May 21-23, 2014: Nine of Cups
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HAPPINESS
Nine of CupsMeditation Pattern: Place Atu X, Fortune, and Atu XVIII, The Moon, side-by-side, with the 9 of Cups above them.
Traditional Description: Lotus or water lilies, with one flower overhanging each cup. From these, a white water pours. Cups are arranged in three rows of three each. Symbols Jupiter and Pisces above and below.
Yesod of Water: Richness of the soul. Satisfaction of sensuous, creative, and sexual needs. Complete success; pleasure and happiness; wishes fulfilled.
Jupiter/Pisces: Complete realization of pleasure and happiness, almost perfect; heightened capacity for enjoyment; kindness; contentment; self-praise, vanity, conceit, much talking of self, yet kind and lovable. High-minded, not easily satisfied with small and limited ideas. Apt to be maligned through too much self-assumption. A good and generous nature, but sometimes foolish, indulgent, and self-satisfied.
Luna + Jupiter: Happiness, kindness, satisfaction, sense of well-being, popularity, pleasure, enjoyment of rich living; but also philosophical, high-minded, with a keen social conscience.
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- Joy in recognizing the cyclicity of flows, and in going with it; harmonious change.
- Continuity of giving-and-receiving.
- The automatic consciousness receives influence directly from the Highest and this attunement expresses itself as Happiness.
- Mystery of the Joy of Existence (“Existence is pure joy”).
- Emotional and sensual abundance.
- Perfect harmony of an individual with his/her environment; everything-flows; uninterrupted healthy growth and development of being; creativity; fertility; to drink from the wellspring. Healthy relationship with own sexuality.
- The female, fertile and receptive, giving itself up in Love; ravishing, seductive, incites delight with its rascally pleasure.
- A well, a spring, an inexhaustible fountain found inside oneself; what springs out of it? pure creative enthusiasm. (NB: Atlas as Ganymede here!)
- Personal, inner rhythms of fecundity; to know and respect them = to live with own utmost productivity.
- Feelings of joy and happiness that come out of being completely surrendered to that which is conceived as Ideal; deep personal, intimate experience of belonging to something/someone Greater, Higher than one’s own human self.
- Celebration, festivity, collective jubilation.
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Day one
positive vibes and a positive mental attitude, emotional depth, firm inner resolve, at peace and full acceptance of with what is and what isn't, rich & deep emotional fulfillment, having one's needs fulfilled from within regardless of what's happening externally, active imagination, if ill dignified compulsive liar/lying and a con-artist, capacity to heal quicklyDay two
The flexibility and creativity of being able to "wing it" yet have "it" be so on point and appropriate to the situation, the epitome of going with the flow, hunches that, when listened to, lead to favorable circumstances, there's an inherent inner & outer connection here, a give and take between the inner world and outer worldDay three
Dreamy altruistic disposition, highly active imagination, excellent artistic capabilities, a highly creative and eccentric person, poetic, soulful & mystical, a "spiritual" person, a deep deep wellspring of personal strength and tenacity, if ill dignified totally disconnected from reality, too "out there" -
Danica, right after I posted my notes, I read your notes and found it interesting we both used the term "wellspring" in our descriptions of this card
