Five of Vessels - Ecstasy

The weather has really changed here . It feels like November at last. It is cold, grey and wet  outside. This weekend Sinterklaas has arrived in our country, so the card I pulled for today is quite fitting for the Dutch children and everyone young at heart who loves to reminisce about his own childhood  Sinterklaas experiences  while eating some Pepernoten  or Kruidnoten and drinking some hot chocolate.

Today card is the Five of Vessels (Cups) – Ecstasy. Although this card is not about sadness and grief, like its Rider Waite counterpart, it is about fully immersing in, and expressing your emotions and feelings. Letting go of thinking and analyzing and being  totally present in this one moment. The woman in the depiction is dancing and making rhythmical music and maybe she is singing too. She keeps on dancing until she feels the connection with Spirit/ the Divine. That one split second where all is one, when your soul fuses with the Universe, that is the moment you are really between worlds.

Honestly,  it is not easy for me to go there.  I am quite introvert, so expressing myself in movement and sound is hard for me. The only way I can experience  this feeling of connection is while I am painting or something like that or when I am meditating.  I do envy this woman  though, because this card also radiates a sense of freedom to express yourself in such an exuberant way
P.S. I am taking a little break from blogging and commenting, because I am going to visit my mother for a few days and I have some other things to attend to. Probable I will be back next Tuesday J

Five of Vessels – Ecstasy - Lift up your soul

For today I've pulled the Five of Vessels– Ecstasy from the Wildwood tarot. At first glance this card has nothing to do with its counterpart in the RW Tarot: the Five of cups. Remember the gloomy dark cloaked man focusing on his fallen cups but neglecting the ones standing up?

This young woman is dancing in the starry night in a pentagram, drawn in the sand. A bowl is standing on each point. It looks like she is dancing her heart out. She shows no sadness at all or perhaps she has thrown it all in her dance in a way that has brought her in an ecstatic state of mind. Wouldn’t that be a great way for us  civilized western people to express our grief. How would a funeral look like with all kinds of people dancing,singing and heartbreaking crying . How healing it would be if we only could…..

The  guidebook speaks about communing with the Universe/Divine through ecstasy. This can be induced by all kinds of different methods: art, dance, singing, sex, music; all sorts of right brain activities which will silence the rational ego. Then you'll feel one with who/whatever you want to feel one with (Higher self, God(dess) Universe etc) This blissful moment can last from a split second to an eternity. But as soon as you want to hold it you will lose it.

Although I am not the dancing type I do like to get in such state by listening to classical music or by drawing and painting. And while I am writing this I realize it has been to long since I‘ve made time for art. Tomorrow I am going to plan a date with myself to play with watercolors and brushes and paper and crayons and pencils and….  and…..  OMG I really want to do this J