May 25-27, 2014: Ten of Cups

Al-Shariyf

SATIETY
(Previously called, “Perfected Success.”)
Ten of Cups

Meditation Pattern: Place Atu XVI, The Tower, and Atu XVIII, The Moon, side-by-side, with the 10 of Cups above them.

Traditional Description: A bunch of water-lilies or lotuses, whose flowers pour white water into the ten cups, overrunning them all. The uppermost cup is tipped sideways, and pours water into the left-hand upper cup. A single lotus flower surmounts the top cup, and is the source of the water that fills it. Above and below, the symbols Mars and Pisces.

Malkuth of Water: Matter settled; complete good fortune. The pursuit of pleasure brought to success.

Mars/Pisces: Permanent and lasting success and happiness, because inspired from above. Not so sensual as the “Happiness” of the 9 of Cups, yet almost more truly happy. Pleasure, dissipation, debauchery; quietness, peacemaking. Kindness, pity, generosity, wantonness, waste, dissipation, craving for drugs, lack of self-control, unreliability in romance; all according to dignity.

Malkuth + Mars: Sensuousness, intractability, a fondness for material things. Potentially avaricious and vindictive; yet also capable of a vital, energetic, successful way of living the practical life in the world.

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Danica

Hot water... (it comes boiling!)
Fulfillment of emotional desire.
Strong subconscious drives and impulses manifested on material plane (could be either painful or pleasurable).
Penetrative-ness and aggression of the soft principle.
A “full cup” (drawback: nothing more can be poured into it).

Fiery idealism expressed through practical, particular deeds.
Continual devotion; being conscious of own actions as Service for the Highest.
Zeal and self-sacrifice in following an ideal.

Energized, enthusiastic approach to that which is perceived as Ideal; strong will to manifest the Ideal, intentional use of own emotions towards that end.
Post-coital state, sexual organs still conjoined, energies of both partners “melted” together.
Appetites, all of them! especially: touch, food.
Blood that flows in His name (may be spilled, but the main point is that it flows inside the body, picture of life pulsating for that which is Transcendent)
“Secret enemies”, one’s own inner obstacles: inner factors of destruction, addiction to the partial, transient, etc.
Soft and adaptable on the outside, vehement force on the inside.
To give all of oneself, to be able to die for the Ideal; a practical contemporary mystic, whose existence is dedicated to the Transcendence in every breath, with every cell of his/her body. Parambhakti in every-day reality.

Al-Shariyf

Day one
I'm getting the impression of the energy of a wild night out. It's aggressive, fast paced, full of highs & lows.

Day two
A creative cycle, cheap thrills, short lasting fulfillment, emotional indulgence that is counter-productive to the situation, emotional payoffs of an addict (of food, drink, sex, etc.) intoxication - divine or temporal depending on the dignity, satisfaction of base emotional drives. Pregnancy.

Also only worked on this card for 2 days. Oy vey