Heya,
pretty interesting cards and a great job rif.
I basically agree with 99% of your reading, so the only thing I´d have to offer are some different, optional points of view here.
What I noted first when I saw your cards is the extreme imbalance in almost every aspect of that spread [relationship].
So let´s presume that the KoP and the QoC do represent the couple, both of them by passive elements. Now each one can be seen or imagined in opposite corners of the YHVH camp. She in a pretty unfamilar place, he very stuck - cornered in, so to speak.
Actually we don´t "know" much more about them than what their cards suggest so let´s imagine them as 2 [robots] out of 16 possible standard models. No Myers-Briggs here, just good old humours, so Earth [Pents] relates to phlegmatic types, Water[Cups] to melancholic, both more passive types by heir elemental nature, she [double water] more than him [fiery earth]. To me that somehow hints at victim roles.
Our once fiery King seems very stuck in that dark and cold corner; displaying a rather stoic demeanor I´d say. Our double watery queen though is located on the fiery Y position, actually that of the Father or King - the boss.
So how on earth did she end up on that unfamilar male position, that actually weakens her power in elemental terms ?
To me this is the most important question to start with.
Did she bring herself in that unfavorable, unstable pos. or what happened ? From my understanding something must have happened to him that dampend or locked up his Fire, something made him give up a stronger kingly position and end up in that final Heh rut, urging her to move over to that weak Y pos. to take over the initiative and save what´s left.
Did he get sick, lose his job, his love for her / interest in the relationship, his ♂ ...
I missed the Significator, but the nature of the question however [love/relationsh.-Water] points to the first Heh.
Can we interpret the weak 2W [PHB: stalemate] as the possible causa ? Left side ["unfriendly" elements Earth and Air] VERY "strong", right side ["friendly" elements Water and Fire] weak. Where´s the soul [~Y+H] in that relationship, where´s the passion ?
In the Thoth deck, the QoC doesn´t seem to have too much of a head ["sitting/running around like a chicken without a head"], and the stoic KoP looks like he´s waiting for something to happen [dinner time ?].
Most of the remaining action in that relationship is concentrated on V, in form of that very strong air [again], but without any too active fire [his King aspect ?] to heat things up, there isn´t even anything to discharge.
This looks pretty much like the situation you already described rif. Thoughts, maybe some form of nagging [8Sw] or demands, with her being more active than him [reactive, if at all], yadda yadda, round and round all over again, blindly keeping something going on at all, possibly slowly consuming up his remaining fire/power and driving him even more into that powerless corner, further into himself.
Interestingly all 4 elements necessary for a harmonic [not too adventorous
] partnership are present, albeit in less than fortunate positions and proportions [8Sw].
As always I hesitate to give any predictions or advice, just a question: what does he really want ?
[A classical combination you´d find in a partner therapy, the suggestion again most probably coming from her.]
Anyone else ?
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