As the veil between the worlds is thinning, Spirit is giving us a clear directive. When I pulled the Knight of Cups at random for the newsletter all I could think of was that cheesy Burt Bacharach song from my childhood, “What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love.” In fact, that song is now a brainworm entrenched in my head. In our culture, and often specifically in tarot reading, we tend to think of love only as eros, the romantic kind of love. The early Greeks had four words for the different types of love – agape, storge, philio and eros. The Knight of Cups is often seen as a card of romance, but this card, and love itself, is so much more than romance. That the Knight of Cups has been showing up so often at this Samhain season and that Alison chose “love” as our topic is a synchronicity I cannot ignore. Can you guess what the card was? That’s right, the Knight of Cups. Then, while making my weekly newsletter I pulled a card at random for my “One Card Weekly Reading” feature. Immediately thereafter my guest Tarot Dactyl pulled the Knight of Cups for the first two on-air readings she did. This past Sunday on my weekly webcast, Christiana’s Psychic Café, I pulled a card at random for our “Card of the Week.” It was the Knight of Cups. Tarot seems to agree with both Alison and me that it is important to focus on love at this time of year.Īll tarotists have the experience of having one card consistently come up over a period of weeks as if saying “pay attention to me, pay attention to me.” For me recently that card has been the Knight of Cups, the bringer of love.Ī few weeks ago I made a video about the Knight of Cups in response to a question from a student. The Thinning Veil is about the love I share with my ancestors who have gone before me and the spirits that guide and guard me every day. The Final Harvest is about love for the Earth that sustains us. The New Year is about self-love, offering the opportunity to manifest new things and release those things that no longer serve me. For me, each of these directly relates to love. I celebrate Samhain as the Witch’s New Year, the Final Harvest and the time of the Thinning Veil. While Alison was clear to make a distinction between the topic and the holiday, for me there is no distinction. This time around our wrangler, Alison Cross, has asked us to blog on the topic of love and how it relates to tarot for us. The Blog Hop happens on each spoke of the Pagan Wheel of the Year but is not specifically Pagan-themed. Eight times a year tarotists from all over the world blog together on the same topic. Welcome to the Samhain 2013 Tarot Blog Hop. If you find a break in the chain visit the Master List. When you finish here please visit Rowan Tarot. Joy Vernon's Blog is the one before mine.
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