Simply Drenched

Sometimes the cards are so literal that we miss their message. 

This came home to me over an issue with my pickup one winter.  I don't have a garage or carport, so whenever it rains or snows the truck gets a bath.  In mid-winter it started a series of episodes where it wouldn't start.  Sometimes it would and others it wouldn't.  I couldn't figure out why. 

One day, when I needed it badly, it refused to start.  Frustrated, I pulled a card asking why the truck wouldn't start and got the Ace Cups reversed.  Now, even more frustrated I snapped at the deck,  "What does that mean? That I don't love it enough?  Well, I don't love it right now - that's for sure!!" 

Without thinking about it further, I put the deck away in disgust.

The winter had heavy snows for about a month, and I finally resorted to arranging for someone to take me where I needed to go when the truck wouldn't start.  I finally noticed that it usually took about two days to begin starting again after a rain, or after the snow on the truck had melted when it snowed.  After two days of no rain or snow it would start again and continue to start until the next rain or snow, when the pattern started all over again.

When spring arrived a friend offered to take a look at it to find out what might be wrong.  I thought it could be in need of a new air filter, gas filter or a tune up - something like that.  But when he looked at the distributor cap he discovered that the little metal pin in the top of the cap was missing and the cap had been wired in some inexplicable way to work anyway.  (The work, I assumed, of the last amateur mechanic who had replaced the old distributor cap with what was supposed to be the new one I bought.)  This left an open hole in the top of the cap and when it rained or snowed, moisture was getting into the distributor rendering it incapable of producing a spark!  After my friend put a new distributor cap in, the problem was solved and the truck started every time despite rain, sleet or snow.

So that reversed Ace of Cups had shown me exactly what the problem was! The truck was literally drenched.
 
I’ll never cease to be amazed at the way Tarot communicates with us.
Micki
Image from the Hanson-Roberts Tarot.