August 8-12, 2022: Salvador Dalí's Tarot deck started off as a project for the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die. It combines Tarot and playing card conventions--quite handy--with the artist's dream-haunted collage work. This is one of my collector's items, never used in readings. But it serves an interesting purpose for our explorations here on hummingwitch.
Dalí's Tarot reminds us that, to represent or communicate with the inner dimensions of consciousness, Tarot imagery need not be conventional, literal, or even completely legible. Working with his cards, the busy conscious mind gets distracted by what??? and why???, while inner regions of the self have freedom to sail right ahead, ideally forging connections, processing meanings, and promoting changes.
With his Four of Cups/Four of Hearts, a lone dove perches in a treetop beside a golden goblet. The lad sitting on the ground in fetal position might be sleeping or curved over in despondency. Unlike Pamela Colman Smith's character, he might not be aware of the additional goblet offered by Spirit--at least, not consciously aware. Like Smith's character, though, his body appears closed off in refusal or protection. If he is to receive the spiritual boon of the fourth cup, it will need to be through esoteric, not mundane and obvious, means.
I wonder what your "fourth cup" might be. This week, meditate when you can and look around you for signs that there is one awaiting your notice. Will you accept it?
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