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On this card we see two shelves against a green wall. On the top shelf are two vessels standing upright. On the bottom shelf a vessel has fallen over with it's contents spilling. Another bottle is falling to the ground and a fifth bottle is on the ground broken in two with pieces shattered on the floor. Two birds fly upward from the broken bottle.
In the LWB Place calls this card 'The Quake' and says 'breaking of position, a sudden breakthrough, new possibilities'. In the book Place says that the birds represent things that were hidden but are now emerging from the unconscious.
I see this card as representing the inevitable pains and sufferings of life and a reminder that from all difficult times come the opportunity to learn and to grow. The birds remind us that without breaking the 'shell' we are unable to free the new life within. It kind of reminds me a little of the Wheel of Fortune in that life is cyclical. The vessels on the top shelf are upright and then we see vessels falling and smashed below. Nothing stays upright forever.
In the LWB Place calls this card 'The Quake' and says 'breaking of position, a sudden breakthrough, new possibilities'. In the book Place says that the birds represent things that were hidden but are now emerging from the unconscious.
I see this card as representing the inevitable pains and sufferings of life and a reminder that from all difficult times come the opportunity to learn and to grow. The birds remind us that without breaking the 'shell' we are unable to free the new life within. It kind of reminds me a little of the Wheel of Fortune in that life is cyclical. The vessels on the top shelf are upright and then we see vessels falling and smashed below. Nothing stays upright forever.