The Lover's Path: Four of Coins

Sophie-David

From the point of view of Danae's father, King Acrisius, the Lover's Path Four of Coins is an apt picture of the "miser card". Within his strong tower all his richest possessions are kept, isolated and of no use to the world. One of his possessions happens to be his daughter Danae - if you unable relate to and come to terms with the feminine it must be walled up and controlled, a mere ornament stripped of its power. Acrisius would have a definite problem with the motto, "If you love it, set is free."

Danae herself is the bird in the gilded cage, a young woman seduced by material security, cut off from her own emotional waters in her high masculine tower, separated from the fires of her creativity and the stimulating winds of intellectual insight. Patriarchy has separated her from her own potentials, and made her the useless bimbo in the tower that it can exploit and control.

But at the psychological level, we may bring some hope into the situation. Made the puela or eternal child by social conditioning, nonetheless her sense of self begins to rise as she approaches sexual maturity. In spite of her unreal and emotionally shallow environment, the Sun, her sense of self, begins stimulate her to emerge from disconnected apathy. The Sun, as the active masculine both within her and within her male love interest, begins to break in on her passive consciousness. No longer will she be confined by the limitations of her internalized father, for her static masculine tower is about to come down and she will be free to interact with reality. As the rise of the dynamic masculine exposes her to the natural risks, joys, sorrows, needs and desires of the world, she will at last begin to grow up.