RESPIRA.
Like The Hanged Man/El Colgado, La Cuarentena indicates a time of forced repose. You may not be experiencing an actual quarantine, but life has hit the pause button; no matter how trapped you feel, there’s little choice but to surrender to the lull.
If you get La Cuarentena in a reading, you are called to accept an uncomfortable—but possibly transformative—moment of suspension. While everything seems to be upside down, ask yourself: What new ways of seeing become available to me from this position? Is there a life-altering perspective for me to discover? What are the lessons of slowing down?
After a near-fatal bus accident, Frida Kahlo was “bored as hell in bed with a plaster cast” (her words) and started painting for the first time. She had a mirror installed above her bed and used a special easel to paint while lying down—thus began her inimitable self-portraits and her life as an artist.
Hang on, look around, and allow La Cuarentena to be a time of enlightenment.
♫ “SOS – Interlude” by Natalia Doco
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If you didn’t know… Frida Kahlo is a self-taught Mexican painter who is most famous for her self-portraits from the 1930s and 40s. I started this project, Chancletazo for Your Soul, during the early months of Quarantine in the Covid Pandemic. Frida is pictured here wearing a white face mask along with the spider monkey keeping her company.
This is part of our Winter 2022-23 issue featuring Chancletazo for Your Soul by Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, The Tarot Issue.
