Welcome to Tarot for Scholars, a resource that helps you weave the deep wisdom of tarot into your daily life and work. In each post, we offer reflections and prompts for exploring your own inner world and unlocking the unique creative power of your scholarship.
2 of Cups
About this card
Close social connections. Emotional resonance. A pledge to hold another person’s best interests at heart. Bonds of intimacy and spaces of safety; relationships with salutary effects. Establishing intimacy with allies, co-authors, even readers. Alternatively, an internal experience — an inner harmonizing of heart and mind, shadow and light.
Other interpretations
Margy’s cards, clockwise from top left: Radiant Tarot; New Chapter Tarot; Cosmic Slumber Tarot; Shining Tribe Tarot; Elemental Tarot; Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea; Spolia Tarot; Tarot of the Spirit.
Helen’s cards, clockwise from top left: Moon & Stars Tarot; Light Seer’s Tarot; Japaridze Tarot; Canes Arcanae; Star Spinner Tarot; Muse Tarot; Tarot of Mystical Moments; Forest of Enchantment Tarot.
Questions and prompts
Reflect on your inner circle, the people who have your back, who may or may not be scholars too. What have they contributed to make your work possible? How have they shown themselves to be trustworthy? How have you shown them that you are trustworthy in return?
If you’ve fallen out of touch, how can you reach out and re-establish connection? What can you offer them, and what can they offer you?
In the past, what have you learned outside of the formal, often adversarial feedback settings that organize so much of scholarly life? How might you invite more “friendly feedback” into your scholarly process?
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Yours in scholarship,
HELEN SWORD is a scholar, poet, award-winning teacher, and founder of the WriteSPACE, an international writing community with members in 30+ countries. Her research-based books, articles, and online tools empower scholarly writers to write more clearly, confidently, prolifically, and with greater pleasure.
Visit Helen’s website here.
MARGY THOMAS is the creator of ScholarShape, a body of work dedicated to elucidating the patterns of Story-Argument across genres, disciplines, and life itself. Through services and DIY resources, Margy helps scholars use Story-Argument patterns to design their work — and to find its deeper meaning and higher purpose.
Visit Margy’s website here.
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