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EnriqueEnriquez said:new exercise:
Lets try to put into practice the ideas expressed in my two first ‘Eye-Rhyme’ essays. Please, place three cards at random on a horizontal row and:
- Try to describe the first experiential feeling the cards elicit in you as soon as you look at them. This doesn’t have to be elaborate. A word, or a few words, will suffice.
- Define if the sequence follows a raising, falling, or steady rhythm.
- Try to detect as many eye rhymes as you can.
Please, report back in this thread.
Best,
EE
Well I had three out and a fourth just burst out of my hand...so I included it.
I have chosen:
VII epees
VI Deniers
X Deniers
As de Coupes
I admit it is easier to read with the Ace at the end.
I see that with 7 Swords and 10 Pentacles there are many gifts being offered, which the Ace sort of bows at me to say, Will you accept this gift? To me the Ace is a question mark and an eye rhyme to the 7 of swords.
The Ace seems to show us what can happen if you accept the gift, that out of that progression can come....this divine sense of holding, of receptivity.
The whole spread seems to be about joy...and the Ace seems to hold it in place for me. Kind of shows what could come of accepting this.
I think the rhythm is steady-rise-steady. The two center cards, the pentacles have a different sound to them than the outer two cards...
~The central sword rhymes with the Ace of Cups.
~The central vines rhyme on the center two cards.
~There are four central deniers on each of the two center cards, they rhyme!
~There are upper and lower deniers on the two center cards and yes, they rhyme.
~Across the bottom of the cards there seems to be a footing or foundation. The two outer edges of the swords, the black areas move into the leaves on the 6, then to the deniers and the blossom on the 10 and finally come to rest as the base of the cup in the As. They rhyme.
~Then at the center line, we start with red in the swords, we move across the two deniers cards with the horizontal vines, then end with the blue fringe in the As. They rhyme, but the syncopation is different....
What does it all mean. I see the rhymes...but I don't know if I know what to do with them!
Also, in the Ace, the ferny flowers and the strong thrusting impulse of the swords, as well as the circular patterns of the deniers, all come home to roost in the Ace. They come together, in a new way, but still you see all the elements, together. And they are not fighting, they are at peace.