Rights and Privileges

This week I'll be using the Tarot of the Crone, a book and deck set created and self-published by Ellen Lorenzi-Prince. I'll be pairing it with Transforming Dragons, a set created by Sonia Cafe and published by Weiser. Today's cards are the Grandmother (Queen)of Wands and Lupt:

          The keyword Lorenzi-Prince gives this card is 'matriarch.' Unlike most leaders, she sits on the ground in a circle with her people. She wants everyone to have an equal voice and is willing to listen to everyone's ideas. She recognizes that they all depend on each other and that they all have different areas of knowledge, skill, and experience. But the dragon Lupt interferes with this cooperative effort by misusing what he has been entrusted with. In this group's situation, there may be trollish behavior that attempts to distract and dismember any progressive, positive actions they might attempt to take. Hopefully, the Grandmother will be wise enough not to tolerate such conduct since having rights requires respect and responsibility from all participants.

[Equality] is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men

value in this world is not rights but privileges. ~H. L. Mencken