Marcus Garvey: A Symbol for Black Nationalism

Posted by admin on October 30th, 2008 — Posted in Education + Training

My first kid’s father named my son Marcus after legendary Marcus Garvey. Which made me curious to know more about who Marcus Garvey actually was…

“Up You Mighty Race, Accomplish What You Will…” (Marcus Garvey)

The following text is dedicated to my eldest son Marcus.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on August the 17, 1887, in St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica as the youngest of 11 children.

Marcus Garvey was known as a journalist, entrepreneur, publisher and a crusader for black nationalism. During his whole life, he has fought for racial equality.

Childhood years

In St Ann’s Bay, young Marcus attended grammar school. Alfred Burrowes, his godfather, also gave him some private instruction. Alfred Burrowes hired Marcus at the age of 14 as an apprentice in order to learn the printing trade.

Garvey’s father, who was the owner of a private library, encouraged young Marcus’ love for books.

During his apprentice period, Marcus used to discuss politics and social affairs at his uncle’s place.

In 1906, Garvey moved from St Ann to Kingston.

In 1908, Marcus Garvey participated in Jamaica’s first Printers’ Union strike. The strike was unsuccessful and as a consequence, Marcus Garvey lost his job.

Luckily, he was employed by the Government Printing Office.

Visiting the world

Around 1910, Marcus Garvey left Jamaica for Costa Rica. There, he worked as a time keeper at a panana plantation. Then he went to Central America, visited the Panama Central Zone. He observed Blacks and Indians hard working conditions. He also traveled to Equador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Columbia and Venezuela.

Very sensitive about discrimination and racial prejudice, Marcus Garvey always had the will to make things change. That’s why he appealed to his government in order to improve West Indians working conditions. But the government just wouldn’t listen to his complaint.

Garvey, the publisher

Marcus Garvey’s first publications started during his Central American travels.

In 1910, Garvey started his first newspaper, The Watcher, that was followed by several other short lived newspapers

He was also associated with several publications:

- The African Times and Orient Review, The Daily Negro Times, Harlem, 1922-1924

-The Blackman, Kingston, Jamaica, 1929-1931

-The New Jamaican, Kingston, 1932-33

Marcus Garvey started The Black Man Magazine in 1933 in Kingston. His magazine was continued in England until 1939.

Black militantism: the creation of the UNIA-ACL

Marcus Garvey was very conscious that improving black folks conditions was a long term work. It had better chances to work if Africans united. That’s why he created the the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (UNIA). As the President of the UNIA, he defined its goal to unite all the people of African ancestry of the world into one great body to establish a country and Government absolutely their own. very precisely. The UNIA’s flag is red, black and green.

In 1916, Marcus Garvey went to the USA and gave a lecture tour.

In 1920, Garvey set up branches of the UNIA in more than 40 countries.

Garvey’s ideas

Marcus Garvey fought for social, political and economic freedom for Black people.

He founded several companies like Black Star Line and Black Cross Navigation and Trading Company.

He also created the Negro Factories Corporation, which helped to created more marketable black businesses. Garvey was commercially very active: he started chains of groceries and restaurants and many other kind of businesses.

“Africa for the Africans…At Home and Abroad!”

Marcus Garvey wanted Blacks to consider Africa as their permanent homeland:

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa, there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there. Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa .

In 1920, he worked on the ambitious project to develop African state Liberia by building colleges and industries , but he had to stop it, because of many European countries’ political and economic interest in Liberia.

Mail fraud charges

Marcus Garvey was confronted by mail fraud charges in 1925 and sentenced to jail in 1925. He was jailed at Atlanta Federal prison. After his release in 1927, he was deported from New Orleans to Kingston, Jamaica, where a huge crowd welcomed him.

Defending Blacks till his death

Marcus Garvey has never stopped fighting for the cause he found right.

In 1928, he went to Geneva. He presented the “Petition of the Negro Race” to the League of Nations, which was strongly against black people’s abuse around the world.

In 1929, he founded the PPP (People’s Political Party), which became Jamaica’s first political party. This political party was all about helping poor people, education and workers’ rights.

In 1929, Garvey was elected Councillor for the Allman Town division of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC).

He was reelected in 1930.

In 1931, Marcus Garvey created Edelweiss Amusement Company, a company that was supposed to help artists to make a living out of their work and to give them an opportunity to get known better- at least locally.

In 1935, Marcus Garvey moved to London. He kept being involved in his activism till his death. Garvey died in London in 1940. He is considered as Jamaica’s first national hero.

It is a known fact that Marcus Garvey was nicknamed Black Moses …

Don’t search so many saints in the Holy Bible when you have a pretty good example in real life.

Copyright©2005 by Isabelle Esling
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EzineArticles Expert Author Isabelle Esling

I am an Eminem biographer and a freelance music journalist. I teach English and German at public schools.

A Short Biography on Some of Europe’s Most Loved and Hated Monarchs - Pt 4 Queen Mary I

Posted by admin on October 30th, 2008 — Posted in Education + Training

Queen Mary I of England was born in 1516 to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon and was the first British monarch to rule in her own right. Mary was pronounced queen in 1553 and ruled for five years after the death of Edward VI. Mary was well educated and learned to speak Latin, Spanish, French and Italian. She was also taught Greek, science and music.

1547 saw the death of her father and her half brother Edward VI crowned king. Edward was England’s first Protestant monarch; his Parliament’s Act of Uniformity prescribed Protestant rites for church services. Mary, wanting to keep her Roman Catholic faith, asked to be allowed to worship in private in her own chapel. Upon being ordered to discontinue this practice, Mary appealed to her cousin, the Emperor Charles V. Charles subsequently threatened to declare war against England if Mary’s religious rights were infringed. Mary was never bothered again and was left to worship in private.

Edward died in 1553 whilst Mary was staying at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk. He had no wish for the Crown to go to either Mary or her half sister Elizabeth, so had them both excluded from the line of succession in his will.

One of Mary’s first acts after came to power, was to bring the Catholic faith back to England by initially scrapping the religious proclamations of her half brother, Edward VI. Mary replaced the proclamations with the old English laws. Heresy against the church was now punishable by death. The reintroduction of this act earned Mary the nickname, “Bloody Mary”. During her short, five-year reign, Queen Mary I had more than 300 subjects burnt at the stake for the act of heresy. The most notable of these was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer.

In 1555, in an effort to produce a male heir, Mary married prince Philip II of Spain. This did not go down well with the people, as many viewed Spain as an enemy of England. Twice during her rule, Mary thought she was pregnant with child, displaying all the symptoms. Alas, this was not so as her symptoms were a sign of a false pregnancy. Mary had convinced herself that she was pregnant and the body reacted accordingly.

Following the advice of her husband, Mary allied herself with Spain during the war against France. The subsequent consequences of her actions were that England lost her only and last remaining foothold in the country - Calais. Sadly, in 1558, Philip II left her and went back to Spain to claim the Spanish throne.

Queen Mary I, childless and without a husband was forced to recognize her sister, Elizabeth, an Anglican Protestant, as the next ruler of England. Although Mary tried to persuade her sister to convert and accept the Roman Catholic faith, Elizabeth refused and went on to become Queen Elizabeth I.

England suffered under the leadership of Mary: the economy was in ruin, religious dissent reached its pinnacle and England lost her last foothold in Europe. Jane Austen wrote about Mary: “This woman had the good luck of being advanced to the throne of England, in spite of the superior pretensions, Merit and Beauty of her Cousins Mary Queen of Scotland and Jane Grey. Nor can I pity the Kingdom for the misfortunes they experienced during her reign, since they fully deserved them…”

Mary died at the age of forty-two of influenza, uterine cancer or ovarian cancer at St. James’s Palace on 17 November 1558 and is buried in Westminster Abbey beside Elizabeth. The Latin inscription on their tomb translates to “Partners both in Throne and grave, here rest we two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, in the hope of one resurrection”.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about Queen Mary I.

In my next article will learn about the life of Charles II of England.

Until then,

Best wishes and have a great day

Stuart Bazga

www.guide-to-castles-of-europe.com

EzineArticles Expert Author Stuart Bazga

A Guide to Castles of Europe was born from childhood dreams and aspirations. It is my hope to educate and stimulate you into exploring these castles for yourselves.

The Saga of Puffed Wheat Anderson, A Minnesota Legend

Posted by admin on October 29th, 2008 — Posted in Education + Training

I have no idea how old I was when I first learned about the famed Minnesota scientist and inventor Alex P. Anderson, AKA Puffed Wheat Anderson. My Dad told me about him when I was eating a bowl of cereal, you know, the one that’s shot from guns. Or doesn’t Quaker use that line any more? They sure did when I was growing up. I’d hear it a dozen times in a half hour when I used to listen to Sgt. Preston of the Mounties as a six-years-old. I naturally wondered if he was a relative. He wasn’t, but I couldn’t imagine how shooting rice or wheat out of a cannon could make them puff up.

I thought of that again as I was shopping in Byerly’s, a local grocery store, and happened to pass by the cereal section. I decided I wanted to find out how it was done so when I got home, I immediately looked up Anderson in Google. I wasn’t prepared for the fascinating story surrounding his life and accomplishments. Or the Quaker company’s marketing history, for that matter.

It seems that Alex Anderson could have been famous for an entirely different reason. According to a Minnesota Public Radio interview with Robert Hedin, Anderson’s grandson, Master Alex of Goodhue County was the youngster who gave directions to the Jesse James gang about how to get to Northfield, MN. Those of you who aren’t up on your folk history might not know that robbing the Northfield bank was the biggest mistake ole Jesse ever made. Two of his members were killed by the local townspeople and things got so hot that the rest of the gang was lucky to escape with their lives. (An even more interesting coincidence from a personal standpoint, is that the gang camped out on the point in Cedar Lake near Annandale. Our lake cabin was just a couple of hundred yards down the shore from where they cooked a meal and licked their wounds before heading back to Missouri.)

Hedin says that Anderson included an account of the fateful meeting in an essay about Silurian fossils. Alex was also interested in Phrenology and could tell you your personality by feeling the bumps on your head. Even though he was a fine poet and memoirist, his greatest accomplishment was to invent a way to break down the starch in grains by subjecting them to intense heat and pressure, greatly enlarged the kernels in so doing. To do this he devised a large wooden gun. Albert Lasker, an early advertising genius hired by the Quaker company, explained the process. The lab must have been a hundred feet long. The so-called gun was actually a drum that was super-heated with the mouth covered. When it reached the correct temperature, workers removed the cover with a pulley. The grains exploded out and flew wildly around, expanding to eight times its original size in the process. Hedin puts it more colorfully. “It made the lab sound like a battlefield, smell like a bakery and look like a snowy winter morning.”

Pleased with his invention, Anderson decided to show it off. Puffed rice made its premier appearance at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. A minor hit as a novelty, it also caught the eye of an unnamed executive of the Quaker cereal company in the process.

In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, cereal was considered to be a health food and the Quaker company saw a virtual gold mine in Anderson’s process. They were right, but for the wrong reason. Aftey they bought the rights they spent a considerable amount of money advertising the product to the Japanese. Puffed rice was ordinary rice, they said, but many times larger and it took less to fill you up. Better still, it was delicious. The campaign turned out to be a total flop. Lasker proved that Americans were the right target, so to speak, and under his tutelage ’shot from guns’ became a household word. No one needs to be reminded that the Quaker company survives to this day selling the same products.

Anderson died in 1943 after donating his house to the Red Wing School District. It turns out that he became a patron of the arts. Now it is a haven for writers and other artists. The Kiwanis hold regular meetings there, making the residents sing for their supper by reading Shelley and William Blake. But that’s not all. If you like modern art or improvisational jazz, you’ll find someone with those talents at the Anderson House. I wonder what Jesse James would have thought of it all.

EzineArticles Expert Author John Anderson

John Anderson is a Minnesota author who has not spent any time at the Anderson House. His novel, The Cellini Masterpiece, was written under the penname of Raymond John and is a mystery- thriller set on the island of Malta. John invites you to read the first chapter of his book at http://www.cmasterpiece.com. If you have any questions or comments, you may contact him there.

Golf for Kids

Posted by admin on October 28th, 2008 — Posted in Help For You, Info


Old boys in business circles have always been the poster people for golf. Now more and more kids, including girls, are working to change that image. Approximately 10 million Americans alone from ages 5 to 17 have played golf at one point or another, according to data from the National Golf Foundation. As it were, golf is a game for all ages.

Children and novice adults alike may revel in the burgeoning number of golf courses with kid-friendly forward tees. Such tees are only as large as 1900rather than 2500yards, with special scorecards for good measure.

Kids who want to play golf should come with age-appropriate equipment. Out in the market nowadays are clubs with flexible shafts and lighter heads. Some shops have custom-fit clubs for children according to height and proficiency level. As children grow, the clubs become longer and heavier, their grips increasing in size at the same time.

Kids can never be too young for golf, if videos of Tiger Woods as a tiny tot were to let on. Parents may begin by taking young children to the driving range. There, adults can let their kids swing away, just long enough to sate their attention spans. As a precaution, adults should ascertain nobody is nearby when they themselves swing away. For safety reasons, adults should go to ranges with safety barriers around the tees.

Eventually the fledgling golfer would turn 7. Ideally, seven-year-olds warm easily to formal golf education. There are junior golfers’ clinics for these purposes.

In America, the Junior PGA Championship happens annually as one of the most prestigious junior golf events in the world. If anything, it is the one-way ticket to stardom for promising kiddies.

Ron Sarabi plays golf with his wife Leila at the Health Net Charity Golf Tournament. Ron Sarabi, an avid golfer and philanthropist has raised money for good causes. He is the General Manager for Hawaiian Gardens Casino in California.Ron Sarabi is a member of the California Gambling Control Commission.

Are you planning to go out and get a new speedboat and want some money

Posted by admin on October 28th, 2008 — Posted in Credit Resources, Finance Information, Living With Loans

Analyze to see if the merchant bank who is tending to give you a bank loan is . A bank in Kearny New Jersey or so may have a total different actual interest rate for a 35000 dollar money loan then a moneylender in Farmington Hills Michigan and that makes a immense clear gap in your weekly costs. It doesn’t matter if you live in Chico California or in Des Moines Iowa a respectable online examination will redeem you often a lot trouble. Many of the merchant banks wil show you a rate that is looking effective but feels disadvantageously or so after a period of time.

Translated in Dutch is says: Woon je in Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel of Langedijk en heb je BKR. Lenen met en BKR codering is nergens zo eenvoudig. Haal snel een nieuwe caravan met laatste nieuws bkr, 498171 euro is altijd mogelijk om te lenen. Van Hellendoorn tot Cuijk, geld lenen met en BKR codering is altijd mogelijk.

That’s why now you need to inquire and interpret if you can have a loan at a right percent loan rate. You should be voguish today to inspect if you have a nice special offer or if you don’t with the merchant bank that offers you a credit loan. 9.6 percent rate of interest may seem so honest but will it stay ceaseless after you have to requite your credit loan. At this moment you can investigate interest rates quickly at websites and assure if there are possible sneaky traps you should know about.

A Billion Cheers At 40: Let’s Celebrate ‘Mummy Jessy’

Posted by admin on October 27th, 2008 — Posted in Education + Training

Ooh the depth of literary riches, how terrific they are! In less than 40 hours time, our sister- J. K. Rowling would roll into her 40th birthday anniversary (on the 31st July). While making no pretences of any private relationship with her, or knowledge of, how she intends to mark her arrival at the proverbial ‘land of milk and honey’. I am using this article to invite all writers to celebrate this ambassador of our profession -the PEN FAMILY, by posting a copy or just say something to appreciate this God’s gift in our midst.

Don’t mistake me for a Pottermaniac, I am not one anyway,in fact, I have never read any of her books, but I am a virtue-manic. I believe in virtue, as a gift deposit in man by God, to conquer our environment and circumstances. This is what this our sister has demonstrated in 8 years, and has complemented this by unspeakable humility and soberity. She arose from the trauma of being a victim of many personal misfortunes and arrived as a Victor in fortune. With her God-given gift, she has built a name and ‘Castle-of-Respects’ for writers worldwide in 8 years.

I am making this appeal so we can project a heroine figure for our profession. If we lack heroes and heroines, we would be threateed by woes. If we lack one whose testimony inspires us to achievement, then, we would be prone to expire. It is the ‘Hellos’ of Heroes that inspire society, with pride, to move forward, even with phenomenal speed.

Are you still searching for heroines? You have one already as your sister in this profession! Join me in sending ‘Mummy Jessy’ a billion tributes in advance of her 40th in less than 40 hours time. As you do this, receive, I pray thee, the stamina, speed and grace to rewrite the story of your own personal misfortunes too.

EzineArticles Expert Author Aderemi Ojikutu

Aderemi Ojikutu (Aderaskeey) is a Motivational Author and Youth Mentor. He is a minister of the Word of God. A political economist and political leader. He is President of the TREASURE WRITERS CLUB in Nigeria (http://ryze.com/go/Aderaskeey). He is also the current President of the National Democratic Forum (N.D.F). He was National Mobilisation Officer of the National Association of Nigerian Students (N.A.N.S) for several years. A revolutionary of over two decades, he was also the political secretary of the defunct Nigerian Labour Party in 1989-1991.

Uncover Success Coaching to Get Unbelievable Results

Posted by admin on October 25th, 2008 — Posted in The Healthy Way

Lifestyle coaching is a type of therapy that has become very familiar over the last seven years. The term life coaching first became likeable in the United States of America where, together with NLP aka Neuro Linguistic Programming, it became part of a regenerated phenomenal wave of decidedly proactive therapy techniques. Find a Life Coach in London and make the change today.

In many ways both Life Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming are an answer against certain variants of the human-centred therapy movement, in particular Humanistic Counselling. A problem of the humanistic approach is that it is particularly reactive and not terribly proactive. Although this works magnificent with some customers, with other folk long periods of no exit in sight or low return for time and effort occur. Performance coaching and NLP are both human-centred therapy in stance, spending time on improving a person?s well-being rather than looking into the minefields of childhood, like traditional psychoanalysis. Life coachings emphasis is, however, deliberately proactive and resolve issues.

Personal coaching is not about telling the client what to do. This is a common misconception. Some coaches are somewhat successful in their business careers and then make the change to life coaching, thinking that they will merely be required to divulge their pearls of eye-opening wisdom with the life coaching client. Sharing pearls of wisdom is more like mentoring an apprentice in a specific environment. Performance coaching is instead about life as a whole.

Happiness

Posted by admin on October 24th, 2008 — Posted in Education + Training

Having said this, even this sort of happiness is a product of positive thinking and positive action, with good fortune lending a helping hand. In short, it is a product of will in relatively favorable circumstances. But isn’t it peculiar to imply that happiness can be of one sort or another? Are there not simply happiness and unhappiness? I think not. The sort of happiness that the sage talks about is compatible with misfortune. It is preeminently a doing from within - while without, the only prerequisite for it is that the sage be alive and capable of thought. It is a feeling of serenity, of being at peace with his situation and his conscience, as a well-adjusted and fully committed servant of life, of humanity, of God as he sees them.

However conscious he is of the subjectiveness - i.e., the individual limitations and hence the imperfection - of his view, he does live by it with utmost faithfulness, if also with a willingness to reevaluate it critically when he catches himself out in a misstep. His wisdom is forever a work in progress; it is always laced with some form of foolishness, which leaves him open to ridicule. Humility and compassion, plus humor are therefore qualities that he cultivates. He mocks and forgives himself, and above all strives to improve. He shows no complacency, but an acceptance of his humanness that he is intent on bringing to the highest possible degree of truth and nobility. And this delicate blend of resignation and struggle alone - in any situation, favorable or not - is indeed the secret of his happiness, which admittedly is a dry manner of joy that fills the mind rather than the heart.

It follows that this happiness leaves something to be desired: happiness in the fullest sense of the word (a state of fulfillment, when everything is going our way, in terms of results as well as efforts), which is a joy, ever so sweet, that fills both the mind and the heart. When the sage experiences this supreme happiness, he rightly feels blessed, and knows how precarious it is. Furthermore, he accepts this precariousness, or the fact that suffering and ultimately death loom ahead. Only battles are won in the war of life that will inevitably - despite every valiant effort to prevail - end in defeat.

Some will say that happiness in its so-called fullest sense leaves something more to be desired: the power to make this happiness infinite: immeasurably great and unlimited in duration. Among them, some will choose the path of faith, which allegedly leads to a heavenly afterlife, whereas some will choose the path of reason, which admits of no rosy belief based on wishful thinking and unbridled trust. This path leads nowhere as far as the beyond is concerned, or rather somewhere that is unknown - presumably so different from what is known that it totally exceeds our ability to conceive of its nature.

I count among these proponents of reason, these infidels, to whom the only source of meaning is not a paradisiacal destination, whose existence is supported by no credible evidence, but the journey itself, a rugged and uphill journey to be sure, with an abundance of twists and turns, some of which are propitious, others not. This journey is well worth the trouble, in my opinion. It is so independently of the above-mentioned destination, which people are free to pursue blindly or regard with skepticism (and with detachment to boot, in the best case scenario). It is all about the dignity of living and loving and the pleasure of succeeding in these difficult assignments. From this perspective, the purpose of life is none other than life itself, in partnership with our fellow creatures; and happiness is made possible - within certain limits - by our striving to achieve this worthy, albeit humble purpose.

The limits imposed upon worldly happiness may initially stick in our craw, but after due consideration, as we realize that life without these limits would be death, we accept them, and better still we welcome them. Life is by definition a dynamic state that presupposes a perpetual tension between desires and their satisfaction. Render this satisfaction absolute, you resolve this tension and consequently reduce life to nothing; i.e., something as inert as a stone. And this nothing - this inert something - is death, as I just pointed out. Not a brilliant prospect in the eyes of a life lover!

Laurent Grenier’s career as a writer and philosopher spans over twenty years. During this time he has broadened and deepened his worldview, through much reflection and study, and in the end has crafted A REASON FOR LIVING, his best work to date.

Official web site: laurentgrenier.com/ARFL.html

WWW Sports Results Wagers — the Nuts and Bolts

Posted by admin on October 22nd, 2008 — Posted in Internet Gambling, Living With Sports, Online Betting

Tie together both of men’s ultimate leisure actvities and you will pinpoint a craze universally termed a sportsbook gambling Web location. And seriously: what could be more original? Fancy a group of sports addicts cheering to support any given chosen sports heroes, and incessantly lays are calculated complementing the racket. So keen to catch a bit of the action, spectators will customarily venture to estimate who is the likeliest to win in the imminent meet. This all evolves into a friendly bantering meet called sportsbook gambling Web location.

It might well seem a craving, but, instead, sportsbook betting is essentially only for fun and to relate with your fellow sports devotees. You can wager a a small amount of kitty and all the same have a extravagant time. Beyond this, here are many basic tips to get started sportsbook betting.

In order to place your wager, you’ll probably want to search out a sportsbook gambling Web location, which is a place that takes sportsbook gambling Web location. In the U.S.A., you will find four states where to go for sportsbook betting officially, but if you don’t care for legality, you may attempt it anywhere providing you are able to find a bookie AND happen to be legally an adult. On the list of sports activities you have a choice of betting on are pro as well as, of course, college basketball & football, pro baseball, pro hockey, as well as, of course, horse and dog racing. You’ll be able to wager on the total combined score of a game, when exactly a contestant will be knocked out, and even if a tossed coin in a game comes down either heads or tails.

The bookies firm confide in number crunching to help you out discern which sports heroes you suppose is the likeliest to win. For starters, there’s distribution, meaning points lead given to a the disadvantaged lineup expected to be beaten by a set number points. This is the bookie outfit’s form of enabling balanced lays for a Sportsbook. E.g., a punter might choose to risk money on a side expected to be beaten and and all the same profit from that wager providing the lineup is beaten by a set number of points.

You’ll find plenty of varying categories of antes: straight, parlays, and many more, the straight bets being the most prevalent in sportsbook betting.

So, why don’t you just give it a shot, and enjoy the recreation at one fell swoop? Just take care that you won’t get ripped away and throw away your complete retirement fund on a boutade. Because could be you will find yourself filled with remorse for the rest of your life.

What are you waiting for? Learn all the top online sports book wagering games here!

Tarot Cards Demystified: The Suit of Cups

Posted by admin on October 20th, 2008 — Posted in Education + Training

There are many ways to interpret the symbolism found in Tarot Cards. There are varying points of view that exist about what each card means or represents. This is just one way of interpreting them. When you understand this method you will find it to be extremely accurate.

Tarot Cards have a lot in common with Regular Playing Cards. Both types of cards have four suits. However, the Tarot also has some additional cards that a Regular Playing Card Deck does not have. A Tarot Card Deck has seventy-eight cards.

The suit of Cups is similar to Hearts in a deck of regular playing cards.

The Element for the suit of Cups is Water.

Some of the qualities and meanings for the suit of Cups are:

* Water

* Emotions

* Feelings

* Feminine

* Love

* Beauty

* Hearts (Regular Playing Cards)

* Hearts (Romance, Affection)

* Subconscious Mind

* Passion

* Caring

* Instincts

* Intuition

* Empathy

* Emotional

* Deeply Sensitive

* Ruled by the Heart

Read over this list several times while trying to get a sense of the type of energies associated with the suit of Cups.

Generally, when there are many Cups cards in a reading, or Cups cards appear in important key placements within a spread of tarot cards, love or relationship situations are probably emphasized in that particular reading.

In the Rider - Waite Tarot deck the Cup resembles a large Chalice or Loving Cup.

Cups symbolize love and romance. Cups are symbols for the heart and therefore represent anything that has to do with emotions, love, caring, relationships, good-will, joy, desire, truth, honesty, giving, sharing, trust, commitment, romance, marriage and partnerships of all types.

Cups represent anything on the emotional plane, but can also represent the physical heart. Cups represent feelings, which can be both positive and negative. An example of positive feelings are love, joy and happiness while negative feelings could be depression, sadness, instability and vulnerability.

Cups also can indicate someone who is “sensitive” as in psychic, intuitive or impressionable.

Most musicians and artists will tend to have quite a few Cups in their reading due to their usually sensitive nature.

Copyright © 2005 Sherry Sims

Sherry Sims has spent the last 20 years assisting people as a professional psychic, intuitive counselor, energy healer and teacher. Helping people to resolve personal and relationship issues has been at the core of her work. She gently assists her clients to accept their true power which allows them to begin taking control of their lives through healing, awareness, and self-love.

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