Wheel of Fortune

6 of Cups--Watermelon

In the Herbal Tarot the 6 of cups chooses watermelon as its' signifier plant. There are a young boy and girl on the card and he is offering her a slice of watermelon. My Manara Erotic Tarot tells me that this card is ruled by the sun in Scorpio (my sunsign)
and represents simplicity, intelligence, serenity. How can anyone not want to cultivate those virtues? The card traditionally represents pleasure....for me I choose to see these as simple pleasures, simple gifts....as opposed to luxurious, wanton pleasure.

Is there anything quite as delicious as a simple slice of juicy watermelon? I like to put sea salt on mine, and sometimes mix it up with feta cheese, love the contrast of taste and texture.

Watermelon Poems:

"watermelon seeds'  (18+) Reedited 6-30. A metaphor of watermelon seeds & pregnancy. A vignette in prose poem form. #985075 by Kåre Enga going to Montana

"WATERMELON"  (E) you know what I mean. #427346 by stoney moss

Green Buddhas
on the fruit stand
We eat the smile
and spit out the teeth

Charles Simic



Thirsty, we anticipate you:
a mine or mountain
of ambrosia,
but between teeth and desire,
you change into
simple, fresh light
melting into a spring,
touching us with song.

Pablo Neruda


For something deeper, more complex, google Wallace Stevens' poem "Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion".


and from Coleman Barks " A Year with Rumi"--this poem for May 31


The Nothing of Roselight

Death comes, and what we thought
we needed loses importance.

The living shiver, focused
on a muscular dark hand
rather than the glowing cup it holds
or the toast being proposed.

In that same way love enters
your life, and the I, the ego,
a corrupt, self-absorbed king,
dies during the night.

Let him go.
Breath cold new air
the nothing of roselight.
--Rumi



Today I wish you simple pleasures, watermelon days, and the nothing of roselight.