May 11-13, 2012: Princess of Cups
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THE PRINCESS OF THE WATERS;
THE LOTUS OF THE PALACE OF THE FLOODS
The Princess of Cups – Princess & Empress of the Nymphs or Undines
Throne of the Ace of Cups
EARTH of WATERMeditation pattern: Place side-by-side Atus VIII, Adjustment; XIII, Death; and XIV, Art. Center the Princess of Cups above them. Optionally, place the Ace of Cups above her.
Traditional Description: A beautiful Amazon-like figure, softer in nature than the Princess of Wands. Her attire is similar. She stands on a sea with foaming spray. Away to her right is a dolphin. She wears, as a crest, a swan with opening wings. She bears in one hand a lotus, and in the other an open cup from which a turtle issues. Her mantle is lined with swans down, and is of thin, floating material.
HEH-Final of HEH (EARTH of WATER): Heh-the-Daughter in the field of operation of Heh-the-Mother. She represents the incarnate, individual human soul in relationship to the Higher Soul and its universal spiritual patterns. How well the card is dignified will reflect the conditions of this relationship: usually, it implies a harmony between the two, though if ill dignified it can represent disharmony in their relationship. As Earth of Water, she is the embodiment of the idea of Water, expressed (for example) as crystallization. Ideas associated with Water are given solid form. She is nurturing like the Queen, but more especially represents actions of love, the products of creativity, etc.
Similarly, she is the function of action within the World of Briah: e.g., acting in harmony, acting in response to intuition, etc. She participates in an understanding of the higher life-principles that the Queen represents. It is then her function to bring these into actuality, whether by active or inactive means. She is thus a life-artist, lending substance to ideas and ideals. She rules that quadrant of the heavens about the North Ecliptical Pole reaching from 0° Libra to 30° Sagittarius, centered on the Watery Kerubic constellation Scorpio. She is the Throne of the Ace of Cups. Scorpio (Nun), as the Kerubic constellation of Water, is the main feature. To it is attributed the Imaginative Consciousness, which “provides an Image to all created things that have an appearance, in a form fitting to each.” That is, Scorpio represents the passage of that eternal, living ONE THING (which persists through all change) through a series of successive forms or adaptations consistent with its actual nature.
This Princess symbolizes those powers of consciousness (including creative imagination) that provide to an existing Briatic awareness the form and image by which it appears. Libra (Lamed) refers to karma, i.e., works and acts: specifically, ethical actions, being grounded in Briah. Sagittarius (Samekh) corresponds to the establishment of the healing and illimitable love of Briah within the human soul, and the undertaking of actions in conformity with that Love, and in service to the even deeper Will-impulse of which it is the primary vehicle.
In divination, the character displays sweetness, poetry, gentleness, nurturing, and kindness. She is imaginative, artistic, reflective, intuitive, dreamy, at times indolent, yet courageous if roused. Ethical action. Harmony between one’s soul and the universal spiritual patterns of the Higher Soul. If ill-dignified she is selfish and luxurious. Disharmony between one’s soul and the Higher Soul.
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