Small cards, Cups
Four of Cups
Luxury
Comfort can nourish you, but it can also narrow your range of attention. Enjoy what is present while noticing whether it still leaves room for movement and curiosity.
What would keep comfort from becoming confinement?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Moon in Cancer
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Chesed
- Ten-degree span
- 20-30 Cancer
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. 202 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Four 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
The upper pair of cups fills the lower pair, which does not overflow.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 202 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Blended Pleasure.
Pleasure has reached a pause, with uncertainty about whether it will continue. Receiving kindness can coexist with discomfort, and satisfaction remains incomplete.
Thoth: Four 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.