Small cards, Cups
Eight of Cups
Indolence
Your interest may have left a situation your habits still maintain. Notice the difference between needed rest and continuing to tend something you no longer want.
What are you keeping out of habit after your interest has changed?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Saturn in Pisces
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Hod
- Ten-degree span
- 0-10 Pisces
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. 192 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Eight of Cups ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
Water reaches only part of the eight-cup arrangement; the upper three stay empty.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 192 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Abandoned Success.
An achievement is set aside before it produces lasting results. Interest declines, leaving instability and a search for something else despite an initial success.
Thoth: Eight 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.