Today I drew the XIX of Trumps, The Sun, coming appropriately enough immediately after the Moon. I see these two every much as the energetic forms of the High Priestess, and the Emperor, who manifest these energies in the world. The Sun is depicted as an enormous sunflower, in Melanie's vision, clearly underlining the Sun as the power source of life.

I was browsing my new book on Faery Folk the other day, and it of course impacted on my thinking about the moon. The Author makes an interesting comment, about how, Faery Gold does not translate into our world, because it is necessary to blend Female and Male energies to manifest in the world. And the dreamy Faery Energies lack the Masculine energy needed to manifest in the material plane. To my mind the two cards speak to a vision in which, the Feminine provides the creativity, the infinity of forms we saw represented in the Moon Card, while the masculine provides the raw energy needed to manifest those forms in our world. The male sun refracted through a female prism.

It brings up in my mind Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and its lesson that what we perceive in our world is as shadows of What really is on a higher plane. That infinity of form in the (feminine) cave, but unseen, until illuminated by the sun. I expect I am being redundant, but the deeper I delve into these subjects the more certain I become that Plato KNEW exactly what he was talking about when he described the world as it is Vs, as it is commonly perceived.

Returning to Mel's card. A little girl is offering a flower to the main figure, she represents the aspect of the sun as a symbol of birth/ and rebirth. The baby new year, often depicted in Tarot cards. She is offering the flower to a figure I take to be Quetzalcoatl, or Tonatiuh the Sun God. I'm not sure which the figure is meant to be, Quetzalcoatl was of course the great giver of gifts. His craft inspired the civilization. While Tonatiuh would represent the harsher aspects of the sun. If the sun can give life, it can also bake the ground into a desert. The figure shown strikes me as very distant and severe, and quite possibly meant to represent the harsher aspects of the sun. While the humming bird that accompanies it is a totem of industriousness, Joy, and again life-force.

But of course, a big part of being a Tarot reader is grounding the cosmic energies we speak about in the cards in the lives of everyday people. In the day's since I posted my last card of the week, I have been quite busy. Loaded down with affairs concerning both family and work. My wife's been ill and I've had to fend for myself a good bit. Fending for myself entails eating at the diner. Two waitresses work at the Village Green, Robin and another girl. Robin very much has the sun grounded in her. I've never seen her without a smile on her face. She genuinely likes people and is easy to chat with while ordering. She's about my age, never been married, she's not a "looker" by any means, and is a single mother in a hard job. In other words, she's got every reason to walk around with her own private cloud in tow. Yet she shines like the sun, and it seems for all world, like no hurdle she can face can dim her immense love of life.

Mulling thing over, I had to reflect on Jeanie's(?) comment about poverty thinking. I've been poor most of my life, its left me of the definite opinion: That poverty is a state of wallet, not a state of mind. Talent, enthusiasm, and intellect can all be crushed by circumstances. The Pols are fond of holding up for us the tiny few who rise above, as an excuse for doing less for those left behind. Yet there is alot of truth to what Jean says, poverty breeds habits of mind that only serve to further limit the few chances a poor person has in the first place.

Robin has not been blessed with an overabundance of opportunities. The one thing a friend can be sure of though is that she is not further limiting herself. It seems to me that she is more in tune with herself as a person, and her intent, than anyone else I know.

Blessed Be, All, BB.

Divination:Attainment, Golden Opportunity, Joy, Happiness.

Reversed:Poverty of Spirit, unhappiness, Immersed in gloom, the future looks cloudy.