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- The Lovers Tarot Card : Meaning and Analysis [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/aaa5c3fcd03395b2
- Angel Paths for February 3 - The Lovers [1 Update]
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- Card of the Day for February 3 - The Lovers [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/833a214335433793
- Friday February 3, 2012: Reference.com On This Day [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/bd3a88abd1de964
- A.Word.A.Day--gradgrind [1 Update]
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Topic: The Lovers Tarot Card : Meaning and Analysis
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 03 11:40AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/d4e32e4d9b44a7ee
The Lovers Tarot Card : Meaning and Analysis Guest Author - June Kaminski
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art42180.asp
This newest feature presents a basic analysis of the entire Tarot
Deck, one card at a time. The second card in review is the The Number
VI card of the Major Arcana: The Lovers.
The most common (and understandably so) meaning of the Lovers card is
romantic true-blue, passionate LOVE. It often is interpreted to
represent new or rekindled happy, soul-mate quality loving
relationships. But, at a deeper level, this card represents personal
choices to be made in some sphere of the Querant's life. This choice
is not an easy one, since there are usually many options to select
from. The Lovers bid the decision-maker to relax, and tune in to their
inner wisdom: the correct choice will soon make itself known.
The Lovers card is also known simply as Love or the Twins.
Terra Tarot Deck - The Lovers
Card Number: 6
Key Number: 17
Rulership: Gemini
Element: Air
Hebrew Letter: Zain
Translation: Sword
Numerical Value: 12
Colors: Green, Orange, pale Mauve, Yellow
Herb: Jasmine, Vervain
Incense: Rose
Oil: Jasmine, Ylang Ylang
Gemstones: Rose Quartz, Agate
Planet: Mercury
Rune: Gebo (Partnership)
Inner Meaning
The Lovers card represents the Fool, while embarking on his carefree
journey coming across a mesmerizing woman whom he can not resist. She
is "the One", the complement to his soul - his emotional completion.
He takes time from his journey to cultivate intimacy with his
counterpart, and in the process frees his own intuition, imagination,
and emotional well-being. She represents the epitome of relationships
in the Tarot cards, the need to merge, and enfold one's natural and
destined beloved. Symbolically, the male represents our conscious,
beta, everyday thinking mind while the female is our inner
subconscious, intuitive, mystical mind. This card bids us to combine
the power and force of both sides of our minds, to exercise both
intellect and intuitive wisdom.
The Lovers card speaks of surrendering our hearts and spirits to the
profound energy of Love, even if it seems impractical. By allowing
ourselves to open to the "Other", the "Beloved" we fulfill a very deep
need and goal of our own Being. To dance upon the tapestry of Life in
the arms of our Beloved, is the most powerful energy of all. We learn
to interconnect, to trust, to have faith, to risk everything yet claim
it all as well. We open ourselves to the romantic notion of destiny,
of dreamy hazy days, of sacred union, and of bliss - we learn to trust
that any pain that incurs is worth it. This card calls to you to feel
the buoyant energy of Love within your heart, and to extend it to all
those around you.
The Lovers Card in a Reading
The Upright Lovers card represents an attunement with others and an
improvement in your relationships, especially romantic ones. You may
well meet your perfect mate, especially if you relax and follow your
heart. Love comes at unexpected times, and can happen at any time.
Keep your heart open! This card also guides us to examine how we
regard ourselves - do you love yourself? Not in a hedonistic,
self-centered way - but in an innocent, affectionate, and appreciative
way? How about the other people in your life? Do you feel love and
admiration for your family, your friends? This card carries a clear
message that we should all develop a deep connection with the others
that share our lives.
The Reversed Lovers card warns of rash decisions that will more than
likely be regretted down the road. You must consider your options
carefully, test them with your own intuition. Do they feel right in
your gut? It also warns against being indecisive and too cerebral in
your decision making - let your heart and inner knowing guide you. You
must choose your path carefully, and adhere to it. The reversed Lovers
also indicates mistimings and frustrations in relationships - this is
not the time to rush into one, especially if it is just to avoid being
lonely and/or alone. Avoid wasting your energy and time pining for a
past love that fizzled away. Bide your time - your perfect someone
will appear at exactly the right moment! Don't try to force it!
The Lovers for the Taking
I am presenting an online version of my evolving Terra Tarot Deck for
our Bella readers. Just click on the banner below to download your
copy of the Terra Tarot Deck No. 6 Card - The Lovers.
Download Terra Tarot Deck - The Lovers
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Topic: Angel Paths for February 3 - The Lovers
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/d69a93bc26de9ed2
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 03 11:39AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/d832c4f683c3f980
The Lovers
The Lovers is numbered six and is a card of innocence, trust,
exhilaration and joy. The couple (often seen intertwined or standing
side by side) are soulmates, each being one half of a perfect union.
The figure flying above them is Cupid, blessing them with the might of
Universal Love.
The Lovers are the embodiment of the harmony of opposites. This is how
we are before the fear and prejudices of life intervene. We give our
love freely to others and we need no other to make us whole.
Love is much misunderstood. It is subjective and the word 'love' is so
overused that it has almost lost its original meaning. We are all
capable of the immense power of deep feelings. Love happens when we
step out of the darkness of fear, pain and doubt into the light. Love
can move mountains. Love breeds love - a happy smile breaking through
another's melancholy proves this.
Loving ourselves is the first step to touching the mighty power of
Universal Love. We must live each moment as though it were the only
one - rejoicing and celebrating, loving the soul within us rather than
fighting with the reflection the rest of the world sees.
Working with The Lovers
This is a lovely card, concerned with the harmonisation of opposites
at all levels of being. At the highest level, the Lovers represents
the marriage of the Emperor and the Empress - the archetypal union of
male and female.
Of course, one of the areas that this card therefore covers is that of
emotional relationships. We've discussed often how, for love to grow
and create change, it must be allowed to flow unhindered and free. If
this is stopped, then love, like the water used symbolically to
represent it so often, becomes stagnant and fetid.
So, on a day ruled by the Lovers, consider your partner, if you have
one. Have you expressed to them everything you need to say? Have you
offered them emotional honesty and genuine access to the feelings you
have for them? If not, then today - try it!!
If you are in a period where you do not have a partner, see yourself
as your own partner. This is more true than you might at first think!
Our relationships with others are often reflections of our own inner
struggles to realise and fulfil our needs.
Ask yourself the same questions - have you been emotionally honest
with yourself? Have you achieved genuine access to positive feelings
about yourself? If not, then open up those doors and let yourself
really see who you are. You might just get a pleasant surprise. And
after all - if you don't like it at all, you can always move on
tomorrow!!
Affirmation: I love and accept myself.
http://www.angelpaths.com/majors/lovers2.html
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Topic: Card of the Day for February 3 - The Lovers
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/833a214335433793
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 03 11:36AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/45faaee9805355db
THE LOVERS 6
The Lovers card is represented by the number 6, which stands for
responsible relationships of all kinds and the desire to relate
personally – but with a sense of duty or obligation.
Attribution – Gemini
Rider-Waite Imagery
There are three figures on the lovers card. The 2 human figures are
nude. This represents their openness, vulnerability and equanimity.
They accept things exactly how they are. They can also see things very
clearly, nothing is hidden. A man on the right is looking at the woman
on the left. She is looking up at the angel above. The Angel is
looking down at the two figures. The man represents conscious thought.
The woman represents unconscious or sub-conscious thought. The angel
represents super-conscious thought or your higher self.
The lesson from this card is to become in touch with your intuitive
self and higher self. When these three are working in proper
relationship with each other you can clearly see things how they are.
A main issue this card represents is learning about choices and
discernment.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
Part I: The Veil and its Symbols
6. The Lovers or Marriage. This symbol has undergone many variations,
as might be expected from its subject. In the eighteenth century form,
by which it first became known to the world of archaeological
research, it is really a card of married life, shewing father and
mother, with their child placed between them; and the pagan Cupid
above, in the act of flying his shaft, is, of course, a misapplied
emblem. The Cupid is of love beginning rather than of love in its
fullness, guarding the fruit thereof. The card is said to have been
entitled Simulacyum fidei, the symbol of conjugal faith, for which the
rainbow as a sign of the covenant would have been a more appropriate
concomitant. The figures are also held to have signified Truth, Honour
and Love, but I suspect that this was, so to speak, the gloss of a
commentator moralizing. It has these, but it has other and higher
aspects.
Part II: The Doctrine Behind the Veil
The sun shines in the zenith, and beneath is a great winged figure
with arms extended, pouring down influences. In the foreground are two
human figures, male and female, unveiled before each other, as if Adam
and Eve when they first occupied the paradise of the earthly body.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the
serpent is twining round it. The figures suggest youth, virginity,
innocence and love before it is contaminated by gross material desire.
This is in all simplicity the card of human love, here exhibited as
part of the way, the truth and the life. It replaces, by recourse to
first principles, the old card of marriage, which I have described
previously, and the later follies which depicted man between vice and
virtue. In a very high sense, the card is a mystery of the Covenant
and Sabbath.
The suggestion in respect of the woman is that she signifies that
attraction towards the sensitive life which carries within it the idea
of the Fall of Man, but she is rather the working of a Secret Law of
Providence than a willing and conscious temptress. It is through her
imputed lapse that man shall arise ultimately, and only by her can he
complete himself. The card is therefore in its way another intimation
concerning the great mystery of womanhood. The old meanings fall to
pieces of necessity with the old pictures, but even as interpretations
of the latter, some of them were of the order of commonplace and
others were false in symbolism.
UPRIGHT
Love, romance, partnership, union, engagement, marriage.
Choices offered.
Trust.
Beauty, grace, dance.
Feng shui.
A love affair with a trial or choice attached.
A possible love triangle.
Excessive emotions.
Body chemistry that repels or attracts.
Harmony of the inner and outer, the embodiment of the harmony of opposites.
Conflict between desire and intellect.
Rely on intuition and not authority.
Creating a balanced situation.
The drawing together of opposites.
Difficulties overcome.
Productive alliances.
Discernment.
A fork in the road.
How would someone else solve this problem?
Love the soul within rather than fighting the reflection the rest of
the world sees.
Carefully consider all the ramifications and consequences of a major
decision before acting.
Conserve both opposites, in peace.
REVERSED
Making a choice that won't fulfill you.
Choosing a partner for appearance rather than personality.
Attraction to characteristics that are unsuitable and will cause pain
in the long run.
Loneliness.
Rebellion against authority.
Separation from loved ones.
Frustrated relationships.
Past relationships that block current/future relationships.
Danger of psychic crisis.
Infidelity, adultery, failed love affair, love on the rebound.
Difficult decisions or inability to make decisions.
Wrong choices.
Confusion.
Entwinement in earlier relationships.
Handling a chaotic relationship.
Temptation.
Doubts.
Resignation.
Bad tastes, low tastes, crudeness.
Colour blindness.
1. Greenwood
2. Faery Wicca
3. Celestial
4. Mythic
5. Sidhe
6. Master
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Topic: Friday February 3, 2012: Reference.com On This Day
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 03 11:35AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/dd4056f63b0f6052
On This Day:
Friday February 3, 2012
This is the 34th day of the year, with 332 days remaining in 2012.
Fact of the Day: unsolicited faxes
Although agencies that engage in this sort of practice protest
otherwise, sending unsolicited faxes is illegal nationwide (under FCC
rules), unless the sender and receiver have a "prior business
relationship" that implies permission to send. Even if this prior
relationship exists, if the receiver specifically asks not to be
faxed, the sender must stop transmitting faxes to that company.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Laurence of Spoleto, St. Anskar, St. Ia the Virgin,
St. Laurence of Canterbury, St. Blaise, St Werburga, and St. Margaret
of England.
Switzerland: Homstrom.
Mozambique: Heroes' Day.
Vietnam: National Holiday for founding of Communist Party in Vietnam.
Events
1488 - Portuguese navigator Bartholomew Diaz landed at Mossal Bay in
the Cape, the first European known to have landed on the southern
extremity of Africa.
1690 - The first paper money in America was issued by the colony of
Massachusetts.
1783 - Spain recognized United States' independence.
1809 - The territory of Illinois was created.
1830 - The revolution against the Ottoman occupation in Greece ended.
1865 - Abraham Lincoln met to discuss peace in the Civil War.
1913 - The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of
America, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified.
1916 - Canada's original Parliament Buildings, in Ottawa, burned down.
1917 - The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany,
which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1919 - The League of Nations held its first meeting, with US President
Woodrow Wilson as chairman.
1927 - President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal
Radio Commission to regulate the airwaves.
1953 - French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau published "The Silent World."
1969 - Yassir Arafat was appointed leader of the PLO.
1973 - The cease-fire in Vietnam went into effect and fighting came to a halt.
1994 - Nearly two decades after the fall of Saigon, US President Bill
Clinton lifted the trade embargo against Vietnam, since Vietnam's
government cooperated in locating the 2,238 Americans still listed as
missing in the Vietnam War.
1994 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with a woman, Air Force
Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, in the pilot's seat for the first time.
2003 - Record producer Phil Spector was arrested for murder after the
body of 40-year-old actress Lana Clarkson was found at his faux-castle
mansion in Alhambra, California.
2005 - Alberto Gonzales won Senate confirmation as US Attorney General.
Births
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer.
1811 - Horace Greeley, American journalist, founder of "The New York
Tribune," politician, helped found the Republican Party.
1830 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury,
British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions.
1874 - Gertrude Stein, American author.
1894 - Norman Rockwell, American artist.
1907 - James A. Michener, American author.
1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher.
1940 - Fran Tarkenton, American football player.
1947 - Dave Davies, singer and guitarist with the English rock band The Kinks.
Deaths
1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States.
1959 - Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson,
in a plane crash.
1975 - Umm Kulthum (other English spellings include: Om Kalthoum, Oum
Kalsoum, Oum Kalthum, Omm Kolsoum, Umm Kolthoum, Um Kalthoom),
Egyptian singer and musician.
1996 - Audrey Meadows (born Audrey Cotter), American actress.
2003 - Lana Clarkson, American actress.
2006 - Al Lewis, American actor.
Reference.com On This Day
http://www.reference.com/thisday/
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Topic: A.Word.A.Day--gradgrind
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 03 11:34AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/3905e84ccba62ead
Wordsmith.org The Magic of Words
Feb 3, 2012
This week's theme
Dickensian characters that became words
This week's words
wellerism
fagin
gamp
scrooge
gradgrind
Thomas Gradgrind catching his children at the circus
Thomas Gradgrind catching his children at the circus
Wood engraving: Harry French, 1870s
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
gradgrind
PRONUNCIATION:
(GRAD-grynd)
MEANING:
noun: Someone who is solely interested in cold, hard facts.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian mill-owner in Charles
Dickens's novel Hard Times. Gradgrind runs a school with the idea that
hard facts and rules are more important than love, emotions, and
feelings. Earliest documented use: 1855.
USAGE:
"In truth, Colleen McCullough is very much a Gradgrind when it comes
to facts: They are all that is needful, presented, it must be said,
without color or animation to detract from their merit."
Katherine A. Powers; Ancient Evenings; The Washington Post; Dec 15, 2002.
Explore "gradgrind" in the Visual Thesaurus.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have
teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson, columnist (b. 1926)
Books by Anu Garg
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