Tarot Poet #2 Queen of Cups / Water of Cups / Water of Water / Queen of Water
Her love is healing to the deepest of wounding... Feeling too much, compassion-heavy is the Queen’s crown...
*trigger warning: poem mentions suicide*
Hello Lovers,
While the Virgo Moon is transiting my 10th House, I’m sharing another poem I wrote in response to a prompt from Óscar Moisés Díaz Stephen Jonas Tarot Diary Workshop. I wrote this on February 1st when the Moon was in her domicile home, Moon in Cancer - my first night at this new home, in my new neighborhood. I felt like the transit Moon conversed with me through my 8th House. I have always associated the Queen of Cups with the cardinal water sign ~ Cancer.
Óscar Moisés Prompt: Queen stands for water? Expand on that. What is queenly about water, what is water-like about queens? Is it a queen with a crown or a drag queen, or what other forms of queens do we think of? How are we thinking about water? Take it in all directions.
Queen is Water ~
The wettest and most water of water? The Water of Cups,
Her love is healing to the deepest of wounding,
Her spirit - devoted to the heavenly and underworldly realms,
Like Mother Maryam,
Offering their womb, an earthly space of eternal devotion and critical questions,
Breeding new worlds, birthing prophets, poets, and philosophers,
Sometimes too - the Queen is cancerous to the consciousness,
To the point of mother martyrdom,
Like my own mother, who threatened us with suicide when she was mad,
I guess she is mad,
Though she cared too much to die, her head tilted down, gazing at her cup-child,
Feeling too much, compassion-heavy is the Queen’s crown,
They already risked their lives when we first crowned,
And we wonder why the Queen’s cup is closed,
As it contains so much more shadows,
Not for the shallows, an exquisite skill to flow,
Ya Rahim... only one of the most merciful could bear,
The duty of Water of Cups, the ones who dare to care?
Thank you for reading this poem, feel free to comment on your relationship with the Queen of Cups, the words expressed here, or any emotions that are coming up for you. After months of hiatus from doing a tarot reading for others, I recently opened my Tarot for Transformation bookings again for 30 minutes or 60 minutes, OR a 90 minutes session of Tarot for Soul Centering & Heart Affirming Journey. BOOK HERE!
Your Love Devotee,
Shahir