Two cards in conversation
The Moon + Page of Cups
People often bring two cards with a question about what will happen. Olivia reads a pair as a conversation instead: what each card brings, and what appears between them.
What links them
- A Major and a Minor
Five ways to read this pair
Try one lens at a time. Write a sentence for each before you read anyone else’s version.
Story
Read The Moon first, then Page of Cups, as two scenes of one story. What changes between them?
Contrast
Where do The Moon and Page of Cups pull in different directions, and what does each ask of you?
One colours the other
Let Page of Cups describe the way of The Moon, as an adjective describes a noun. Then swap them.
A shared symbol
No carved symbol is shared here. Look for a gesture, a direction or a colour the two images have in common.
Number, suit and element
A Major and a Minor: the Major can name the theme, the Minor shows where it turns up in ordinary days.
One reader’s version
The Moon shows a crayfish in a dark pool beneath a night sky; the Page meets a fish rising from a bowl under the stars. Together they turn attention to images from the unconscious, and to meeting them with curiosity rather than fear.