The Princess of Cups

The Princess of Cups card shows a picture of a beautiful blonde Princess. She is depicted sitting on a white dolphin jumping out of the sea while holding a goblet or cup.
This Princess card is often found in other tarot decks as a knave or page.

The princess is a youngster with all the beauty and innocence of youth. She is pictured totally naked and yet unashamed, with nothing to hide.
This could indicate that she has given material possessions away and shows a personality trait of generosity.
The card can also sometimes mean that a message is to come.

The princess is shown emptying her cup of water into the sea. This action would disturb the water, and this could symbolise the disturbance of the unconscious mind in order to allow deep thoughts and collective experience to be able to be tapped into. This could mean that our intuition could be encouraged to develop now.
The card can also indicate the presence of a student, with the suggestion of a youthful being.
It can also show a creative individual.
So, all in all, this card is a nice one to draw from the deck.
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Image-Lighthouse with diving woman statue adjacent.
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Cups- the suit of love and emotions- the 5 of cups

The image on the tarot card for the 5 of Cups in the Truthseekers tarot deck shows a circular table set in a hall next to a harbour.
Several windows open out onto the harbour and on the sea two galleons sail towards each other in the distance.
On the table stand 5 golden goblets full of water, balanced precariously upon each other.

The very act of balancing goblets indicates some sort of risk taking behaviour. And as the suit of Cups is inextricably linked with love and the emotions and feelings of love, which are so strong, then could it be that the risk is linked with love?

It can be a very risky business falling in love with someone.
Do they love us back? Are we going too fast?
Are we wearing our heart on our sleeves?

It can be risky to declare our love for someone and having to wait to see if that love is reciprocated.

It can also be painful to be in love with someone for we feel their disappointments in life experiences almost more keenly than they do!

Yes, love is risky.
It is a risk to ones pride and to our feelings to declare our love for someone, but a fulfilled life has to have some element of risk and courage in it.
But when love is reciprocated, and when things are good then the advantages of love are massive.

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Image-A boat in Whitby
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The most masculine of tarot cards- the Ace of Wands.

The Ace of Wands has an image on this tarot card which undeniably masculine.
A single upstanding wand sits at the base of a volcano.
The volcano is erupting.
The image conjures up the promise of things to come.

The card is a powerful card, as powerful as its image.
There is strength and power tied in with this card when it comes out in a reading.
And also, the attributes of the suit of Wands strike through.
Inventiveness, ambition and creativity amongst them.

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Image-masculine garden statue.
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The Ace of Swords.

I know we have looked at the Ace of Swords before, but for me this card is relevant, especially today.

The picture on the Minor Arcana card of the Ace of Swords ( the intellectual, thought ridden suit) shows a gateway from the city. It sits in a stone wall, big and seemingly unsurpassable.
In the distance, beyond the wall, lies a lovely path, wending its way into the sunny distance between young trees leading to the promise of happy times.
The gate is formed from wood and is solid and sturdy. A single golden sword embellished with blue enamel blocks the way. It is point down, materially set in its position.

The sword is symbollic of something blocking our way ahead to the promise of a brighter future potentially.
However, even if this one gate is blocked and locked to us, it does not mean that our passage is blocked altogether. If we use our linear thinking , then we can potentially discover another way around the problem and find a solution to discovering a way forward.
It can also mean emails and that is what it has meant for me today.

I received an email and had the opportunity to contribute to issues affecting the community which I live in.So, prompted, I gave my opinion. And you never know, it might help and it felt good to participate.
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Picture-Wall made of stone at Scarborough castle.

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The 5 of Wands.

The tarot card I have drawn out today from the deck is the 5 of Wands.

The image on this card from the suit of Wands in the Minor arcana depicts a hot desert like scenario where a tent structure is raised in the burning hot heat on the parched scorched vegetation.
The tent is supported by 5 golden wands and protects a small area beneath which has a few small flowers in the shade.

This suit of Wands shows the presence of a person of a fire sign-Leo,Aries or Sagittarius, who may be in your circle.
There is a lot of intuition and instinctive action with this suit and a lot of ambition and burning passion in the heart.

With this card, there is an element of risk from the sun and the weather conditions. However, this is protected in this instance by the knowledge of this card. Someone in this image has been able to erect a functional but basic place of refuge for someone in the hot weather and this acts as a form of protection for them.
So, to recap, these wands suggest that there may be a risky time ahead but being forewarned a few basic precautions may be taken to reduce this risk, which may be weather linked.
The winds perhaps?
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Image-ornamental thistle in the foreground of an unsettled sky.
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Justice.

Number 11 in the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck is the Justice card.

In this deck, the picture of Justice shows a dark haired woman dressed in a red simple gown sat upon a marble throne. A red cap adorns her head. In her left hand she holds a golden sword. In her right hand is a set of golden scales.

The look upon the womans face appears to see straight through you. She is stern faced. It feels as though there is nowhere to hide from this womans gaze. She seems to have the ability to see straight through to the crux of the matter and is not under any false impression about a situation or a person.
She metes out her judgement by using her scales, which measure good deeds set against bad deeds, and which help determine whether a person is at heart a good or not so good person.The scales help determine the value of something.
The sword of truth in her left hand is pointing towards the heavens and this sword has the spiritual ability to cut through all the lies and untruths or ignorance about a matter and gets right to the truth lying at the heart of a situation.

This card shows us the truth of the matter in question.
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Picture-female bust at Castle Howard
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Todays Tarot card- the Eight of Swords.

Todays Tarot card I have drawn from the deck is the Eight of Swords.

The image on this card shows a figure of 8 formed from some barbed golden bramble or somesuch material, with 8 upwardly pointing swords within it.
The figure of 8 is held within a stone room with a window. Either side of the window stand two knights in armour, but we cannot see if the suits are full or not. Sunlight pours in through the window and illuminates the scene.

The number 8 has a meaning of unity- there is balance and harmony as the bottom and top halves of the figure are equal.
But this symbol also has a meaning of infinity, of everlastingness.

With this card, the presence of the guards and the fact that the swords are within the symbol of 8,the feeling of being trapped or confined within a space are strong. It may be that you feel as though you have limited options to feel more free in your relationship or job or whatever it is in your life that makes you feel confined or limited.
The card also has the hope from the sunlight. It cannot be confined, it is free to go wherever it likes as long as there is an aperture for it to shine through. This indicates that you have a chance to feel less constricted especially if you can use your intuition to help guide you through your choices in life.
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The image is of a scarecrow in the village show which is traditionally a guardian of the crops to scare predators away from the grain.
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