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4 of Cups ~ Bachus Tarot

  Here, an idea or a new inspiration is trying to make itself known to you, but you are trying desperately not to notice. There are basically angelic choruses singing above your head, and you have clamped your hands over your ears and are doing your best “La-la-la-la-la, I can’t hear you!” The question is, Why would someone ever ignore something like that? Surely that is what all creatives sit around waiting for: inspiration to strike. But it’s disruptive. You might be almost finished with the project, or maybe you have a very clear sense of how you want things to go, and then here comes the big blinking sign that says, “Nope, dummy, this is the way it should be instead!” It means you are going to have to tear apart the work you’ve already done or maybe abandon it completely to follow this new idea, and who wants to do that? A client of mine, after spending four years on a manuscript and finishing a complete draft, told me that she suddenly realized during her revisions that the novel should have been written in the first person rather than in the third. She had become so stuck on the idea of a third-person narration that she had ignored the signs this was the wrong approach and plowed through to the end. Now that she was done, she was completely unwilling to fix what she knew to be a very obvious problem. My client would not have had to start over from the beginning, but certainly admitting that this was the solution to her book’s problems would mean another year’s worth of work ahead of her. She was so anxious to be done with this book and move on to something else that she was willing to sacrifice the whole thing. Eventually, though, she resigned herself to her task and began the hard work of revision. It took her a long time, but the end result was much improved. In that way, we can all be like Penelope in Homer’s The Odyssey, who prayed for her husband Odysseus’s return from the protracted Trojan War only to fail to recognize him when he finally showed up. If what we get doesn’t fall in line with what we expect, or if what we get is too disruptive, we can fail to see its value. And so we reject it or send it away. Like, “No, I see myself only playing stringed instruments; I have no use for the clarinet.” But maybe the clarinet will open up whole new worlds for you if you are willing to give it a try. With the Four of Cups, you have to maintain an openness and a willingness to be derailed. It’s not good to stay stubborn just so that you can stay on schedule or stick with your original vision when a better way is calling out to you. RECOMMENDED MATERIALS The Beast in the Jungle, book by Henry James “The Stranger with the Face of a Man I Loved,” recording by Sarah Kirkland Snider Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, book by Julia Strachey The Creative Tarot. Jessa Crispin

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Luigi Scapini again

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Hierophant. Another by Luigi Scapini

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Les comparto a Bachue y su mensaje transformador. En honor a esa fuerza suprema femenina. En honor a mi madre y a las madres de nuestro ser, de nuestra especie, de nuestro mundo. . I share with you Bachue and her transforming message. In honor to the supreme female strenght. In honor to my mother, all mothers including our species and worlds mom. #tarot #tarotoftheday #tarotdeldia #astrology #astrologia #natalchart #cartanatal #art #arte #ilustracion #ilustration #spiritualguide #guiaespiritual #tarotreaders #cartomante #lecturatarot #tarotcards #cartastarot #tarotdeck #mazotarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotgram #dailytarot #tarotreading #dailycard #dailytarotcard #lovetarot #tarottribe #cartomancy #tarotforyou (en Cartomante Errante) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-gl-F7FGy8/?igshid=1xkollcyvr6dk

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Sun. Bachus Tarot

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10 of Wands. Bachus Tarot

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9 of Swords. Bachus Tarot

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Hermit. Bachus Tarot

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2 of Cups ~ Bachus Tarot

  With the Two of Cups, it’s not just another circumstance or idea that you have to work into a balance, it’s a whole other person. A person with his or her own needs, desires, and ideas. The act of collaboration can be inspiring, or it can drive people insane. Rather than the muse dynamic, where one person is doing all of the work and the other person just has to exist, here each person has to see the other as an equal. The Two of Cups is traditionally a marriage card; a wholly egalitarian relationship. When we put it into the artistic context, it becomes a collaboration where each partner feels that his or her ideas are being heard, and each person gets equal credit. Certainly throughout time there have been men who have taken credit for their wives’ work, like the painter Walter Keane, who claimed that he’d painted his wife Margaret’s paintings of big-eyed children, which were a runaway success in the 1950s and ’60s. But with the Two of Cups, mutual respect is required. Collaboration has led to important work, such as the Wright Brothers’ experiments in flight, or Dutch fashion designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren cocreating the successful and influential fashion house Viktor & Rolf. The performance artists Marina Abramović and Ulay were lovers as well as collaborators, and much of their work together explored what it is like for two people to become a single unit. Their androgynous and unified work, like their performance Relation in Time—where they sat back-to-back for seventeen hours, their long hair knotted together—expressed this idea of equality to the point where it was sometimes difficult to tell the two apart. The Two of Cups does not need to imply romance. There have certainly been many actor-and-director film collaborations that embody the Two of Cups dynamic, such as Michael Fassbender’s three films with director Steve McQueen, and Catherine Keener’s work with director Nicole Holofcener. But it does require respect, mutual admiration, and a level playing field. The Two of Cups asks you to take on another person and to allow him or her to work with you rather than for you. RECOMMENDED MATERIALS Rest Energy, short film (part of a series) by Marina Abramović and Ulay My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recording by Brian Eno and David Byrne Hunger, film directed by Steve McQueen Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, book by Lauren Redniss The Creative Tarot. Jessa Crispin

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Fool ~ Bachus Tarot

LWB.

King Lycurgus, who had taken arms against Dionysus. Was driven to madness by the Bacchantes and and struck blind by Zeus.

The Fool is a male figure personifying both the Masculine and the Feminine Principles in both men and women. His face could be that of a mature man, or perhaps the semblance of a ‘designer-style’ beard suggests a more youthful character. Maybe the protruding jaw represents his manner of ‘sticking his chin out’ – one of the traits of a naïve person. The elaborate headgear with its red bauble expresses an eccentricity, or it may conceal an abundance of hair to suggest that – like other pilgrims – his hair is left uncut until he returns home. He is on a journey, travelling to his left. The Fool is unnumbered: it can be zero, which ineffably encompasses everything; it can be the 22nd card (22 is the ancient number for a circle – the circle of life) or it can be neither or both. He is in no one place but is present in each of the 21 numbered cards like anti-matter in quantum physics. We are like The Fool: pathetic in our struggle to reach a higher level of consciousness. He personifies every phase of our life from being naïve and arrogant, carrying the heavy baggage of our worldly goods and psychological conditioning, to becoming an evolved, transformed person of wisdom who lives by grace and one who has learned to be a ‘man/woman of knowledge’. The Fool may be a precocious, foolish, immature character who, like Peter Pan – the Puer Aeternus – is full of youthful vigour and only wants to play games. In this mode he is mischievous, capricious, idealistic, lacking discipline and is often an unreliable lover. These negative aspects may be summed up by Robert Bly’s definition of a naïve person: • Believes everyone is honest, sincere, straightforward and speaks from the heart • Will lose what is most precious because he or she knows no boundaries • Will confide last night’s special dream to a stranger • Has special relationships but never examines or recognizes their shadow • Picks up the pain of others and is attracted to other people who share their pain (Listening to people’s pain is compassionate, but sharing pain is a negative indulgence because there is no need or benefit to carry other people’s pain.) • Lacks a natural compassionate ruthlessness (won’t kick children out of the nest) • Will not agree to follow instructions but also won’t admit that he or she is ignoring the instructions – whatever they may be • The timing is always off • Acts out self-enforced periods of isolation • Sinks into moods of deep depression • Wants to remain sick • Feels pride in being attacked and ‘bares his chest’ (or sticks out his chin) for more • As we saw in the three-act play (see page 21), naivety invites betrayal – this is the psyche at work, setting up attractive people and situations until the relevant lessons are learned. However, The Fool can represent perception, developed intuition, versatility and wisdom – one who can act the fool light-heartedly without being foolish or foolhardy. The Fool can have all the attributes of Castaneda’s ‘Man of Knowledge’ as well as being able to turn the conventional world upside down as we do on April Fool’s Day. In medieval courts the fool, jester or clown was the king’s alter ego and the only person the king or queen could turn to for an honest opinion without taking offence. His youthful, child-like ‘clowning about’ could hide from others a deeper understanding of whatever issues were at hand. The Fool represents aspects of each one of us as the Hero or Heroine on our journey through life. The card is the ‘joker’ in the pack and, as we shall see later, its significance is dependent upon where it appears in a spread and the other cards around it, which will indicate either naivety or maturity. This card flags up a warning that something is not exactly as it may appear to be – i.e. we need to pause before taking action – or it may herald a quirk of fate with unexpected twists and turns that may inspire us to change our way of thinking or even enjoy the unexpected outcome! When we dwell in darkness and confusion, it is through The Fool that we can emerge from the shadow and progress from illusion to self-realization. The Authentic Tarot. Discovering Your Inner Self. Thomas Saunders

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Moon. Bachus Tarot

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Death. Bachus Tarot

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Queen of Pentcles. Bachus Tarot

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Knight of Swords. Bachus tarot

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Knight of Pentacles. Bachus Tarot

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8 of Cups. Bachus Tarot