darwinia
Belladonna said:Not riches, but stability.
Hmmm.......but stability as stagnation. Stability as the weight that keeps you from doing anything but sit in your stability. Not with your feet on a pentacle, but your feet stuck to a pentacle like flypaper, rendering you immobile.
But it you think of the four of pentacles as the natural outcome of the ace to the two to the three... you have a relatively strong foothold now[/B]
Foot + hold = immobility. Stuck to the pentacle flypaper. Do you know what? Several of the 4 of Pents have a man sitting--The Secret Tarot springs to mind, and it never really hit me, but if I use this grounding reference and take it further to being stuck on flypaper it's quite a good image to use for meaning in the card.
An apple harvest can be hoarded in your basement to rot, but the beauty of the apples that come across in her cards seem to carry the message: this is sacred, this is a gift to share. Encouragement in the "right" direction rather than a warning: "this is the old stinky miser that you will become if you don't share your apples!"[/B]
Hey, good point. The contrast between the bounty of harvest, the blossoming, and the rotting of such bounty if hoarded and not used wisely. Okay, this gets it closer anyway. I knew you'd find a way!
Sexuality... hm. I suppose in the timeline between the ace and the 10, a 4 would be coming into sexual maturity. I think I'll say no more on this subject lest I get into trouble! [/B]
The whole deck is very sexual from what I see, or perhaps I should say that the book has many sexual references. She has a refreshingly natural way of acknowledging that humans are sexual creatures.