For some the weighty Judgement card is the penultimate card of accountability. Some interpret it as offering an opportunity to pull off the masks we have been wearing and be accountable to ourselves, be honest about our choices.
Holding up a mirror on our life and the lives of our ancestors takes courage. It is not easy to hear the accusing voices and own up to it all, to acknowledge the successes and failures, to feel. regret about choices made, opportunities lost, moral infringements. But the self acceptance that comes with doing a reckoning is liberating. It sets us free when we dispassionately see the pattern of our lives.
Magda Szubanski is indisputably one of Australia’s most loved comic actors. However her true identity has been hidden within the characters she has played, like Sharon, the unlucky in love netball player, who shot to fame in the comic series Kath and Kim.
When Szubanski took up the challenge of writing her memoir, entitled ‘Reckoning’, she peeled back protective coatings and unflinchingly exposed old emotional wounds. Like a forensic scientist she explores wounds passed from one generation to another.
Are you up for this kind of introspection and reckoning?
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