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Ace of Cups |
 The waters are beneath, and thereon are
water-lilies; the hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four
streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends to place
the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of
that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana. :
House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy
Table, felicity hereof. Reversed: House of the false heart, mutation, instability,
revolution. |
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Two of Cups |
 A youth and maiden are pledging one another, and
above their cups rises the Caduceus of Hermes, between the great wings of which there
appears a lion's head. It is a variant of a sign which is found in a few old examples of
this card. Some curious emblematical meanings are attached to it, but they do not concern
us in this place. : Love, passion,
friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and--as a
suggestion apart from all offices of divination--that desire which is not in Nature, but
by which Nature is sanctified. |
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Three of Cups |
 Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as
if pledging one another. : The
conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory,
fulfilment, solace, healing, Reversed: Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It
signifies also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses. |
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Four of Cups |
 A young man is seated under a tree and
contemplates three cups set on the grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers
him another cup. His expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with his environment.
: Weariness, disgust, aversion,
imaginary vexations, as if the wine of this world had caused satiety only; another wine,
as if a fairy gift, is now offered the wastrel, but he sees no consolation therein. This
is also a card of blended pleasure. Reversed: Novelty, presage, new instruction,
new relations. |
Five of Cups |
 A dark, cloaked figure, looking sideways at three
prone cups two others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background, leading to
a small keep or holding. : It is
a card of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two are left; it is
a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations;
with some interpreters it is a card of marriage, but not without bitterness or
frustration. Reversed: News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return,
false projects. |
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