Saturday, April 21, 2007

Collapsed Pit - Not In My Cards

ג' באייר תשס"ז

JSpot reports a story unreported by other news sources buried (Friday, April 20, 2007) on page A17 of the NY Times (2 Miners Trapped in Maryland Under Up to 100 Feet of Rock):

Two miners were trapped under 45 to 100 feet of rock and dirt near Barton, Md., on Tuesday after a side of an open pit coal mine collapsed, and rescue efforts continued yesterday with workers filling 20 to 30 trucks an hour.

Federal mine safety officials said the two men, whom they would not identify, were driving a bulldozer and a shovel in the No. 3 mine of Tri-Star Mining Inc. about 10:15 a.m. when a 125-foot-high side of the mine collapsed.

Read full story at link above.

Apparently, the mine collapsed on Tuesday and the miners were still buried at the time of reporting on Friday. Not only is this incident a social justice issue dealing with unsafe working conditions, it also indirectly relates to my seventh tarot reading on Wednesday. The tarot reading brought down the word רק which I interpreted as "surely" (Bereshit 6:5), as in the surely the sleepers (unenlightened souls) will awaken to see the sun (light of truth). This interpretation is and was supported by the tarot spread, particularly given the cards in the P8 and P9 positions.

However, רק can also mean "empty" or "vain" as found in Bereshit 37:24 - "and they took him (Yosef), and cast him into the pit--and the pit was empty, there was no water in it."

Sigh.

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