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No. 34
The Rival
Comparison and jealousy
Comparison and jealousy · Card 34 of 44

The Rival

The rule

You may have learned that someone else is always doing it better, faster, with less effort, and that in love this looks the same way, someone else always a threat to what you have, real or imagined. It might start the next time the comparison flares, by asking what exactly you think they have, and whether you actually want it. Comparison, at work or in love, only ever shows you the outside of someone else's story next to the inside of your own.

Traditionally echoed in Dian Cécht, the Irish god of healing, who struck down his own son Miach when the young man's skill surpassed his own.

For you

Whose life, or whose place in someone else's affection, have you been quietly measuring yourself against?

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This page holds the card’s rule and question. The physical deck and companion booklet go much deeper: the full meaning of The Rival, a divination meaning, a journal prompt and a somatic practice. About the deck.
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