firemaiden
Hello, I just did Umbrae's Seven Card Horseshoe spread, (I know, I told Azuremariposa it was too many cards.... but then she got me interested in this spread..LOL)
In the far future position is the Queen of Cups Reversed.
The Crowley Queen of Cups is a very interesting card to see reversed, because it almost looks the same upside down as right side up. It is a very beautiful and mysterious card: the geometric patterns of swirling light imitate the "retrograde" motion of planets (when the earth is imagined to be the center of the universe) in telescoping, concentric ovals, intersected with a half-cirle arc of light and ten yellow rays. The queens face is barely discernable in the center of all the intersecting ovals, swirling patterns and rays. She stands at the shore of a lake or some clear pool of water, in which all is reflected.
When the card is reversed, what is reflected in the water is now on top. What is world and what is reflection of the world is now reversed - as though dreams have become real, and real has become dreams.
(That would be a hopeful interpretation!)
The Queen's face is again but barely visible in the water, and a bit more distorted... but no less visible than before... in fact, the reflected face is wider and therefore looks stronger...
So how would you read the Queen of Cups upside down?
Does this suggest the dangerous sort of "reversal of perception" that I have been mentioning? the state of being where one thinks the symbols are looking at you, rather than you looking at the symbols?
Or might it be something positive, like the coming to light, the coming to the surface of long hidden and dormant aspects of the self?
In the far future position is the Queen of Cups Reversed.
The Crowley Queen of Cups is a very interesting card to see reversed, because it almost looks the same upside down as right side up. It is a very beautiful and mysterious card: the geometric patterns of swirling light imitate the "retrograde" motion of planets (when the earth is imagined to be the center of the universe) in telescoping, concentric ovals, intersected with a half-cirle arc of light and ten yellow rays. The queens face is barely discernable in the center of all the intersecting ovals, swirling patterns and rays. She stands at the shore of a lake or some clear pool of water, in which all is reflected.
When the card is reversed, what is reflected in the water is now on top. What is world and what is reflection of the world is now reversed - as though dreams have become real, and real has become dreams.
(That would be a hopeful interpretation!)
The Queen's face is again but barely visible in the water, and a bit more distorted... but no less visible than before... in fact, the reflected face is wider and therefore looks stronger...
So how would you read the Queen of Cups upside down?
Does this suggest the dangerous sort of "reversal of perception" that I have been mentioning? the state of being where one thinks the symbols are looking at you, rather than you looking at the symbols?
Or might it be something positive, like the coming to light, the coming to the surface of long hidden and dormant aspects of the self?