6 of Cups - and I really don't like that Bowie song

When you were young...

Maybe you still are young. Maybe you always will be- that's a possibility I accept. This one, this isn't about that. The six of cups refers to an innocent love. Other depictions involve children and puppy-love kinds of scenarios but I see that as a metaphor that's maybe - less useful. I mean, we all can see when little kids are crushy for each other, no divinatory tools needed. But okay, I got the sense of it- beginners, people who don't know how to be in love. And from that I extrapolate the first love. The first time in love. Now...


Okay, this one kind of got to me. I don't know how honest it is, I mean, I think it is, but I might be forgetting, but if I think back, I believe I can reliably be said to have been really&truly in love 6 times. I think that's true. And here's the thing, for me, it's like the 6 pack in the picture - every time there's one less beer to drink.


I don't mean to make some kind of renewed virginity or xtian blowjobs style statement here, I know about that, I remember the speeches in highschool. In highschool when you fall in love that time, the strongest. Then later it happens again, but it's less. Then again and it's less. Then again and it's less. This card, to me - it's cautionary. Don't be in love lightly, it turns out you might not have that much in you.

Some people are young forever, they're bright eyed and amazed at every turn and moment, maybe for them there's not a chance for the well to run dry, but I have to tell you - the chills you get when you see your crushed-one or hear her name said? That goes the hell away. After a while there's just another person who you can't look at with big-eyed romance, because it goes out of you.

So there, first loves (ruined). And I'll stick to my contention that the first is the most and make that be what the card is about. I've got friends, people, they did the unicorn thing, they were in love but once, married the one time, together forever, that kind of thing. When I was younger I thought - foolish, and now I think well, I wish that could've been me. Not - not I guess mournfully, not mourning for what might have been, I don't do that, but rather looking on the ground at the empties and wishing I still had some beer. Get it?

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