Queen of Cups

The hardship of Winter is almost behind us, we are slowly submerging into the bloom of Spring.
There comes a time in your life when after a period of intense hard work and supporting others we might come to the point when the actual care should be given ...to yourself.
We are often co-dependent with others, entangled in long lasting relationships where a long term emotional addiction was preceded with initial intention of giving help, care, support and understanding but over the course of given time it has turned into something that became the opposite of what it was supposed to be.
We have been giving ourselves for long time but time has come to release the ones we loved and nurtured to freedom of their own judgement and choice.
This can surprisingly be true to ourselves.
To give life and space for new "You" - you need to let go of something that you thought will always work out.
You have your intuition.
No matter how busy your head and life is - try to listen to it - dilute the little drops of the wisdom nectar from what is you. The brand new you, a new phase, a new mode...
You might be a little bit out of touch from your emotions - but fear not. Once you acknowledge it, the whole construct of your psyche will start working towards creating a new pattern and you will soon feel it. Just Let Go...

Queen of Cups is the Queen of Intuitive Wisdom, what stems from it - is The Nurture. Taking it in as it is - Absorbing and Embracing with understanding and not judgement.

Knight of Cups

Creativity in our life can have a multi-dimensional form. It can be both the strength and the lesson we have to learn. It can be the trigger that releases more energy and fulfills all what is yet to achieve.
Knight of Cups has a special mission.
Its main objectives are being humanitarian, altruistic, compassionate, being the patron of beauty and affectation.
When we are ruled by our heart it's not always certain what will be the outcome of the situations we are involved in. To make it our strength we need to use those tools where it is needed rather than trying to use them in all cases. How we feel about the situation doesn't always prompt the right mental and intellectual judgements. The best choice here is intuition - this embellished sword that is displayed by hunches but also affects our thinking, our view of situations.
We may be obviously misguided by all this.
Or putting too much pressure on the rational and practical thinking - judging and making assessment not really just and prone to make mistakes in the whole plan.
We might be affected by jealousy and sulkiness. Our emotions can cause being hard on others or simply not getting the best out of ourselves.
The most important of all - with being dismayed by our heart is to observe - think how much is there left to be done. How much our positive emotions and heartfelt opinion can help not cause pain.
It's all there...

Page of Cups

I am being asked quite often where do the ideas spring from when I think of the path of life I am on.
Is it an intellectual process that brought me to the point where I can actually use my mental abilities to throw myself in the whirl and swirl of creating new things?
It's a long process and usually doesn't work instantly but if you think of getting yourself out of the walls of known world, the ambience that actually doesn't allow you to go any further - just start with the basics.
Basics? As in expressing yourself through an artistic possibility. It may by anything, it may be not what you think you are good at but still it is something you might need to consider when making first step towards releasing certain degree of tension of simply being stuck in the rut of similar or the same ideas that lead to the same outcomes.
The energy flows usually within a certain route and the trick is to drive it into another one.
The tool that we need to master here is our own intuition - that breaks through many obstacles like immaturity, passiveness and the fear of failure.
These are just a few of many but the most important point here is actually through the process we need to embrace, a process that includes hits and misses, mistakes and even to some extent failures can help us.
In the end we will feel that it is not even the goal that was important. It's an invitation to act. The elusive mystery of embracing yourself in an act of discovery.
As in Dead Can Dance song:
"Ulysses"

John Francis Dooley
Wipe the sleep from your eyes
And embrace the light
You have slept now
For a thousand years
Beneath starless nights
And now it's time for you
To renounce the old ways
And see a new dawn rise

In former days
Masks were raised
When the god came down
From off of the mountain
And the sacrifice was made
For he knew the day of wrath
Was fast approaching
Just like yesterday before the war

John Francis Dooley
The scapegoat has run
All our sins are disowned
And now it's time for you
To take off your mask
And cross the Rubicon

If you and I were one
Within the eyes of our designs
It would still not change
The fact of our leaving
For tonight we must leave
With the first gentle breeze
For the Isles Of Ken
We are assailing

Just like Ullyses
On an open sea
On an odyssey
Of self discovery

Ten of Cups

What can go wrong when all the cups are filled with gratitude and harmony while we are in sync with our loved ones and there is no tension in sight?
There might be a reunion soon or family or friends' event coming up soon that may put you into a feeling of substantial happiness and stabilise the relationships. Fun and strong bonds that put great seal on our heart's yearnings.
The Ten of Cups is a card that brings us to understand the harmony in love and family relationships - be it long-term or the ones that bring us temporarily bliss. Wholeness and completion are the symptoms of something larger - something that we feel that makes us grounded in this world in a subtle way. We feel loved and we give love.
Following the energy of the heart is the case here.

You might look for special connections or alignments but they might not come to your life very easily. In a relationship - you might feel that something is not working as it should. It is often an invitation to find a new common ground with your lover, partner - encourage the flow from loving to being loved, initiate the events that help you to pursue the path of understanding and abundance through love.
To help you to do this think of the world of your values - the superego. Where you place them? Do you really pursue them? What prompts you to feel what you feel? Question yourself.
The answers as in: many of them will come.

Nine of Cups

There are times in our life, those moments when strangely enough everything falls into place.
The contentment extends to different aspects of our existence - we feel happy, we feel that the wishes and calls have been answered, we feel at last that maybe it's the time to splurge a little bit and feel the pleasure of life without being guilty about it. Now it is the time not to feel negative about it.
Expressing the gratitude in those times and fully embrace it has a special meaning - we acknowledge the fact that we deserve goodness and happiness in what life brings. And appreciate it fully.
The feeling of this sorts is obviously a temporary thing - as everything in the inward and outward multiverse it is ruled by one thing that will never let us down - The Change. Understanding and cherishing it brings more genuine gratitude.
The happiness is a very elusive quality. We are trying to grasp "things", "situations" and "people" and take it for granted as symptoms of it. But in the core of it all - Happiness will ever be a feature of our own endeavours and how we feel about them. We can shape our experience towards creating sense of contentment and fullfilment. This is a higher octave of the usual scale of things and re-definition of what is success?
Is success - an instant money reward? a profitable deal or financially rewarding job? an actual material state? How do you define a successful person?
Maybe a simple, every day practice of taking a glimpse into what we really want - re-defining it and changing it slowly towards more awareness and compassion for others you use to measure the size of your success is the true nature of it.
Overseeing our frustration and being stronger than our own emotions is truly an art - we can use it as a tool to move on.