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Ace of Cups
The Root of the Powers of Water
Divinatory Meanings
The Minor Arcana Cards
The Suit of Cups
(14 cards) represent the following: ...
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 Tarot Suit of Cups
The Minor Arcana of the Tarot is comprised of four suits: Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. Each suit is made up of cards numbered from one to ten and four court cards: King, Queen, Knight and Page.
Cups: Spiritual and emotional, often corresponding to feelings and relationships. Both positive and negative emotional reactions, illustrates the fluidity and instability of Water.
Two of Cups
The Two of Cups signifies a union of soul-mates, often with an Adam and Eve theme, traditionally described as a romantic relationship, but implying all partnerships based on affinity and deep mutual understanding.
Suits: Rods, Cups, Pentacles, Swords
Other Information:
Described by the publisher as an "authentic interpretation of the medieval Tarot." Deck comes with an accompanying 15-page instruction leaflet.
For a field that does not produce fruits, take eight cups from eight houses and fill them with water from eight rivers, and put salt into them from eight houses, and say over them No.
The wands suit corresponds with the modern clubs suit; cups with hearts; swords with spades; and pentacles with diamonds. Each suit has 14 cards, with numbered cards from ace to ten and four unnumbered face cards: king, queen, knight, and knave.
The four suits of the minor trumps represent also the major divisions of society: cups are the priesthood, swords the military, coins the tradesmen, and rods the farming class.
As we start upon the path, our cups are empty, but in time, and with experience, the knowledge grows into wisdom, which over floweth our cups with the lustrial waters of the Heavens. The cup represents the water element, and its attributes therein.
This thread is the mind, and this mind, unsubdued and inconstant, wanders out among the things of earth, is moved by passions and desires, hopes and fears, longs to taste all cups of sense-delights, ...
Prior to this, the minor arcana (or "pip" cards) of the Tarot were illustrated with various geometric arrangements of the four suit symbols - Cups, Swords, Batons and Coins.
One of the main "elements" in occultism; associated in the West with emotions, intuition, blue, green, silver, cups, bowls, wisdom, passivity, cleansing, passive psychic arts, cold, dampness, etc.
Water Witching ...
There is a flow of energy, backwards and forwards, between 2 cups. Further, the Spear used to pierce the side of Christ on the cross has a metal point in the shape of an elongated triangle. A symbolic reference to the 3 Mother letters.
Besides which there were Trees also laden with sorts of precious Fruits for Food: and Rivers with Fountains flowing with spiced Wine, and Cups and Flagons round about the Fountain.
 See also: Tarot, Spirit, World, Ritual, Sword
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