King of Cups Tarot Card: Turning Compassion into Healing
We may see somebody in pain dealing with some personal issue, and we have compassion for them, recognizing and seeing ourselves reflected in your pain. Because we understand their pain it can easily happen that we are glad that it is not us going through it this time. Our attitude may be, “Good. It’s not just me to go through this. Why should I be the only one? If I can get through it, so can they.” You might even take the attitude, “Why are they taking it so hard? When I went through that, I handled it much better than they are. What’s their problem anyway? They need to just get over it. I did.” It is so very easy to project our standards and attitudes into the pain others are experiencing. Our experience, it seems, makes us experts in what others are going through. We can though, turn this into healing compassion for this person. It is possible to send them healing energy and understanding. Remember the feeling and sensation of feeling healed of this pain. Capture that feeling. Hold it as energy. Infuse this energy with divine love and power. Now visualize that energy going into this other person and filling first their heart center, and then radiating out to the rest of their being until they are filled with the healing energy. As this applies to you today, take into consideration the King of Cups, for doing this activates the power of that archetype within you.