A Valentine’s Day Mini-Tradition
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This post is kind of a “gimme” for my daily blog update since I’ve been bumping the attached analysis periodically on Valentine’s Day since I first presented it in 2018. I have quite a few new followers who may not have seen it.
Because love readings are such a large part of the professional tarot-reader’s traffic, I took the time six years ago to examine all of the cards of the suit of Cups in terms of their romantic potential. This is probably the most even-handed (but certainly not sentimental) essay I’ve ever written on the topic since I have a decidedly skeptical opinion of the more popular socio-psychological approaches to the tarot, many of which I find to be veiled excuses for “mind-reading.” (I even compiled a whole e-book of critical essays titled The Curmudgeon’s Tarot that addresses issues like “Is This Love, or Is It Just Confusion?” and “They Loves Me, They Loves Me Not,” a sideways poke at politically-correct gender hypersensitivity.)
The attached post is a creative blend of the card definitions of Aleister Crowley’s Book of Thoth and Arthur Edward Waite’s Pictorial Key to the Tarot that offers my own take on the subject. I hope you find some value in it.
Originally published at http://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com on February 14, 2024.
