It’s February, which many think of as either a month for love and lovers, or as a painful month. So here is a series of brief blog posts that rethink relationships, and offer you the opportunity to think about reclaiming how you think about relationships. We begin by looking at the 6 of Cups and family.
Whether you love February or dislike it, let’s look at some archetypes of love and think about them in empowering ways.
6 of Cups (6 of Chalices) and Family
Let’s start with the 6 of Chalices (also known as the 6 of Cups). In the standard Waite-Smith deck, the 6 of Cups is often associated with siblings (neutrally), or with uneven/unequal relationships that need to be brought into balance.
In Chakra Healing Tarot, I reframed a few of the cards to be empowering for you in different ways. With the 6 of Chalices, Chakra Healing Tarot depicts a person looking – somewhat wistfully – or is it hesitation, or perhaps nostalgia? – into a pool of water that has a family of 6 sea creatures.
There are still ways of picking up on the concepts held within the Waite-Smith. But the 6 of Chalices also invites you to question what beliefs about family and familial-level relationships you have adopted as part of who you are. Which beliefs are serving you? Which are actually unhealthily limiting beliefs that no longer serve you?
Deck is Chakra Healing Tarot (available now). Card is 6 of Chalices. Chakra correspondence is Solar Plexus chakra (yellow).
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Blessings and empowerment to you.