May 8 - 10, 2012: Prince Of Cups
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THE PRINCE OF THE CHARIOT OF THE WATERS
The Prince of Cups – Prince & Emperor of Nymphs or Undines.
AIR of WATERMeditation pattern: Place 4 of Swords, 5 of Cups, and 6 of Cups side-by-side, with the Prince of Cups above them. Below the two Cups, place Atu XIII, Death.
Traditional Description: A winged, princely figure with winged crown, seated in a chariot drawn by an eagle. On the chariot wheel is the symbol of a scorpion. The eagle is borne as a crest on his crown, cuirass, and buskins. General attire like Prince of Wands. Beneath his chariot is the calm and stagnant water of a lake. His armor resembles feathers more than scales. He holds in one hand a lotus, and in the other a cup, charged with the sigil of his scale (Vav). A serpent issues from the cup, and has its head tending down toward the waters of the lake.
VAV of HEH (AIR of WATER). The Son of the Mother, or Reason as the medium of expressing the depths of the soul. Although he is thus philosopher and, in a lesser sense, artist, his essential quality is dynamic passion. The airy part of Water is its currents – its mobility, its elasticity, and especially its flowing, rhythmic, wave-like behavior that mirrors the currents of life energy. As Vav of Briah, he is the form that self-conscious reason takes in Briah. He is thus a Hero in the campaign of the soul’s exploration and conquest, armed especially with self-reflective and self-knowing attributions: self-consciousness serving as a bridge between intuition and reason, a “revealer of the Mysteries” by the active exploration and experience of the life forces.
He rules from 20° Libra to 20° Scorpio. His chief astrological correspondence is to the masculine, positive, aggressive, passionate Mars and Sun decanates of Scorpio. He is, thus, in close affinity with the surging tides of the life force. These two decanates are called PLEASURE, and LOSS OF PLEASURE (or DISAPPOINTMENT): Like all Princes, he rides the pendulum swing between extremes. In him is no room for mildness. He is in the passionate embrace either of pleasure or its loss – passion or pathos – without middle ground or moderation. As such, he is the chief agency steering the solar-phallic powers of life and death that obtain their balance in Scorpio. It is his inner passionate tension that empowers his conscious access to the World of Briah. (He does not, however partake of the Venus-ruled third decanate, called “Debauch.” There is no such wallowing or passivity in him. His is a virile, sustained passion.)
His shadow is the last decanate of Libra, ruled by Jupiter and called TRUCE, or REST FROM STRIFE. Such is not his way! Such “rest,” or easing up the internal pressure, would compromise his necessary sustained tension. It is only characteristic of him in his total exhaustion.
In divination, he is masculine, virile, aggressive, torrential, and artistic, characterized by dynamic passions; a fierce nature with calm exterior. Self-reflective, self-knowing. Embraces extremes of passion and pathos, with little middle ground. Powerful for good or evil; but more attracted by the evil if it is allied with apparent Power or Wisdom. If ill-dignified, he is intensely evil and merciless.
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It can be a burden having such an active residence in Briah, knowing and watching the genesis of every emotion behind the actions and inaction of those around you.
Most don't even see it in themselves, let alone expect others to.
Especially so when you yourself are the genesis, the fountainhead of what's dynamic in the situation.
You can watch your every action, inaction, utterly define a person's state of being, all in the subtlety of the Braitic undertow, unknown to anyone but you.
You can tailor your own ego, charisma, to that persons' Briatic imprint, and you can control them.
This power is a burden when it's not wanted.Understanding can be a burden when it's not shared.
I attribute this card to the Titan Atlas, the mind holding the weight of understanding its own nature(and therefor the natures of others).
Being that he had Heaven on his shoulders, all the Greeks knew of the celestial goal they aspired to was what Atlas told them. He had the power to decide what reality they lived in, as it was them that created it from his Words. -
"It can be a burden having such an active residence in Briah, knowing and watching the genesis of every emotion behind the actions and inaction of those around you.
Most don't even see it in themselves, let alone expect others to.
Especially so when you yourself are the genesis, the fountainhead of what's dynamic in the situation.
You can watch your every action, inaction, utterly define a person's state of being, all in the subtlety of the Braitic undertow, unknown to anyone but you.
You can tailor your own ego, charisma, to that persons' Briatic imprint, and you can control them.
This power is a burden when it's not wanted.
"At my current job, I am being trained to monitor, interrupt and bypass my internal dialogue when it starts going "haywire". When I'm able to do this, I get very present to the fact that I am the one creating the way my experience shows up for me. Then I get present to the fact that everyone around me is doing the same thing I.E. creating how their worlds occur for them. Knowing this, it becomes easy to "speak into their world" and create a "future for them to live into". It's an awesome skill to have. One worth developing.
I imagine the Prince of Cups as being someone who has this skill to some extent. He can show up as a hustler, a wheeler and dealer. A saavy salesman. A pimp or pusher. There's something alluring and dark about him.
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@Al-Shariyf said
"At my current job, I am being trained to monitor, interrupt and bypass my internal dialogue when it starts going "haywire". When I'm able to do this, I get very present to the fact that I am the one creating the way my experience shows up for me. Then I get present to the fact that everyone around me is doing the same thing I.E. creating how their worlds occur for them. Knowing this, it becomes easy to "speak into their world" and create a "future for them to live into". It's an awesome skill to have. One worth developing. "
I can certainly see how this would be useful in the business world.
I've just been able to do this on and off throughout my whole conscious life. In fact, my intuition is hard-wired to do it in any situation. It makes for a lonely world when you have the ability to move around people's egos like marionettes, people I hoped to have emotional connections with. They become algorithms and the soul is lost. Like my parents. Because of this, I grew up very emotionally distant. Innate intelligence put me through a whirlwind of a childhood, as it made me a minority among the emotionally blind.
But I'm 17 now, 18 in a couple months, so I'm learning to channel it.