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ravenest said:Hang on now, I'm gonna defend the 10 of cups.
Since when was satiety and feeling satisfied sooo bad? How do you feel after a good meal, a good .... , even a good book? I feel happy satisfied and content. Perhaps, then, my whole internal laboritory is full of freshly released seratonin (I'M a big fan! - I love those t-shirts that say; "Release Sarah Tonin"). The negative connatations of this seem to be suggesting overindulgence - which comes after satiety, greed - a lack of satiety or not knowing your satisfaction level, or dissapointment, which stems from a false expectation.
[ here is a little picture of Sarah; ]
Ravenest you question is a good one. Thinking about it- makes me first consider the neccesity in our lives of the opposite. 'Complacency" might more likely follow this card than greed or overindulgence. In a spiritual sense once we decide that we have attained all there is to attain and achieve all there is to achieve, it is not greed that sets in, but complacency. We no longer continue to evolve or grow.
If life is a cycle, continuous, then when we stop growing on any level we die. A good example would be a doctor or specialist who has attained a high degree of respect and success- at this point he/she stops seeking and may even reject any new points of view or discoveries-to the detrimenit of his patients and the disease that may indeed continue to evolve and could become resistant to his treatment or even morph into another type of illness.
I can see the bad in the 10's if I accept that it is indeed a final ending and the cycle would not begin again.