The Twos
Major arcana: Archer, Justice Position on wheel: Spring Equinox. Chakra; brow
Two of Wands: Decision
	A figure illuminated and radiant with the dawn sun, stands at a gateway, spring energies rising at their feet, with their old life behind them and a new life in front. They are deciding on how best to move forward. They are poised between two worlds. A reawakening. Time to move from introspection into practical reality. Striking out on one’s own. The figure is based on the chalk figure of the ‘Long One of Wilmington’, UK.
Two of Arrows: Injustice
	The traditional figure of Justice is ironically blindfolded, and therefore without clarity of vision. She sits stiffly, hands crossed over her heart, upon a formal seat, isolated from others by steps, enabling her to look down on others. The Archer’s bow of focused decision-making lies broken at her feet. The scales of justice are already unbalanced in favour of the light, and the ‘white’. Someone who judges others from a position of arrogant superiority, often stemming from a fearful withdrawn heart.
Two of Cups: Attraction
	Two figures stand in polaric attraction to each other, the dawn sun rising above them. The heart opens between them. The picture shimmers with the ‘electricity’ of their meeting. At this moment the energy is held in tension; should their union be fulfilled, they move into The Lovers and Balance cards.
Two of Stones: Challenge
	Two mad march hares box each other on a bridge where the stone supports are buffeted by swirling currents. The confrontation on a bridge, before reaching the heart of the Greenwood occurs in the Robin Hood mythos, where Little John challenges Robin Hood with a quarter staff. Confrontation, manifested tensions, rivalry, arguments, that are often not well founded, but they need to be bridged before you can move forward.
The Lovers
Minor arcana: threes Position on wheel: Beltane. Element: Fire/Air
Chakra: throat. Colour: orange/rose-gold. Polarity: white
	The woman has a green woodpecker head-dress, hawthorn leaves and May blossom, all symbolic of the heart of the Greenwood. She is a lady of May, of sensuous sensitivity, young, loving and trusting. She glows with warmth and heart; beside her grows an arum lily, called ‘Lords and Ladies’. Her lover is also crowned with hawthorn, with the goat horns and legs of the young Pan, the wild male aspect of nature.
Between them is the maypole, or living birch tree, once erected every Beltane. This represents the Tree of Life, spanning the three worlds. These would be the Lowerworld, where the tree is stabilised by being placed in a shaft in the ground, the middle world- the actual land upon which people would dance, and the Upperworld or the top of the maypole, which usually had three foliate rings hanging upon it. It is love that enables one to transcend the boundaries of these worlds, uniting the physical, emotional and the spiritual. Beltane is still a common time to be handfasted. In some ways this is a card of young or new love, yet to be tested by time.
Lovers 2
	This is a non-gendered Lovers card, which was turned down by the publisher, but is available if preferred. Two people, deer headed, to signify their tender hearts, are charged with the energy of love. Their golden antlers, bedecked with hawthorn, draw down the spiritual love, as their union is blessed, giving their hearts wings. Their individual stars shine, confirming that this is their destiny. Their bodies are charged with polaric energy, one hand raised to keep the current flowing, the other handfasted, blessing the land below, pouring out the life giving energy of love. The design is based around a central axis around which the couple cross-polarise. Between their hands a rose is illuminated. The background shows the Merry Maidens stone circle, and a maypole with traditional may day celebrants-a hobby horse, Maid Marion and a
Jack in the Green. The red and white dragons, the polaric energies are unified by the lovers encompassing all genders.
Balance (traditional card Temperance.)
Minor arcana: Threes Position on wheel: Beltane. Element: Fire/Air
Chakra: throat. Colour: orange/rose-gold. Polarity: white.
	Two beautiful sea horses intertwine, their energies harmonised. All dualities of light and dark, fire (red) and air (white) land and water, active and passive, are blended together creating a new third force-the green and fertile land, the person in balance with themselves, who is both grounded and creative, (Creativity, three of stones) and who radiates that energised peace (Fulfilment, 3 of wands) generated by someone at one with themselves. Three has always been a very sacred number, representing creation, i.e., one + one = another, hence the egg in this picture. Horses were seen as the primal creators (see The Horse) before snakes and dragons. Uffington White Horse stands at the gateway of these two traditions looking like a serpentine horse.
The sea horse design comes from a Pictish Scottish stone carving from Aberlemno. Sea horses are extraordinary creatures, being the only species in which the male gives birth. They also dance and intertwine together, as well as frequently changing colour for camouflage. Sea horses are therefore the perfect creatures to express the quicksilver, mutable, androgynous nature of creativity. It is subtle, perhaps experimental exchanges that bring profound harmony and new life. Of course the basic pattern of all life is the double helix DNA, infinitely subtle and infinitely creative.
The fleur-de-lis, iris or flag, in flower this time of year is a symbol of the three-in-one, the three worlds unified. Drawing this card can indicate a new harmony in your relationship or in a friendship. A creative phase in which you will blossom. An inner balance.