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I must admit that I had never in the past read this card to indicate in any manner some horrendous event... but that is exactly how it came up in some recent reflections - obviously as a consequence of the very recent, and to us reading this at this stage, still immediate, Tsunami event in the Indian Ocean area.
The two young people are certainly seemingly happy and carefree within or behind the safe human construct of the wall... and the Sun's majesty shines upon all. Yet what is in the process of unfoldment behind those walls? what indeed is occuring that from one moment to the next, a blissful world may be shattered?
Of course, such a reading I would see more as this card adjacent, for example, the Tower...
Yet the card itself may give, in a specific situation, a reading of this kind as one enters the situation at hand.
The blissfulness of this world is likewise naturally followed in the sequence (XX shows quite a different scene). Complacency to the joys and happiness that one is graced and blessed with may perhaps best be enjoyed as given - what changes occur are at times beyond the built-up realms of the protecting wall... as Siddharta also experienced in a different way.
Attached is from the Felicité Marseille...
The two young people are certainly seemingly happy and carefree within or behind the safe human construct of the wall... and the Sun's majesty shines upon all. Yet what is in the process of unfoldment behind those walls? what indeed is occuring that from one moment to the next, a blissful world may be shattered?
Of course, such a reading I would see more as this card adjacent, for example, the Tower...
Yet the card itself may give, in a specific situation, a reading of this kind as one enters the situation at hand.
The blissfulness of this world is likewise naturally followed in the sequence (XX shows quite a different scene). Complacency to the joys and happiness that one is graced and blessed with may perhaps best be enjoyed as given - what changes occur are at times beyond the built-up realms of the protecting wall... as Siddharta also experienced in a different way.
Attached is from the Felicité Marseille...