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30. The Youth: Group – Heart (3 green)
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The Image
The Youth is pictured sitting on a bench with his feet in water. He sits between two male companions, also on the bench, and all three are singing lustily. A bottle in his left hand, another at the end of the bench, and the somewhat glazed look of the three young men all suggest quite clearly that they are at least somewhat intoxicated! In his right hand, The Youth grips a flute. The image is imbued with a feeling of the carefree quality of youth – these young men appear to wear the burdens of living lightly, and have given themselves up to having a good time.
The portrait
Psychologically, the dynamics of The Youth’s life are very similar to those of the child. As the son of Spirit and Will, The Youth incarnates the union of male and female. As the heart chakra is at the centre of the body, so The Youth is at the balance point between the male and female poles.
At present, you are exhibiting the qualities of youth – enthusiasm, naivety, insouciance. Those around find you charming, exuberant but also capable of enormous dedication and self-sacrifice in support of what you truly believe in. Your enthusiasm can make you oblivious to mundane physical matters such as cold or hunger. Also, you show great warmth and are a kind and caring friend. Your greatest asset is that you have the energies of spirit and will in balance – it is natural to you to shun both extremes; to see both points of view; to wish for and to work always to see them reconciled. You are also an innovator, because the new generation, with whom you are allied by this card, wants always to remake the world and to surpass their parents. In fact, you are close to the spirit of the artist, because the green vibration of The Youth is also that of Creation. In your case, creativity is likely to be embedded in inter-relation: if you create, you want your friends either to participate in the work, or at least to be there to share its outcome.
On the down side, you may lack the virtues of maturity. Charm, naivety and optimism are lovely attributes, but there are times when they are insufficient. The big difficulty in your life is that of trying to balance spirit and will, so that you are pulled in both directions like a child identifying now with the father, now with the mother, exemplified in its most acute form in the terrible pain experienced by children whose parents separate. However precious the idealism of youth, it needs to be tempered by the steel of experience. The Youth alone is limited in what he can do; he needs to find a life-partner and when he eventually does so, the whole dynamic of his existence changes. This means that your greatest weakness is the destabilising effects of your urge towards encounters with young women.
Divinatory meanings
Enthusiasm, exuberance, spontaneity, being ‘young at heart’, trust, naivety, idealism, lack of calculation; warmth, friendliness, sincerity; moderation; immaturity, irresponsibility, lack of insight, indecisiveness; moodiness.
http://www.rainringcards.com/Cards/The_Youth/30.aspx
The Image
The Youth is pictured sitting on a bench with his feet in water. He sits between two male companions, also on the bench, and all three are singing lustily. A bottle in his left hand, another at the end of the bench, and the somewhat glazed look of the three young men all suggest quite clearly that they are at least somewhat intoxicated! In his right hand, The Youth grips a flute. The image is imbued with a feeling of the carefree quality of youth – these young men appear to wear the burdens of living lightly, and have given themselves up to having a good time.
The portrait
Psychologically, the dynamics of The Youth’s life are very similar to those of the child. As the son of Spirit and Will, The Youth incarnates the union of male and female. As the heart chakra is at the centre of the body, so The Youth is at the balance point between the male and female poles.
At present, you are exhibiting the qualities of youth – enthusiasm, naivety, insouciance. Those around find you charming, exuberant but also capable of enormous dedication and self-sacrifice in support of what you truly believe in. Your enthusiasm can make you oblivious to mundane physical matters such as cold or hunger. Also, you show great warmth and are a kind and caring friend. Your greatest asset is that you have the energies of spirit and will in balance – it is natural to you to shun both extremes; to see both points of view; to wish for and to work always to see them reconciled. You are also an innovator, because the new generation, with whom you are allied by this card, wants always to remake the world and to surpass their parents. In fact, you are close to the spirit of the artist, because the green vibration of The Youth is also that of Creation. In your case, creativity is likely to be embedded in inter-relation: if you create, you want your friends either to participate in the work, or at least to be there to share its outcome.
On the down side, you may lack the virtues of maturity. Charm, naivety and optimism are lovely attributes, but there are times when they are insufficient. The big difficulty in your life is that of trying to balance spirit and will, so that you are pulled in both directions like a child identifying now with the father, now with the mother, exemplified in its most acute form in the terrible pain experienced by children whose parents separate. However precious the idealism of youth, it needs to be tempered by the steel of experience. The Youth alone is limited in what he can do; he needs to find a life-partner and when he eventually does so, the whole dynamic of his existence changes. This means that your greatest weakness is the destabilising effects of your urge towards encounters with young women.
Divinatory meanings
Enthusiasm, exuberance, spontaneity, being ‘young at heart’, trust, naivety, idealism, lack of calculation; warmth, friendliness, sincerity; moderation; immaturity, irresponsibility, lack of insight, indecisiveness; moodiness.
