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Card Meanings: Beginning, Focusing On The Positive, Focus, New Goals, Gratitude, Being Proactive, Zest For Life, Motivation, Seizing Opportunities, Interest, Enthusiasm, Letting Go Of Regret, Ambitions, Self-Awareness, End Of Stagnation
The Lord of Luxury, as I said in my first analysis of it, is a card with a sting in the tail. Whilst it indicates a great deal of loving affection surrounding us, it also warns that we stand the very real possibility of committing a great sin – that of taking love for granted. One thing you might have noticed in life is the strange way in which we value the love of people we feel deeply affectionate toward more highly than the love of people we are less attracted to. From my perspective this is an odd, and rather unkind attitude to have. Its natural to want those we love to return our feelings, of course. But just because we do not feel strongly about a person, we may not imagine that the love they offer us is less valuable. If we are careless of their feelings, we will hurt them just as thoroughly as if we were careless of the feelings of our beloved – or they of ours. And there is no justification for such behaviour.
Love is a mighty and precious emotion. It both creates and destroys with ease. That some-one loves us is a priceless gift from the Universe. Whether we necessarily reciprocate in quite the same way is totally irrelevant. This persons love exists in isolation of our judgement of its importance. So on a day ruled by the Lord of Pleasure, count the loving feelings that people hold for you. Treasure each and every one of these as the inestimable compliment and treasure it is. Do not stand in judgement. Rather, take a harder look at the people who offer you love, where you may not have sought it. And adjust your view of that love until you respect its worth, even though you may not return it. Do not fall into the trap of doing things because somebody loves you .simply hold their feelings in the high regard they deserve. And be very grateful and glad to be loved .. There are a great many people out there who never experience the warmth of being held dear and special. And that is a very lonely experience. And if, for the time, you feel as though you are one of those people who is not loved and held dear, then use this day to seek out at least one place where there is an abundance of love, and go to it everybody deserves to feel that they are not completely alone. You could do worse than visit the huggy healing forum if youre in need of a really good hug!!
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Creative Tarot: With the Four of Cups, you have to maintain an openness and a willingness to be derailed. Its not good to stay stubborn just so that you can stay on schedule or stick with your original vision when a better way is calling out to you.
Tarot Triumphs: I use the terms Triumphs and Trumps interchangeably throughout this book in referring to the twenty-two cards of the Tarot Major Arcana. The words are linked linguistically: the Italian word trionfi translates into ‘triumphs’ and ‘trumps’ in English. They have different shades of acquired meaning, but I have chosen to combine them here to celebrate their earlier origins in the melting pot of fifteenth-century Italy, both as processions of Triumphs and the earliest gorgeously hand-painted decks of Tarot cards. And, of course, ‘triumph’ is something that Tarot is and does; it triumphs through its powerful images, its persistent survival through the centuries, and its capacity to instruct and illuminate those who study it.
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Reversed Cards: The snake in the Lovers card can be seen as a third person, someone who perhaps should not be there. The third party here in the shadow lands of the Lovers could be an affair. It could be abuse. It could be emotional manipulation. It could be any number of undesirable things that really have no place in a loving, caring, supportive relationship. Here in the card of commitment, loyalty, and fidelity, there is no place for corruption. Yet the shadow aspects of human relationships tend to show a different picture. They show infidelity, abuse, dishonesty, excess, manipulation, and dishonor. None of these things is love. None of them vibrates to the energy of the heart chakra, and none of them will bring together the elements required for a successful relationship. The Lovers in the shadow aspect will bring pain, misery, and divisiveness. Nothing more, nothing less.