Today's pair from Fairy Lights Tarot (LoScarabeo 2013) is the High Priestess and 7 of Wands. Let's have a look at the whole picture. There's a lady in a pointy hat reading a small book. She's reclining on a hillside. At a distance, at the bottom of the hillock, a smaller figure creates a swirl in the air with her arm. She's wearing a vivid pink dress and facing away from the nearer lady with the book.
Maybe the reader is the nanny or babysitter of the little girl in pink. I don't get the impression that she is her mother, but rather someone who is simply there to monitor or keep an eye on her. Both of them are lost in their own imaginations. The reader is immersed in her book, her inner world is occupied by someone else's imaginings, someone else's words. The little girl in the clearing, in contrast, is creating her own magic using her own vivid imagination. Neither is superior to the other; both are valid ways of using the imagination. That's the story I see in the card combo.
Have you ever indulged in elaborate fantasy as a defense? How did it help you? Did it hurt you? Has it, as implied by the presence of the High Priestess, deepened your connection to your higher self, your inner Spirit?
Interesting take on the combined image, and some very good questions there! Don't think I've created an elaborate fantasy, but where does visualisation and pathworking fall in that framework... :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I personally would be inclined to class that as elaborate fantasy...but with a purpose! It has to come from somewhere, after all.
DeleteI guess I don't really count that as fantasy, because I don't feel it's "me" making it up. Sure, it comes from somewhere inside me, but it's not my everyday "me"...
DeleteWell, we've all got different opinions about these things. I guess it depends on what is meant by the word 'me'. I don't suppose it matters much...another positive of the solitary practice. No explanations needed. :)
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