Small cards, Cups
Seven of Cups
Debauch
An attractive possibility may be consuming more attention than it returns. Test one promise against an observable result before investing further imagination in it.
What remains when the attractive story is set aside?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Venus in Scorpio
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Netzach
- Ten-degree span
- 20-30 Scorpio
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. 185 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Seven 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
Lotuses hang above an arrangement of empty cups; no water reaches them.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 185 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Illusionary Success.
Apparent success fails to hold because it is deceptive, neglected or not followed through. The account emphasizes unkept promises and satisfaction that proves less substantial than it appeared.
Thoth: Seven 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.