The Key to the Kingdom, a transformational cards and booklet set created by Tony Meeuwissen and published by Running Press. Today's draws are the Youth of Swords and the Two of Spades:

A mind not agitated by good questions cannot appreciate the significance of even the best answers. It is easy enough to learn the answers. But to develop actively inquisitive minds, alive with real questions, profound questions—that is another story.

―Mortimer J. Adler

The Page's mind is like a sponge, soaking up information he hears and the answers to questions he asks. A trove of knowledge is a worthy asset, but doubt is a powerful tool to sort through what has been accumulated. The Two of Spades is paired with this poem:

Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe,

Get it done by half past two; 

Stitch it up, and stitch it down,

Then I'll give you half a crown.

While information in our day and age is a necessity, the Two of Spades encourages us to take action - threshing the wheat from the chaff - to find what's worth keeping. As Steve Albini wrote, "Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment."