POTENT CUPS (PC) was launched on 21 March 2022.
Potent Cups aims to share ways of inciting clarity and silencing confusion, finding and maintaining inner peace, sharing peace with others, restoring past relationships, and protecting healthy and balanced connections.
What seems to be on repeat?
It could be as lighthearted as—a repeating image of a “fully-grown-adult-like facial expression” sported by a tiny, gentle, innocent baby or a repeating video of an intentionally unapologetic and unruly yet undeniably charming and cuddly feline fur baby while scrolling through social media.
It could be as mundane as—a repeating heedless action of fumbling and dropping your device or a repeating irony of missing and searching for an object that only reappears long after you stop caring about getting it back at home.
Or, it could be as heart-wrenching as—repeating news about violence, fatal accidents, and school bullying or repeating reports about distressed people in dire conditions amid poverty and war on TV.
How do you feel about what seems to be on repeat?
While it might be a no-brainer to repeat anything you find pleasing, like those that you find lighthearted, and it might be easier to be dismissive toward trivial matters, like those that you find mundane, certain repetitions might be too uncomfortable to be on repeat—like those that you find heart-wrenching. Most especially when the uncomfortable situation seems closer to you, metaphorically or otherwise—its repetition affects you more swiftly, intensely, and deeply.
For instance, when a pattern of unfairness, lack of support, distrust, rejection, heartbreak, betrayal, or the like seems to be on repeat in relationships, friendships, and other forms of personally meaningful affinities—one might find it too overwhelming to see a loved one or oneself subjected in it.
What does Potent Cups desire?
Spark clarity and quiet confusion.
Confusion weakens one’s capacity to decide, while clarity strengthens it. PC intends to present similar life situations to guide the reader in dispersing confusion about identifying the issue in a situation, finding alternatives relevant to their specific life experience, and sparking clarity about the viable options to prevent the issue from repeating.
Encourage finding, maintaining, and sharing peace with others.
Inner peace allows one to avoid resisting and inhibiting learning new things—and focusing on and attending to outside concerns effectively. By being in a place of inner peace, someone could inspire others to be at peace, thus helping others to be less resistant, more trusting, and more receptive to new things and what is external to them. PC aims to encourage the reader to find or maintain inner peace and, ultimately, to encourage sharing that sense of peace with others.
Restore promising past relationships.
While some past relationships might be shattered beyond repair, some dented yet irrefutably promising past connections might still deserve a second chance in the present. This opportunity should not be coerced but earned through a mutual sense of clarity, accountability, and commitment by all parties involved. PC aims to inspire the healing of past rifts within connections, thereby restoring old friendships, relationships, partnerships, and other promising connections.
Maintain, nurture, and protect healthy and balanced connections.
A loved one—such as a family member, friend, teacher, long-term partner, and the like—may serve as a “security blanket,” which may be a source of trust, protection, safety, or stability in someone’s life. Unfortunately, someone might mistakenly identify the security they bring as a mere birthright instead of a blessing. If so, one might fail to realize how this blessing is worthy of kindness, respect, reciprocity, and other acts of gratitude. A continuous imbalance may lead to the eventual, yet not entirely unforeseen, decline or halt of the connection. PC hopes to prevent these outcomes by assisting the reader in realizing or remembering the significance of having such a remarkable relationship in the present time and prioritizing the value of maintaining, nurturing, and protecting the state of these healthy and balanced connections.
What does your heart desire out of what seems to be on repeat?
The heart’s desire for clarity, balance, and expression—is a potential waiting to be unleashed.
Follow the heart. Unleash the potential. Repeat till infinity.
Potent Cups
December 2024
