"More Subjects, More Objects, More Love..."

When it comes to symbolic gestures, you really can't beat Ecuador's "glass frog". Since the creature lacks any pigment, you can literally see his heart beating through his chest. Awww... More awwws for this barely-there gecko, also recently unearthed. Researchers are racking up the discoveries down there, but they're still only the beginning -- National Geographic speculates that, all told, we've only identified a tiny percentage of all the world's life forms. And I bet you thought we'd more or less sorted it all out by now!

The glass frog is my hero today. I've put him at the helm of the Three of Cups because of his all-too-poetic transparency -- I ought to channel his fearlessness a little more often and let people make of my lungs and pancreas and feelings what they will. But really all these "new" animals deserve a spot on the card, because collectively they are a reminder of the life our planet is teeming with, the opportunities yet to be discovered, and the vulnerability that is universal among all life forms -- as superior as we humans consider ourselves to be, what with our chain-mail and wisecracks and neatly pressed khakis, we are not much different than a horde of pencil eraser-sized lizardettes swarming across the jungle floor.

While the love in the Two rebounds back and forth in a closed loop between two subjects, the Three invites you to open up in search of more -- more subjects, more objects, more love. It heralds a season of availability and generosity, regardless of how this jibes with your fastidious economic principles. Conserve through giving -- when it comes to emotion, ecology trumps economy every time. [Via]

Previously On Arcanalogue: The Three of Cups