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THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
AND WORLDLY
ARCHETYPE
OF MASTERY OF YOUR
PERSONAL EMOTIONAL INTEGRITY
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"Guided
by instincts, she is attuned to that otherworld and
finds joy in that communion of kindred spirits. For
someone else who did possess a comprehension of her
synchronicity, a misstep from her position would mean a
plunge into unfathomable depths, but no so for the Queen
of Cups. She dances on, embraced by the endless azure
ocean and heavens, and where the sea meets the sky,
there is no seam."
-
Lisa Hunt (Animals Divine Tarot) |
The
Queen of Cups is the Universal Archetype and
Worldly principle of Mastery of
Emotional Integrity. The
Magnificent Queen has her hand on the
stork which represents her
determination to express herself
naturally and
accurately, as she gives
birth to fantastic new forms,
new talents,
new identities and
new life, which are all
symbolized by the purity of the
stork.
The Queen of Cups is the
true expression of emotional
authenticity and congruity
concerning motherhood issues
and issues surrounding maternal
and female authority figures
in one’s life, including one’s own
mother. The Queen of Cups
is one of the four motherhood
symbols in the Tarot deck (The
Empress,
The Aeon and the
Princess of Disks).
In her other hand, the vibrant
Queen holds the crayfish
shell, which serves as a reminder that she
chooses integrity over
illusion/deception (the
fish standing on its tail making the sign of Neptune’s
fork).
Neptune symbolizes inspiration
or delusion when
swimming in the
vast Nature of one’s own
great emotional sea.
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"In
Greek mythology Neptune is the God of the Seas,
whose trident represents the three vital
impulses of the spirit: conservation,
reproduction and evolution (Cirlot, 1962). The
Queen of Cups is committed to expressing
Neptune’s inspiration rather than Neptune’s
illusionary or delusionary qualities. The double
reflection of the water is representative of her
constant choice to reflect her feelings
accurately ‘as above, so below’. Whatever she is
feeling inside, she is determined to reflect
accurately on the outside as a way of preventing
any dichotomy between what is felt internally
and what is being expressed externally."
- Angeles
Arrien (The Tarot Handbook) |
The
fair Queen also represents
a beautiful, fair and
dreamy woman who is good,
honest and devoted, who does
great service to the Querent.
She is bursting full of loving
intelligence, has the
tremendous gift of Vision, success,
happiness, pleasure,
wisdom and virtue.
The
Fabulous Queen symbolizes
the constant practise of owning one’s
own feelings and
expressing them without blame
or judgement. She does not
abandon, deny or
repress her feelings.
She communicates her feelings
accurately and
openly. She does not use
her feelings to attack others, nor does she apologize
for her feelings to anyone. She stands
strong in her
unique Beauty!
For men, the delightful Queen symbolizes the
anima figure, who is
totally committed to expressing feelings honestly and
responsibly. She symbolizes the
responsibility of
communicating your feelings accurately during the water
sign months of
Pisces
(February 21st
to March 21st),
Cancer (June 21st
to July 21st)
and
Scorpio (October 21st
to November 21st)
and to water sign people in
your life.
The Queen of Cups requires that you
reflect yourself
honestly as you make changes and
give birth to new
identities, new forms,
new talents and
new lifestyles.
It is important that you express yourself authentically
to water sign people, and in the
water sign months as
you make these changes and give birth to new parts of
your life. It is time to express your feelings
honestly
and openly.
In the sparkling
Shadowscapes Companion Tarot by
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law and
Barbara Moore, the
dancing Queen is
shown as poetry in pure motion,
imagination incarnate.
She dances on the swells of the
ever-changing,
ever-shifting seas, in
unison with the dance of Life
that engages all the world and its
fantastic creatures.
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"Though
her steps seem random and impulsive, she relies
upon a deep-seated knowledge. She draws her
strength from the vast abyss of the ocean. The
ancients of the deep, the sea turtles, the wise
ones of the ocean: they come swimming up to join
her in a joyous celebration. The world that they
jointly move in is like a dream. Everything is
fluid, one element melding into the next. It is
the shifting landscape of the subconscious,
overlapping with the material being of reality.
This is the essence of creation and artistic
expression."
- Stephanie
Pui-Mun Law & Barbara Moore
(Shadowscapes
Companion) |
The brave Queen heeds her
intuitions and
follows her heart.
She listens closely to the whispers of the stars, for
she treasures their wisdom. The stars have
witnessed the
world from when the seas were young.
Within the twinkling
Animals Divine Companion by
Lisa
Hunt, the Queen of Cups is akin to the
Incan goddess of
the Sea,
Mama Cocha. Her qualities are full of
expression, affection, emotion and in league with the
inner psychic vibrations of your
personal Life energy,
teaming with comfort and
compassion.
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"Mama
Cocha is the Incan goddess of the ocean. Revered
by fishermen, she provides bountiful food from
her watery realm. She is one of the oldest
divinities of ancient Peruvian cultures. She is
the giver of water and rain, providing
nourishment and good health to all those that
worship her. Mama Cocha is the sister and wife
of Viracochas. Her name translates as “mother of
the sea”. Her influenced rein high in coastal
areas, where her provisions are vital to the
survival of fishing communities."
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Lisa Hunt (Animals Divine Tarot) |
The movement of the water represents
active psychic
energy. The ebbing tides upon the sandy shore contract
sharply with the crashing waves and
mirror the
expressive side of our
eternal inner being.
The elegant swimming dolphin is at
one with the goddess,
merging with her sparkling form and
communicating
through echolocation.
Dolphins symbolize a
higher
intelligence and great intuitive powers. The
fish are
symbols of renewal and the
crab a symbol of
regeneration. The crab is an
expert at locating hidden
water caches. The spirals symbolize the
omnipresent flow
of energy.
The three seashells on the belt of
Mama Cocha represent
the natural beauty of the power of the ocean. The
conch
shell is multitudinous with its
fantastic never-ending
spirals. Mama Cocha wears a
headband and
armband, symbols of
eternity and the
oneness with all the creatures,
fauna
and flora of the
ocean. She wears the mark of the
triskelion, signifying the continuous nature of
birth,
death and
rebirth.
Mama Cocha’s
divine and
eternal flow shows that we can be
more connected with our own psychic life. The
waters of
the unconscious are teeming with life and
insights into
past, present and future. By learning how to
connect
with our inner life, we learn to become more
attuned
with our own inner being and
vital energy. We become more
empathic to everything around us. This is a
fabulous
opportunity to nurture our
intuitive flows and become
more sensitive and aware of the differing
environments
both within and without.
Written in the Magnificent Fantastical Creatures Tarot
by Lisa Hunt and
D.J. Conway the
resplendent Queen is
represented by the
mermaid, who is
strong and
resilient
with psychic power and
feelings.
The beautiful mermaid navigates the
great sea of
emotions with confidence,
grace and power. Her
spiritual
light shines over her like a
giant halo. Encircling her
are many little fish, which are ancient symbols of
divinatory messages. The
coral and
seaweed represent
emotional openness, the playful inner child, and the
ability to attract true love.
Bubbles resembling
stars in the night sky circle around
the mermaid like moons around a planet.
Stars signify other lifetimes,
spiritual progress of souls, and the
ultimate connection we all have with the
goddess and
god.
In the ancient Kleopatra Tarot, the
wise Queen is symbolized
by
Seshat,
the ancient goddess of
wisdom, Knowledge and writing. She glows with the
feminine love of a
sincere
woman, a mother, wife,
lover and
sincere friend. She
steers your endeavours into
positive fields of great
clarity and harvest. The
radiant Queen teaches how to be
sensitive to your
own Soul, allowing great wisdom,
faithfulness and fertility to come into your
Heart.
In the heroic Haindl Tarot, the legs of the
ancient
stone form go deep into the
ground. The
Queen of Cups
is shown as 'Venus' and is of the
Earth. The
Moon and
the Ocean connect her with the
goddess energy. The
landscape is green and
fertile. This symbolizes traits
which are earthy, plain, honest,
with a deep connection to
primal ancient forces.
Within the
honest and
Fabulous
Learning the Tarot by
Joan
Bunning, it is shown that the
pensive Queen is a combination of
the positive water energy of the
Cups suit with the
inward elegant focus of the
vibrant Queen herself. The
Queen has
a sweet, loving and sensitive nature to
everyone and
never reacts with anger or impatience.
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"Gentleness
that soothes and calms is the Nature of her
game. Compassion is her watchword. Her reactions
to the world are guided by her feelings. In all
matters she lets her heart lead the way. She
senses emotional currents and knows what others
are experiencing without having to ask. She is
never moody, but understands moods and their
influence. She trusts her intuition and is open
to knowledge coming from inside. She is often
moved by the beauty and tragedy of Life."
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Joan Bunning (Learning The Tarot) |
The heartfelt Queen feels deeply and has
reverence for all aspects
of Creation. Her
love embraces everyone and
everything.
The gracious Queen of Cups asks us to
think and feel as she does.
Are you aware of the emotional climate?
Do you trust your heart completely?
Are you feeling the Joy of Love?
Have you received an intuitive message?
Have you been moved by another’s pain?
The faithful Queen represents an
atmosphere of gentle love,
acceptance and respect for
feelings. She tells you that her special energy has
great meaning for you at this time.
Let yourself be
inspired by the Queen in
whatever form she
appears to in
your Life.
In the graceful and
elegant
Book of Thoth by
Aleister Crowley, the Queen of
Cups represents the watery
part of Water, its power of reception
and reflection. In the
divine Zodiac it rules from the 21st
degree of
Gemini to the 20th
degree of
Cancer. Her image is of
extreme purity and beauty,
with infinite subtlety; to see the
Truth of her is hardly
possible, for she reflects the
nature of the observer in
great perfection.
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"She
is represented as enthroned upon still water. In
her hand she bears a shell-like cup, from which
issues a crayfish, and she bears also the Lotus
of Isis, of the Great Mother. She is robed in,
and veiled by, endless curves of light, and the
sea upon which she is enthroned conveys the
almost unbroken images of the image which she
represents."
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Aleister Crowley (The Book of Thoth) |
Principles associated with Queen of Cups
are
dreaminess,
illusion and tranquillity. She is a
perfect agent and
patient, able to
receive and
transmit everything
without
herself being affected thereby. If
ill-dignified, all
these qualities are degraded; everything passing through
her is refracted and
distorted. Her characteristics
depend mostly upon the influences that affect her.
In the Yî King, the
Watery part of Water is
represented by the 58th
hexagram, Tui. The commentary is as
colourless as the card; it consists of
mild exhortations on the
subject of pleasure. It can
be said that people of this type have no character at
all of their own, unless it can be called a
characteristic to be at the
disposition of every impact or
impression. It is hinted
that the chief pleasure of people
of this type is to lead
and attract others.
The dignified
Lon Milo DuQuette in
Understanding
Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot states that the
luminous
Queen of
Cups bears a striking resemblance to
Atu II, the
High
Priestess. The lustrous Queen
rules from June 11th
to July 11th
and she rules the
Ten of Swords, the
Two of Cups and the
Three of Cups.
The glowing Queen is known as ‘The Queen of the Thrones of
Water’ and ‘Queen of the Nymphs or Undines’. She is
Binah in
Briah (Water of Water) symbolizing
emotion
directing emotion and is akin to women aged
thirty six
and older.
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"Water
of Water is tantamount to saying reflection of
reflection, or mirror to mirror. The Queen of
Cups is popular and makes friends easily
because, when others look at her, they see only
themselves. If ill dignified, she can be
dangerous and cruel, distorting the reflections
she casts back on her unsuspecting victims, who
then see only monsters in the mirror."
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Lon Milo DuQuette
(Understanding Crowley’s Thoth Tarot) |
The Magnificent Queen has
appeared in your Life to give
you a great gift. This is the
Magnificent Nature of
Emotional personal Integrity, allowing you a
deep
connection into your own Soul, granting you the
tranquillity and
power to
listen to your innermost
feelings and hence be sensitive to the
feelings of
others. It is a time of honesty within yourself and an
opportunity to give birth to new forms,
new energies in
your own Life. See the world and
yourself as a divine
and sacred place and
space.
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Being Loving
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turning away wrath with caring
unconditionally accepting
sensitive to feelings of others
dispelling anger and hate
having infinite patience
oneness with God and the Universe
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- Being Tender-Hearted -
easily
moved by another’s pain
having sensitivity and compassion
kind and gentle with all creatures
helping someone in need
feeling what others are feeling
having reverence for all Life
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- Listening to Intuition -
turned to
emotional undercurrents
sensing the climate of the situation
being guided by the heart
trusting inner truth
understanding without need to ask
finding Joy in communion
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- Psychic intuition -
open to
the unconscious
well-developed sixth sense
telepathic bond with another
has finely tuned sensibility
natural medium
appreciating deeper Life
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WORLD AND
OCCUPATION
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- feeling Oneself Loved -
humanity,
idealism, true love, caring, warmth , domesticity,
sensitivity, passion, beauty, good taste, affection,
friendliness , artistry, lightness, home, childbearing,
motherliness, laugher, romance, support, pregnancy,
hearth, generosity, marriage, charm, mediums, doctors,
counsellors, nurses, care-givers, clairvoyants,
philanthropists, healers, visionaries, psychic healers |
NEGATIVE
PATH
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Treading Path of Fear -
heedlessness,
laziness, evil, impressionability, hypochondria,
superficiality, manipulation, control,
hypersensitivity , apathy, fear, smothering
attention, irrationality, extreme introversion,
paranoia, domination , gullibility, vacillation,
neurasthenia, hesitation, weakness, intellectual
retardation, vampirism, emotional blackmail,
timidity, neurosis, pettiness, vacuity
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REVERSED
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- Going against the Divine -
suspicion , loss of optimism, broken hopes,
relationship terminated or ruined,
abandonment, fears of motherhood, fear of
domestic responsibilities, inability to
physically bear children, indifference,
anti-social feelings, recrimination,
misdiagnosis, loss, indecency, pessimism,
betrayal, rejection, denial of strong ally,
denial of strong friendship, lost care,
warning against marriage, fatalism, warning
against having children, shallowness,
withdrawal, feeling unsupported,
ostracization, woman not to be trusted,
pain, poverty, dishonour, abortion,
parsimony, poor health, miscarriage, death,
coldness, vice, perversion, out of touch
with physical realities, depravity, ruin |
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"The reversal
asks to strengthen the positive and release the
negative. Any path will always lead to both
being fulfilled."
- Michael
Tsarion |
- Research sources -
Taroscopes
by
Michael Tsarion
Röhrig
Tarot by
Carl-W. Röhrig
Arcus Arcanum Tarot by
Hager Gunter
The Tarot Handbook by
Angeles Arrien
The Book of Thoth by
Aleister Crowley
Animals Divine Companion
by Lisa Hunt
Fantastical Creatures
by Lisa Hunt
&
D.J. Conway
Thoth
Tarot by
Aleister Crowley &
Lady Frieda Harris
Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot by
Pamela Colman Smith
Shadowscapes
by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
& Barbara Moore
Understanding Crowley’s Thoth Tarot
by Lon Milo DuQuette
Robin Wood Tarot
by Robin Wood
& Michael Short
Kleopatra Tarot
by Etta Stoico
& Silvana Alasia
Connolly Tarot
by Eileen
& Peter Paul
Connolly
Learning the Tarot
by Joan Bunning
Haindl Tarot by
Hermann Haindl
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