Category: Cups

Princess of Cups

 

This month I picked a card to see what would be of use to talk about with you all…

Princess of Cups

This is a beautiful card of self-worth and value. Princesses as we have seen before correspond to the position 10 on the Kabbalah – Malkuth, this is the point of manifestation of the suit. The princesses are the manifestation of the potential we find in an ace. So here we have an emotional new start, where much work has been done in the emotional realm and can now be put into practice on the physical plane.

So in relationships, this is a card of emotional freedom, there is no need for jealousy, manipulation, power games etc. These things have been explored and now are no longer needed. There is trust and freedom and also joy. The swan of her head is a symbol of freedom but also a symbol of monogamy and trust between people. She holds the lotus upright and high and is able to see love everywhere and through everyone.

She offers her talents and skills to everyone without wish for reward, yet also without pushing herself on anyone – she quietly helps out and moves on, she needs no recognition and is able to protect herself through her own innocence and comfort with her vulnerability. She seems to sidestep power games that others offer her invites to play, effortlessly. She is pure and capable, receptive and free.

The dolphin symbolises love and trust as well as the idea of loving guardianship of this world and all that is in it.

This card is earth of water and so is the physical practical application of emotional knowledge and understanding. So she is empathic, understanding and loving in all she does.

As a card representing a person she can also represent a sensitive young child – or someone older with the apparent innocence of someone very young. With this youth or youthfulness comes simple wisdom and ways of seeing the world which cut through the complexities we often have learnt to use as resistance to doing what is in our heart. The answer and the truth is often so much more simple, but almost too hard to see for our doubts. The princess can see through these things and get to the core by trusting her own views on the world and trusting what is in her heart. She lives by the truth that all is love ultimately.

6 cups – Pleasure

This is a wonderful card of harmony and joy. The sixes in the Thoth deck correspond to Tiphareth on the Qabalah and as such as the most perfected point of the element they are in. Here we have joy in just being, the cups are not over full nor empty, they are in a balanced state of harmony connected together with the passion of expression of the self. It is life coming easily and also sexual pleasure, the idea of no goal, just enjoyment of the moment, sensuality and self-expression in the now. The cups are all about the emotions and emotional realms so when this card comes up you can be sure to be enjoying the time or area of life represented (unless in a difficult position… ‘what to avoid’ for eg)

6 cups

The card is connected with sun in Scorpio so there is a feeling of the positive emotional feelings being creative, fertile and productive. Also the idea of commitment to the moment, Scorpio is the fixed water sign, and as such likes to maintain the feelings of this moment and delve into them deeply. So this card represents getting the most out of the good time that is with you. Allow yourself to fully experience the pleasures available to you as with everything it is a peak time and will not be maintained for ever so enjoy every moment while you can. In this sense it can also represent a holiday, or ‘honeymoon period’ of a relationship.

It’s position of Tiphareth also indicates the highest expression of spiritual joy in a physical way – Tiphareth being the point at which the son of God is made man ( in Christian symbolism) for the 6’s The 6 cups is the highest pleasure one can experience through earthly experience, one of the ways to gain this is through sexual pleasure and this card brings this association and energy forward to us.

Both the Scorpio sun and Tiphareth in the emotional world, indicate passion, desire and expression of deep emotions in a positive way.

There is movement in the sea below – the emotional arena must keep moving to prevent stagnation as was once experienced in the 4 cups, so with this knowledge this pleasure is not clinged to despite the delving into its depth. It is as it is and the honesty of the moment is experienced as an eternal truth until the energies change for more development of the soul. It is a card of experiencing the joy of renewal of positive emotions about oneself as well as about others. Celebration and fulfilment, enjoyable activities in what ever area of life the reading indicates. It is a wonderful card to experience.

Prince of Cups

 

Prince of Cups
This month I am going to muse upon the Prince of Cups the card drawn for you all this time…
This card is particularly powerful in the Thoth deck I feel. It talks of emotional exploration and the connection with another both emotionally and very often sexually too. A time for open exploration in a relationship, of all the desires and fantasies each partner has, nothing censored and all shared with the view to love and connect on a deeper level. Though as a court card, this card can represent a person who is youthful in outlook, free and prepared to try anything once, he also follows his passion and desire wherever it may lead and so often may indicate that the relationship – though very passionate, open and caring may not last forever, and when the exchange of ideas and feelings has been done then each person moves on with greater integration in their lives. Of course in a committed long-term relationship, the freedom aspect of this card can indicate that the two partners are able to be freer than perhaps they once were – to both express and experience feelings and desires with each other – even if some of the fantasies involve others, without jealousy or discomfort. It is like all the truth is set free for the possibility of transformation of each person.
Prince Cups

The building of love is less the focus than personal discovery honesty and truth coloured with spiritual clarity. It is like the love is there and assumed – no long needs to be the focus to grow – but grows through the open acceptance of each other and each persons respective growth path. 

This card can also represent travel to foreign lands – by air in particular for the purposes of self-development and growth – rather than just a holiday, a sense of wanting to be changed by the experience and this being the main goal. 

This card is also about allowing yourself to face what your true desires are in life – not just in the relationship realm but also in career, family and spiritually – it asks us to look at what is it we really are inspired by – what would give us the greatest pleasure. As we acknowledge the deepest desires in ourselves we come to see that perhaps our dreams are not so impossible and perhaps we can indeed create our world in the image of our desires and all will be well. In fact it turns out it is what we are here to do. Great insight into the self can be attained by allowing our unconscious to have more free rein on our lives and showing us where we are going and how that differs or not from what we truly want in this life. All is allowed, once acknowledging that our wants and needs are as important as others we can express ourselves and often our assumptions about others responses is incorrect and there is more space to move then we have allowed ourselves. Set yourself free! Embrace it all and allow yourself to be changed by the truth within you. 

My Associations with the simple image forms:
blue – communication
purple – spiritual force
flower – love and the attainment of spiritual love
snake – transformation, sexuality
cup – emotional being
naked prince – open and honesty
bird – freedom, strength, power, over view of the world and emotional being, accepting all seen
wind – freedom, making a difference, allowing movement to cause change outside oneself too
chariot – secure base within the freedom, vehicle for movement forward
water – flow, change, emotion, depths of unconscious
Prince – Tiphareth on the Qabbala – connection between spirit and earth, tantric sex, transformation of spiritual self through the connection with another human in an open way channelling the Source energy of all that is by finding all that is within the self, the dark and the light, particularly accepting all emotional forms within the self.