1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 152
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QUEEN OF CUPS
The Queen of Cups represents the watery part of Water, its power of reception and re‐
flection. In the Zodiac it rules from the 21st degree of Gemini to the 20th degree of Cancer Her
image is of extreme purity and beauty, with infinite subtlety; to see the Truth of her is hardly
possible, for she reflects the nature of the observer in great perfection.
She is represented as enthroned upon still water. In her hand she bears a shell‐like cup,
from which issues a crayfish, and she bears also the Lotus of Isis, of the Great Mother. She is
robed in, and veiled by, endless curves of light, and the sea upon which she is enthroned con‐
veys the almost unbroken images of the image which she represents.
The characteristics associated with this card are principally dreaminess, illusion and
tranquillity. She is the perfect agent and patient, able to receive and transmit everything with‐
out herself being affected thereby. If ill‐dignified, all these qualities are degraded. Everything
that passes through her is refracted and distorted. But, speaking generally, her characteristics
depend mostly upon the influences which affect her.
In the Yî King, the watery part of Water is represented by the 58th hexagram, Tui. The
commentary is as colourless as the card; it consists of mild exhortations on the subject of
pleasure. It may really be said that, normally, people of this type have no character at all of
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