<div class="floatleft">(https://ontvtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/angela3celeb.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>: Sable Ukweli (Ten of Wands)<br/><strong>Time/ Day:</strong>Sept. 7th (2015)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Harlem, New York<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><hr/><br/><br/>Sable had not known to reveal their family's secret to anyone outside of their family. Their ex-husband had known, of course, but he would never tell anyone. It would not only endanger Sable, but their child/children as well. They thought to warn their family of the people in black that showed up to their house yesterday, but knew if they did then their family would come to the house and try to intervene or offer her shelter.<br/><br/>That's not what Sable wanted. They wanted them to be safe. Even if harm should come to them, the Arcana would watch over them as it has watched over their family for generations. The Arcana...scattered as it may be in this day and age, it's power resonated just as powerful if not more in this solar system.<br/><br/>The Ten of Wands, a magic bestowed to Sable upon birth, urges us all who it crosses path with to bear the full weight of responsibility and burden. It promises that after the toil of holding up such a metaphorical weight, we are to be rewarded for our efforts and reach success. However, it warns us in its reversal: the suffering we may face when we lose control and do not prioritize which burdens need our limited attention. When this happen, we can become overwhelmed with our circumstances. At times it may not even be our fault that too much has been dropped on our plates. The Ten of Wands asks that we let go of unnecessary burdens so that we may lead more prosperous lives and move into the future.<br/><br/>Sable wonders if this is a burden they too must let go. In truth they have little control over the situation, and all the anguish of stress may do little to alleviate the problem. They drifted to the kitchen where they found a deck of tarot cards laying politely to the side of the surface. They places their hand over it and took a deep breath. They imagined all of their worries and stress seeping into the cards. They let these imagined negativities slip right out of their mind and sink deep into the deck. They took another breathe and drew back their hand.<br/><br/>Mindfulness: the first medicine that life found in the universe before sapience lead to discovery of the rest. They lead themselves further into their modest home until they came across a closet at the end of the hallway. When they were a child they found ten metal poles lying by the side of the rode, tied together by a thick piece of rope. Perhaps some construction workers had left them their by accident. Left a burden that they did not need, seeing as how unimportant it was to the point it was forgotten. They picked it up and carried it home. They hid it in their room, as if in instinct.<br/><br/>They have had it ever since. Sable drew open the closet and saw the poles hanging neatly on the wall. They grabbed the weighty bundle and held it in their arms like a child. They noticed the coolness, the weight, and the scrapes and dents on their surfaces. Peering back into the closet they unfirled a thin sack that would fit the bundle perfectly. They put the bundle in the pole "quiver", for lack of a better description. That was what sable had called it when they acquired it for the poles.<br/><br/>Something told them to take it now.<br/><br/>so they did and slung it over their shoulder. They closed the closet and motioned to return to the kitchen. The table that held the cards was relieved of its burden as Sable put them inside their coat pocket and zipped it up tightly. Returning to the front of the house, Sable sat in a chair near the door.<br/><br/>Fear crept into their mind but a vigilant coast can weather any storm, and Sable was ready for the thunder.<br/><br/><br/>