I've seen it come up for both dance and play, in addition to the more usual meanings. The juggling is also reminiscent of the Sufi idea of receiving and releasing energies, letting them pass through you, without holding onto anything except the still center in the heart. This is not to say that AE or Pixie were alluding to this.
I've not had it come up as a dancer for me personally yet, but I will start checking each and every time I draw it. No, I understand that it's unsure if they were or were not meaning that. I will however take it into my meanings. If a character is dancing and we are looking at the card as the perspective from the dancer, wouldn't that cause the waves in the back ground? Are those weird waves in fact there or is it just the balance organ (inner ear, not sure what it's called) after "spinning"/"dancing". Either way, it sparked me
Have been looking into this card the last days and it always feels like I'm missing something.
Thanks!
Just did a quick search, I don't know much about Sufism, only read one literary work on it. But this "What does the Sema, the dance ritual, signify? Jalaluddin Rumi, the founder of the Mevlevi Order in the thirteenth century says that the dancing dervishes represent the solar system and the planets that revolve around the sun. At the same time that they are immersed in their own microcosmos, they create new worlds and make contact with eternity."[12] fits so well with the eternity symbol. Also, I get this card often (depending on the combination) for someone who passed. So this gives much better understanding.
Green in Sufism is the highest colour, opening the mystic gate. So that would fit a green eternity symbol. Although I may be stretching it here, but it's interesting to contemplate on.