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By Sarah Taylor
Love lost; love rediscovered. That is the broad message in today’s Weekend Tarot Reading.
I write “broad” because the definition of love changes from person to person, from experience to experience, and can suggest something external — between two people — or internal — with oneself. Or both. I write “lost” and then “rediscovered” because, once again, the reading wants to be read from left to right. There is a sense of chronology to the layout, primarily due to the connecting factor of the presence of the two cups in the left card and the right — the evolution of the idea of love as the cups come into their own in the final card.
In the Five of Cups, a figure robed in mourning-black stoops over three cups, their contents spilled onto the ground. Two of the streams of fluid are red, suggesting blood; the other is green, suggesting putrefaction. Perhaps something vital needed to be sacrificed because of the presence of an element whose contamination would have spread like an infection. A necessary spilling of blood to rid the situation of something that, if not dead already, was in the process of coming to an end.
But all is not lost. Far from it. Keep an eye on the building in the background as the cards progress. Who wants to live in a fortress? It might be safe, but that safety comes at the cost of some freedom: The buttress suggests intractability, the small windows will let in only so much light. The bridge to its right, just behind the figure, leads away from it and towards the next card. It crosses a river, which is flowing. There is movement, suggesting that the emotions are in full flow. This is not a situation of stagnation but a loss encountered because things are in motion. That is significant.