Courts, Cups
Queen of Cups
Listen without disappearing
Receptivity helps you notice a subtle emotional atmosphere. Keep your own position available while listening, so understanding another person does not require losing your boundaries.
What is yours to feel, and what belongs to someone else?
Correspondences
- Element within element
- Water of Water
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Binah
- Zodiacal span
- 20° Gemini to 20° Cancer
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. 163 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part III, Queen 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
A queen sits above water with an ibis, a lotus and a cup containing a crayfish.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 163 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Queen of Cups.
Thoth: Queen of Cups.
Thoth uses Disks where this Book T text generally uses Pentacles. Its standing Knaves are called Princesses in the descriptive titles. The symbol note describes Book T, not a reproduction of the Thoth artwork.