In Time and In Place

Princess of Wands from the Thoth Tarot Deck. Image source: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xF86j3374Ns/TABgObhHTkI/AAAAAAAAEuo/8854yr-6IbU/s1600/Princess_of_Wands.jpg

This song was written as a reminder, as a warning, and because I needed to create something today. The Moon was in Aries, sextile Neptune in Aquarius, trine Mercury in Sagittarius, and opposite Saturn in Libra. I wrote it after thinking about the Princess of Wands.

I never have a plan or a mapped destination
I wait for the signs to reveal my location
And when the compass breaks it’s only to help me
Learn a new route without hesitation

Living this way has its ups and its downs
Sometimes I know where to look to get found
Often I’m lost and believing in fate
To fall down upon me and turn me around

There’s a time and a place to give up control
A time and a place to follow your soul
A time and a place to take up the reigns
And set your own course and make your own name

I conjured a vision to light up my life
It lived in my mind through the bleakest of nights
And one day I dreamed of a way to achieve it
My thoughts were a fume about to ignite

I pushed and I pulled with the fear in my heart
A pressure so deep it could tear me apart
Defeated at first, I began to see through
My victim, my foe, my doubt in the dark

There’s a time and a place to put on the brakes
A time and a place to make your mistakes
A time and a place to face your destruction
And conquer the beast or suffer abduction

A black hole can suck all the wind from your sails
And sometimes there’s no one around when you fail
The world is a cycle of blossom and burn
You have to be ready to play on your turn
You have to be steady to stay on the ground
You have to be open to get closed down

There’s a time and a place to fight or be beaten
A time and a place to fall in with the seasons
A time and a place to believe or to question
And find your own place in this world or the next one