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The 3rd Sephiroth-Binah and the Queen of Cups:

The Qabalistic Great Mother Intelligence is Binah, the 3rd Sphere/Sephiroth on the Tree of Life. She is known as the Sanctifying Intelligence and in the Queen of Cups Binah is represented as the Queen of the Thrones of the Waters; Water being the flowing Dark Sea of Mother Binah known as the subconsciousness and Unconsciousness of the Universal Collective Unconscious known as Imagination/intuition/emotion.  If you are into the Elemental Qabalistic Mysteries of Western Magic, The Queen of Cups is the Queen of the Undines and Nymphs who has a special place in Western Hermetic Magick circles.

The Queen of the Undines and Nymphs is a symbolic archetype within the Western Hermetic Mysteries, representing an embodiment of Water’s mystical power. In Hermeticism, the four classical elements—Fire, Water, Air, and Earth—each have elemental spirits or beings associated with them, and the Undines are the spirits connected to the element of Water. Here’s a deeper dive into the Queen’s role and significance:

The Undines and Nymphs Explained

• Undines are water spirits, typically associated with bodies of water like rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans. In Hermetic thought, they represent the flowing, emotional, and intuitive aspects of life and nature.
• Nymphs can be seen as a broader class of nature spirits, but when aligned with Water, they share similar associations to the Undines. Both are connected to the fluid, ever-changing nature of emotions, creativity, and psychic awareness.

The Queen of the Undines

The Queen of the Undines is the ruling force over these water spirits and embodies the highest expression of the Water element in the Western Hermetic tradition. She is the sovereign of intuition, emotions, and the mysteries of the subconscious.

Her symbolic attributes include:

• Emotional Sovereignty: She governs the tides of emotion, teaching mastery over feelings rather than being controlled by them.
• Creative Power: Water is a symbol of creativity and the unconscious mind, and the Queen channels this force into dreams, visions, and imagination.
• Psychic Awareness: As the Queen of a highly intuitive realm, she holds the keys to clairvoyance, divination, and mystical understanding.

In practice, invoking or meditating upon her can help one develop greater emotional balance, creative inspiration, or psychic sensitivity.

Astrological and Qabalistic Correspondences

In Hermetic Qabalah, the element of Water is often linked to Binah (Understanding) on the Tree of Life due to its association with the Great Mother archetype and the receptive nature of the subconscious. The Queen of the Undines, therefore, may embody aspects of divine receptivity and the nurturing, formative aspects of Water.

She also connects with Lunar energy due to the Moon’s rulership over the tides and emotions, making her a potent figure for magick involving cycles, fertility, healing, and dreams.

Symbolism in Tarot

The Queen of the Undines is often mirrored by cards like the Queen of Cups in the Tarot. The Queen of Cups represents emotional wisdom, compassion, and psychic ability—reflecting the Queen of the Undines’ role as a channel for intuitive insight.

Key Symbols:

• The Chalice: Represents the containment and direction of emotional energy.
• Water Bodies (Rivers, Oceans, or Lakes): Indicate the vast, flowing nature of the unconscious.
• Moon Imagery: Symbolizing intuition, dreams, and the connection to cycles.

Ritual Invocation

To connect with the Queen of the Undines, practitioners in Hermetic Magick might perform rituals involving water purification, lunar alignments, or invocations at dawn or dusk when water’s energy is at its peak. Tools such as chalices filled with consecrated water, seashells, and symbols of the Moon can be used.

Invocation Mantra (Example):

"Queen of the Undines, ruler of the depths of emotion, I call upon your wisdom and guidance. Bring clarity to my intuition, calm to my spirit, and creativity to my heart. As the tides of life flow, may your presence guide me with compassion and understanding."

The Queen of the Undines is not just a symbolic figure but a living spiritual force in Hermetic Magick, guiding initiates toward mastery of the watery realms of emotion, intuition, and mystical insight.

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The Mystic Palette Tarot- Queen of Cups, is illustrated as a goddess of the seas. In her hand is a glass goblet in the shape of an ammonite and/or nautilus shell implying her infinite swirling nature. She reacts and/or attunes herself to the emotions (energy-in-motion) of those around her. Her coral crown may even appear as an "emotional antenna" that picks up the energy currents around her.

She represents the Ultimate female authority over the creation of Forms as Aphrodite/Venus, the Greek Goddess of Beauty. She has the impressive ability to heal, nurture, guide, teach and prosper others. She also represents, subtly or powerfully, her deep understanding of the suit of water (intuition-emotions-imagination).

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The Queen of the Undines and Nymphs does not refer to a specific individual within one unified mythological system but is a title given within Western Hermeticism and esoteric traditions to embody the ruling or sovereign spirit of the elemental water beings, such as Undines and Nymphs. Let’s break down the figures associated with this concept and how it has evolved in Western mysticism and mythology:

Undines and Nymphs: Water Spirits

• Undines: These originate primarily from Paracelsus’ alchemical classification of elemental beings in the 16th century. Undines are spirits of water, closely tied to the emotional and intuitive aspects of nature. Unlike classical mythological figures, they belong more to esoteric mysticism than to ancient folklore, though their characteristics are derived from various water-related mythic traditions.

• Nymphs: Nymphs come from Greek and Roman mythology and are nature spirits tied to various natural features—water nymphs include:

  • Naiads: Freshwater spirits (rivers, springs, and fountains).
  • Oceanids: Nymphs of the sea.
  • Nereids: Sea nymphs who assist seafarers.

The Queen of Undines and Nymphs, as referred to in Western Hermeticism, draws on the mythological imagery of these beings but often represents a higher spiritual archetype.

Possible Figures Identified with This Role

While the Queen of Undines is primarily an esoteric construct, several mythological goddesses and figures could be associated with this title due to their rulership over water and mystical domains:

1. Tethys (Greek Mythology)

   • An ancient Titaness and sea goddess. As a mother of rivers and fountains, Tethys symbolizes the nurturing and sustaining aspects of water. While not directly a ruler of Undines or Nymphs, her dominion over water fits the archetype.

2. Amphitrite (Greek Mythology)

   • The wife of Poseidon and queen of the sea. Amphitrite is often depicted ruling over marine life and oceanic spirits, making her a potential mythological influence on the concept of the Queen of Undines and Nymphs.

3. The Lady of the Lake (Arthurian Legend)

   • In Western mysticism and Arthurian traditions, the Lady of the Lake is a powerful water-related figure often depicted as a mystical guide and enchantress. Some Hermetic practitioners may symbolically identify her with the ruling archetype of water spirits due to her role in wielding magical knowledge and her association with sacred waters.

4. Thalassa (Greek Sea Deity)

   • The primordial embodiment of the sea itself. In some interpretations, Thalassa represents the raw and mystical power of the ocean, making her a broader archetype that could merge with the Hermetic concept of water’s elemental queen.

The Queen in Hermetic and Esoteric Thought

In Western Hermetic Mysteries, the Queen of the Undines:

• Represents Binah on the Qabalistic Tree of Life (when viewed through the lens of water’s creative and formative powers).
• Reflects the Divine Feminine linked to intuition, receptivity, and emotional depth.
• Is personified in Tarot by the Queen of Cups, symbolizing wisdom derived from emotions and the subconscious.

In this context, her role is more spiritual than mythological, blending mystical wisdom with control over the fluid forces of life.

Modern Influence

Modern practitioners of ritual magick (such as those following Golden Dawn or Thelema systems) sometimes invoke the Queen of the Undines in rituals for emotional healing, purification, and intuition. She is not bound by a single mythological identity but is viewed as a universal archetype representing the mysteries of water.

In conclusion, the Queen of the Undines and Nymphs is an esoteric figure who blends aspects of mythological water goddesses, nymph queens, and Hermetic archetypes. She bridges myth and magick, embodying both nature’s fluidity and spiritual transformation.

This Tarot card represents the nurturing, supportive, and healing properties of water and/or Goddess. Protecting us from our emotional propensities caused by the "mind virus" (false ego") that is attached to the subconscious by indoctrination and dogma. This hidden parasite is a mimic or parasitic anti-life that tells you it is you.

Upon looking into the Queen of cups the liar and deceiver within are revealed and helps us remove them by washing away these tendencies from the inner vessels and then isolating them, rehabilitating them only after evaluating and reconsidering our behavior.

We are the "golden children" of the Great Mother of celestial Souls whose golden light is dulled to a gray indifference by the inner "mind virus" who is supported by the indoctrination and dogma of the military industrial complex egregore that forms a false ego that keeps us from seeing the mental trickster- disease as we act as automatons and/or "drama queens". I would recommend the book: Wetiko (healing the mind virus that plagues our world) by Paul Levy, if you are interested in reaching beyond the lies you think you are.

In traditional tarot, the Queen of cups represents the Mesopotamian Goddess Mari-Goddess of the Sea (Stella Maris). As a personality she is a sensitive, loving person who offers an empathetic ear. This Queen may also be a sign that you need to nurture yourself. This card also indicates psychic awareness and creativity and that you are an empath...which means not all that you feel is your emotions. This requires that you to pay attention to how you think and become more discerning by not taking on other people's emotional dramas.

Astrologically, the Queen of Cups resides in the last Decan of Gemini and the first two Decans of Cancer.

The Queen of cups is Specific Water in the Realm of Primal Water. Here the "Will to Form" of Binah is "reflecting on consciousness", i.e. imagination (The Moon Pool/also the moon full and crescent on the Spiral Queen's gown signify the Unconscious). 

Crowley's card shows this reflective nature in an abstract way. Here The Queen is enthroned on still Water, her image is of purity and beauty and is robed in veils of pure light. The Truth of her is not seen by the observer, who can only see themselves in the Moon Pool reflection and the dazzle of light, on both cards, masks her image. What the observer doesn't realize, is that She is looking back at them. This is because the reflection of the observer is reflected in the Astral-Waters of her self-identity: she sees herself as the Beautyful you, her Understanding of Self! 

The reflecting characteristics of this card are like water (consciousness), where the flow changes according to the influences around it. Shown on the Thoth card is also an Ibis in abstraction, with the Queen's' hand and lotus resting on the back of this bird. Here, we see the influence of Thoth-Hermes, as the Ibis is a traditional Egyptian symbol of this Moon God. Therefore, it is demonstrated again that the Male and Female influences are never separate.

Chokmah (The First Husband), is often represented as Python, who is the ancient Greek First Husband, or as a snake or Serpent Force (The First Force/sexual-fecund-fertile energy) and is shown on the Prince of Cups card as exiting the Cup. This image of womb and phallus exemplifies the Western Qabalisitc math of 0=2.

In Mythology, the Ibis eats the eggs of the Snake, which relates to her "consuming the seeds of ideas" from Chokmah who is represented as Wisdom and/or Thoth. However, Ibis also consumes the corpses of the dead. This may seem contradictory, but the corpses of the dead are "Conscious seeds", personalities recycled so that data is consumed and recycled in the Universal Collective Unconscious. Thus, we have reference to the Great Sea of Binah (Universal Collective Unconscious) from which life flows out and flows back into. Here also the Moon and the cycle of tides add to the image of flowing change.

The Western Rose is the sacred flower related to Mother Binah/Isis while the Lotus is the "Eastern Rose" and is the sacred flower of the East related to Great Mother Isis who is an Egyptian form of Binah. Rather than through the touch of her hand, as the Queen of Wands is shown controlling the Leopard, The Queen of Cups uses the intermediary of the Lotus (Womb) to cause the Ibis to do its work. The Tranquil waters, on which the Lotus normally float, are the means of force transmission.

The key characteristics of The Queen of Cups are dreaminess, illusion, and tranquility. As Water is the perfect agent and patient solvent, the Queen of Cups can receive and transmit everything without affecting herself in so doing. If the Queen of Cups is caused to be ill dignified by the accompanying cards in a reading, then everything is refracted and distorted, as she is directly affected by surrounding influences, just as the purity of water is affected by pollutants.

In his Book of Thoth, pg., 157, Crowley defines her reflective nature thus: "Her image is of extreme purity and beauty, with infinite subtlety; to see the Truth of her is hardly possible, for she reflects the nature of the observer in great perfection." On the same page, he goes on to say:" She is the perfect agent and patient, able to receive and transmit everything without herself being affected thereby." Hence, she is the imagination, which is this perfect agent of "self-reflection". What we imagine ourselves or "others" to be, we are so reflected as an image in our unconscious, without affecting The Universal Collective Unconscious in the least. Therefore, she sees the beautiful you, before you were besmirched by indoctrination, media-controlled word hypnosis and dogma.

Therefore, if well dignified, she reveals one's inner beauty; if ill dignified she can be dangerous and cruel, distorting reflections, she casts back on her unsuspecting victims who think ill of others and often do not understand that to think ill is to be ill. Subconsciously the hidden images of themselves will be seen as monsters in the mirror. So, when using the power of imagination, think well of your fellows, for they are another way to be you. You don't have to like what a person does, but you mustn't cast forth your inner images by giving voice to dehumanizing titles or names for you are using the power of I AM with the flowing vibrations of voice ...the casting bounces off the mirror of light and reflects upon you.

A personality that is under her rule on the Tarot Birthday Wheel, is signified as someone with intuitive understanding, empathic feelings, and depth of experience; as one who erases the boundaries between dream and reality and/or urges one to cross borders and remove limitations, even those of gender.

There are some well noted Queen of Cups-personalities. These include Paul McCartney, Jacques Cousteau, John D. Rockefeller, Nikola Tesla, George Orwell, and Gerald Gardner. Therefore, it behooves the Tarot Reader to understand that the Court Cards are not specific sexual identities or genders. Besides, we are all mental hermaphrodites (Hermes/Aphrodite) as we have a left-male and right-female sides to our brains and our Souls are Androgynous and/or hermaphrodites.

In astrology, each zodiac sign is divided into three decans, each spanning ten degrees of the zodiac. The last decan of Gemini and the first two decans of Cancer have distinct characteristics:

1. Last Decan of Gemini (20-30 degrees Gemini):

   • This decan is influenced by the planet Uranus. It brings an unconventional and innovative energy to the intellectual and communicative qualities of Gemini.
   • Individuals born under this decan may possess a strong sense of individuality and originality in their thinking and communication style.
   • They may be inventive, curious, and open-minded, often embracing change and exploring unconventional ideas.
   • However, they may also exhibit restlessness, unpredictability, and a tendency to challenge established norms.

2. First Decan of Cancer (0-10 degrees Cancer):

   • This decan is ruled by the Moon, the natural ruler of Cancer. It emphasizes the emotional and nurturing qualities of the sign.
   • Individuals born under this decan are typically sensitive, empathetic, and deeply intuitive. They are strongly connected to their emotions and may have a nurturing instinct.
   • Family and home are important to them, and they may prioritize creating a secure and nurturing environment for themselves and their loved ones.
   • They may also be highly imaginative and creative, with a strong attachment to the past and a tendency to be nostalgic.

3. Second Decan of Cancer (10-20 degrees Cancer):

   • This decan is influenced by the planet Pluto. It adds depth, intensity, and transformational energy to the emotional nature of Cancer.
   • Individuals born under this decan may have a powerful emotional presence, with a tendency towards intensity and passion in their relationships and pursuits.
   • They may undergo significant personal transformations throughout their lives, experiencing both emotional highs and lows.
   • They possess a strong sense of intuition and may have psychic or occult abilities. They are also drawn to uncovering hidden truths and delving into the depths of their psyche.

These decans provide additional layers of nuance and complexity to the traits associated with Gemini and Cancer, offering a more detailed understanding of individuals born under these signs.

The Queen of cups represents Specific Water in the Realm of Primal Water. In other words, She is the "will to form" intelligence that resides in the Divine Collective Superconscious (Supernal Triangle). Here the "Will to Form" of Binah is "reflecting on consciousness" as an archetypal personality.

When the Queen of Cups is thrown during a reading:

• The querent shows issues surrounding motherhood.
• Suggesting emotional empowerment, as the querent can express feelings honestly, blamelessly and without judgment.
• Implies too much imagination about issues and not enough action taken to solve them.
• Emotional and Intuitive abilities that show highly evolved interpersonal interactions and psychic abilities.
• Implies the querent is extremely empathetic and thus must watch out for moodiness and fluctuating feelings.
• Suggests that one inspires from within and could be a time of deep inner musings, thoughts focused within where the mind is engulfed in Imagination.
• That a mature woman of deep sexual and fertility powers, where everything in her life is related to nourishment, sexual exchange, passionate giving and receiving maybe involved in the life of the querent or is the querent.
• Motherhood, or innovative ideas formulating for a creative line of work.
• An ethereal person of the highest ideals imagined...sometimes unattainably high in the physical world of constant change.
• Wisdom and virtue can denote a perfect spouse and a good mother.
• Scrying and reflecting.

If ill defined by the surrounding cards in the layout it implies:

• Vagueness
• Dreaminess.
• Irrationality.

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