day 5 & 4 : 9 of Wands (+) 9 of Cups = broken open

12/29/2020

Peace Family!
Today we'll be looking at the Nine of Wands (Moon in Sagittarius) & the Nine of Cups (Venus in Pisces). The cards that make up the Nine of Wands are below (Moon / High Priestess + Temperance/Sagittarius) :

& The cards that make up the Nine of Cups are below (Venus / The Empress + Pisces /The Moon):

Here is the video describing the Nine of Wands:

& Here is the video describing the Nine of Cups:

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please post them below!

3 Comments

Kelsey

1/26/2021 04:40:51 pm

Ooooh, I have something I've been thinking of sharing for a while, and now is the perfect time! I definitely relate to being the person who cleans up after everyone else in the house. Some time ago, I realized how heavy that is and how I get so bent out of shape about it. Fortunately, I learned how to lighten the load for myself! I only clean up for others if I want to (or do just the amount I want to) so I don't become resentful. For example, years ago I decided I would only do the amount of dishes that I wanted to and would stop and leave the rest for my husband if it felt like too much to do on my own. I even told him I was doing that, and he was totally ok with it. Now it's a chore we share with ease. I've recently applied the same principle to other tasks with our housemates and I've been feeling so much lighter! It's also made making requests easier too because I'm not in a pissy mood about cleaning up after others, since I'm only doing what I actually want to do. In that process, I did have to learn how to not care if the house overall isn't as clean as I'd prefer it to be, which was hard at first because I definitely prefer not to see dirty dishes all day or things out of place.

My 9 of Cups reflection isn't as straightforward, so I'll try to be brief and clear. My process with this work is that I usually read / listen to your post at night when it's quiet and I'm settling into bed. Then I sleep on it to let the information start to sink in so I can experience it a bit before revisiting the post and formulating a response. Now that you're making videos, sometimes I fall asleep while listening, which is kinda a trippy experience!

So the morning after listening to the 9 of Cups video for the first time, overwhelming loneliness was triggered for me in a conversation with hubs and I was quick to cry throughout the rest of the day anytime we weren't on the same page about something (we were on our babymoon and had time to have some conversations about this baby on the way and how we're feeling). I was able to tell him about the loneliness later, when I wasn't feeling it so strongly and could better articulate it.

And, when you talk about being shocked into forgetting myself, I totally get it! I think I felt that clearly for the first time years ago when hubs and I first started dating. I have a vivid memory of us riding an escalator together at Civic Center Bart and looking into each others' eyes. I totally forgot who I was in that moment. What a place to have that happen, LOL. I know it happens for a lot of people in response to nature and random signs of divine intervention, but it happens most clearly for me in relationships with others, mostly my husband and daughter. It's like I get so overwhelmed by my love for them in the most banal of moments, that I feel both extremely grateful for that love, while at the same time crippling sadness comes a'knockin' to remind me that I could somehow lose this person at any time so I better understand how precious they are. Overwhelming happiness and sadness together. What I'm left with - LOVE, GRATITUDE

dela

1/27/2021 10:26:13 am

These cards together remind me of personal space. Since I moved out of my mom's house for college, I have been sharing a room with a partner. I didn't think much of it because although I had shared a room with someone else, I always had my childhood room to come back to. It was easy back then to balance my highs and lows because I can always retreat to a sanctuary I could call my own.

When I moved back into my mom's house, I enjoyed my room alone. And then when I got into the relationship I am in now, there came a time where I offerred up my space as a place to stay. I couldn't say it before but I can say it now, he had over stayed his welcome. He stayed with me when I lived with my mom, and then my parents sold our house. So I stayed with him for a couple of months. Then we rented a room in a house together for a year. Needless to say, that sharing a room with one another was a challenge. We were a new couple trying to navigate emotions and family dynamics all while trying to figure out our own careers.

It's alot to figure out without finding a place of solace. Definitely during those times I felt like the 9 of wands. It took the pandemic for him to move out of my space and back with his parents. The space is so nice now because I can breathe. And I've been working on my spirit, getting my space right in the way I need it to be. And i've been feeling more myself each day. The time I get to spend with myself makes seeing my partner better because I give myself the chance to work through my shit, build myself up, and pour into him from a full cup: an indication of the 9 of cups.

I've learned this during these lessons, that Distance is sacred and Space is sacred.

LMP

1/29/2021 10:53:56 am

My process with these posts has been to listen to the various recordings and then comment on each post when it feels right. Because of this, the messages of the various posts have started to blend together in my mind, which seems ok, as once the medium changed to voice recordings, I realized we had not only crossed the threshold from shadow to light work, but also from doing work with the individual cards to interpreting a 40-card group reading. I dig it.

But I do know it feels like every day I listen to a recording, it feels like you are speaking directly to me, as if you can somehow see into my head. Or you talk about something in your own life but I can completely relate to it. Like, I’m pretty sure that I got my period the same day that you said got yours, lol.

I relate to being so deep in the feels of the cups that I’m having a tough time articulating my thoughts. I’m anchoring into this idea of being one with everything and having no wants because they are fulfilled. I agree that we miss a lot of opportunities that present themselves and I know I focus a lot on the wants, which turns into self criticism, the non-constructive kind.

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