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I´m laid up with a cold so I can as well tell a story while I can´t do much...

10 of Clubs. The magician, the juggler. Let me tell you about a man who was not only a juggler, litterarily a juggler and one that kept the world record in juggling for a few years (15 balls, I believe), but also a grammy winning whistler, a bird imitator, a nature documentarist at a high international level and an acrobat, a tightrope walker and to a degree a classic ballet dancer (studied in ballet school as a kid).

Who filmed the big cats in Africa and India, wrestled an anaconda in South America and who from a young age suffered from type 1 diabetes.

Plus he kept tens of animals in the family´s small Stockholm apartment as a kid, and later took care of two tigers that he raised, together with his wife, on an island in the Stockholm archipelago.

His name was Jan Lindblad. Unfortunately there is not much about him on youtube, except for his whistling. Most of the material is in Swedish, but in this clip in which he imitates birds, he speaks English and quite good English too I believe: https://youtu.be/up5h078QAFs?si=ib_Kx-G4xRK9gvog

He was an extremely impressive man of course, but what I find especially interesting is his relation to death. He had, as said, diabetes, and conscious about that he strived for to live to the fullest. There are stories about him going into the jungle with his camera and being found on the verge of coma for not having brought his insuline or had enought to drink. "Who cares?". Subsequently he died at the age of 55 in Sri Lanka during a filming session.

Have a look at the Ten of Clubs spread: The very King of Spades, the Shiva card that fears nobody and nothing is their Moon Card, and their EC and Uranus card are both red sevens; the death in the tarot deck.

In Africa he learned how to read the signals of the lions and chose to approach them openly on the ground while filming.

A beautiful example of how life is best lived to the fullest in the presence of death, if you ask me.

A few years after his death the Swedish post made two stamps to his honour, which should say something about his status and impact in his time. Now he´s practically forgotten, I believe. Vishnu comes and Vishnu goes...

Staffan

An extra note: He had his Moon shamed by Saturn. That may have been due to the bullying he suffered in school from being a classic ballet student. Which of course motivated him further to gain greatness later in life.

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