Tarot Of The Day July 26, 2018 - Day 33: The Raven’s Prophecy Deck - 6 of Cups
I am posting a daily tarot course in a group I am a member of on Facebook ('A Kaleidoscope of Magical Perceptions' is the name of the group, please feel free to request membership - it is full of fun people and really great posts about all manner of topics) and I thought I would cross post the information here to this blog as well. Once the initial sessions of the course have passed, it will start over using a different tarot deck. The text of the thirty-third session follows.
The Rider-Waite 6 of Cups shows two children, according to the booklet in ‘an old garden’ (but what seems like a courtyard or square,) and all of the goblets shown in the scene are filled with flowers. It evokes innocence, childhood, and nostalgia, as well as perhaps new beginnings.
The Rider-Waite booklet offers these words for the 6 of Cups: “A card of memories and of the past. For example, reflecting on childhood, happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past, things that have vanished. New relations, new environments, and new knowledge (upright,) renewal, the future, that which will come to pass presently (reversed.)”
Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven’s prophecy deck shows the 6 of Cups as a Raven watching 6 bubbles float by. She writes, “ This is the nostalgia card. Its theme of looking back might seem very similar to the Five of Cups’s obsession with what has passed, but I generally read the Six as a positive card. You’re looking at the past, just like in the Five, but unlike in the Five, there’s no pain. ...Of course, excessive nostalgia can keep you from moving forward. The past tends to look rosier than it was, so it’s not difficult to get caught in a stereotypical “when I was a kid” talk. Nostalgia can be incredibly stifling if all you do with it is compare it to the present and find the present constantly coming up short. But if you instead use your memories to be grateful for the life you’ve lived so far, and to remind you of the things that are important to you, they can be a powerful tool for helping you move forward.”
Maggie offers the following keywords for the Six of Cups: nostalgia, childhood, and revisitation.
Tomorrow - 7 of Cups
***TOTD will cover the entire 78 card Raven’s Prophecy Deck alongside the Rider-Waite deck for comparison. In order to not completely burn out, on Saturday I will break the lessons up by doing a practicum lesson. Practicum lessons will take the form of a layout or spread that I will walk you through the steps of interpretation for. After the first round of sessions ends, we will start over with a short break for a poll to be done to see what deck everyone wants to see next round. ***
I am posting a daily tarot course in a group I am a member of on Facebook ('A Kaleidoscope of Magical Perceptions' is the name of the group, please feel free to request membership - it is full of fun people and really great posts about all manner of topics) and I thought I would cross post the information here to this blog as well. Once the initial sessions of the course have passed, it will start over using a different tarot deck. The text of the thirty-third session follows.
The Rider-Waite 6 of Cups shows two children, according to the booklet in ‘an old garden’ (but what seems like a courtyard or square,) and all of the goblets shown in the scene are filled with flowers. It evokes innocence, childhood, and nostalgia, as well as perhaps new beginnings.
The Rider-Waite booklet offers these words for the 6 of Cups: “A card of memories and of the past. For example, reflecting on childhood, happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past, things that have vanished. New relations, new environments, and new knowledge (upright,) renewal, the future, that which will come to pass presently (reversed.)”
Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven’s prophecy deck shows the 6 of Cups as a Raven watching 6 bubbles float by. She writes, “ This is the nostalgia card. Its theme of looking back might seem very similar to the Five of Cups’s obsession with what has passed, but I generally read the Six as a positive card. You’re looking at the past, just like in the Five, but unlike in the Five, there’s no pain. ...Of course, excessive nostalgia can keep you from moving forward. The past tends to look rosier than it was, so it’s not difficult to get caught in a stereotypical “when I was a kid” talk. Nostalgia can be incredibly stifling if all you do with it is compare it to the present and find the present constantly coming up short. But if you instead use your memories to be grateful for the life you’ve lived so far, and to remind you of the things that are important to you, they can be a powerful tool for helping you move forward.”
Maggie offers the following keywords for the Six of Cups: nostalgia, childhood, and revisitation.
Tomorrow - 7 of Cups
***TOTD will cover the entire 78 card Raven’s Prophecy Deck alongside the Rider-Waite deck for comparison. In order to not completely burn out, on Saturday I will break the lessons up by doing a practicum lesson. Practicum lessons will take the form of a layout or spread that I will walk you through the steps of interpretation for. After the first round of sessions ends, we will start over with a short break for a poll to be done to see what deck everyone wants to see next round. ***
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