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Radiant Edition: Rider-Waite-Smith-Page of Cups
The Page of Cups on the Rider-Waite-Smith and the Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms both represent mastery of emotional objectivity achieved by working through manipulation, jealousy, possessiveness, and seduction. The Traditional effeminate Knave card of Tarot became the Page and then later in the more occult Tarot, the Princess of an element suit. This is because of the knowledge of the Hermetic Qabalah of YHVH. You may investigate this further in Robert Wang's: The Qabalistic Tarot or the Thoth Tarot, by Aleister Crowley.
The Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms- Page of Cups.
The Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms-Page of Cups is the equivalent of the Pages of Traditional Tarot. However, there is more emphasis on youthfulness, sensitivity, and creative energy. Here one is feeling that something wonderful is beginning in creation. Could be something new, or something old that is being revised, feeling like something new. Opening up to the world around you are making this a practice of self-care that turns into self-love.
In Western Hermetic Qabalistic Magick and Tarot, there is the new doctrine of Tetragrammaton (YHVH) where He' --the final earthly component, and the daughter (Princess), is set upon the Throne of the mother, to awaken the Eld of the All-Father. In the words of Zoroaster, Tetragrammaton is a “rebounding, whirling forth, crying aloud". Therefore, The YHVH is not a dead symbol, but a whirling Sphere of Divine Action. However, this piece of arcana was not revealed in traditional tarot and is certainly not shown in the more traditional Tarot of the RWS or Sacred Kingdoms Tarot.
The Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms- Page of Cups is truly exciting, for there is no experience this one doesn't want to have. The Page of Cups personality will try art, song, dance, and acting... experiencing life as I AM a joyous express of the Divine Creative.
I AM!
Shown here, a child engrossed in a new discovery and the air is full of magic wonder. Being focused on what you are creating is a wonderful feeling of wholeness where Spirit-Mind-Body magick is born.
In Qabalistic Tarot of Thoth, the significator of a person is a sun sign. Since Thoth tarot is part of Western Hermetic Qabalistic Tarot, it shows the traditional Page as a Princess. Hence, the Tarot Birth wheel is used to assign a Court Card personality to a person's birthday. This is a "core personality" that is assigned to a querent when reading a "Celtic Cross" Tarot card divination.
Many of us have assorted qualities of all sixteen personality patterns (Court Cards); However, the core personality is the "beginning" persona that represents the Soul's creation, at this manifestation in time. On this wheel, the Princess of Disks represents the Page of Pentacles and the Knave of Earth. This card can also represent a youth in one's life, leaving or entering.
Merlin and Nimue.
The Page Cups can be compared to Nimue, the nemesis and consort of Merlin of the Arthurian legends. A deity of the Druids from whom Merlin was purported to learn magic in his youth (and later became his Nemesis.). This is the Lady of dreams and renewal and is the youthful aspect of the Triple Goddess of Maid-Mother-Crone. Hence, the caveat with this card implies that if not careful, one can get lost in a dream world and lose touch with reality.
To understand the Depth of the Ultimate Womb---is to meditate long and hard on this card, and to read the Goddess Myths with the eye (I) of the soul. In this world, where love is a profit-sharing endeavor, it is hard for most of us to believe that "Love built Me to be Itself"----Love is I AM Now and fears no future. The goddess is Love and the truth is, " Creation is Love" and we are the image of Love made manifest by the Womb/Understanding of the Goddess aspect of the Divine Creative!
We are "Understood" into manifestation!
Aleister Crowley, in his interpretation of the Tarot, associated the Princess of Cups (also known as the Page of Cups in some decks) with the mythological goddess Venus. Crowley’s Tarot deck, the Thoth Tarot, is known for its complex symbolism and correspondences, and his assignment of Venus to the Princess of Cups reflects his integration of classical mythology with his own esoteric system. Venus, as the goddess of love and beauty, complements the emotional and intuitive qualities represented by the Princess of Cups.
When the Page of Cups card is thrown in a divination, it implies:
- A fair young person, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will be connected.
- A studious youth.
- News.
- Message.
- Application.
- Reflection.
- Meditation.
- Also, these above things directed to business.
- Pages/Princesses represent young people but also often show opinions, thoughts, ideas, -either in harmony with, or opposed to the subject.
When thrown in reversed:
- Taste.
- Artifice.
- Inclination.
- Attachment.
- Seduction.
- Deception.
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