Listening to the reversed Priestess of Cups after many years

[sabrinamari]

It's been years since I've listened to this song. I used to know it very well, and I am so glad, so very very glad, not to be there today.

When I teach Tarot classes, the reversed Priestess of Cups/Reversed Queen of Cups is the easiest card to teach, with the possible exception of the Devil, reversed or upright. Any card you have lived you will recognize immediately and well, and if you have lived it and passed through it successfully, you will usually have plenty of insight into its complexity and character.

To teach this card, all I have to do is describe this song, or even better, pass around/play the lyrics. Almost everyone either knows her, has been her, or both. Anytime you listen to this song, you are peering into her heart and mind. Here s/he is, in all of her codependent glory:


I have spent nights with matches and knives
Leaning over ledges only two flights up
Cutting my heart, burning my soul
Nothing left to hold
Nothing left but blood and fire

You have spent nights thinking of me
Missing my arms but you needed to leave
Leaving my cuts, leaving my burns
Hoping I’d learn

But blood and fire
Are too much for these restless arms to hold
And my nights of desire they’re calling me
Back to your fold
And I am calling you, calling you
From 10,000 miles away
Won’t you whet my fire with your love
Babe

I am looking for someone who can take as much as I give
And give back as much as I need
You know and they still have the will to live ah no
Cause I am intense, I am in need
I am in pain, I am in love
And I feel forsaken you know
Like the things I gave away

And blood and fire
Are too much for these restless arms to hold
And my nights of desire they’re calling me
Back to your fold
And I am calling you, calling you
From 10,000 miles away
Won’t you whet my fire with your love
Babe, babe, babe

I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
You know I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
And blood and fire
Are too much for these restless arms to hold
And my nights of desire they’re calling me
Back to your fold
And I am calling you, calling you
From 10,000 miles away
Won’t you whet my fire with your love
Babe
Won’t you whet my fire with your love
Babe now
Whet my fire with your love

"Blood and Fire", Indigo Girls

Comments

[hypanebliss.livejournal.com]

*smiling within the tears in my eyes*

Too familiar I'm afraid. Way too familiar. I love their music for a variety of reasons. Thank you.

[amber-phoenix.livejournal.com]

oh.

yes.

that.

i'll always know the card now.

[sligoe.livejournal.com]

Although I am just now scratching the surface of Tarot and don't know the relationship to this particular card, I know this place too well---it's where I almost went over the edge into oblivion two years ago. I will never forget it---nor the long road back.

With you, I am SO glad not to be there any more.....and breathing easily once again!

Hugs.