Don’t you just hate it when you feel like you’re the backup dancing monkey in a poorly managed circus? I mean, sometimes, in pursuit of our personal happiness or professional advancement, we invested so much energy, put in so much effort and poured our hearts out, but in the end, we were deliberately led on, they were the big fat tease and we were just the fools who got played.
They say don’t draw cards when you’re too happy or sad or angry. I say do draw a card, especially when you’re emotionally unstable. Because that’s the moment when you see things from an interesting perspective.
Eight of Cups in reverse means drifting aimlessly, journeying without a goal. When this card (Rev.) is present in a reading, you’re literally going from places to places, wandering from experiences to experiences without a sense of purpose. Just like the weary traveler on the card, who has seen a lot of this world and gone on many journeys, but is now yearning for a place to call home.
Typically, the motto of this card in reverse is: in search of what and where home is. In other words, when we see this card in reverse, we are on the journey to our personal destiny. So whatever or whoever made us felt like the stupid monkey, is clearly not our destiny.
Dreams and missions that cannot be easily grasped are nevertheless an important part of our inner struggles. They help our consciousness to expand and our power of discernment to grow. We are advised to begin our searches and encouraged to start our (spiritual) journeys now.
The Eight of Cups (Rev.) wants us to keep moving, in the meantime, it also warns us not to become too restless, or we will miss our true destination or “home” (the village in the back on the card) along the way.
Replace nervousness or sluggishness with purposeful action. Think of life as a road trip and make a plan: where we’re from? How far we’ve come? Where we’re heading? How do we get there?
If you don’t know where you’re heading, that’s ok. Just trust the flow of your life and go where your heart wants you to go. Don’t force your feelings to fit into a preconceived logic. You will discover your own destiny at the place where the flow of your life is the strongest.
The person who succeeds in going with the flow spends relatively little energy, and yet, achieves the most. There’s a time for everything.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. The things we want need to be difficult, but not too difficult, to obtain.
Bertrand Russell
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