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Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic.
– Van Morrison
Another Eight this week, and a rare one, too. The Eight of Cups appears for the first time in about four years, bringing with it its many mysterious implications. In her classic work, Seventy [...]
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Nine of Cups
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846–1916)
What an profound card for this week of Yuletide! I just couldn’t help but tinker a little bit with it. If you must see what the real Rider-Waite-Smith card looks like, you can go here.
Around the [...]
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Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
– Kahlil Gibran
Now as we in the Northern Hemisphere stand upon the threshold of Winter, embraced by the darkest of nights, we are visited this week by the Five of Cups. This [...]
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Six of Cups
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
– William Wordsworth
It is always interesting to see what the cards are going to tell us about a week when so many of us will be stepping outside of our ordinary routines. In the [...]
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Reach out your hand if your cup be empty
If your cup is full, may it be again;
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of man.
– Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia
I can hardly believe it! As I search through my files, it slowly dawns on me that in [...]
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The Six of Cups
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
– Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974)
This is an enigmatic card, to say the least. Many Tarot scholars interpret this [...]
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Four of CupsLike any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you’ll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift, too.– Anonymous
More Cups for us this week, but lacking the happy resolution that we saw in last week’s offering. The Tarot Cups [...]
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The Ten of Cups…Know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. — from the Charge of the Goddess, traditional by Doreen Valiente
Bliss! Only a month after its last appearance, this week [...]
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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — Albus Dumbledore (via J. K. Rowling), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Somehow, I am not surprised to see the Seven of Cups make a somewhat rare appearance this week. With his back to us, we see [...]
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King of CupsKindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure. — King Solomon
After four years of never appearing, in less than a month, we now have an encore visit from the King of Cups. The Kings of the Tarot are the overt, assertive personification of the suit’s energy. They [...]
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