Celebrating life with Tarot

You almost wouldn’t believe it!

I asked for a card to describe a moment I had on my first morning on holiday as I sat on the terrace looking at the view. 

Would I receive the Empress – Aundance, Fedundity, Generosity

Perhaps the World – Completion, a moment of perfection

Perhaps the Four of Swords – Taking time out to tune into and align the soul

And I picked the three of cups.  Celebration, Connection, Engagement.  The card shows three women dancing in a circle holding up cups, and always reminds me of girls hanging out with a few glasses of wine having fun, and has come to symbolise the easy warmth of friendship welcome and enjoyment. Engaging with Life fully.

the central card is the three of cups

See the three of cups in the middle of this spread, The Three Graces celebrating life and friendship…..

Cups also suggests pleasure to me.  Cups of wine, cups of love, cups of sharing feelings, and sharing feelings and enjoyment.  In a tarot reading it can literally suggest an Engagement of marriage.  Certainly writing this on the last day of my holiday, it has epitomised pleasure, friendship, enjoyment, celebration.

I wrote this in my journal on the first morning sitting on a terrace drinking a cup of coffee.

The terrace of Casa Mallorca

Writing from the terrace….

Casa Mallorca

It’s in the soft sheen of terracotta tiles

The curve of classic balustrade

Where the stone buddha sits watching us

Hands folded quietly in his lap

A gentle smile on his lips

And beyond a valley of cypress and pine

Cedar perhaps and olive trees

Standing stock still amid the hum of cicadas starting up in the cool of early morning.

Cockerels crow good morning

across the valley their calls echo

chickens ?

a tiny sparrow flits to another branch

as I sit

Enfolded in the growing blanket of sound

Lulled into peace. Presence. Present.

And notice another layer

Pigeons cooing like doves even present in the background

a fly does a fly pass bzzzz

And now a wasp has joined the scene

Nothing moves, not a stir in the air

Yet everything alive

Unseen hundreds offer hypnotic surround sound

Insects start to dance in sunbeams as the day hots up/starts to heat up.

Then a branch ladened with pine cones stirs, the breeze has returned

The Buddha smiles.

the buddha smiles

The Buddha smiles…..

 

 Do come and have a tarot reading with me in Battersea or online. Having a reading has a way of connecting to what’s going on and the potential therein that celebrates life.

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