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By Sarah Taylor
Four, three, two. Self-absorption, conflict, balance. The cards this week are asking me to read them from left to right, while paying due respect to each of the three elements, and how they work together to find equilibrium.
The card on the left is the Four of Cups, which has been a frequent, if not entirely recent, visitor to the Weekend Tarot Readings. In it, a figure sits under a tree, arms folded, legs crossed, eyes lowered, as if preoccupied with something going on inside — rather than around — him. To all intents and purposes, his body language feels like a ‘closing off’ from the outside world. The Three of Cups from last week (celebration, harmonious feelings, shared love, abundance) seems to be revisiting in slightly different form: the cups are lined up in front of him, but he is either unaware of, or choosing not to see, them. It is as if the dancers have put them down and taken their revelries elsewhere.
The fours represent a pause, and this is a card of alone-ness. It feels chosen, not enforced from outside; the circumstances of the figure’s world are not in conflict with him: the sky is clear and the greenery around him suggests life. The tree’s leafy branches hang down towards him. What I find interesting, though, is the uniformity of the greenness. There seem to be no apparent signs of fruit or flower. This feels like mid-summer — after things have sprung from bud and before they are due to be harvested.