It was a long weekend. Again, we made enough money to cover the booth rent, but we didn’t come away with enough of a reason to come back next year. The consensus amongst fellow booth folk was that people were not in the mood to buy art. I might interpret that as a harbinger of a slower economy, or, Occam’s Razor style, I might interpret that to mean my art did not appeal to them enough to make them want to bring it home with them.
Nobody Fools Mother Nature.
My card today is The Empress Reversed. Right side up, the Empress is all about passion, love, pleasures of the flesh, motherhood. The tactile, skin-to-skin version of femininity rather than the hidden, hard-won knowledge of The High Priestess, the other feminine icon of the Major Arcana.
If The Empress appears reversed, you must wonder whether you have lost that lovin’ feeling. This is a perfect card for the day after a long-awaited event that one has been pouring a lot of passion into, but that did not reciprocate with an equal amount of reward.
I don’t feel that my passion projects were rejected. I soaked up lots of compliments this weekend and gave out a lot of business cards. I just feel like I may need to find a new way to deliver my finished projects. Art festivals may not be my thing.
But we all knew that already, didn’t we?