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.

Eight of Cups

We are at the point of fulfilled dreams and accomplished seemingly what we have strived for.
But there is sometthing missing as deep inside we feel that something is not right. Somehow this whole situation doesn't quite feel spiritual or deep enough to be the right one. We want to leave it.
Do we really should do that or maybe just escaping quite uncomfortable situation or avoiding a psychological issue?
Repressing our emotions and pretending something doesn't exist is sweeping the problems we may encounter again, in the future. This also prompts us to stop the communication with people which in an overal sense - just won't work.
This whole framework of our experience begs for a question to understand what we really want and reconnect with this - its source is inside us. The most important thing here is to understand our goals through the values we believe in. It's not necessarily the easiest of paths but it will be crucial to bring more apparent fruits in the days to come.
You may also be a bit dejected. You have tried so hard for so many times - yet it wasn't fruitful - you just got aggravated. You are more prone to drift from one situation to another not being able to settle for less at this point of life and wait and work until you reach the summit. Patience!

Seven of cups

There is a special feeling to the moment when we finally reach our destination - the accomplishment of our dreams - the cup that is full and can be drank from.
At times though - life presents itself with a multitude of options to choose from. Initially we might think that Fate is somewhat welcoming blink of Heavens' eyes to our life and something finally opens to overflow us with so many different options that we have never dreamt of before.
Little do we know that, as many other things happening in our lives, just a test.
What our hungry minds feed on is, surprisingly, an opportunity. Especially when we are prone to illusions and plans not grounded in reality.
The options and the framework arise as if from the magical set of cups. But are we really ready to put the hard work and beat the crude matter of reality to make everything work or we choose to be a sofa idealist - communicating from a sedentary position, not actually working?
The "Shiny Object" syndrome - the nature of it - is about not persevering and not being able - thanks to indolence and opportunism and procastrination - to lead it to the fulfilling end.
We can miss out on the unique alignment of events. It's elusive and very difficult to catch - just like the passing beauty of the sunset or some other meterological phenomena when we are trying to photograph them.
It's also about being paralysed by too many options that present itself. Quite a difficult choice when we have more than we think we need. Takes a lot of grounding and doing an honest research what we need.
Reducing the options may actually be a blessing in disguise to focus on what is necessary at the time being.

Six of cups

Six of cups brings truly unique expression of truth which might be quite elusive in today's world where cynism is a commonplace and distrust mixed with scepticism is rooted deeply in how we perceive human relationships and the order of the world that we feel might have been left by harmony, trust and co-operation.
We might not so often ask ourselves, going back to the memories of the childhood - why was it so different and fullfiling - so much opposite to what life is at the present moment, being an adult.
The key often is to understand the innocence of the heart - how giving and forgiving it truly is.
Six of cups reminds us about this feature mingled with sense of joy and happiness that is truly coming from the utter sense of being.
Putting away our adult games and dwelling on the childlike understanding of love and harmony can ground us, give us necessary patience and self-reliance.
Self realisation through play and creativity as well as understanding children in our life - what are we able to give them and what can we receive in return.
Reflection and nostalgia of the past doesn't always brings pleasant feelings and memories. We also need to understand the hint to let go off cliging to the past and live in the present.
As much as we were hurt in the previous years of our existence, it shaped us but also it brought us to the very moment we are in now. What it means is understanding the value of what we are and how far we have reached. Life is not necessarily inexhaustible well but certainly the one we can use to thrive after all is forgiven, after all ... we are evolving ...

Five of Cups

Welcome to our blog and Happy Imbolc! Hope you are feeling good.

Our todays card resonates somehow with how many people feel these days.
At times we feel very regretful and think that things haven't turned out the way they should. Feelings of being sad and stuck are accompanied by the fact that we might be stuck in situations that don't help to pursue what we have planned. We also might feel a bit in a mode of a victim of not supportive circumstances.
There is a trait to this that possibly is part of the whole emotional landscape that we are set in.
You are set in a continuum of despair and holding  grudge or feeling disappointed.
Here we have a chance to improve our wellbeing by applying some simple measures to hype up our emotional hygiene....which in this case is to forgive. Reflections on the past help to understand what is the important message in the experience is out there. There is always a lesson, there is always something to enrich you. Dwell on it, acknowledge it, drink from this well.
This action itself, done in a conscious way is a remedy.
As we know - sometimes a seemingly diificult situation is a blessing in disguise.
Understanding that not always what we want is what we actually need is crucial here. There is a bigger picture of this truth in seeing opportunity everywhere. An opportunity to learn. An opportunity to try out all those chances that actually help us to find out the most intimate core of the Self - we are.

Sometimes the setbacks give us a kick in a stomach, so hard that it makes us feel reject others but also reject a request for help we can make. It is difficult because in your heart - you want feel stronger while you actually feel shy to ask for support.
Sometimes sharing the pain is the best remedy.
We cannot overturn what has happened. Acknowledging it feels like the best thing you can do - even if you feel negative about it - make sure that trying to understand the hidden gem you possess - makes you a rich person. Like no one else in this world of people who prefer to stay in their comfort domains.

Four Of Cups

In times of over-consumption and the world flowing with all sorts of choices that help us to fulfill our needs we might, at some point feel disengaged, apathetic or switched off. We may feel bored or dissatisfied with our life thinking towards the possibility of no surprise -as if things re-align to bring same situation - on and on again.
In fact this feeling has an explanation - it's an invitation to make a conscious shift towards the inner world where space given to yourself can only bring more knowledge and thoughtful reflection on what is important.
This invitation spreads over our habitual way of living the known stream. To break out of the feeling of withdrawal we must establish a new way of thinking by gently breaking the habits of continous mind's chatter. There is no need for that - it acts as a veil on our awareness therefore it has to be taken away.
We often fall into the trap of disengaging ffrom our emotions by being overflown with too many stimuli - in order to find the way towards them it's good to disconnect from external sources of distraction e.g. social media or social flow.
It's also a good point to understand that we might feel this way because we have been hurt in the past and being overburdened by this - we don't feel the vital force, shut down in our own circles of reactive mood swings.
Introspection and healthy withdrawal now can take its course. Step back, observe yourself in answering habitually to what normally would disturb you. From the bird's view of an introvert things can actually become quite enjoyable in its own way.
Being uninspired and disillusioned will pass...