CARDS OF THE WEEKEND: June 18-19, 2022

 

Il Bagatto and Gli Amanti

I Gatti

by Osvaldo Menegazzi

June 18-19, 2022: I Gatti ("the cats") is Osvaldo Menegazzi's sweet, Major Arcana Tarot deck, a long-ago holiday gift from a friend who knows how much I adore cats!

I had to share these two images with you today for your weekend:

Il Bagatto ("The Magician"): Look at the insouciance of that kitten and the dip of that feathered cap! Menegazzi's Magician has already done some mischief--see the overturned cup!--and looks ready to reach out a paw and sweep everything else to the floor!

Gli Amanti (The Lovers"): Well, maybe you have an equally adventurous sidekick--someone to share the joy--and, if necessary, the consequences?

Don't hesitate to be playful and a little mischievous. Be reasonably careful and attentive, but be confident like The Magician and have some fun this weekend. 

And for all celebrating, Happy Juneteenth!

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READER REQUEST: RIDER-WAITE LOVERS and JUDGEMENT

 

The Lovers and Judgement

Rider-Waite Tarot

art by Pamela Colman Smith

 

Big thanks to hummingwitch reader Gloria Carol who sent a request for treatment of two Rider-Waite (Pamela Colman Smith) images--The Lovers and Judgement.

I don't know if Gloria deliberately chose this pair for their visual similarity, but you'll notice that an imposing angel presides over each scene. Both angels have scarlet wings so thick and lush, you know their arrival stirred up the whole of the environment. They signify an urgent intervention. They have broken through the sky with exhortations to humans below to unite (The Lovers) and rise back to life (Judgement).

Also, I absolutely covet the royal purple shawl The Lovers' angel is wearing...but I digress.

With its Adam-and-Eve imagery, The Lovers, in the context of this Major Arcana pairing, can indicate a beginning while Judgement brings us closer to the end--or perhaps the revival or high-level advancement--of a significant process.

One message coming through is: Remember your origins--remember the design, purity, connectedness, and hope--and now answer the call for transformation. 

The angels command us to raise the "dead" within ourselves and the "dead" out in our communities, societies, and world before it is too late.

What have you allowed to wither or die, to go without sun or nourishment? What have you denied because your environment, your society, denied it?

This is heavy recovery work, requiring determination, focus, courage, and stamina. Not every individual or collective of people will be up to the task. But, clearly, the time is now.

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CARD OF THE DAY: December 10, 2021

 

The Lovers

(top) from Lo Scarabeo's Antiche Minchiate Etruria

(bottom) from Universal Waite Tarot, art by Pamela Colman Smith, 

re-colored by Mary Hanson-Roberts

December 10, 2021: Ever have a classic Tarot archetype you've never really connected with? The Lovers is that card for me.

I could never warm up to its well-known Pamela Colman Smith image of an angel looming over bare-assed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Eve--Mother of Life and symbol of the lure of earthly things--stands by her fruitful, snake-coiled tree, the snake poised to hiss devilish temptation into her ear. Socially distanced at the other end of the image, Adam stands by a fire-blackened tree that bears only flaming branches.

The angel-- arms stretched wide, eyes closed in serene patience--appears to be waiting for the pending decision or choice that this card is supposed to predict or advise. Quite a drama.

Personally, I find The Lovers card in Lo Scarbeo's Antiche Minchiate Etruria to be a lot more fun. (It's the fifth--not sixth--Major Arcana card in this deck, which has many other anomalies.) Take a look at this image and where Cupid's bow is aimed! Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, indeed! At least, that's how I see it.

Talk about a card that screams "unintended consequences" and getting way more than you bargained for, and not in a good way.

What does this have to do with love/lovers/loving? Possibly nothing...unless, of course, it does. So, watch your situation--romantic or otherwise.

Are you sure you've set up the necessary conditions for a right, satisfying, and durable outcome? Maybe there's something that needs deeper examination or, even, overturn.

So, yes, you do have some super-smart decisions and/or choices to make. This is not the time to get lazy or scared and overlook or avoid them.