Princess of Cups

I offer you artistic beauty

A gentle, delicate being, the Princess of Cups is finely tuned to the watery world of emotions. Perhaps naively she wants to believe that a Utopia is possible a world that is abundant with love, light and peace. When she discovers the world can be a dark and deadly realm, the shock reverberates deeply into the core of her being until it’s almost unbearable. How can human beings commit such acts of negligence, hatred and terror? How can they embody so much anger and ill will?

Her bandaged eyes symbolize the unwillingness to witness the suffering. Instead she must look inwards. Her strategy is to develop a fantasy world populated by gentle, radiant beings and creatures who are continually moved to love, support and nurture one another. A world where love is given and received unconditionally and all forms of life are affirmed and cared for.

As a child of the Spirit world where everything is evolving to its purist potential, she is able to commune with this vast domain of knowledge and accumulated karmic wisdom that for most, remains unconscious. She therefore lives in both worlds and can be a powerful messenger using her perceptive nature and sensitivity to visualize and evoke the archetypal transitions and journeying that we all face in life in an endeavor to come home and become “whole.”

When we allow the hurts and challenges of life to make us a more inspiring, loving and beautiful human being, we are walking the most miraculous path. This is the alchemical game of transforming our burdens, the ball and chain of life we carry, into radiant possibilities to move through life with grace. To not allow ourselves to be soured by sadness or be held in the withering grasp of regret is a constant practice and one worth fully taking on. This card invites you to consider how a complaint, when looked at from a different creative angle is transformed into a rich form of guidance.