By Sarah Taylor
This week’s cards work lyrically together, and that lyricism speaks to the sense of what is available to you to work with when they are activated and you’re flowing with them in your own experience.
At the core of the reading, there is a coming together of two distinct parts of the psyche, which provides access to reserves of energy — more specifically, creativity — that had hitherto remained in the shadows, unable to reach their full expression. Now, it is up to you to give them expression; they are available to you.
On the left, we have the Queen of Cups: feminine, watery, emotionally mature, unafraid of her feeling nature. On the right, the Princess of Wands: feminine yet youthful and intense with it, fiery, unafraid of confronting the shadow and of working with energy that is both dynamic and potent. In the centre, the Two of Wands: Dominion. Both Queen and Princess come together in a finely tuned but no less impactful balance, the fire present in the colours in front, the water present in the blue-hued background, each symbolised in a crossed wand.
The Two, masculine as it is (with the Princess, who also exhibits masculine qualities), brings the reading into an equilibrium of activity and receptivity. The choice will be yours as to whether to move or to hold your ground, and there is no need to rush because all indications are that you will know what needs — and doesn’t need — to be done, and when.
There are no Swords or Pentacles in today’s spread. This means that neither analysis nor throwing ‘stuff’ at something in order to deal with it is going to work in your better interests. As someone who has been in therapy on and off for a long time, one of the things I have learned, and which is borne out by experience, is that ‘talking things through’ doesn’t work if the foundation work hasn’t been done. If there is no integrity to the structure, and there is no dynamism or the ability to receive nourishment from the source of your creativity, getting into a long discussion, drawing up game plans, making promises that it won’t happen again — all of that falls by the wayside because the force of the unconscious will have its out in spite of everyone’s best intentions.