Courts, Cups
Prince of Cups
Give an inner feeling form
An inwardly complex response may need an indirect expression: a drawing, a conversation, a carefully chosen gesture. Make something that can be met and understood outside your imagination.
How could someone else recognise what you mean?
Correspondences
- Element within element
- Air of Water
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Tiphareth
- Zodiacal span
- 20° Libra to 20° Scorpio
Sources
The elemental combination and court span belong to the court descriptions. The two elements name the court’s mode and its suit, respectively.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 164 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part III, Prince 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
An eagle draws the chariot; a serpent emerges from the cup toward the water.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 164 ↗Two accounts
Book T: King of Cups.
Thoth: Prince of Cups.
Book T’s p. 159 footnote distinguishes the mounted father from the charioted son: its card headings call them Knight and King. Thoth calls them Knight and Prince. Read the figure and elemental role before equating court names across decks.