Small cards, Cups
Six of Cups
Pleasure
Something is becoming enjoyable through repeated, ordinary contact. Let the pleasure develop at its own scale without asking it to prove a larger story.
What is quietly becoming more satisfying?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Sun in Scorpio
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Tiphareth
- Ten-degree span
- 10-20 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. 184 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Six 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
Six lotus flowers pour into six cups that are not yet full.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 184 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Pleasure.
Pleasure and improvement are beginning rather than fully established. The account allows patience and amiability, but also self-assertion that creates conflict around the emerging good.
Thoth: Six 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.