“Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” – James Baldwin
“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.” – Audre Lorde
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IN SHORT:
UPRIGHT: Romantic Love & ‘soul-mate’ relationships. Shared vision or values. Possible distractions.
REVERSED: Infatuations or imbalances in love or attention. Misaligned values, (consider the differences between looking and seeing). Emotional or Energetic Entanglement.
AT LENGTH:
When the lovers meet, they meet alone. When their lips meet it is like discovery of a new world, or a long lost home. They lay on the ground, perhaps in the grass at a picnic, or a mattress on the bedroom floor, or highway hotel, or a home that has been shared for decades—it doesn’t really matter where they are, when their bodies meet everything disappears into a vortex of erotics and sensuality.
Every touch is relevant, every utterance meaningful, every conversation a pact towards a new future understanding. No one will ever know what lies between them, it is a world unto itself. They discover this world in and through one another, but what they discover may not ultimately align. This lover experiences the love as an all encompassing exclamation mark, exiting every nerve and impulse. While that lover, feels this same love as an endless ribbon or bow, wrapped around them pulling them closer and closer into the love. It gets blurry when they are together, and they loose their focus. But when apart, longing thoughts take over: ‘I want you and I need you more than anything right now, you are my dream-home and I need to be back inside.’
In love there is an infinite rebirth. As lovers, they forget and discover themselves a million times over, as they navigate the abyss of living in the eyes of another.
FURTHER READINGS:
Audre Lorde. Uses of Eroticism.
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