Overalls and Three-piece Suits

From the Tarot of the Cat People, the Knight of Pentacles; from the Sacred Geometry Oracle, the "Unity of Primary Roots:"

          See if you can figure out  the methodical, tenacious and hardworking man who said these quotes (a person very much like the Knight of Pentacles):

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
• The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
• I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
• Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
• The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Thomas A. Edison was responsible for those words. I think he would agree with my 94 year old mother-in-law who is fond of saying, "Keep on, keeping on."
          Doesn't the geometric figure of Unity of Primary Roots look like a combination of two cards I've drawn previously? This pattern shows how, beginning with any of the three root relationship figures (that produce the square root of two, three and five ratios), it is possible to unfold the other figures from one of them. Put in plain-speak, this suggests a continuum rather than an either/or situation. Sometimes success is dressed in overalls and a three-piece suit; each has a part to play in constructing the whole.

House of Cards

From the Nicoletta Ceccoli Tarot, Justice; from the Sacred Geometry Oracle, "Unity of Primary Roots:"

       Ceccoli's deck booklet speaks of maintaining an ethical balance of justice. In other words, I need to look through objective eyes and act with a sense of fairness. The little queen on her house of cards definitely must be careful not to send everything crashing down with her proclamations. The heart cards that make up her "castle" suggest emotions, but I believe they are actually a nod to act with mercy. Consequences will be dealt out, but the punishment would fit the crime. For instance if a teen is caught stealing, instead of grounding them for the weekend, they could volunteer at a soup kitchen for the homeless. Too much leniency or too much retribution can backfire.
       I've always struggled with math, but geometry was a little easier because it had pictures. In his book, Greer shows how the square roots of 2, 3, and 5 fit together and complement each other through the construction of a geometrical diagram. His point is that what appears to be in opposition and in conflict is actually part of a greater unity. Greer's ideas remind me that too often I look for what is different instead of what I have in common with someone else. If reconciliation and balanced scales are ever going to occur, I need to seek out what is mutually shared between us. It is here in this place that dialog and healing can begin.