Small cards, Cups
Three of Cups
Abundance
Pleasure grows through sharing. Notice the people and arrangements that make generosity easy, and offer something that lets others join rather than simply admire.
What becomes richer when it is shared?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Mercury in Cancer
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Binah
- Ten-degree span
- 10-20 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. 201 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Three 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 fill three cups in a triangle; the upper cup overflows into the lower pair.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 201 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Abundance.
Plenty is expressed through hospitality, celebration, kindness and shared enjoyment. The account treats the arrival of pleasure and good fortune as central to the card.
Thoth: Three 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.