Care and living things

Spheres that use this interpretation:Social task — purpose and profession

Interpretations are currently available in Russian only — a translation is in progress.

Arcanum

The High Priestess

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The second task is directed at living things and at those who need looking after. Health, nature, help — these are its three supports.

Professionally that means medicine and veterinary work in their entirety, pharmacy, rehabilitation, work with women and children, and everything connected with ecology and the preservation of nature. A business built around this counts too: you do not have to do the treating yourself, you can create the place where treatment happens.

The task does not demand complete self-denial. It demands that care be the substance of the work rather than a side occupation — otherwise the person spends it on all and sundry and burns out.

It is carried out wherever someone is objectively better off after this person has been involved.

Social task — purpose and profession

Social task = DT + MT + GT

The social task is what, in this system, a person came for. Not a post and not a profession in itself, but the direction in which their effort has meaning.

What matters here is the movement itself. As long as a person is moving towards their task, they are collected and engaged; a halt is felt as the loss of a footing, even when everything looks well from the outside.

The system notes two dead ends. The first — when a person has gone so far from the task that the earlier plan has stopped working and life effectively begins again, often in an entirely different field. The second — when the goal has been reached and the person decides there is nowhere further to go; by this logic what was achieved was a step, not a summit.

DT, MT and GT are steps towards that same task, and there is no need to pass through them in order: one can concentrate on the task directly. The task is most easily carried out through a profession — but it does not reduce to one.

The system connects a person's physical well-being to this as well: it holds that movement towards one's own task sustains a person, while a long departure from it tells on their health over time.

*This is a tenet of the teaching, not a medical claim. The causes of ill health are established by a doctor, and the calculation does not suggest putting off seeing one.*

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