firemaiden
Translation:
Link to the image: Vier der Kelche
I see a golden frame, opening like a window onto a moon-lit lake at night; a lone fishing boat. From the horizon, a mountain rises, its snowy peak barely discernable through the veil of clouds. Shapes in the clouds suggest a white winged horse rising; a tiger; an eagle's head, a woman; and where the moon should be, a cloaked and bearded male figure....
It is most interesting that this card, which at first appears so abstract, will yield a clear landscape to the patient observer -- but not without the application of time to allow the image to burn through the fog in the mind -- It is this process itself, which most potently delivers the meaning of this card; whose imagery speaks of obscured horizons, clouded light, and an unclear path. The path, like the painting, will eventually become clear with patient application, and the will to make distinctions and draw boundaries, as MP says, in the variegated palette (of feelings).
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Recognize feelings and take responsibility. What do you feel right at this very moment? Clarify, order, and structure your feelings. Where and how does a positive or negative feeling arise? What do I do with it? For example, should one indulge it, hold it back, or exagerate it? Become aware of how feelings affect one's perceptions. How, and from what does a feeling arise?
Light, lukewarm feelings - powerful whirlpools, which exert a magnetic suction. Dark, unclear, cloudy, or free flowing feelings. Make distinctions in the diversity of the palette of feelings.
Observe feelings without identifying with them. Set boundaries. Through definition and clarification, feelings grow to overflowing, and bring fulfillment.
Link to the image: Vier der Kelche
I see a golden frame, opening like a window onto a moon-lit lake at night; a lone fishing boat. From the horizon, a mountain rises, its snowy peak barely discernable through the veil of clouds. Shapes in the clouds suggest a white winged horse rising; a tiger; an eagle's head, a woman; and where the moon should be, a cloaked and bearded male figure....
It is most interesting that this card, which at first appears so abstract, will yield a clear landscape to the patient observer -- but not without the application of time to allow the image to burn through the fog in the mind -- It is this process itself, which most potently delivers the meaning of this card; whose imagery speaks of obscured horizons, clouded light, and an unclear path. The path, like the painting, will eventually become clear with patient application, and the will to make distinctions and draw boundaries, as MP says, in the variegated palette (of feelings).
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