I love your story with this deck, to have extra meaning layered on top of such a rich deck feels really special. I’m also grateful to hear you talk about the grief in the five of cups, so many people talk about it through the lens of ‘be grateful for what you still have’ but it feels so important to sit with the grief too and not force ourselves past it. Thank you for sharing Mina 💕
Also! I think the particular version of the Five of Cups in this deck invites more of a focus on the grief itself than on "being grateful for what you still have", with the image of putting a stone on a grave (a Jewish practice of showing respect to the dead), as well as the keyword of "loss".
Yeah! When I visited Jewish cemeteries in Poland, it was so lovely to see all the stones on the different graves. And unlike putting flowers on graves, they don't wilt and die.
I love your story with this deck, to have extra meaning layered on top of such a rich deck feels really special. I’m also grateful to hear you talk about the grief in the five of cups, so many people talk about it through the lens of ‘be grateful for what you still have’ but it feels so important to sit with the grief too and not force ourselves past it. Thank you for sharing Mina 💕
Also! I think the particular version of the Five of Cups in this deck invites more of a focus on the grief itself than on "being grateful for what you still have", with the image of putting a stone on a grave (a Jewish practice of showing respect to the dead), as well as the keyword of "loss".
I love that practice so much, it feels so much deeper and more grounding as a token.
Yeah! When I visited Jewish cemeteries in Poland, it was so lovely to see all the stones on the different graves. And unlike putting flowers on graves, they don't wilt and die.
Thank you so much Imogen 💜 Letting ourselves sit with our grief is so so important