{"id":36792,"date":"2011-04-10T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=36792"},"modified":"2011-04-10T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T16:42:10","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-april-10-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-april-10-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, April 10, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free\u00a0tarot spread generator<\/a> using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread.\u00a0This article<\/a> tells you how to use the spread. You can\u00a0visit Sarah’s website here<\/a>. –efc<\/em><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Sarah Taylor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Out of a period of disillusionment, there is the possibility of union. The key here is to remain open to a higher emotional guiding principle.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is starting to sound familiar: yet again, we have a connection between readings. This week, it feels like we’re looking at last week’s reading<\/a> from another angle — this time from an emotional, rather than a spiritual, perspective.<\/p>\n

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4 of Cups, 2 of Cups, Queen of Cups from the Rider-Waite Smith Tarot deck. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In fact, this reading is all about emotions. All three cards are Cups; all three are minor arcana, although the appearance of the Queen — a court card — gives the reading something of a more enduring, less fleeting, feel to it. This is not about rational analysis (Swords), nor is it about how you interact with the material world (Pentacles), nor how you work with your creative energies (Wands). This is about a wholehearted (read: “whole-hearted”) immersion in feelings.<\/p>\n

How to do this? By taking time in solitude in order to be present to what is being offered. This is reflected in the Four of Cups. Maybe all it takes is a shift in focus to draw the youth out of his self-absorbed ennui, and into a state of meditative receptivity to the single cup that is being held out to him. Maybe this is his invitation to emotion, to love. “Love your life once again by loving yourself once again.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is when, in the Two of Cups, he takes the cup and looks up that he finds himself reflected in the eyes of another, and experiences himself as that love. This ‘other’ may be real, or it may be symbolic, but those are the details in a larger story. More important is the understanding that what he encountered as outside and separate from himself in the Four was really inside all along. He was simply looking away, closed off to its presence.<\/p>\n

The Two of Cups presents a moment of healing, when two separate parts come together. The caduceus symbolises the healing quality of the encounter in the card, the winged lion a mix of grounded instinct and of transcending the physical.<\/p>\n

There is magic at work here… and it seems to be presided over by the Queen of Cups — a woman who is completely at ease with her feeling nature, and who has endured her own emotional trials and tribulations on her journey to the throne. She is the emotional care-taker, her watery robe and cloak flowing down to meet and join with the sea that laps the shore at her feet. She is emotion embodied, but she is also centred: her solid throne, carved with three fishtailed ‘mer-cherubs’ bear testament to that. The earth, the sea and the heavens meet at this juncture.<\/p>\n

I look at the cup that she is gently but firmly holding with both hands, and in the angels praying on either side I see echoed the figures of the woman and the man in the Two of Cups. It is here that her role as care-taker is emphasised. She is watching over them intently, guiding them with her wisdom and with her own connection to the heart. In this way, she is fulfilling what I see as a mentoring role that the couple can draw from when and if they are aware of it. They are being guided by something that has their interests at heart, and by one who knows and understands the experience to which they have opened themselves.<\/p>\n

To write more about this reading would be to try and put the Sword of scrutiny to the waves that lie in front of the Queen: it cannot be done satisfactorily. To get a fuller idea of what this reading is trying to convey, I’d suggest that you look at the larger version of the cards — better still if you have the three cards tangibly in front of you — and sit with them for a while. With the Queen’s guidance, open yourself to the possibility of the message that they bring to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free\u00a0tarot spread generator using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread.\u00a0This article tells you how to use the spread. You can\u00a0visit Sarah’s website here. –efc By\u00a0Sarah Taylor Out of a period of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}