| THE SUIT OF CUPS King |
He holds a short sceptre in his left hand and a great cup in his right;
his throne is set upon the sea; on one side a ship is riding and on the
other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is that the Sign of the Cup
naturally refers to water, which appears in all the court cards.
Divinatory Meanings: Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity;
responsible, disposed to oblige the Querent; also equity, art and
science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative
intelligence. Reversed: Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery,
exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
his throne is set upon the sea; on one side a ship is riding and on the
other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is that the Sign of the Cup
naturally refers to water, which appears in all the court cards.
Divinatory Meanings: Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity;
responsible, disposed to oblige the Querent; also equity, art and
science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative
intelligence. Reversed: Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery,
exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
| Queen |
Beautiful, fair, dreamy--as one who sees visions in a cup. This is,
however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and
her activity feeds her dream. Divinatory Meanings: Good, fair woman;
honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving
intelligence, and hence the gift of vision; success, happiness,
pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a perfect spouse and a good mother.
Reversed: The accounts vary; good woman; otherwise, distinguished
woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonour,
depravity.
however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and
her activity feeds her dream. Divinatory Meanings: Good, fair woman;
honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving
intelligence, and hence the gift of vision; success, happiness,
pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a perfect spouse and a good mother.
Reversed: The accounts vary; good woman; otherwise, distinguished
woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonour,
depravity.
Graceful, but not warlike; riding quietly, wearing a winged helmet,
referring to those higher graces of the imagination which sometimes
characterize this card. He too is a dreamer, but the images of the side
of sense haunt him in his vision. Divinatory Meanings: Arrival,
approach--sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition,
demeanour, invitation, incitement. Reversed: Trickery, artifice,
subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
referring to those higher graces of the imagination which sometimes
characterize this card. He too is a dreamer, but the images of the side
of sense haunt him in his vision. Divinatory Meanings: Arrival,
approach--sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition,
demeanour, invitation, incitement. Reversed: Trickery, artifice,
subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent
aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the
pictures of the mind taking form. Divinatory Meanings: Fair young
man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will
be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application,
reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business.
Reversed: Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception,
artifice.
aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the
pictures of the mind taking form. Divinatory Meanings: Fair young
man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will
be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application,
reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business.
Reversed: Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception,
artifice.
| Ten |
Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is contemplated in wonder and
ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His
right arm is about her; his left is raised upward; she raises her right
arm. The two children dancing near them have not observed the
prodigy but are happy after their own manner. There is a home-scene
beyond. Divinatory Meanings: Contentment, repose of the entire
heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and
friendship; if with several picture-cards, a person who is taking charge
of the Querent's interests; also the town, village or country inhabited
by the Querent. Reversed: Repose of the false heart, indignation,
violence.
ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His
right arm is about her; his left is raised upward; she raises her right
arm. The two children dancing near them have not observed the
prodigy but are happy after their own manner. There is a home-scene
beyond. Divinatory Meanings: Contentment, repose of the entire
heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and
friendship; if with several picture-cards, a person who is taking charge
of the Querent's interests; also the town, village or country inhabited
by the Querent. Reversed: Repose of the false heart, indignation,
violence.
| Nine |
A goodly personage has feasted to his heart's content, and abundant
refreshment of wine is on the arched counter behind him, seeming to
indicate that the future is also assured. The picture offers the material
side only, but there are other aspects. Divinatory Meanings: Concord,
contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage;
satisfaction for the Querent or person for whom the consultation is
made. Reversed: Truth, loyalty, liberty; but the readings vary and
include mistakes, imperfections, etc.
refreshment of wine is on the arched counter behind him, seeming to
indicate that the future is also assured. The picture offers the material
side only, but there are other aspects. Divinatory Meanings: Concord,
contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage;
satisfaction for the Querent or person for whom the consultation is
made. Reversed: Truth, loyalty, liberty; but the readings vary and
include mistakes, imperfections, etc.
| Eight |
A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity,
enterprise, undertaking or previous concern. Divinatory Meanings:
The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are
entirely antithetical--giving joy, mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In
practice, it is usually found that the card shews the decline of a
matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is
really of slight consequence--either for good or evil. Reversed: Great
joy, happiness, feasting.
enterprise, undertaking or previous concern. Divinatory Meanings:
The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are
entirely antithetical--giving joy, mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In
practice, it is usually found that the card shews the decline of a
matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is
really of slight consequence--either for good or evil. Reversed: Great
joy, happiness, feasting.
| Seven |
Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especially those
of the fantastic spirit. Divinatory Meanings: Fairy favours, images of
reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen in the glass of
contemplation; some attainment in these degrees, but nothing
permanent or substantial is suggested. Reversed: Desire, will,
determination, project.
of the fantastic spirit. Divinatory Meanings: Fairy favours, images of
reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen in the glass of
contemplation; some attainment in these degrees, but nothing
permanent or substantial is suggested. Reversed: Desire, will,
determination, project.
| Six |
Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers. Divinatory
Meanings: A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as--for
example--on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from
the past; things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this,
giving new relations, new knowledge, new environment, and then the
children are disporting in an unfamiliar precinct. Reversed: The
future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.
Meanings: A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as--for
example--on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from
the past; things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this,
giving new relations, new knowledge, new environment, and then the
children are disporting in an unfamiliar precinct. Reversed: The
future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.
| Five |
A dark, cloaked figure, looking sideways at three prone cups two
others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background,
leading to a small keep or holding. Divanatory Meanings: It is a card
of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two
are left; it is a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not
corresponding to expectations; with some interpreters it is a card of
marriage, but not without bitterness or frustration. Reversed: News,
alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects.
others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background,
leading to a small keep or holding. Divanatory Meanings: It is a card
of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two
are left; it is a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not
corresponding to expectations; with some interpreters it is a card of
marriage, but not without bitterness or frustration. Reversed: News,
alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects.
| Four |
A young man is seated under a tree and contemplates three cups set
on the grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers him
another cup. His expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with
his environment. Divinatory Meanings: Weariness, disgust, aversion,
imaginary vexations, as if the wine of this world had caused satiety
only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now offered the wastrel, but he
sees no consolation therein. This is also a card of blended pleasure.
Reversed: Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.
on the grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers him
another cup. His expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with
his environment. Divinatory Meanings: Weariness, disgust, aversion,
imaginary vexations, as if the wine of this world had caused satiety
only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now offered the wastrel, but he
sees no consolation therein. This is also a card of blended pleasure.
Reversed: Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.
| Three |
Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one
another. Divinatory Meanings: The conclusion of any matter in plenty,
perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace,
healing, Reversed: Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies
also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of
the senses.
another. Divinatory Meanings: The conclusion of any matter in plenty,
perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace,
healing, Reversed: Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies
also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of
the senses.
| Two |
A youth and maiden are pledging one another, and above their cups
rises the Caduceus of Hermes, between the great wings of which
there appears a lion's head. It is a variant of a sign which is found in a
few old examples of this card. Some curious emblematical meanings
are attached to it, but they do not concern us in this place. Divinatory
Meanings: Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord,
sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and--as a suggestion apart
from all offices of divination--that desire which is not in Nature, but by
which Nature is sanctified.
rises the Caduceus of Hermes, between the great wings of which
there appears a lion's head. It is a variant of a sign which is found in a
few old examples of this card. Some curious emblematical meanings
are attached to it, but they do not concern us in this place. Divinatory
Meanings: Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord,
sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and--as a suggestion apart
from all offices of divination--that desire which is not in Nature, but by
which Nature is sanctified.
| Ace |
The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues
from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams
are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends
to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It
is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana.
Divinatory Meanings: House of the true heart, joy, content, abode,
nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.
Reversed: House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.
from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams
are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends
to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It
is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana.
Divinatory Meanings: House of the true heart, joy, content, abode,
nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.
Reversed: House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.
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The Pictorial Key To The Tarot: Part 3