Nine of Cups : Plenitude

For today, the end of July, with Summer harvest in full swing, we get the Nine of Cups, reversed.

I've got the card sitting in my Palm cradle, and it makes me realize that this card is pretty much at home anywhere. I've put it right-side up for the time-being. Since I use the Rider-Waite deck for my daily work, this means that a fat, happy businessman is keeping me company, but he's not offering me any of his wine, I see. Well in that case, I won't offer him any gin. Besides, his hands are busy secretly counting out his profits. I suppose he's never heard the expression "don't count your chickens..."

Let's turn him over to see what he says. "See, my hat's still on, woman! It will take more than that to rattle me!" How right he is. I can see that underneath that fatuous exterior, he's known hardship and is very resourceful. Good. That gives me confidence in his true abilities. He's not a faker.

I much prefer this card when it's reversed, it becomes more down-to-earth. Otherwise I feel that it represents an uncomfortable degree of self-satisfaction. Too much plenitude on an emotional, intuitive level leads to mistakes; bad judgment. When reversed, it means we've reigned ourselves in just short of ultimate success so as to keep from going over the edge. A smidgeon of humility.

So what does that have to do with today? I wonder. Can you figure it out?

Today's card is.... the Five of Cups

Oy, what did we do to deserve such sadness? Look at all we've lost, who cares if the future is still full of promise, let's not forget what's been spilled, spoiled, splattered....

Well, that's enough. There is a bigger world out there than our own particular immediate sadness. Do you remember the ice cream cone you dropped when you were a wee child of six? Well, do you? Time changes everything, or so it seems. The heartbreaking event we live through is one small particle in a whole current of events. Eventually we lift our heads to see what's going on around us, and we notice that the stream is still rushing by, perhaps fuller than ever. We realize that what was spilled could very well have been poisonous. We still have things to try, bridges to cross, castles to explore, life to taste and experience.

That's not to say we deny our current situation of sadness and loss. As a way of establishing balance on the inside, it's important to remember that this is but one isolated moment that will invevitably change. Nature empties what is full and fills what is empty, in other words, "this too shall pass."

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