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By Sarah Taylor
The reading this week feels like an alchemical quantum leap — a reaction within that causes a transformation from novice to master, from fluidity to fire, from an untested idealism to an oomph of focused and authoritative energy.
It is as if a person, an entity or a part of us steps forward and assumes a position of power through an unexpected shift in events.
Look at the card on the left: the Page of Cups. Cups are associated with emotions, and here I tend to see these emotions as being pure and well-intentioned, young-at-heart.
The Page is well dressed. Dandy, even: he isn’t wearing the attire of someone who is used to going through the wars (that comes with the Knight), but rather of someone who has time for recreation and imagination. This is not to denigrate the Page of Cups. Not at all. Love has to have its beginning somewhere, and what better beginning than one that is imbued with an open and dream-like quality? Yes, it’s going to be put through the wringer, in a manner of speaking, and it has yet to acquire the patina of experience, but the foundation for something that is expansive and accepting is there.
The fish interests me here. It is the same colour blue as the man’s ornate headdress and his tunic, as well as the undulating waters behind him. It is as much a part of him as it is a part of the seas — a visitor from the uncharted depths of his own psyche. But he isn’t afraid of it, instead greeting it with a smile, his body bent towards it. It is as if he is inviting it into his consciousness, after which he might throw it into the sea so that it is free to swim and multiply.