April: The Ten of Cups
Hi sweethearts!
Fox here. I hope you've all been enjoying our many moments of Fool's Spring here in LA. I'm super-excited to deliver your April-edition of Fox's Wild Card, where we reflect on a single card from our Tarot deck to help create intention and awareness for the month ahead. And boy did we ever get a good one: 10 of Cups! One of my favorite cards (he's a Cups kinda guy) that celebrates stability, union, and creation.
First off, let's talk about the suit of Cups. Cups are our emotional world: how we access our feelings, intuition & subconscious. Think about a big golden goblet full of delicious fruity wine. Think about the phrase: My Cup Runneth Over. Think about how sad you would be if you dropped a big bowl of your favorite ice-cream on the kitchen floor. Cups are here to hold all of the big feelings we have throughout this lifetime. They highlight how we share these experiences and emotions with others and how we create our lives by accessing them and giving them importance and form.
As the last numbered card before the court cards begin, Tens in Tarot represent a culmination. Whatever process started at the beginning of your journey, finds its way to a momentary closure in the 10 of each suit. Tens are also about balance (5+5) and can relay important information about our relationships to other people and the forces outside of us. This is especially true in the Ten of Cups, where a couple rests against a tree with a newborn youngster in their arms.
The Ten of Cups asks us to investigate our relationship with stability, union and creation. The couple rests against a huge oak tree in a bucolic setting. There's a rainbow in the background, and soft, sloping green hills. A placid river surrounds them. This is a stable homestead, and a perfect place to rear a newborn. But if yer scared of having children (like me!) don't worry, this card is more about the process of creation that results from stability and the union of two sovereign forces or entities.
So who is this "couple" in your life? Who is this "child" you've just created, since you had a safe and nutritive space to do so? The couple could represent opposing forces in your life that you need to bring together to create harmony. They could also represent a person/relationship in your life you need to make peace with, so you can experience what happens after. The child here could be a creative project that's about to come to fruition. And as we all know, it's hard to create in a chaotic home. What kind of world do we want to bring our "baby" into?
For small business owners:
The Ten of Cups might ask us to reflect on the type of home we create for ourselves and customers. What does our brand identity express to potential new users? How do they feel at our pop-up booths? If our vendor world feels "lop-sided" in some way, what force or brand could we "marry" to create a new feeling/product/idea? The 10 of Cups is all about the happy family. Do folks feel that way around us? When they interact with our products and services?
Stone pairing: To help us access the stability of home indicated in the Ten of Cups, and the open-heart needed to sustain it, I'm recommending a dark jade. The darkness of this stone helps us access our root chakra, while the color green corresponds to our heart chakra, as well as feelings of growth and potential.
It's been such a lovely treat to write this column each month for Sunshine Maker's Market, and to continue to read Tarot for folks in-person. If you'd like to meet up at a future market, make sure you swing by for an impromptu reading, or click the button below to schedule a 30-minute reading at one of my upcoming events.
In Love & Wonder,
Fox