Hemera
Step SIX~Vampyres~The Empress
Activity 6-1
** Select one, two or three keywords or phrases that express the qualities of EACH SUIT in your deck.
** Which SUIT/ELEMENT keywords best express the qualities of our chosen card?
Scepters (Wands)assion, initiation
Element: FIRE; a lot of fire and pure fire in most cards
Grails (Cups) :emotions, love, music (a lot of listening going on here, eg. in three, five, six, seven..)
Element: WATER ; but in this suit also FIRE
Knives (Swords): challenge, will, seduction of danger
Element: AIR; also FIRE in its intensity, WATER in the flowing and waiting and in the listening attitude of the characters
Skulls (Pentacles): mastery and skill, focus
Element: EARTH
Actually all suits seem to have something of each element: There is an intensity and passion (Fire) present in all suits. All suits also have characters who are quietly listening to some mysterious music of the Spheres or maybe some inner voices (Water). Earth and Air can also be found in all suits as focus, mastery and wit.
Activity 6-2
** Examine each of the four MODES and select one, two or three keywords that speak to you in a reading. (Note that Mary Greer is referring here to the use of the card relative to a reading, not for study, not for analysis, not for comparing).
Are you nurturing the right things in life? Do you need to pause and tune your ears? Is there sadness that needs to be acknowledged and loved so that it can be healed and integrated back into your psyche?
** Separate your deck into the four modes. From which does the chosen card (The Empress) come? What does that suggest about it's significance?
The Empress looks most at home in the Grails suit (Cups). She and her apples are the same color (green) as the Grails and there is a lot of feeling and listening and music in her. She also looks a lot like the Daughter of the Grails.
Activity 6-1
** Select one, two or three keywords or phrases that express the qualities of EACH SUIT in your deck.
** Which SUIT/ELEMENT keywords best express the qualities of our chosen card?
Scepters (Wands)assion, initiation
Element: FIRE; a lot of fire and pure fire in most cards
Grails (Cups) :emotions, love, music (a lot of listening going on here, eg. in three, five, six, seven..)
Element: WATER ; but in this suit also FIRE
Knives (Swords): challenge, will, seduction of danger
Element: AIR; also FIRE in its intensity, WATER in the flowing and waiting and in the listening attitude of the characters
Skulls (Pentacles): mastery and skill, focus
Element: EARTH
Actually all suits seem to have something of each element: There is an intensity and passion (Fire) present in all suits. All suits also have characters who are quietly listening to some mysterious music of the Spheres or maybe some inner voices (Water). Earth and Air can also be found in all suits as focus, mastery and wit.
Activity 6-2
** Examine each of the four MODES and select one, two or three keywords that speak to you in a reading. (Note that Mary Greer is referring here to the use of the card relative to a reading, not for study, not for analysis, not for comparing).
Are you nurturing the right things in life? Do you need to pause and tune your ears? Is there sadness that needs to be acknowledged and loved so that it can be healed and integrated back into your psyche?
** Separate your deck into the four modes. From which does the chosen card (The Empress) come? What does that suggest about it's significance?
The Empress looks most at home in the Grails suit (Cups). She and her apples are the same color (green) as the Grails and there is a lot of feeling and listening and music in her. She also looks a lot like the Daughter of the Grails.