Inner Work 120: The Tarot Cups, Pt. 1. Your Relationships with the Divine, Yourself, and Other People
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Due to overwhelming demand following my series on the Tarot Swords, I'm happy to present this four-part series on another Tarot suit: the Cups.
In this first installment of four episodes, I lay the groundwork for taking you through a deeper, psychospiritual understanding of the suit of Cups. Join me for a discussion of:
- the suit of Cups as representing a primarily feminine energy (in contrast, particularly, to the very phallic suit of Swords)
- how the suit of Cups challenges us to embody the energies of surrendering, flexibility, flow, and receptivity
- the Ace of Cups as a card of total Divine connection and spiritual solace
- the 2 of Cups as a card for healing dysfunctional relationship patterns, especially unequal power dynamics in romantic relationships
- the 3 of Cups as a card that challenges us to overcome interpersonal trauma so we can celebrate ourselves and each other, particularly in the context of female friendship
I'll be referring to the Rider Waite Smith deck if you want to follow along with the imagery and specific details on the cards.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. To explore my work or connect |
| 0:23.0 | with me, you can visit josephinehartman.com. If you feel called to support the podcast, |
| 0:29.2 | please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. I so appreciate your presence here, |
| 0:34.4 | and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:40.3 | Now, on to the episode. |
| 0:43.3 | I've had a very strong listener demand for another full series on the tarot, after I recently completed a series on the suit of swords, which I hope you'll have a chance to listen to. |
| 0:58.0 | So today I'm diving with you into the suit of cups, and this episode is part one of four episodes on that suit. |
| 1:07.0 | So today we're covering the ace, the two, and the three of cups. But first, let's talk |
| 1:15.1 | about some general interpretations, some general understanding of the suit of cups as a whole. |
| 1:23.7 | In my first Tara series on the swords, I talked a lot about the swords as a double-edged |
| 1:30.0 | tool, as something that we can use both to sharpen things and cut things that we no longer |
| 1:36.4 | need, that no longer serve us, and as something that we can use to hurt ourselves, or even |
| 1:42.2 | others, especially if we are using those sores to defend |
| 1:46.8 | ourselves when we don't really need to, or if we are trapped in a cycle of obsessive thinking, |
| 1:53.7 | or even a harsh inner dialogue. |
| 1:56.4 | The swords are also kind of a masculine suit, given its association with rationality, the logical part |
| 2:04.5 | of the brain, thought processes, intellectual pursuits, and cold strategy. Not to say, |
| 2:12.5 | of course, that these can't also be feminine or even gender neutral attributes because they can. |
| 2:18.5 | But if we think of the tarot deck in traditional ways, the swords are more masculine than |
| 2:25.9 | the cups, certainly, because the cups, which are our focus for today, are much more feminine |
| 2:32.7 | as a suit. |
| 2:34.4 | So if the swords are the yang in this equation, then we can see the cups as the yin. |
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