Sulis
Someone mentioned in the Wild Unknown Tarot thread in Tarot Decks (click) that they've been having trouble with the imagery of this card and I have to say, so have I so I decided to sit with it and meditate on it for a while and see what shows up:
Aces are the essence of the suit and they are also the whole of it... One is singular but it's also the whole so an Ace is like a seed - it's the start of the element but it also has the whole of the element's energies within it, waiting, filled with potential.
In most decks the energy of the suit is offered with the Ace, usually by a God-like hand emerging from a cloud, clutching the suit's symbol. The energy is there, offered but it's up to us to grab it and do something with it.
In the Wild Unknown there is no disembodied hand emerging from a cloud. There is just the suit symbol with a bit more symbolism added in.
On the Ace of Cups we see a beautiful goblet - to me it looks like a crystal goblet. The background is shimmery and blue and above and emerging from the goblet is a golden glow. The pattern looks like snake skin or (as someone in the other thread said), a chain-link fence and it's this that has put me off this card at first glance.
With a bit of meditation on it though I'm not seeing chain-link and I'm not seeing snake skin either.. What I'm seeing is a veil of water, a bit like a waterfall and the patterns make me think of one of the qualities of water and that's reflection..
So this is the energy, the pure energy of Water and I think I have to think what that means to me..
Water is so many things; it can be deep, it can be shallow, it can flow or be still, it's more powerful than it looks.
It can represent emotions, the subconscious, the dream world, the unknown (there's so much unexplored and unknown stuff beneath the oceans). It's mysterious and it's not logical - we can't help how we feel. Water reflects - it reflects us and it reflects others. It's cleansing, it washes things clean and it also energises (think of that waterfall and the almost electrical energy that you get when you stand near one).. Water is healing too.
I don't think there's anything particularly deep or confusing about the symbolism of this card in fact the symbolism is really minimal but he card gives a feeling of water washing down over the cup.. The golden glow emanating from it makes me think of healing, as if it comes from 'the source'.
So in a reading I'd say that the energies of the element of Water are there but they need to be used.. This may be the start of something that you need to invest in emotionally.. It may show the need for healing or cleansing or even a good cry... It may mean that the sitter needs to look deeply at themselves, what do they see reflected back at them when they gaze into a pool?
If anyone has any more thoughts I'd love to read them .
Aces are the essence of the suit and they are also the whole of it... One is singular but it's also the whole so an Ace is like a seed - it's the start of the element but it also has the whole of the element's energies within it, waiting, filled with potential.
In most decks the energy of the suit is offered with the Ace, usually by a God-like hand emerging from a cloud, clutching the suit's symbol. The energy is there, offered but it's up to us to grab it and do something with it.
In the Wild Unknown there is no disembodied hand emerging from a cloud. There is just the suit symbol with a bit more symbolism added in.
On the Ace of Cups we see a beautiful goblet - to me it looks like a crystal goblet. The background is shimmery and blue and above and emerging from the goblet is a golden glow. The pattern looks like snake skin or (as someone in the other thread said), a chain-link fence and it's this that has put me off this card at first glance.
With a bit of meditation on it though I'm not seeing chain-link and I'm not seeing snake skin either.. What I'm seeing is a veil of water, a bit like a waterfall and the patterns make me think of one of the qualities of water and that's reflection..
So this is the energy, the pure energy of Water and I think I have to think what that means to me..
Water is so many things; it can be deep, it can be shallow, it can flow or be still, it's more powerful than it looks.
It can represent emotions, the subconscious, the dream world, the unknown (there's so much unexplored and unknown stuff beneath the oceans). It's mysterious and it's not logical - we can't help how we feel. Water reflects - it reflects us and it reflects others. It's cleansing, it washes things clean and it also energises (think of that waterfall and the almost electrical energy that you get when you stand near one).. Water is healing too.
I don't think there's anything particularly deep or confusing about the symbolism of this card in fact the symbolism is really minimal but he card gives a feeling of water washing down over the cup.. The golden glow emanating from it makes me think of healing, as if it comes from 'the source'.
So in a reading I'd say that the energies of the element of Water are there but they need to be used.. This may be the start of something that you need to invest in emotionally.. It may show the need for healing or cleansing or even a good cry... It may mean that the sitter needs to look deeply at themselves, what do they see reflected back at them when they gaze into a pool?
If anyone has any more thoughts I'd love to read them .