Today's Stichomancy for Arthur E. Waite

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot:

With the other masquerades That time resumes, One thinks of all the hands That are raising dingy shades In a thousand furnished rooms.

III

You tossed a blanket from the bed, You lay upon your back, and waited; You dozed, and watched the night revealing The thousand sordid images Of which your soul was constituted;