February Tarot (continued from front page)
If you pull the Page of Cups in your reading, he/she represents new love, or new beginnings in love, or a brief encounter with love, or an initial response that may lead to love. The Page is an androgynous toe in the waters of Emotion, perhaps an Orlando Bloom or Drew Barrymore. He/she can also mean that you are about to receive a love-letter.
The Knight of Cups is the archetype for one who charges forth and slays dragons for love, he is the knight in shining armor, the pursuer. The Knight of Cups is Colette, not Virginia Woolf, Antonio Banderas, not Hamlet. Never, never, never Hamlet. The knight card can represent a real person who will actively pursue you, or it might represent your own internal agitation, the fire that is accumulating to the action point as you rev up to send that Valentine.
The Queen of Cups is pure love, she has no need to worry about love or strive in anyway; she knows she's hot and lovely, she is the love Goddess, and she knows she comes directly from Source, from Love Itself; she never has to prove it. In the card, she is in or near water (emotion), and she just 'is.' She might be today's Susan Sarandon. I daresay, if you are reading this, she is You.
The King of Cups is the guy who has experienced so much love, he is now ripe with authority. He is Zeus-ian, still alive below the waist, yet has a keen sense of responsibility, and is ready to govern his love court with a fine, even hand. The King of Cups is King Arthur, or Dame Judy Dench. Do you know other King of Cupses, or has he been scarce as rooster-teeth in our era? Take a moment this February to meditate on these 4 archetypes. Where are you in your personal quest for love? Can you scheme out the Church's 4 types of love- "storge" (affection), "philia" (friendship), "eros" (sexual or romantic love) and "agape" (selfless love)? For awhile, before the dark ages, theologians revered astrology as part of astronomy, and the tarot was not blacklisted - in fact the Pope himself appeared in the Major Arcana as both Hierophant and Papess. But that's a story for another month. I wish you much love in February. |
