Feeling Tones

From the PetraK Tarot, the Knight of Cups; from the AstroDice, South Node-Scorpio-10th House:

Feeling tones can be pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. It is the feeling tone keeps us hooked into our conditioning behavior of craving and aversion. –Alpesh Parikh

          The Knight of Cups in this depiction literally lives inside his feelings, filtering all thoughts through his emotions. He understands that we are in a relationship with every person, place or thing we come into contact with. Yet before there is a relationship, there is a 'feeling tone' - an immediate reaction to what we experience. Stimuli that are pleasant, we want more of; those that are unpleasant, we try to avoid or get rid of; and those that are neutral we simply ignore. The South Node, Scorpio and 10th House combination suggests that patterns have been created in the past that affect not only our emotional intensity, but also our reputation. When we are rewarded by a reaction (whether it involves getting, getting rid of, or disregarding), we tend to repeat that action until it becomes a habitual pattern. How others might describe us (hothead, peacemaker, judgmental, open-minded, etc.) might give us a clue about whether we should work on changing some of those ingrained patterns.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. –Dr. Seuss