Do you love your life the way it is? Have enough money to get by on, but not so much that its presence defines you? Comfortable enough in your surroundings to taste real freedom, but not so cozy that you get bogged down in complacency and idleness? Do you have just enough left over to help others reach their own goals too? Then you might be flying under the banner of the Six of Coins, which represents a stable point from which one can finally afford to be generous. Unlike the other cards in the Tarot depicting material wealth, this one illuminates the true pleasure that comes from having just enough, and the powerful possibilities that lie therein.
Our dreams of luxury often omit what we all know about wealth: what kind of person you must turn yourself into to get it (and keep it), and the personal conflicts that arise when people find themselves accidentally or undeservingly on the receiving end of it. Six coins may not seem as enticing as, say, ten-- but by refusing to let your potential be assigned a mere dollar-value, and by perpetuating that idea by helping others less fortunate, you help restore balance to a world that is far too obsessed with who has what.
Ali Alvarez taps into that concept with I Love My Life The Way It Is, an art project that beckons us to entrust Alvarez with all our scratch-off lottery tickets-- unscratched. The goal is to collect at least 8,000 tickets that will never be scratched or redeemed, enough to cover an entire room. It may not be easy to part with a ticket without knowing whether you have a winner in your hands; certainly many of Alvarez' tickets will be winners, but we'll never know whose or how much. While this experiment surely makes those who regularly play the lottery feel justifiably queasy, it's a wonderful opportunity for all of us to explore our feelings about luck, wealth, and art. You just may discover that you're not as superstitious or desperate or selfish as you used to be. If you're teetering on the verge of that Six of Cups spirit, consider participation in this symbolic gesture to be a graduation of sorts! [Via]
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