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Tarot: Gigi Miner's Ethyrial Tarot
Perspective
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Sometimes I watch the human race and wonder how it ever survived. I see people who think nothing of using other people. I watch manipulation as a way of life. Even amongst the “spiritual” community, these things run rampant. Somewhere along the way, humans have lost their humanity.
Our card this month is the Nine of Cups from the Ethyrial Tarot ©. We see a spider web with the nine cups entangled within. On first glance, this card might not mimic the traditional Nine of Cups. That card shows a happy person seated before their stockpile of cups. Traditionally, this card can represent contentment and abundance. In our Ethyrial version there seems to be a darker side to the card.
Ethyrial Tarot Copyright © 2005 Gigi Miner
Used with Permission
Before we venture into the other realms of possibility, let us take a look at this from the spider’s point of view. Her home is the web. Here she lays her eggs and catches her prey. If I were the spider, all those captured cups would mean good times to me. From the perspective of the spider, this is indeed a card of abundance and contentment. All too often, we forget to see things from the view of another. There is a tendency to only see life through our own eyes and not empathize with others. We pass judgment and do not realize the bondage that we procreate. It is this tendency that leads to cruelty and crossing the line between one person’s space and another’s.
In nature, a spider spins a web in a place that is open to the air. This is so that anything that flies will have the opportunity to enjoy a stay at her home. Some of us look at the spider’s web and cringe. Others find the beauty and fascination in such a creation. To the spider, this is survival. She sits with her feet touching the web. This allows her to feel the vibrations. As a fly or other insect hits the web, she can tell if it is dinner or something else. If food, she will rush to venomize the creature and wrap it. In this condition, the prey is paralyzed and able to be kept for days before it is eaten. If things are good, she could have several cocooned meals waiting. If things are sparse, some of her stored food is waiting to fill the need.
The web serves its purpose well. For the spider, it is just what she needs. For someone other than a spider, the web might evoke fear. Arachnophobia is a common fear. The spider holds life and death in her hands. Even as small as she is, her myth is very much bigger. In our card, there is no spider that we can see. This makes her all the more ominous. We fear that which we do not understand and which we cannot see. Very often, we cannot see the soul of another human being, thus we fear him or her. Humanity is well known for killing that which it fears. It is also well known for getting what it wants at the expense of others.
The web has connotations that go back into legend. It is a thing of beauty and of death. It houses a fearful creature and yet, gives life to that creature. One thing that we may see in our Nine of Cups is that sometimes happiness comes at the expense of another. The spider has abundance because someone else does not. Perhaps the mosquito that was trying to evade a bat was the spider’s meal. In nature, this is the way of things. However, nature always provides more for its residents. Mankind is not so generous. Envy fuels many of man’s behaviors. Man will set up his web. In it, he will catch the goods of others. In his web, he will manipulate and torture his prey in order to gain pleasure and material goods. Man will try to destroy those things that do not reflect to him what he wants to see. And all of this need not be in the context of war. This is the daily grind of every day life.
Picture a person in control of that web. If that were the case, there would likely be all kinds of things in the web. Some things he would not even need. Still, they would be there. Below you might see the other people who are crying out because this person took what they needed for himself. He snared their well-being in his web and now they walk away destitute because he wanted to get all that he could get, regardless of the consequences. So long as he has what he wants, others do not matter. He is that creature that we fear. The spider is simply one of nature’s beasts who does her job. She is actually quite beautiful if you see beyond that part that we fear. Our person, however, is not so attractive. His soul is dark. His greed spurs him to build a bigger web, in spite of the fact that he already cannot use all that he has in his current one. His jealousy causes him to tear down anything that might make him look smaller by comparison.
In nature, there is no waste. In humanity, there is either too much or not enough. Man manipulates man in order to get what he wants, be it material things or something more diaphanous. Man has become the thing that we fear. He is the creature that waits in the dark to steal our souls. There is no boogie man, there is only man. In his pursuit of happiness, he leaves behind what it means to be human. He forgets that to violate another eats away at one’s soul. Soon, he becomes the soulless creature of which nightmares are made. He becomes that which he himself fears.
Life offers us many opportunities to look at our hearts and souls and determine if changes are in order. Because we fear the darkness, we do not want to see it within ourselves. Still, that is the only way to change the world, by changing ourselves first. Someone who wishes to be more than what they are must look within. We must be willing to see the darkest places of our souls if we are to be anything other than that which we fear to be. Our spider is not afraid of her web. Within that web, she has all that she needs and is content. From her perspective, life is good.
As we think about our Nine of Cups for the month of August, perhaps we will encounter a spider web along the way. Maybe that web will remind us of this article. Maybe that will be a moment that will allow you to glance inside and see what it is that you are afraid of in your own heart. How do you treat your fellow man? Are they stepping-stones to the next conquest? Each kindness that we perform leaves a vibration on the web of our life. Each cruelty does much the same thing. When we sit back at the end of our day, what do we sit before? Is there a group of bodies left from our behavior or do we sit before the abundance of kindnesses that we have done? In the traditional Nine of Cups, the man sits before his amassed cups. They may be filled with a bitter potion that comes from the way he managed to gain all that he has. They may be filled with something sweet that can only come from respecting the boundaries of others and being kind when possible.
Each of us gets to put into the cups that which we want. Each of us gets to choose whether we shall be something to fear or someone to respect. Our Nine of Cups reminds us to be careful of that which we do. If we had to drink dry all of those cups at the end of our lives, which would be better, the bitter or the sweet? And when next we have a decision to make, perhaps we might consider those who will be affected by that decision. Maybe we will be able to see their perspective on it. Then, because we have looked inside and decided to do what our heart suggests, then just maybe we will regain our humanity.
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Gigi Miner,
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Author & Teacher
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Gigi Miner is a minister, ordained by the Universal Life Church, and has a Doctorate of Motivation from the same.
“One of the greatest benefits of Tarot is being able to take control of your life rather then be a victim of it,” is the motto of this professional Tarot consultant, author, and teacher, from upstate New York.
Moonlighting as an adult education instructor, Gigi brings that experience into her Tarot and writing work, helping clients and readers to find their own inner wisdom. Gigi has taught classes on tarot in regular and e-formats.
Believing that "laughter is the best medicine,” there is often a lighter tone to her teachings. When conducting an adult-education class, one of the main questions she asks is, "Are you having fun?” If the answer is "yes" then she knows that her students are learning more then if she were teaching in a more traditional mode.
Gigi has written articles for various newsletters, including Tarot Celebrations, World Tarot Network, and Gateway to Tarot. She has released a book entitled, “Light-of-Day Tarot & Dream Work,” which is available at www.lulu.com/ladyfogg.
Her two novels, "Card Shark" & "The Fallen" are available at all online bookstores or by visiting:
www.lulu.com/ladyfogg.
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