Service seems to be popping up quite a bit lately. In the decks derived from ancient tarot XII is The Hanged Man which doesn't sound all that good but was never what it seemed to be if you took it at nominal value. There was a touch of penitence in the card, a dash of meditation and more than a soupcon of surrender but it wasn't about punishment and it most certainly wasn't about death...discomfort, maybe but death, no. It was about giving yourself up to something larger than your own egoic needs. So when I chose to create a real-world deck for real-world folks, a deck without implied threat or politics or religion, I chose both a symbol and a name that actually said what the card intended. [By the way, the symbol I was looking for was that of a rescue worker at work, dangling from a helicopter but I couldn't locate a really good close up which is, I suppose, no surprise. That said, if you happen to be in the possession of such an image and would like for it to be part of a revolutionary tarot deck, please let me know!]

So, back t the reading. Metal = Will Power, Daughters all bring a bright fresh energy to every reading they touch, and Service is, well, service to something larger than yourself. Now that could be literally someone or something else but it could also be your own destiny because so many of us have not surrendered to what we came here to do. When the Service card appears you are usually presented with one of those options. In the company of this very focused young woman, this whatever it is should be easy.

Give it up!

PS: My apologies for the lack of decoration under the "c" in soupcon. I don't know what that little 'tail' is called but it doesn't seem to be available here.