![]() And paradise is food in the fridge, improved health, and being loved by at least one person. ![]() Now I cling to this card, when it shows up in a reading, like a life raft that is sailing to paradise. I used to think the Temperance card was SO boring. I had fun while doing it, don’t get me wrong, but if I have a guardian angel, well, they were busy then. I would list more of them, but, um, my mom reads this blog and I ain’t sharing, and don’t care if I am in my forties. I took a lot of stupid risks when I was younger. It’s what we crave once we grow past the desire to have constant newness, constant variety, constant excitement. It can also mean an old friendship that blossoms into a romance. Forget acrobatic sex and passionate drama, er, for the moment. The desire to be with someone who gets you on a deep, soul level. In relationships, the Six of Cups is about that too. I mean, we have little tinpot despots here and abroad making really dazzlingly dangerous choices, so that’s a VERY exciting thing, yesirree. Hard to come by these days, innit? That safe but exciting feeling? Oh we have exciting. Everything you read above? That is the Six of Cups in a nutshell. OK YEAH BUT ABOUT THAT TAROT STUFF, JHONE. Good smells of cooking, people dressed up for parties, atmosphere changing decorations, the special food (you don’t get to eat yet, stop it) and the personal holiday rituals, and that delicious, difficult to quantify feeling that is a mixture of “everything is ok and very, very safe”…and “everything is magical and anything could happen”. And, because you are a kid, you don’t really grasp all the WORK THAT WENT INTO THAT.all the cooking and shopping and planning.so it was all sparked with a gently spooky promise like a Ray Bradbury short story. That is Halloween, and then Thanksgiving and Christmas all smack up against each other. The best.Īnd November is the Good Time, when you are lucky little kid growing up in LA in a sane, comfortably middle class family. We just knew Dad lived somewhere else and we saw him on weekends. My mom’s single motherhood barely registered for me in a struggling way, the self absorbed, weirdo brat that I was. And November, to a kid growing up in the last generation of Angelenos who will know a Los Angeles that was affordable, that had streets filled with kids on Halloween in every neighborhood…a pre-internet, delightfully punk rock childhood free of tethers and low on hovering supervision, is one of the best times of the year. These clouds are abundant in November in LA. Making me feel a special kind of “safe”, which is a feeling on short supply since losing my husband, and, you know, the world now being Bizarro World. As a Los Angeleno transplanted to Austin by young widowhood ( I have close family here), I am used to a flat, washed out blue and mostly cloudless LA sky, too dry to form these fluffy masterpieces in front of me, delighting me in a way that is hard to describe. I have been so delighted by the giant Texas sky. The sky has been particularly dazzling this week, here in Austin town, deep blue with giant mashed potato clouds plopped flat on the bottom and left puffy on top, looking from here like an angelic bounce house. I drew the cards in the morning, the Six of Cups and Temperance, and then had to run errands, which was good, as I had decided that I needed to let my brain percolate on the subject, and how to introduce the Six of Cups…the card of tender nostalgia. You can see the TL dr at the bottom, if you need quick answers to your pressing Tarot confusion! ![]() Welcome to another edition of Tarot Odd Couples, wherein I randomly draw two cards from the Tarot deck, hope that they are SUPER INTERESTING together, discuss how they relate to each other, how to read them together, and then yammer for a bit about the bigger ideas contained within.
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