Tarot Randomizer Challenge: Day 2

It’s day two of Mind on Fire’s group creativity experiment thing, and so far, it’s awesome. Reading what other people were inspired to write, and how much it differed from my own, was very cool. Here’s today’s card:

The Hermit

Also known as:

On which this iconic image is based:

Which is what I was listening to while I wrote this:

Over The Hills and Far Away

For a massive population center, a place where people go to live among other people, this city is a lonely place. They all are, so far as I can tell. Even when they’re walking among one another, or packed into subway cars like human sardines, they don’t really see one another. It’s like they’re all made of saran wrap or something. They’re see-through. And if they’re mostly transparent, I’m completely invisible.

Eyes don’t linger on the man with the wild gray beard sitting on the park bench or in the subway, wrapped in blankets insulated with yesterday’s news. People don’t care to see past the surface, or think too much about the staff on which I lean. It is a useful concept. Only those who are invisible are really free. They don’t pay me any mind when I’m rooting through a trash can or riding the red line back and forth for hours, stave at my elbow and a glowing lamp on my knee. Because I am not seen, I can search the city in peace, waiting outside buildings for days and wandering the  streets at all hours in all weather. No one asks me what I am looking for, and I don’t have to admit that I don’t really know.

I’ve got a feeling that what I’m looking for isn’t here. I didn’t really expect it to be. It wasn’t in the last two cities, either. So soon I’ll be sticking out my thumb, catching a ride, and I’ll start the hunt all over again, and search for the reason I’m still searching. It’s time to ramble on.

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I used the symbolism from the card as well as the basic theme behind a ton of Zeppelin songs as fuel for this one. Turns out there’s a reason Zep chose the Hermit as the symbol for that cover – They deal with a lot of the same stuff. The connection was so evident that I had to weave them together somehow. Maybe I’ll continue this at some point – I like the connection.

Farewell until tomorrow!

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