Four of Swords

strongly intended time out

In this protective environment, one may gain the sense of non-attachment necessary if the personality is not to feel lonely or abandoned.  -motherpeace

"The authentic self is the soul made visible."
~Sarah Ban Breathnach 

"People are hung sometimes for speaking the truth." 

~Joan of Arc 1412-1431

"Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead."  
~Doctor Who

 

rhyme over reason over rhyme over reason

Ace of Wands

-Matheus Lopes







pure grounded centered energy







~the source~

"Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once." ~Mignon McLaughlin 1913-1983

...a rebirth of the spirit is taking place: one is brand new like a baby, and the force of fire streams through the personality. This energy is expansive. It opens us to our abilities...will-power for whatever one's goals dictate...

-motherpeace

Three of Wands

The fire of the torches allows them the light to make art....
Through manifesting their visions, they learn about life.

-motherpeace

Following your bliss means continuously growing, and expanding and purposefully finding ways of expressing joy, and appreciation. When you get the Three of Wands you need to do the thing that is effortless, that makes you feel good. Find your bliss, and follow it.

3 of Swords

-julia wolfson embroidery

heart b:eat

In a dance of power, difficulty precedes harmony. -motherpeace

He has cured his tooth ache at the cost of his tongue!

"Akk, if I could only turn back the clock a few seconds..."

But no matter how hard you wish,
once a thing is done or said
there is no going back for do-overs.

It's a done deal.



"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
~ Golda Meir 1898-1978


from Quirkeries



















I ask, if i shall never see you again and fix my eyes on that solidity,
what form will our communication take?
-Virginia Woolf

I can hold pain, without it controlling me.


I take comfort where I find it.


I leave behind old habits, taking with me only what I need.

-inner whispers

Ace of Cups

THE VESSEL AND THE CUP
from a Hasidic story


What cup knows the distress
of the large vessel, knows
any more than two inches
of the purple? For the cup
everything that fills up
is equal--the little jug,
the pot, the large vessel.
Beyond its own meniscus
nothing's knowable for a cup.
But the vessel wishes
one something
could use it up.

-Kay Ryan

Offering
the Root of
the Powers of Water

( ( ( g o i n g w i t h t h e f l o w ) ) )

After the grace in the dive, a gentle landing is assured, a friendly welcome from the depths of the unconscious. -motherpeace

...prominent emanations of energy
spanning out in a web of connectivity.

I drink in the evening. I drink in the sky.

My heart swells, vast and great as Heaven Herself.

She fills my soul. She feeds my dreams.

And I believe.

-crone

The silver cup is the vessel,
the chalice, the grail....
It promises a joyous experience of letting go into unconditional love,
the spaciousness of the open heart.
-motherpeace

...the movement of water always moves towards depth, it always searches for the lowest ground.
It is non-ambitious; it never hankers to be first, it wants to be last.

-lao tzu

Strength

Strength, an essential fusion of physical power,

perception from the center and radiant mental energy.
Serene in the midst of chaos, infinity is her womb.

"For they have sown the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind…”
~Hosea 8:7a

I am Spirit

Making body
is what I do

I am Body

Expressing spirit
is what I do

I am Primal
I am Sublime

You are strongest
When Both are One
-crone

When this card comes up in your reading, pay attention to what you have passion for and use this passion to further your life. This is a card of enormous courage, vitality and power to achieve anything within your imagining. The power you have is not a power over others but a power from within, a strength you have that is really your own. You do not need to hold it over others, but use this inner strength calmly and by example many others may discover this most powerful strength.

-Connie Lehman

mixed hand embroidery including needle punch

"Conduct your blooming
in the noise and whip
of the whirlwind."

~Gwendolyn Brooks

Two of Cups

DESIRE

There is One whom I could love above all others.
I see Her, smell Her, hear Her voice in my blood.
How can She be resisted when She is my own self singing?

-tarot of the crone

"As unconscious desire merges with the conscious love of the heart, the outcome will be union."

-motherpeace

Six of Cups

CUPS.

A single example of excellence is in the meat. A bent stick is surging and might all might is mental. A grand clothes is searching out a candle not that wheatly not that by more than an owl and a path. A ham is proud of cocoanut.

A cup is neglected by being all in size. It is a handle and meadows and sugar any sugar.

A cup is neglected by being full of size. It shows no shade, in come little wood cuts and blessing and nearly not that not with a wild bought in, not at all so polite, not nearly so behind.

Cups crane in. They need a pet oyster, they need it so hoary and nearly choice. The best slam is utter. Nearly be freeze.

Why is a cup a stir and a behave. Why is it so seen.

A cup is readily shaded, it has in between no sense that is to say music, memory, musical memory.

Peanuts blame, a half sand is holey and nearly.

-gertrude stein (tender buttons)













....even if the feelings are sad, the active expression of them provides a release that feels good.
some memory of the distant past, like a wave, carries them into the future.
-motherpeace

3 of Cups

Félix Vallotton, Three Bathers, 1894, Woodcut on beige wove paper

you are water
I’m water
we’re all water in different containers
that’s why it’s so easy to meet
someday we’ll evaporate together

but even after the water’s gone
we’ll probably point out to the containers
and say, “that’s me there, that one.”
we’re container minders

~yoko ono









~

COMMUNION

We are One.
And we are more.
She is the One,
and I am One
because of Her.
















in the river

with the pegasus
(child of medusa)
touchdown yoursweet brim to
my lips
drenched from your
horse s w e l l t e r i n g

you are a willow goddess
as witness to our
pleasure trips

can't deny the blue sky

b l i s s ed

"The Three of Cups has intent - they're never figures thrown together at random, or in conflict, as in many other cards; they have decided to dance together as one, and raise their chalices together. The figures are usually all female, and the card often hints at the purpose of the gathering, but neither of these things are fixed in stone; they flow in water, and may take any route to reach the sea.

This card is a reminder that it is party time if someone says it is party time. That's all it takes."

from taarot.blogspot