The suit of cups is the one which calls for deeper work, for challenging ourselves and showing up for the necessary work of looking into our own hearts and souls and confronting the genuine desires that live there. The Ace of Cups may call us to do some kind of spiritual work. Think of Mystics like Julian of Norwich or Theresa of Avila whose love affairs wth their god are legendary.
When you draw the Ace of Cups you are presented with a seed that is waiting to grown and bloom. It is the card of feelings and emotions which may take the form of spiritual love. Of course spiritual love may take many forms and writing poetry is certainly one way for an artist to express that love.
Zora Cross had a voice which was impossible to ignore. In 1917 her book Songs of Love and Life caused a sensation when she opened her heart, let down any guard, was willing to be vulnerable and found a whole new level of self expression.
Here was a young woman who looked like a Sunday school teacher, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of love sonnets. She was hailed as a genius, and many expected her to endure as a household name alongside Shakespeare and Rossetti. But she didn’t! Her work fell into obscurity until Cathy Perkins recently performed a kind of CPR with her book The Shelf Life of Zora Cross.
Zora Cross had a remarkably productive writing life, and was part of Sydney’s bohemian literary scene between the two world wars. Apart from journalism and editing work, she produced five poetry books (one of them for children), six novels (two as serials in the Sydney Morning Herald), a book of essays on Australian literature, and a number of plays. Many of her poems appeared in newspapers and have never been collected, and she spent her last years working on an ambitious series of novels set in ancient Rome that were never published.
Draw upon the energy of the Ace of Cups
Is it the right time to take note of those unspoken feelings, open yourself to emotions and intuition and draw upon those inner waters that run so deep?
How would your life feel if you approached everything with a completely open heart and permitted yourself to be visibly vulnerable?
Double dare! Using all those senses you were gifted with, write an erotic poem expressing your intense love of a vegetable!
Cathy Perkins spent ten years researching The Shelf Life of Zora Cross. This is true passion! What can you imagine devoting as much time to?
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