Your Heart's Desires
Three of Cups
My best friend is leaving Seattle after being here with me for thirty years. She is closing up her art handling business, and moving back to the east coast, where we are both from, to be closer to family, and really, because she has come to dislike Seattle’s growth and all that has come with it. We recognize this is going to be a big shift for us. I met Denise in Seattle in 1990 at an Irish pub in Wallingford. I mentioned I was a manager at a downtown Starbucks, in the days when there were not very many Starbucks, and the next day I got a call. Denise said, “I know this is weird, but I don’t have any friends here. Will you be my friend and come over for dinner?” That was the beginning, taking a chance, being weird, and thirty-three years later she is my person.
So she and I recognize this impending shift in a real way. We make sure we have dinner once a week, just the two of us, and talk the way friends who have known each other for thirty years talk, no filters. I don’t have many people I can speak to with no fear of judgement, but who give me the honest truth, who reflect back to me who I am, with so much love.
Three of Cups
The Three of Cups is a card of sisterhood, particularly found versus biological sisters, the people we find or who find us, who we know we won’t ever live without, until death do us part. Cups are the seat of the emotions and while we saw two people in the Two of Cups, there are three here, showing the bonds of friend groups and the individual bonds among them. The ladies are dancing and toasting and flowing. They have an ease, celebrating just being together. To me this is the ultimate friendship card, with wreaths in their hair and harvest at their feet, the figures in this card reap the benefits of creative collaboration, trust, and empathy. Notice one of the women has her face turned away. This may just be what Pamela Colman-Smith had to do to create a circle amongst the women, but I think it may have been intended to show that even if a friend has to turn away, move away, do something different, the heart stays close and true. I know, a little sappy, but the Three of Cups lets us be sentimental and sappy, and that’s how I feel today, about Denise, and Amy, and the other close women friends in my life, who I am proud to say are many. This card reminds us to celebrate our friendships. I raise my cup to this.
Offerings
My wonderful friend and collaborator Laurie Blackwell and I will host a Spring Equinox Gathering on March 12th at 3pm PST. We would love for you to join us, More information to sign up here:
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I’m officially deep in the writing of my book this year, combining the wisdom of tarot and the enneagram. Excerpts to come!