CARD OF THE WEEKEND: January 29-30, 2022

 

Six of Cups

Above: from Dragon Tarot by Peter Pracownik

under the direction of Terry Donaldson

Below: from Universal Waite Tarot, Pamela Colman Smith art for Rider-Waite Tarot,

recolored by Mary Hanson-Roberts

 

January 29-30, 2022: Dragon Tarot is best for folks who love dragons and dragon lore from cultures around the globe. As a reader's deck, though, it requires you to really know your Tarot structure and traditions as the images either do not show enough specific and relatable symbols to help a novice reader or are idiosyncratic. It's part of my collection--a review copy, if I recall--though I have never used it for readings for myself or others. I almost did not include it in this series.

Flipping through it, however, I deliberately chose, for this weekend, the Six of Cups, a card that actually has a specific, non-traditional meaning for me. Whenever this card comes up in a one-card draw or within a layout, it signifies the immediate loving, helpful, and protective presence of one or more spirits, ancestral or otherwise. This works for me, and it can sometimes prove relevant in readings for others.

As you see above, Peter Pracownik's Six of Cups differs dramatically from the bucolic setting of the Rider-Waite-Smith model. It's one of the deck's dreamier, more enjoyable images--a dragon ship, with its dragon herald, leading a fleet of others out to sea, their way lit by the full moon and stars.

Honestly, though, I don't know how any of that squares with what this deck's Little White Book (LWB) tells us about "learning to live in harmony with those around you," but that's in the nature of a lot of these tiny, inserted guidebooks which are best to ignore.

Maybe this dragon card can suggest a fleet of fierce and loving spirit guides coming to take care of you and navigate the way for you--a fun way to interpret it!

Have a wonderful weekend!

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