Tarot...The Elements

The lower Arcana is where our modern playing cards descended from. Hearts, clubs, spades, and Diamonds. They were originally cups, wands, swords, and pentacles, which did and still represent the four elements: water, fire, air, and earth. They represent the building blocks of our psyche. Our emotions, creativity, intellect, and the physical, material realm we dwell in. They help us to find balance in our physical and spiritual life, which is the ultimate goal for most of us.

Our focus is going to start with the cups and the element of water.

The cups suit, take us through the emotional ups and downs we experience with people, situations, and creative ventures in life, how to work through our emotions, and accept them, or let them go.


Water is our life force, we are made of it, we cannot survive without it. Our emotions are our spiritual life force, if we didn't have emotions life would be meaningless and our souls would starve. 
We would live in our body and only once, never experiencing what it is capable of. 
You can start to tune yourself in to this elemental force to help you balance your water/emotions in your life.

Questions to meditate on that can be a helpful way to do this, are to ask yourself, are your emotions internally balanced, as well as externally? Are there negative emotional situations you need to face before you can move on to positive ones?

A life without water, is unimaginable. As is a spirit without ever feeling emotions.

ARIEL HANSON