The Tarot of Eli 2, LLC: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Two of Cups & The Connolly Tarot- 2 of Cups.

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The Rider-Waite-Smith Two of Cups emphasizes the mundane and esoteric meaning of love, marriage, and partnership. The Male and Female are obvious, she in the moon and watercolors of blue and White. He in the solar colors of yellow and red (the wreath on his head). In Qabalah, it is known that the Water (consciousness, intuitions, and emotion) can only flow through the agitating movement provided by Chokmah-Fire-Intellect. This is a joyous union Tarot showing the 2nd Sephiroth-Chokmah as Fire in the Red colored Winged Lion. The Lion image is also used to signify the Sun or "Solar Logos" or The Word. The Caduceus symbol besides being a symbol for the Modified DNA molecule, is also a symbol of Union of Female and Male force as well as Mercury/Hermes, which is also suggested in the Winged aspect of the Logos/Lion. Therefore, the love between a couple is a message or communication from the Will and the Word. In other words, "God is Love".

Here love is seen as a union of Spirit, Mind and Body. The number 2, of any card suit, represents the Word and the Will. Therefore, the 2 of Cups is the first manifestation in the Suit of Water which is called Love. Love is not a gentle force, because of the mutual annihilation of the individual by the process of Union; when the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine Unite, there is no male or female present, only the Divine Androgen exists. Both lovers present the marriage cups to one another, signifying a loving relationship. The background is a fertile land and a comfortable home, both implying a happy physical relationship as both a communion of the Feminine Element of Intuitive/emotional Water (Blue/White) and the Masculine Element of Rational Mind, creating a happy union.

The Connolly Tarot- 2 of Cups continues with its medieval stain glass art approach to the "RWS Tarot. Here then is the interrelationship of the sexes apart from all offices of divination, being that which is sanctified in nature. Here, the two are distinct aspects of the one. Hence, the Qabalistic equation of 0=2, now becomes 2=1. It is a minimalistic image of love, passion, friendship, union, affinity, concord. Hence, what applies to the Rider-Waite-Smith Two of Cups, also applies to the Connolly Tarot-2 of Cups. One can say that there is a specular and delightful person in one's life or will soon be. Here the couple are "Drunk on Love". The Infinity symbol known as the lemniscate (Greek for "ribbon") is shown above the couple's head. This is also the symbol for 0=2.

The 2 of cups is an adventurous card, as it represents a wide range of situations and conditions outside the range of "normal" experience and beyond the control of the individual. The usually chosen experience may be travel to an unknown land, visiting unfamiliar places, experiencing new customs, foods, and behavior. It even could be a brief sexual encounter. A planned situation becomes an exhilarating and sensual surprise.

1st: A great heightening of Sensation; feelings are unusually sensitive.

2nd: There is no security in the unpredictable experience, which may be exciting and safe, or which could also be dangerous and mean trouble at home or the workplace. What happened in Las Vegas didn't stay in Las Vegas! Moreover, the "adventure" is specific to each person and their experience.

When 2 OF CUPS is thrown for the querent, it usually implies:

• Love, marriage, and pleasure,
•  Warm friendship, but that is a weak statement for such an overwhelming heat, so it's more like an intertwining, of harmony, mirth, subtlety, pleasure, and a sometime dash of folly that binds us in mystery and sensation of a "deeply Warm" friendship that radiates from the galactic core.
•  An ecstasy that only the True Union of the Feminine and the Masculine can produce.
• Communication is where one is open to listen and respond to others.
• There is a deep desire to open to and experience a loving relationship within the querent currently.
• The pledging of a relationship or love affair.
• The Wisdom of love, where Soulful love is focused on its origins.

If the 2 of Cups is reversed:

• Then this card represents dissipation, waste, and silly action.
• False love.
• Folly.
• Misunderstanding.

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