From: nj@birch.CS.Berkeley.EDU (posting for morrisas)
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Subject: Reading for Sharon
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:38:17
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This is a reading for Sharon who posted a tableau on December 4th, 
and is posted with her permission


Layout: Celtic Cross
Deck:  Mythic Tarot
Situation:  a relationship that was having problems

Signif:  Tower
Crossing:  Fool
Crowning: 3 of Wands
Base:  2 of Pentacles
Past: Queen of Swords
Future:  Two of Cups
Where You Will Be:  Death
How Others See You: Knight of Cups
Hopes & Fears:  6 of Cups
Final Outcome:  8 of Cups


This intrigues me, so I thought I'd give it
a full reading.

Here is a full reading with the same cards using
the Haindl deck, (I don't have or know the mythic
deck, or I'd use it) and the interpretations of the
Celtic cross that I was taught.

Signifier/general situation: Tower
Crossing/complicating negative power: Fool
Crown: 3 of Wands, virtue
Foundation: 2 of stones, harmony
Past: Mother of Swords: the Goddess Nut
Future: Two of Cups, love
The Answer/ the path: Death
Your support/a person supporting you: Son of Cups: Parsival
Hopes and Fears: 6 of Cups: Happiness
Final Outcome: 8 of Cups: Failure

The tower is basically the tower of babel, a failed
undertaking.  The failure is usually ascribed to hubris,
the sheer gall of the builders to attempt to reach the
heavens, but I'd give it another spin.  They failed when
God imposed different languages on them, and they dispersed
according to their languages.  The Tower is failure due to
the imposition of miscommunication.  You can't succeed in a
relationship with miscommunication.  This card must be surmounted
and turned around, or acknowledged, so that the people concerned
may learn from it and begin new lives.  See the answer/path card
below.

The fool, given the ill dignified position of crossing, and
given the relation of it to the tower, miscommunication, I would
slant the interpretation toward the latin root of the word fool,
follis, bag of wind.  Indulgence, whim, impracticality, and windbaggery,
that is, saying things without substance, approaching the problem 
of miscommunication with more of the same, the valueless, shallow
indulgences of false promises cloaked in the guise of communication.

Sounds like a difficult situation.

But there's a lot of goodness in the foundation and crown, so I
think there's plenty of potential.  The crown, the glory of the
situation is the three of wands, or virtue.  Wands are of fire
and activity, the drive to carry out the idea, the flame ignited
by the spark.  If one is the embodiment and two is the accompaniment,
three is the facilitation, the translator, the third rod that can
make two rods into a stable structure, the diplomat, the contract 
that binds the two.   Therefore the energy and drive in the relationship
is strong, directed, and well bound.

The foundation of the relationship is the two of stones, or physical
harmony, well being in terms of security and aquisitions.  In the
Haindl deck, like all decks, the round things, stones, pentacles, 
deniers, orbs represent real world achievement, but focuses more
on the home aspect than on the money aspect.  The relationship has
a firm and harmonious foundation in home and security; you both want
for nothing, such desires are not a source of instability for you.  
Trouble lies elswhere.

In the past is the Mother of Swords, the female avatar of Swords, 
thought, discipline, government, war, building, and ideas.   Nut
was the Ancient Egyptian answer to the Atlas idea.  Nut holds the
heavens and earth together, standing on the earth, firmly holding
the sky in place.  It is a card of feminine strength and enormous
responsibility.  I think given it's position, I'd say that the 
distribution of energy and responsibility in the relationship was
unfairly divided, with the weight of the world resting in the 
woman's hands.  No wonder it led to division and misunderstanding!

In the future is love, but this is not the lovers card, which I 
see as the actual relationship and the choices required of people
to have relationships.  Rather, the two of cups is the state of
mind enabling the potential for love. Perhaps, given the outcome
card, it just means the state of mind required to begin anew, ready
to open up and truly love this time.

The answer or the path is the Death card.  The Death card does not
mean literal death, but a change or upheaval so enormous, so heavy
with unknown outcome, that it is avoided and feared as much as 
Death itself. Typical change events that it can represent are 
the decision to go back to school or leave school, the decision
to give up working or begin a career, the decision to begin or end
a relationship.  I would say that it means either the end of the
relationship or a reworking (therapy perhaps?) so complete that it
becomes an upheaval itself.  This change in the relationship is not
to be feared, but embraced.  Go with the change, for it is natural
and necessary and ultimately unavoidable, like death. And like death,
it means a rebirth.

The support card is Parsival, the Son of Cups, the gentle and 
charismatic seeker for the spiritual satiety and happiness of cups. 
This is a person in the querent's life, either the partner in 
question, or a supporting person like a brother or father or friend
or colleague.  The sons are seekers, hopers, and like the knights,
focused questors.  This person is an honorable and desirable partner
or friend, and he can give nurturing, attentive, spiritual
support and guidance, but you cannot depend on him forever, for he
has his own agenda, his own quest.  The querent should take his 
temporal support for this trying time with all the love he intends, 
and not worry or fear when the Son of Cups resumes his own path and
leaves the querent to stand alone.

The desire is a good one, double threes, six, the perfection of cups,
or spiritual fullness and well being.  The querent does not have 
clouded or contrary desires, but longs for true happiness instead
of the present turmoil.  Probably why the need for change in
this noncommunicative setting is so urgent and inevitable. 

The outcome is the eight of cups, tumbling spilling cups, not empty
cups signifying want, but overturned cups signifying loss of 
satisfaction, draining of fullness.  Sad card, but maybe to achieve
the state of mind promised by the two of cups using the path of death,
this outcome is a  necessary one.

 
Hope this helps!
Blessings,
Morrisa

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nj, posting for MorrisaS@Autodesk.COM.
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