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.
Queen of Cups
About this card
Embodying the powers associated with the element of water: channeling imagination, exercising emotional intelligence, adapting to fluid circumstances, and remaining attuned to the interconnection of everyone and everything. An energy that’s exceptionally adept at drawing on inner resources to build, strengthen, and nourish bonds and relationships. Like the other Queens, she shores up the strong boundaries necessary to make her efforts sustainable and constructive.
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
How do you use your imagination to understand your subject of study? What’s a connection that your imagination has helped you discover that logic alone couldn’t have shown you?
Imagine your scholarship as a stream connected to the world’s knowledge ecosystem, revealing some of its themes in miniature. What broad human themes do you see reflected in your work?
Imagine your reader as a person — a real human being — with whom you’re nurturing a relationship. How does this framing shift how you organize your work? What you choose to include? How you speak to your reader?
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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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