Diana
I suggest everyone goes back and reads lark's last post....
Absolutely wonderful. A nice refreshing break from the set-in-stone Rider Waite interpretations that people seem to get stuck on, thinking they're the beginning and the end.
I own this deck (for reference purposes) and I have looked long at this card since this thread started. Quite frankly, there is nothing there that even proves that flowers are being offered. The guy could be the gardener, receiving orders from someone who, to me, doesn't look like a child. She looks to me like a woman who is not very tall. I don't see a child at all.
Her mitten is the same colour as the flowers - there is obviously a link there. The flowers are five pointed - like Stars. And there are six of them (Six of Cups).
I think one should never forget that this card is linked to The Lovers card - which is a card of choice.
If I see any dialogue here it would be: "Madam, where would you like me to put this pot of flowers?" (I mean, if this guy is offering the flowers, he's a bit of dumb-head 'cos the pot, with the earth in it, must weigh a ton! Have you ever tried carting around your potted garden plants without getting backache? If he wants to offer flowers, he would have picked them, no?)
Honestly, I am not trying to be funny here or argumentary for arguments sake. I just don't see any flowers being offered.......
And the mitten probably is, like firemaiden says, a "pot" holder. Far easier to garden with gloves. So they're probably gardening together. The woman is even wearing a kind of over-dress to protect her clothes.
Absolutely wonderful. A nice refreshing break from the set-in-stone Rider Waite interpretations that people seem to get stuck on, thinking they're the beginning and the end.
I own this deck (for reference purposes) and I have looked long at this card since this thread started. Quite frankly, there is nothing there that even proves that flowers are being offered. The guy could be the gardener, receiving orders from someone who, to me, doesn't look like a child. She looks to me like a woman who is not very tall. I don't see a child at all.
Her mitten is the same colour as the flowers - there is obviously a link there. The flowers are five pointed - like Stars. And there are six of them (Six of Cups).
I think one should never forget that this card is linked to The Lovers card - which is a card of choice.
If I see any dialogue here it would be: "Madam, where would you like me to put this pot of flowers?" (I mean, if this guy is offering the flowers, he's a bit of dumb-head 'cos the pot, with the earth in it, must weigh a ton! Have you ever tried carting around your potted garden plants without getting backache? If he wants to offer flowers, he would have picked them, no?)
Honestly, I am not trying to be funny here or argumentary for arguments sake. I just don't see any flowers being offered.......
And the mitten probably is, like firemaiden says, a "pot" holder. Far easier to garden with gloves. So they're probably gardening together. The woman is even wearing a kind of over-dress to protect her clothes.