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Here we have 'X' (and 'O'?, they seem to go together like kiss and hug) reaching out and grasping the hands of a mirror image box toy. This makes me think of the times that we see in someone else a mirror image of a part of ourselves. However fun it may be to be offbeat and quirky, it can feel a tad isolating if we really feel like we are the only one who appreciates, say, tarot, or the Phantasmagoric Theater Deck, or Soy Milk As interesting and educational as ideas are that differ from our own, that warm, wonderful Ten of Cups feeling tends to come when we find in someone different from ourselves a sympatico heart. Graham's book speaks of marriage, and this reminds me of my husband and I when we met: "You like Monty Python? You love living in the desert? You have Elvis Costello albums?", and a few, more important qualities, and Zap!, Zing!- Ten of Cups energy. When enough of that energy abounds, we find that we can commit to that person and that together we can commit to the causes that we share in common.
The trees behind them remind me of the stories of lovers who, upon death, turn into trees. There are some from the Greek myths, and also this one from the "Celtic Book of Days", by Caitlin Matthews:
"Baile and Ailinn were lovers who had been parted. On hearing false report of each other's deaths, they each died and were buried in separate graves. Out of Baile's grave grew a yew, out of Ailinn's an apple. After some years, poets and and seers cut down the yew to create a poets's tablet relating the vision-tales, feasts, loves and wooings of Ulster. Similarly, in Leinster, the poets made a poet's tablet out of the apple tree relating comparable tales from Leinster. At the Samhain feast held by Art mac Conn, both ranks of regional poets assembled, bringing their tablets with them. The two tablets sprang together, inseperable as woodbine about a branch. The unified wood from the lover's graves was kept in the treasury of Tara as a wonder."
Graham's booklet says: 'X' the box toy has found himself a lover, and there is a unity between them. They share a deep commitment, and feel a mutual exchange and dedication to each other. Together they are at one with the universe, and know that to be involved in life is to be commited. We get out of life what we put in.
Divinitory Meaning: The Ten of Cups represents marriage and strength of emotion.
Reverse Meaning: Unstable, uninvolved, selfishness."
The trees behind them remind me of the stories of lovers who, upon death, turn into trees. There are some from the Greek myths, and also this one from the "Celtic Book of Days", by Caitlin Matthews:
"Baile and Ailinn were lovers who had been parted. On hearing false report of each other's deaths, they each died and were buried in separate graves. Out of Baile's grave grew a yew, out of Ailinn's an apple. After some years, poets and and seers cut down the yew to create a poets's tablet relating the vision-tales, feasts, loves and wooings of Ulster. Similarly, in Leinster, the poets made a poet's tablet out of the apple tree relating comparable tales from Leinster. At the Samhain feast held by Art mac Conn, both ranks of regional poets assembled, bringing their tablets with them. The two tablets sprang together, inseperable as woodbine about a branch. The unified wood from the lover's graves was kept in the treasury of Tara as a wonder."
Graham's booklet says: 'X' the box toy has found himself a lover, and there is a unity between them. They share a deep commitment, and feel a mutual exchange and dedication to each other. Together they are at one with the universe, and know that to be involved in life is to be commited. We get out of life what we put in.
Divinitory Meaning: The Ten of Cups represents marriage and strength of emotion.
Reverse Meaning: Unstable, uninvolved, selfishness."