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Card Meanings: Hope, Letting Go Of Grief, Letting Go Of Regret Or Guilt, Summon, Healing, Accepting Help, Overcoming Despair, Return, Moving Forward/ Moving On, Forgiveness, Re-Joining The World, Releasing Emotions, Letting Go Of Sorrow, Releasing Emotional Baggage
Our first inclination with the Lord of Disappointment, is that none of us look forward to this card turning up ..but since turn up it will, I thought perhaps it would help to have a discussion about how to reduce levels of disappointment in life, how to improve our chances of contentment and how to deal with disappointment when, inevitably, we have to face it. First and foremost, its important to realise that, whilst our disappointments often come from outside sources, the reason that we experience them is because of internal beliefs and expectations. We are disappointed when the company refuses to offer us that job we wanted so much. We are disappointed when friends, lovers, family let us down, fail to treat us in a fashion we had believed they should. We are disappointed when something does not work out the way we had hoped. Yet we cannot go through life without expectations. We cannot protect ourselves by holding negative expectations. Hope is a fighter no matter how much we try to squash it down, it pops back up again often in the sneakiest fashion. So .perhaps we simply have to be brave enough to hope, honest enough to assess our expectations realistically, courageous enough to accept that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we are going to be hurt by disappointment. Maybe we have to make the choice to risk ourselves, and accept that sometimes we will get let down.
So on a day ruled by the 5 of cups, dont go looking for disappointment, spend some time assessing your expectations. Look for imbalance, or lack of realism in your expectations of people and situations. If you find any then be true to yourself, and adjust those expectations till they serve you better. Look for negative expectations (nothing good ever happens to me; I am always going to be lonely/miserable/unhappy; I am too weak/inadequate to achieve what I need) and tackle these with gusto .they create darkness in your life, and serve no purpose. Drive them out of your head with determined use of the affirmation, and agree to go after them every single time they surface. And finally .expect a nice surprise in every single day you live. Expect to find something that fills your heart with joy and gratitude every single day. Go looking for these things .make it part of your daily routine to discover something which makes joy arise within you .
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Creative Tarot: The person on the Five of Cups is so busy mourning what has been lost that he cannot see what remains. There is a sense of Dont cry over spilt milk here, but at the same time, what is lost cannot be regained. The mourning process, however, can blind us to what is still good in our lives, and that must be considered. The Five of Cups is a warning not to get stuck and not to let disappointment ruin everything that remains.
Tarot Triumphs: Tarot, in the light of the triumphal procession, may be seen as an act of theater, its images a kind of magical performance moving through the sequence of the cards. We can turn this historical link with the triumphal processions to our advantage, and use the context imaginatively, as a way of discovering the kind of impact that these magnificent Tarot Triumphs could have when paraded through the streets.
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Reversed Cards: The Lovers card is connected to the zodiac sign of Gemini, the twin aspects of the self. This sun sign reminds us that the longest relationship we will ever have in this physical journey is the one with ourselves. And here in the retrograde aspect, we get to take a look at how we have been honoring this lifelong love affair. As we move backward from the Lovers, we get to take a closer look at the conditions that shaped where we now stand. You see, every card leading up to the Lovers has taught it how love works. The journey thus far has shaped and molded how you love yourself and how you allow love to be shared from your heart to someone else. So as you allow the twins to retrograde you through these modeling influences, do your best to stay detached. Because in this backward movement is a gift, a gift that once unwrapped will allow you to start healing those pesky broken pieces of your heart.