ravenest said:
I thought I've posted on this elsewhere?
I'm not keen on this card, because I hate myself when I've slipped into this mode, you gotta pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, clean out, clean up and get on with something inspiring, hearty and healthy.
Quite likely you did -- as I said, I found mention of the 8 of Cups in other threads, but not really a focused close attention to it...
I think, though, I may well be reacting to it as I do because I also hate myself when I slip into this mode... I read a description of it (maybe the BOT) as describing the situation where the hostess prepares everything for the party but then forgets to invite the guests... I wondered if it wasn't also like someone who invites all the guests but doesn't bother to throw the party (everyone arrives, and no one is home -- or the hostess who did the inviting is there, but is just sitting and watching the TV, and doesn't do anything for her guests)...
As Dean points out, the progression of Debauch to Indolence makes sense in life -- that is, there is an emotional logic to this that clearly works... I'm just so struck though by the fact that I look at that card and I think, "Good lord! Make it go away!" No other 8 of Cups has ever had quite that affect on my own emotions...
Heck, no other card has had that affect... I don't think... I've been reading long enough and with enough different decks... No, no, no other...
I saw this card in a reading over the weekend -- a reading for a friend concerning a relationship. The 8 of Cups represented his feelings; the 5 of Cups were hers. And between... Between was the 6 of Cups... Oh, and yes, the deck had been shuffled and shuffled... The conflicting emotions were so terrible I had to put the deck away for a little while.
But the 8 was the worse. Indolence in a relationship strikes me as a terrible, terrible thing...
Julien