2 Cups and 2 Swords
More sacred spirals, water, and universe. Hey, I never noticed the dolphins in the right corner. Her cards have so much detail it's not surprising. Don't dolphins mate for life or am I thinking of swans?
Strawberries, champagne, crystal glasses, lush bouquets of flowers, ribbons, and a lace overlay on the wedding table. I never made the connection between crocheted lace and knots, the knots of marriage and community. Fluidity of time, water, flowing, go with the flow, compromise and flowing around your partner and community.
I sometimes like to think the supposedly "cold, uncaring" husband put this spread out to surprise his wife after thay had a big fight. The dolphins egged him on: "Come on Joe, do it up really nice and surprise her." And her heart melts and they reconnect to all the good feelings of their wedding day as they laugh and giggle and get a bit tipsy. They kiss the champagne lips of the other and...cut to flowers blooming while the dolphins do flips in the water and say "I knew they still loved each other."
(I pause momentarily to wipe a tear from my eye and toast the happy couple.)
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Scherenschnitte! That's all paper snowflakes are, a simplified version of the more elaborat scherenschnitte techniques created in Germany. I have cut paper into such flakes as a child, and also fabric snowflakes to use in appliqued blocks as an adult. This card just seemed so right.
Balance, symmetry, that suggestion of guardedness of protection, but also an image of superfluous bits falling away to leave the symmetry of a design. Backlit by the sun and universe, it is the universal plan completed. Scissors cut and wound but they can also shape something, cut away what is getting in the way of something better.
This is really a clever card -- a snowflake is crystallized water--cutting through and cooling emotions, to order them through active thinking. I've never understand why people cringe so at the sword cards, they seem to strike at such universal truths.