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…aries; Summarized description of the Sixteen Court Cards; Knight 0f Wands; Queen of Wands; Prince of Wands; Princess of Wands; Knight of Cups; Queen of Cups; Prince of Cups; Princess of Cups; Knight of Swords; Queen of Swords; Prince of Swords; Princess of Swords; Knight of Disks; Queen of Disks; Prince of Disks; Princess of Disks. PART IV. THE SMALL CARDS The Four Aces; The Four Twos; The Four Threes; The Four Fours; The Four Fives; The Four Sixes; The Four Sevens; The Four Eights; The Four Nines; The Four Tens. The Root of the Pow‐ ers of Fir…
1944 · PDF PAGE 175
…ValourSeven of Wands; SwiftnessEight of Wands; StrengthNine of Wands; OppressionTen of Wands. The Root of the Powers of WaterAce of Cups; LoveTwo of Cups; AbundanceThree of Cups; LuxuryFour of Cups; DisappointmentFive of Cups; PleasureSix of Cups; DebauchSeven of Cups; IndolenceEight of Cups; Happiness Nine of Cups; SatietyTen of Cups. Ace of Swords; PeaceTwo of Swords; SorrowThree of Swords; TruceFour of Swords; Defeat Five of Swords; ScienceSix of Swords; FutilitySeven of Swords; In terferenceEight of Swords; CrueltyNin…
1944 · PDF PAGE 139
…aries; Summarized description of the Sixteen Court Cards; Knight of Wands; Queen of Wands; Prince of Wands; Princess of Wands; Knight of Cups; Queen of Cups; Prince of Cups; Princess of Cups; Knight of Swords; Queen of Swords; Prince of Swords; Princess of Swords; Knight of Disks; Queen of Disks; Prince of Disks; Princess of Disks.
1944 · PDF PAGE 275
…Princess of Swords. Rules a third Quadrant. The Cowrt Cards of the Tarot with the Spheres of their Celestial Dominte COPS ‘The Knight of Cups. Rules 20° = tozo” x including most of Pegasus, The Queen of Cups, 20” 11 to 20° = The Prince of Cups. 20° = to 20° ‘The Princess of Cups. Rules another Quadrant. The Court Cards of the Tarot with the Spheres oftheir Celestial Dominion = The Knight of Disks. Rnles 20° 2. to 20° My ‘The Queen of Disks, 20° f to 20°v5 ‘The Prince of Disks. 20° ¢p to 20° Tho Princess of Disks, Rules a fourth Quadrant of the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 203
DISAPPOINTMENT FIVE OF CUPS This card is ruled by Geburah in the suit of Water. Geburah being fiery, there is a natu‐ ral antipathy. Hence arises the idea of disturbance, just when least expected, in a time of ease. The attribution is also to Mars in Scorpio, which is his own house; and Mars is the manifestation on the lowest plane of Geburah, while Scorpio, in its worst aspect, suggests the putrefying power of Water. Yet the powerful male influences do not show actual decay, only the beginning of destruction; hence, the anticipated pleasure is…
1944 · PDF PAGE 210
SATIETY TEN OF CUPS This card represents a conflicting element. On the one hand, it receives the influence of the Ten, Malkah the Virgin. The arrangement of the cups is that of the Tree of Life. But, on the other hand, they are themselves unstable. They are tilted; they spill the water from the great Lotus which overhangs the whole system from one into the other. The work proper to water is complete: and disturbance is due. This comes from the influence of Mars in Pisces. Mars is the gross, violent and disrup‐ tive force which inevitably attack…
1944 · PDF PAGE 207
INDOLENCE EIGHT OF CUPS The Eight, Hod, in the suit of Water, governs this card. It shows the influence of Mer‐ cury, but this is overpowered by the reference of the card to Saturn in Pisces. Pisces is calm but stagnant water; and Saturn deadens it completely. Water appears no longer as the Sea but as pools; and there is no florescence in this card as there was in the last. The Lotuses droop for lack of sun and rain, and the soil is poison to them; only two of the stems show blossoms at all. The cups are shallow, old and broken. They are arrang…
1944 · PDF PAGE 206
DEBAUCH SEVEN OF CUPS This card refers to the Seven, Netzach, in the suit of Water. Here recurs the invariable weakness arising from lack of balance; also, the card is governed by Venus in Scorpio. Her dignity is not good in this Sign; one is reminded that Venus is the planet of Copper, “external splendour and internal corruption”. The Lotuses have become poisonous, looking like tiger‐ lilies; and, instead of water, green slime issues from them and overflows, making the Sea a ma‐ larious morass. Venus redoubles the influence of the number Seven…
1944 · PDF PAGE 27
…rds: Knight of Wands, Fire of Fire Queen of Wands, Water of Fire Prince of Wands, Air of Fire Princess of Wands, Earth of Fire Knight of Cups, Fire of Water Queen of Cups, Water of Water Prince of Cups, Air of Water Princess of Cups, Earth of Water Knight of Swords, Fire of Air Queen of Swords, Water of Air Prince of Swords, Air of Air Princess of Swords, Earth of Air Knight of Disks, Fire of Earth
1944 · PDF PAGE 198
LOVE TWO OF CUPS The Two always represents the Word and the Will. It is the first manifestation. There‐ fore, in the suit of Water, it must refer to Love, which recovers unity from dividuality by mu‐ tual annihilation. The card also refers to Venus in Cancer. Cancer is, more than any other, the receptive Sign; it is the House of the Moon, and in that Sign Jupiter is exalted. These are, superficially, the three most friendly of the planets. The hieroglyph of the card represents two cups in the foreground, overflowing upon a calm sea. They are fe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 156
PRINCESS OF CUPS The Princess of Cups represents the earthy part of Water; in particular, the faculty of crystallization. She represents the power of Water to give substance to idea, to support life, and to form the basis of chemical combination. She is represented as a dancing figure, robed in a flowing garment on whose edges crystals are seen to form. For her crest she wears a swan with open wings. The symbolism of this swan reminds one of the swan in oriental philosophy which is the word AUM or AUMGN, which is the symbol of the entire proces…
1944 · PDF PAGE 200
ABUNDANCE THREE OF CUPS This card refers to Binah in the suit of Water. This is the card of Demeter or Perseph‐ one. The Cups are pomegranates: they are filled bountifully to overflowing from a single lotus, arising from the dark calm sea characteristic of Binah. There is here the fulifilment of the Will of Love in abounding joy. It is the spiritual basis of fertility. The card is referred to the influence of Mercury in Cancer; this carries further the above thesis. Mercury is the Will or Word of the All‐Father; here its influence descends upon…
1944 · PDF PAGE 208
HAPPINESS NINE OF CUPS The Number Nine, Yesod, in the suit of Water, restores the stability lost by the excur‐ sions of Netzach and Hod from the Middle Pillar. It is also the number of the Moon, thus strengthening the idea of Water. In this card is the pageant of the culmination and perfection of the original force of Wa‐ ter. The Ruler is Jupiter in Pisces. This influence is more than sym pathetic; it is a definite benediction, for Jupiter is the planet of Chesed which represents Water in its highest material manifestation, and Pisces brings o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 201
LUXURY FOUR OF CUPS This card refers to Chesed in the sphere of Water. Here, below the Abyss, the energy of this element, although ordered, balanced and (for the moment) stabilized, has lost the original purity of the conception. The card refers to the Moon in Cancer, which is her own house; but Cancer itself is so placed that this implies a certain weakness, an abandonment to desire. This tends to intro‐ duce the seeds of decay into the fruit of pleasure. The sea is still shown, but its surface is ruffled, and the four Cups which stand upon it…
1944 · PDF PAGE 204
PLEASURE SIX OF CUPS This card shows the influence of the number Six, Tiphareth, in the suit of Water. This influence is fortified by that of the Sun, who also represents the Six. The whole image is that of the influence of the Sun on Water. His fierce, but balanced power operates that type of putre‐ faction‐he is in the Sign of Scorpio‐which is the basis of all fertility, all life. The lotus stems are grouped in an elaborate dancing movement. From their blossoms water gushes into the Cups, but they are not yet full to overflowing, as they are …
1944 · PDF PAGE 154
PRINCE OF CUPS The Prince of Cups represents the airy part of Water. On the one hand, elasticity, vola‐ tility, hydrostatic equilibrium; on the other hand, the catalytic faculty and the energy of steam. He rules from the 21st degree of Libra to the 20th degree of Scorpio. He is a warrior partly clad in armour, which seems, however, rather a growth than a covering. His helmet is surmounted by an eagle, and his chariot, which resembles a shell, is also drawn by an eagle. His wings are tenuous, almost of gas.. This is a reference to his power of v…
1944 · PDF PAGE 152
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. Sh…
1944 · PDF PAGE 150
KNIGHT OF CUPS The Knight of Cups represents the fiery part of Water, the swift passionate attack of rain and springs; more intimately, Water’s power of solution. He rules the Heavens from the 21st degree of Aquarius to the 20th degree of Pisces. He is clothed in black armour furnished with bright wings which, together with the leaping attitude of his white charger, indicates that he represents the most active aspect of Water. In his right hand he bears a cup from which is‐ sues a crab, the cardinal sign of Water, for aggressiveness. His totem …
1944 · PDF PAGE 101
… idea continuous and omniform. In this card she is definitely personified as a human‐seeming figure; she is repre‐ sented as bearing two cups, one golden, held high above her head, from which she pours wa‐ ter upon it. (These cups resemble breasts, as it is written: “the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paps”). The Universe is here resolved into its ultimate elements. (One is tempted to quote from the Vision of the Lake Pasquaney, “Nothingness with twinkles. . . but what twinkles!”) Behind the figure of the g…
1944 · PDF PAGE 234
…in Taurus. The disks are arranged in the shape of the geo‐ mantic figure Rubeus, the most ugly and menacing of the Sixteen. (See Five of Cups.) The at‐ mosphere of the card is that of Blight. On the background, which represents vegetation and cultivation, everything is spoiled. The four colours of Netzach appear, but they are blotched with angry indigo and reddish orange. The disks themselves are the leaden disks of Saturn. They suggest bad money.