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Ace of Cups

Room to receive

An emotional beginning needs room before it needs a conclusion. Notice the quality of your response, and let the experience take shape without demanding that it become everything.

What can you receive without deciding where it must lead?

Correspondences

Suit element
Water
Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
Kether
Sources

The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.

Book T (1912) · printed p. 154 ↗

The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Ace of Cups ↗

Symbols

In the Book T design

A hand supports a cup whose fountain falls into water among lotuses.

Two accounts

Book T: Root of the Powers of Water.

Thoth: Ace of Cups.

Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.

Read Book T ↗

Related cards

Sources

Book T (1912) · printed p. 154 ↗

The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Ace of Cups ↗