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Radiant: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Queen of Cups
B.O.T.A. Tarot-Queen of Cups
Astrologically, the Queen of Cups is in the last Decan of Gemini and the First two Decans of Cancer.
Both the Rider-Waite-Smith and B.O.T.A. card concentrates on this aspect of tranquility. Here She is seat on a throne, on the shore of a tranquil sea, with ornate moon chalice in hand. She uses this moon chalice, to see her visions.
Again, Waite and Smith, in their very ornate card, shows only the mundane meanings of this card. Medieval art rather than the Avant-garde art of Lady Frieda Harris's Qabalistic Thoth Deck. Lady Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley went into the deeper arcane meanings of Qabalistic Tarot (see these comparisons on the nontraditional tarot blogs of elitarotstrickingy.com).
Every depiction in the B.O.T.A. and Rider-Waite-Smith card says water, her clothing, the sea and shoreline and the Moon Chalice and the mer-children, one with a fish, images that decorates her throne .
The B.O.T.A. Tarot has the Queen of Cups facing in another direction, her she is facing to the right of the Card, instead of the left, as does the Rider-Waite-Smith card. She is dressed the blue color, in different shades, of Water, the Universal Element that she is associated with. Here the B.O.T.A. card concentrates more on her characteristics of imagination, poetic tendencies and gifts of Vision, as she stares into the Grail-Cup. Here throne is decorated in fish (Fish is the Alchemical symbol for "first material".) and crustaceans. Crustaceans being the symbol for renewal, and regeneration as they shed their shells to grow larger. There is a ship sailing on the sea, as would thoughts sail in the currents of the Universal Collective Unconscious mind, that she represents.
The Queen of cups represents Specific Water in the Realm of Primal Water. In other words; She is the "will to form" intelligence that resides in the Divine Collective Unconscious. Here the "Will to Form" of Binah (3rd Sephiroth of Tree of Life) is "reflecting on consciousness" as an archetypal personality .
When the Queen of Cups is thrown during a reading:
- The querent is showing issues surrounding motherhood
- Suggesting emotional empowerment, as the querent is able to express feelings honestly, blamelessly and without judgment.
- Implies too much imagination about issues and not enough action taken to solve them.
- Emotional and Intuitive capability that show highly evolved interpersonal interactions and psychic abilities.
- Implies the querent is extremely empathetic and thus must watch out for moodiness and fluctuating feelings that often come from those around her.
- Suggests that one inspires from within and could be a time of Deep inner musings, thoughts focused within where the mind is engulfed in Imagination.
- That a mature woman of deep sexual and fertility powers, where everything in her life is related to nourishment, sexual exchange, passionate giving and receiving maybe involved in the life of the querent or is the querent.
- Motherhood, or new ideas formulating for a creative line of work.
- An ethereal person of the highest ideals imagined....sometimes unattainable in the physical world of constant change.
- Wisdom and virtue.
- Can denote a perfect spouse and a good mother.
If reversed:
- Distinguished woman who is not to be trusted.
- Vice.
- Perverse woman.
- Dishonor.
- Depravity.
- The Step Mother of fairy tales.
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