CARD OF THE WEEK: November 28-December 2, 2022

 

 Ace of Cups

Mystic Faerie Tarot

by Barbara Moore and artist Linda Ravenscroft

 

November 28-Deceomber 2, 2022: I can't look at this pretty version of the Ace of Cups without thinking of some kind of bubble tea or overflowing milkshake. But, just as I warned you about last weekend's Judgement faerie card by Moore and Ravenscroft, don't be fooled. Whatever's in that goblet, no matter how innocent looking, it can knock you out. 

You're being offered a tiny taste of water--it's the Ace after all, the beginning--but it's something more than what flows from your kitchen tap. Don't gulp for more than that sip at this time. A little will go a long way. A lot would be too much.

Sit with a vivid feeling. Hold it close for a moment. Then let it go. You need not let it overwhelm you. But you can acknowledge it, savor it, stare it down--whatever seems to be the most appropriate response.

Sense its sweetness or its bitterness. Acknowledge it, and then release it,

Remember: don't get greedy.

 

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CARDS OF THE WEEKEND: July 16-17, 2022

 

Ace of Cups and Two of Cups

Oak, Ash & Thorn Tarot

by Stephanie Burrows with art by Adam Oehlers

July 16-17, 2022: So, Ace of Cups! And a bonus--the Two of Cups! Both so sweet, their images from the beautiful Oak, Ash & Thorn Tarot by Stephanie Burrows with Adam Oehlers' art.

For the Ace, please note the tiny squirrel face peering from just beneath the water's surface beneath the proffered gift--an acorn goblet--that floats in the air. Here Oehlers reimagines the classic otherworldly hand emerging from a cloud in many Tarot Aces.

Now look at the Two of Cups. The energy of relationship and sharing--Spirit to animal--has now been transferred from one living squirrel to another.

So, I might call this weekend's story "The Pass-Along." How do we receive from Spirit, and how do we pass along what we receive to the other beings with whom we share this three-dimensional world?

Two words to work with this week in your meditations, journaling, and action--source and purpose.

Have a sweet weekend!

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CARD OF THE WEEK: April 4-8

 

 Ace of Cups

Neo Tarot

by Jerico Mandybur with art by Daiana Ruiz

 

April 4-8: Beginning with this week, hummingwitch will share and explore one or more CARDS OF THE WEEK instead of daily cards. There will also be a CARD OF THE WEEKEND and the occasional reader contest.

This new arrangement should prove be more sustainable for me and, I hope, will give more of you sufficient time to keep up with, contemplate, and benefit from these posts. Take your time with them over the week and enjoy. Let me know what you think!

Recently, a hummingwitch reader noted the presence of the Ace of Cups reversed in his daily draw of cards, and I suggested that he imagine what might happen if, as a therapeutic measure, he were to turn that card right-side up.

A reversed Cups card often makes me think of a few things:

• how a turned-over glass or cup indicates you're finished and want no more to drink
• and, more than just being finished with something, the gesture can indicate refusal
• how turning over a vessel spills out whatever--good, bad, or indifferent--was held within
• how, by turning down a vessel, you can trap and restrain something within it.

At times, some of these possibilities can be positive. At other, they may have negative connotations and consequences. One needs to look at the situation in question--and, in an extended layout reading, other cards surrounding the Cups card--to take its temperature and meaning. Or simply ask Spirit: How am I to understand this reversed Cups card?

Your CARD OF THE WEEK, Ace of Cups, is, of course, right-side up. Hooray! So, you want to think about what this vessel brings to you from Spirit. It is definitely a Spirit-borne gift. See the disembodied hand emerging from a cloud?

Despite the minimalism of Daiana Ruiz's art for the Neo Tarot, I find incredible energy and charm in this image, and I immediately want to seize that goblet! Yes, this is for me!

The Ace of Cups encourages that affirmation. So, this week, look for the surprise of wonderful things and opportunities you might not even be aware you needed or wanted. But, especially regarding things you've been actively striving for, please settle down, breathe and receive. Believe in yourself and your worth. You may have already done the hard, preparatory work to make things happen as they now will with generosity and grace.

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CARD OF THE DAY: January 11, 2022

 Ace of Cups

Universal Waite Tarot

Art by Pamela Colman Smith recolored by Mary Hanson-Roberts

 

January 11, 2022: Tarot's Aces can be viewed, at times, as symbols of gifts from Spirit, right out of the blue--or out of a spirit hand extended from a cloud. Given quietly and with such subtlety that they might be overlooked if you are distracted--as you tend to be--by mundane matters and worries. So small, sometimes, that you can tuck them away in your pocket, or in your subconscious, or in a patch of fertile ground that will prove perfect for their nurturing and future growth. Secreted away where they can't be discovered and stolen from you. But don't forget they're there to be retrieved and activated when the time is right. The key that turns the lock. A dash of the secret ingredient in your great-granny's  recipe, passed down the generations.

From the Universal Waite Tarot, I was gifted the Ace of Cups for you today. Since we're talking a Rider-Waite-Colman image, you'll notice more than a hint of Christian mysticism here--the golden chalice from which springs holy waters of life and to which a white dove descends, bearing a communion host--the Body of Christ--in its bill.

Such a gentle, peaceful card. And yet, the thought that was also gifted to my mind right before I drew this card was about 'breaking the mold" and "upending the order of things." There are Tarot archetypes that speak more directly to those themes.

I will leave it to you radical social justice Christians--and I know you're out there--to take this Ace of Cups in the obvious, quite justifiable direction. But from a different perspective, in which Tarot can speak to one of any or no faith, I want to argue for the power of the element of water as a force that can go from the subtlety of the tiniest teardrop to the mystery, depth, and ferocious power of a wind-whipped ocean.

Don't sleep on the power of the drop. Enough of them over enough time, and they'll wear away stone and create new channels for their movement. They will break the mold. They will upend the order of things.

How does this tiny, heartfelt, powerful gift manifest in your life today? What does it make possible tomorrow?

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