Today I chose to go back to my
Llewellyn Welsh Tarot, and I threw the Ten of Cups and The Empress
reversed.
The Ten of Cups (Mars, action, spontaneity, aggression, drive, in
Pisces, “I believe,” feeling, duality, spirituality, suffering and growth) in
an upright position offers the manifestation of happiness, simple joys, and
fulfillment. The number Ten is about the completion of a cycle or
manifestation, and the suit of Cups is about emotions, feelings and the inner
self, so this card offers the bounty that comes with the successful
experiencing of all the lessons of the Cups cards.
The Llewellyn
Welsh Ten of Cups is a lovely card.
Children play along a stream near a small bridge, surrounded by green
grass and protective mountains, with a house in the background, an embracing
couple in the foreground, and a rainbow arching over all. Everyone in this image is blessed with
love and happiness, obtained without money or fine clothes or a fancy home. All those outer embellishments aren’t
necessary for happiness! All you
need is love!
The Empress (my
significator card, which corresponds with Earth (cold/binds and dry/shapes, and
stable, material, practical energies that are slow to change), Venus (beauty,
allure, pleasure, relationships), the Hebrew letter Daleth (door or womb) and
the Path between Binah (female receptive energy and the origin of form and
structure) and Chokmah on the Tree of Life (dynamic male energy and the origin
of vital force and polarity)) is one half of the Major Arcana representation of
the Sacred Feminine (along with The High Priestess), the half that is about
creativity, fertility of all kinds, a deep connection to Nature and the
nurturing of others, and an enjoyment of the senses. My Empress, who is the
mother of form, tells of creative intelligence; she reveals the concepts
guarded by The High Priestess, and she encourages me to immerse myself in the
manifestations of the physical world.
The Llewellyn
Welsh Empress sits on a throne, clothed in green and blue and white,
embroidered with red flowers. In
her lap she holds a scepter (symbol of royalty) and an orb (symbol of feminine
energies or traits); a shield embossed with two swans shaped in a heart (symbol
of love) rests at her feet. This
is a fertile card, filled with verdant growth and living creatures, and a queen
who is kind and capable. Because
my Empress is reversed, there may be a bit of turmoil in my day that will shake
my serenity.
That Ten of
Cups makes perfect sense to me, because I am preparing to spend a weekend with
close friends, celebrating a wedding!
We will all be gathering in the name of love, and the fancy dresses and
fine foods are not what will bring us happiness; it is being amidst friends and
loved ones that will make us all feel blessed. I need to remind myself that the extravagances and
decorations, no matter how beautiful, are not the important thing, and I need
to remember that this weekend is not about me and my pleasures, it is about my
guests and the family of the bride and groom.
As a side note,
The Empress has been appearing reversed quite often lately. I wonder if I am being told that it is
finally time to release The Empress as my significator card. She has been my “representative” for a
decade now. Just for the heck of
it, I picked up my Llewellyn Welsh deck again, thinking about which Major
Arcana card might be my significator.
I began to shuffle after asking for guidance, thinking that I would just
keep turning cards over until I came to a Major Arcana card, and I’ll be
damned! There, in the middle of
the deck, was one card turned upright.
Ask a question, and you will get an answer!! My new significator: The Hierophant!!
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