The playing cards pictured are from Uusi’s ‘Pagan Otherworlds’ deck.
9 of Cups and Ten of Cups
The 9 of Cups can also be known as Happiness. The happiness it speaks of can’t be achieved by accumulating issues or experiences. It’s about figuring out your self on a a lot deeper stage, the place happiness takes on a unique kind for every individual.
This card invitations you to discover your true goals and encourages you to turn out to be essentially the most real model of your self. It evokes self-acceptance, motivates a more healthy way of life, and promotes ongoing private progress.
The 9 of Cups is about understanding our connection to every dwelling being. This understanding can result in a deep stage of emotional completion and compassion.
Once you nurture a optimistic relationship with your self and meet your private wants, you can be higher outfitted to help others. By doing so, your individual happiness will radiate from inside, positively impacting these round you.
When you’re at peace with your self, you turn out to be a kinder and extra compassionate individual. Not from obligation since you really feel a deep need to point out up in the easiest way potential.
Our subsequent card is the Ten of Cups. This card signifies a way of contentment and satisfaction. Our need for extra has been glad, and we really feel completely full.
Satiety is a stronger and extra steady feeling than that of happiness. The Ten of Cups is related to a way of groundedness derived from exhausting work and a dedication to our values.
This sense of contentment is attainable once we dedicate ourselves to nurturing the well-being of our non secular core, the resilient a part of us that continues to be unwavering. Satisfaction emerges once we align our actions with our genuine selves.
The sensation of wanting ‘extra’ is consistently tempting us. What’s the subsequent purpose, the subsequent factor to purchase, the subsequent place to go, or the subsequent factor we want? We’re continually bombarded with what we should always need subsequent.
The power of the Ten of Cups encourages us to acknowledge temptations however take a step again earlier than appearing. We resist the urge to behave on impulse; we keep away from buying gadgets we don’t want, aren’t pushed by the concern of lacking out, and chorus from setting a brand new purpose instantly after reaching one.
We really feel like we are able to transfer by way of the world with a deeper sense of contentment. Issues come towards us, and we are able to say sure or no with ease. We’re glad with the current second and our current selves.
This can be a feeling you may work in direction of every day by tapping into what is nice and beautiful within the second. By way of consciousness and mindfulness, we come to comprehend how a lot we already possess. We don’t really feel the tug for extra; we’re completely glad.
What are you able to do to embody the power of the Ten of Cups this week? How will you join together with your non secular middle? How will you embrace the sensation of satisfaction?
Mantra for the week: After I embrace self-love, I radiate compassion in direction of the world round me. I’m entire and have all that I would like.
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