Card of the Day: Son of Cups

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This adolescent of the Cups court looks off past his goblet emanating the light of intuition, creativity and emotion—the realm of the subconscious and unconscious. And this is interesting because we cannot access what is below the line of conscious awareness by looking directly with a hard focus. And this is how most Sons/Knights/Travelers tend to operate. So in some ways, there is a tension in this card between the fixed focus of the Son and the watery realm of the Cups.

How do we learn how to work with our emotions, intuition, creativity, and spirituality—the immaterial realms of life that aren’t “things” that we can directly apprehend through our senses? This is a question I am working with right now. It’s one of those questions that doesn’t have AN answer, but with the question alive inside of me, answers seem to abound: on my morning walk through Phoenicia, pulling three tarot cards, writing, “scrying” my mind while sitting quietly and comfortably in a chair staring out the window with no agenda, talking to a friend, reading a book.

This immaterial realm is speaking all the time. And by “all the time” I mean: ALL. THE. TIME. One of the things that is highly conducive to being in touch with this realm is being off of my electronic devices. I’ve been noticing how easy it is to skate along the surface of things all day long (checking, scrolling) and not really be in contact with my body, my emotions, my intuition, my imagination.

I’m feeling like my intuitive, imaginative life needs protection. From the overculture—capitalism, white supremacist patriarchy, do, do, do, produce, buy, be better, etc. Carving out time in the morning and evenings to be offline, to write with pen on paper, to stare out the window, to create, to dream. Like my life depends on it. (I think it does.)