The Hermit. This card embodies wisdom. Specifically there could be someone wiser than yourself offering knowledge and guidance. This card also represents solitude and turning inward to find answers.
Continuing with the Aces!
Pull out the Ace of Cups for your deck (or decks!) and start riffing on what you see. What images are in the foreground? In the background? What colours do you see? How does it make you feel? What meanings do you already carry for it?
So, last week I received my copy of the Tarot del Fuego by Ricardo Cavolo. As I was looking through all the cards for the first time, I came across this one, and gasped. I knew that when the week came for writing about the Ace of Cups for @deathandtarot‘s #52tarot challenge, it had to be this one. The imagery departs from traditional Waite-Smith symbolism, as do most of the images in this deck, but reading this card is comfortable and intuitive all the same.
Cups are the suit of emotions and relationships. They also represent water, the liquid state among the classical elements. Here, the composition is dominated by a large breast, from which milk, the liquid that sustains life, pours into the Cup. Breast milk is created by the parent’s body to feed an infant, an exchange not just of nourishment but of love between a creator and the created. As this is the Ace of Cups, and therefore of relationships and emotion in their purest form, the milk in this card may be a representation of the emotional nourishment provided by the closest and most important relationships in our lives, the people who are the most constant and reliable in our times of need. In addition, the constellation of stars on the breast reminded me of Ursa minor, which contains the North Star- another symbol of constancy, as unlike the other stars when viewed from Earth, it never appears to move.
Take heart. Your feelings are valid, and the people who care about you will help you through. Emotions are what sustain us and make us human.
The Tarot del Fuego is by Ricardo Cavolo and is published by Naipes Fournier.
PS: the Ace of Cups was also an all-girl psychedelic rock band in the 1960s!
CROSSED SWORDS - feel like i’ve finally rounded the corner into being comfortable enough with making these! 5 brass ones and 2 copper ones currently available - check ‘em out here!
if you get one of these i’d love to know what you think! first time trying my hand at something like this
read the thing for yourself https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf
Most relevant paragraph
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
“…who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.” We talk about this in seminary all the time: peace that is won by one side holding its foot on the other side’s throat is not peace. When we pray for peace, we must pray for peace with justice, never at the cost of justice, made by silencing the oppressed.
Fellow white people, don’t just reblog or share mlk jr.’s more palatable “hate cannot drive out hate” type quotes and ignore the fact that he also said challenging things like this. We must hold ourselves accountable. We must not be lukewarm. And there is never a “more convenient season” to act to secure rights for all people – the time is now.
He also had a speech to the APA that openly called out white people for caring more about “riots” and damaged property than the fact that Black people were suffering under institutional violence.
He called out white people regularly for their lack of empathy for Black lives and their continuance to spout respectability at Black people than hold the white policymakers accountable for their racism.
I have a couple of posts on here asking for donations but reblogs and donations have slowed down!
I know and realize and recognize that things are very tough on everyone right now but sometimes posts with a lot of texts people skip over (understandable I have undiagnosed adhd)
What is this post about you ask!?? It’s to help me move!!
I’ve been through quite a lot these last couple of years (a physically emotionally and mentally abusive relationship) two emotionally and mentally abusive friendships by people I have known for years. Racism at my job and in my town and like.......this whole entire country. I’m currently stuck in the good ole Midwest and even though my town counts itself as “liberal” and “progressive” it’s ripe with racism. Not to mention the town I am is full of abusers. (Included the three that I dealt with last year)
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so my first gfm ended on sep 30th and i did not meet my goal so i'm restarting it!
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