Jerome has often likened his own path to the tarot’s Five of Cups image: a dejected figure gazing mournfully at three spilled vessels of their life’s enterprises and dreams. The figure’s back is turned blindly toward the two still standing, as well as the distant bridge leading to a palatial abode.
In an unexpected new symbolism, a book of matches appears fully spent, and yet, a close inspection suggests that a few might remain. The one that has just been struck stands tall —— burning brightly enough, perhaps, to even light the way.
The Match is emblematic of the tarot card’s reversal. Through its mirror, the figure then beholds the pair of upright chalices; in these, the sustenance for the long journey home can be found.
For Jerome, that journey now traverses a forbidding, nonnative territory: the realm of Other. Where is his place within this new domain —— one so dauntingly distant from his insular past? The crossing is proving exceedingly challenging, but this hero is nothing if not gutsy.
For him, though, “To Trust” is the riskiest of wagers, for there is much more than a mere outside chance that he could dare this trek and lose everything.
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