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I've done a cursory search and can find nothing like this. Are you able to find the thread?
But yes, it is sad that childhood recollections for some people include such nightmare scenarios.
Here's another wonderful thread about the 6 of Cups - http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18421
yes, more than sad - a tragedy. The 'sadness' suggested here though, may not be wholy due to that ... its sad that this would colour the reading. Its sad that this damage colours peoples lives and the interpretation people give on things.
10 years ago I could have given a little girl a bunch of flowers, or taken photos of the 3 little boys I had the pleasure of looking after , playing in the river.
I wouldnt do things like that now. I just hope that such negative things dont start attaching to meanings of tarot cards, all over the place.
If we gave a RW deck to kids in Manus Island detention ... I wonder what they would tell us about 'image association' ?
One thing I did find interesting ... on opening this thread on page 1 and it coincidentally jumped out at me.
In post # 2 mind you :
Mary K Greer in Tarot Reversals also points out that something about the card doesn't seem quite right - The tower, the guard, the disparity in size of the figures - she suggests that on rare occasions it represents 'childhood abuse, denied or fogotten, like happy family photographs that hide a dysfuctional truth'.
The first time I read that I took a longer look at the card and I can see what she means. I've never treated the card the same again
{good old 'Mindy' what's he doing in RW ? )
BUT note what he says ; Mary K Greer in Tarot Reversals
REVERSALS. It seems to fit as the opposite of what most see in this card (well, I hope it IS still most) - the reverse of the ' 6 of cups' energy, The Qlippoth or 'evil demon' of Tiphareth in the world of cups ... but I am not the type to look at a Sephiroth and immediately go ' Qlippoth ! ' Unless there is a really good indicating reason to see that.
If I understand this correctly , Mary was talking about reversals.
Do we normally assume a card meaning in a discussion is the reverse, if the card isnt shown that way ?
And I have to ask ... if a card is being looked at upright, or by itself and not in a reading (where it might be reversed or have horribly aspects ) .... why go against the general understanding and .....
oh .... ... okay, I get it .... its not part of the Kabbalah, or the associations, or LIber -T ... its what one gets from the image .... <sigh>