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Sunday Spotlight: The Lovers

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Ah, The Lovers card.

Who wouldn’t be excited to see this turn up in a spread?

We all love love.

Here we have an image of a naked man and woman. The epitome of sexy times. Romance. Intimacy.

This card’s energy is activated in adolescence. The first stabs of puppy love are its calling card. The trial and error of this period in our lives, as we explore different experiences, legal or otherwise, are its canvas.

But there’s a mismatch in the picture above. Whilst the man gazes adoringly at the woman, she’s not looking at him in return but fixated on an angel in the heavens above. Puts me in mind of that old saying: Men love women, women love children, and children love dogs.

There’s a subtle message beneath this image.

We each get to choose what we focus on.

Who we spend time with.

Who we choose to be in relationship with.

What to do with our lives.

Which temptations to succumb to and which to resist.

Just as Adam got to choose whether or not to eat that wicked apple in the Garden of Eden. Eve didn’t force it down his throat. Nor did the snake winding around the limbs of the tree.

The lesson in this card says that love is a choice, not a pre-determined fate.

Would you agree or disagree with that?

Sunday Spotlight: The Devil

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The Devil card came to mind as I lay in bed this morning.

And lay.

And lay.

Felt apt.

Some would consider laziness a devil quality.

I was pondering how darkness can illuminate. How there is a richness to the dark as if it’s full of squirming creatures invisible to the human eye. How thoughts can wander to new possibilities in this fecund womb.

Which brought me to The Devil card.

The black background on this card doesn’t indicate that darkness is inherently ‘evil’.

It’s a reflection of the ‘evil’ inherent in not exploring beyond the known. Not opening yourself up to new possibilities in life. Evil reversed spells ‘live’.

Yes, The Devil card can indicate that you are chained to others in some way. Through apprenticeships, or worse, damaging psychic relationships, such as domestic abuse or slavery.

But deeper than that, The Devil card indicates that we are willingly keeping ourselves enslaved.

Those chains are loose. They could be lifted off.

We can chain ourselves to people and situations because we want to learn from them.

But we can also chain ourselves to people and situations because we are too scared to look beyond them. Unwilling to leave our comfort zones.

The torch light is pointed downwards.

We don’t want to know!

Can you identify any of these sorts of Devil situations operating in your life?