April 28-30, 2014: Two of Cups
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LOVE
Two of CupsMeditation Pattern: Place Atu III, The Empress, and Atu VII, The Chariot, side-by-side, with the 2 of Cups above them.
Traditional Description: From water, which occupies the lower part of the card, rise lotuses. One lotus flower rises clearly above the water; and from this flower rises a stem, terminating near the top of the card in another lotus, from which flows a sparkling white water as from a fountain. Crossed on the stem just beneath are two dolphins, one silver and one gold, onto which the water falls, and from which it pours in full streams, like jets of gold and silver, into two cups that somewhat resemble the magical instrument of the Apprentice Adeptus. These cups, in their turn, overflow, flooding the lower part of the card. Symbols Venus and Cancer are above and below.
Chokmah of Water: Water in its purest and highest form; the impulse or Word of Water; the Will-to-Love. Harmony of the union of masculine and feminine (or of any such polarities). Polarity relationship in love matters. Love, pleasure, marriage, reciprocity, reflection.
Venus/Cancer: Harmony, pleasure, mirth; an intensity of joy and ecstasy; powerful love feelings. If ill-dignified, folly, dissipation, waste, silly actions.
Chokmah + Venus: Arousing of love; a forceful pressure or impulse to emotional expression. Nature of affections governed by instinct rather than social convention, by impulse of Will rather than conditioning or logic.
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- Mother that nurtures and takes-care-of (Venus + Cancer); tenderness, commitment, pleasure.
- Water of Chokmah: Will expressed as Love; the “speaking” of our True Will through all those things that we love (in which we feel joy, fulfillment of the heart, being in-tune). The female aspect of Logos.
- Natural tendencies of the soul, particular characteristics of one’s being expressed through that in which he/she finds him/herself filled with Love. Individual Will experienced, in its motion, as Bliss.
- Receptivity of the Mother, making the earliest development of a new being possible.
- Fulfillment of all heart’s desires; refined feelings; reciprocity.
- Absence of selfishness, giving-and-receiving simultaneously, the joy of polarity.
- Sweet melting in the interrelation and play of polarity; peaceful ecstasy, perfect harmony.
- Love is not a state, but rather an utterly dynamic principle, continual-motion, never-ending process!
- Nature works in such a way that mutually opposing principles attract each other (magnet), spontaneously tending to unite; through their interplay, all things are begotten; Love is the Mother of all beings, Will is their Father.
- Chet/Chariot is our body as our Temple; Daleth/Door is the Gateway of our senses; finely tuned, they reveal the pure, naked Joy of existence.
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Day one:
outpouring love, seeking connection, openness, giving and receiving freely, comfort seeking, attraction (mentally, physically, emotionally and sexually), tenderness, the will to create, the will to unite, overcoming division, heightened emotional sensitivity, wearing one's heart on their sleeve, emotions overriding the intellect, feeling over thinkingDay two:
emotional gratification & satisfaction from giving, swooning and crooning, sentimentalityDay three:
fertile with creative ideas, being sappy, being flirtatious, displaying affection, being affectionate, being nurturing, the will to nurture, the will to luxuriate, laziness, the will to give and receive pleasure, being related to another, being a mush