What is it that tells us we are ALIVE vs. LIVE ?
I'm asking this question of myself after I've had a yummy lunch ... contemplating the feeling of the food as it satisfies my senses; of smell, taste, fullness in the tummy, the movement of the food through the inner realms (yes, I feel the peristalsis a lot!) and the products of the body processes!
It's later than I wanted to be in my 'commitment' to a daily card draw ---
26. Book
“The book of knowledge, the book of secrets, what I house is educational and private.
I may be your project or your research, and sometimes your studies and journals.
Watch out for the cards around me, because with the Sun you will see right through me.
I am hidden, I am unknown, but occasional knowledge I might learn.”
The Book draws attention to the power of knowledge and the importance of possessing it. This card may suggest there is something somebody needs to know, however this will only become apparent with the presence of the cards around it.
The Book is a vehicle for the very imagination itself. The Book of the Reverie promises tales of great mystery within its pages. It has a mechanical dial on its front, showing the intricacies of learning.
The Book opens to the right of the card, which indicates in readings the direction of the learning - literally, what is being opened by the learning ...

As I look into this card in great depth and especially in relation to the question I posed above about
ALIVE vs LIVE
- my eye is led to the centre of the book and the beauty and complexity of the dial : it is showing me the ability that we have of being able to move the hands, choose the settings and many other variables that we can choose
- then being led from the dial to the clasp and the expectation that it will open once the right [Combination] is entered
- An open book is then before us, to receive from the lessons already written - OR - to write the story as we want it!
Is that the lesson of the day!? We learn in many different ways, not just from a book. We need to OPEN and be OPEN to the possibilities and opportunities that are the part of the story yet to be written.
Live your life as alive as you can create it.