With a backdrop of green gentle hills cradling a red-roofed cottage, a man and a woman toast each other with, or are exchanging, golden goblets. They are wearing crowns; the female, the crown of laural indicating victory; and the male the crown of roses, symbols of love and passion. He's wearing a tunic decorated with four leaf clovers, indicating that this is a lucky partnership. She wears a blue cape, symbolizing clarity, over a white dress symbolizing purity.
The cups symbolize our emotional nature, contained and used to quench our thirst for understanding. A flying lions head floats above the couple. This could symbolize Leo, one of the more firery and passionate signs in the horoscope, and its use here could indicate the courage needed for partnership and the emotional protection hoped for.
The medical symbol of the Caduceus of Hermes (Mercury-god of communication) may be symbolic of the negative and positive energies of the kundalini as it moves through the chakras and around the spine towards the intellect, also the domain of Mercury and also symbolized by wings. Succesfull communication of the kundalini energies with the mind creates the complete connection of mind, body, spirit and emotion that we seek in our partnerships. The Caduceaus also points to the healing power of love.
This card represents the idealization of love, or, rather, the hope of love that includes both passion and reason, understanding and clarity, unity and harmony, in our partnerships.
It's also what we strive for in our own lives: the unification of our nature, the acceptance of self, the total connection of ourselves with ourselves, our environment, our natures, and our life. We seek to love and accept ourselves completely, and when we do this, we feel restored and renewed, happy and in alignment with who we are and who we want to be. We feel healed and whole. We ARE love, in that moment.
Moment to moment, what could feel better than that? Often we use another; partner, lover, child, as our excuse to feel good, but when we use our energy and the power of our minds and hearts to truly love ourselves, having a loving companion is not as important as we think, it's just frosting on an already delicious cake.
Enjoy!
Love,
Kristine
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