46 The Friends

The Friends card — I now have an illustrator for the new book I'm working on, Every Day, Faery Wisdom. This is very exciting. I've been looking for someone and here was a great person to do it that I already know and love. I truly appreciate the opportunity to work with someoneI know that I can trust to share the vision and the energy of a project.

Also, I'm more clear about what is going on in my life, thanks to some in-depth conversations with friends—though it is still pretty much up in the air. Right now, I'm moving next door (to a friend's place!), and I'm not sure what I'll be doing or where I'll be going in the fall. Details, details!

What I'm working on, though, is the larger picture of what I want to do with the rest of my life, or at least the next several years of it. This is very much in the forefront of my mind. Today I expect to be discussing this stuff with two or three close friends, considering projects or other things we might be sharing later on—stuff like that.

What I'm really trying to do is to see the overall picture and the primary goals so I understand how the different projects fit within that framework. The Friends card reminds me that it isn't just my life, but that of friends entwined, all of us traveling in the same direction. It says, among other things, that there will always be support, both given and received. I'm reminded of the last line of the poem in the Friends section of the Faeries' Oracle book: "I never could have done this alone."