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druid craft tarot-two of cups
As previously stated, the Druid Craft Tarot, seems to stick with the Thoth Tarot interpretation of the Tarot Cards. Using the artists interpretation of Celtic life instead of the art of the Western Mysteries. Here, two attractive Celtic people are sharing love cups, as was common as a Celtic wedding. They are standing on a lush and fertile plane , with water, the element of the Tarot Cups, in the back ground. Further back, is shown a Celtic Mound Temple. I am unsure of the flower in the foreground, but it looks to be a type of lily. The lily was a sacred to the Goddess Eoster (Easter), the spring Goddess.
The 2 of Cups-Love:
Chokmah, the 2nd Sephiroth and Sephiroth assigned to the 2's, is called Wisdom, and one should understand that Chokmah is a state of Pure Maleness or rather the beginning of the idea of maleness, and that Binah is that of Pure Femaleness, or the beginning of the idea of Femaleness. Another way to say this is the masculine concept of Will to Force is becoming electric, while the feminine concept of Will to Form is becoming magnetic.
However, both are from Kether that One energy before, the Androgynous Divine Creative became two. As explained in past blogs, sexuality as we understand it, is not vast enough of an idea to encompass even a minor understanding of the Supernal Triangle. To help with the confusion, Pure Male is Electric Force and Pure Female is Magnetic Force. But again, understanding of these 2 Forces is not complete.
thoth-2 of cups-love
The Thoth Tarot- 2 of Cups-Love, is also called the Lord of Love and this is easily seen as it represents Venus in Cancer; both signs at the top of the card. The angels of the Decan are: Ayoel and Chabooyah.
The 2 of Cups is the influence of Chokmah in the Mental world of Briah
All Tarot Cups represent the Alchemical Element Water, which is the consciousness, and Cancer is a watery sign that is the House of the Moon, so the match-up is obvious. Jupiter is also exalted in Cancer thus implying benevolence in this most sensitive of signs. Hence, this is a card of feeling and romance in the human world, so misspent energy may apply. Generally, fish are a symbol of the Goddess Venus but dolphins relate more generally to Neptune or the Sun god Apollo. The sign of cancer is also representative of a magical Tantric ritual that reverses the flow of male and female electromagnetic energy.
On the Thoth card, one of cups, (by careful scrutiny as the colors are somewhat faded) is a Silvery Dolphin and the other a Golden Dolphin, The Silver one represents the Moon, Female and the Golden one represents The Sun, male. Here the union of both is loving, romantic, as they work together to bring light into our world. The harmony of male and female which is also the nature of the Water Sign Cancer.
The Water of Emotion, or Consciousness, springs up from the Central Lotus, flowing down into the overflowing cups to ultimately reach the Earth. This imagery implies that only through the energy supplied by Chokmah-Fire, can water flow. E-motion, is energy in motion, and the "motion within the movement' is Chokmah's domain.
In Qabalistic Gematria (the book 777, by Aliester Crowley), the number 2 refers also to Will, So the 2 of Cups can also imply Love under will or Willful Love. The 2 of Cups radiates a perfect placid harmony, amid joyous ecstasy...often called the "adorable fire" where 0=2 and when in loves energetic flow; 2=1
The symbols on this card maybe unusually subtle, but they represent both the male and female forces of Spirit-Mind-and Body, that once joined; as a couple, and as the Sun above as the phallic force and the Water that is symbolically female as a lake and fertile earth all covered in exuberant vegetation, produce all things from the vital flow of Love.
There may be a tendency to think of this card as one would the Major Arcana Card, the Atu-6- Lovers, but that is not always so, as the 2 of Cups is about Love being physical, between two human partners. Whereas, the Lovers Card-key/ATU 6- refers to the inner Hermetic Marriage of the love between the Yin Yang, balanced in harmonious union as the inner Self of Anima and Animus.
To a Qabalist, Key 6 rather than the 2 of Cups, would be the Love of Binah and Chokmah, of Wisdom and Understanding. However, the surrounding cards will show if this is the Hermetic Marriage of the Goddess and God within or of 2 Soul mates in the human world. Here is where the intuition of the reader is most helpful as well. For Love is such a powerful emotion that it can overcome all limits of restriction and burn away in pure "adorable fire" (Paul Foster Case), any reasoning.
Those faithful readers who have been following my blog (eli-lsmerchantile.com) know by now that Binah is "will to form", and underlying force that makes imagination a womb. She is the Will of the Womb of all forms, not the Womb itself for that is reserved to the Action of Chesed the Sphere of Mercy.
Again the sexing of this forces is limiting and short on insight. Chesed may be Masculine in its expression of form, and yet it is feminine as it receives the Will of Binah. Chokmah maybe the “pure masculine force”, yet Chokmah was the Hebrew word for the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, Sophia. The interplay of masculine and feminine Qualities constitutes all Sephiroth.
What may surprise you, is that none of us are the sex of our bodies. We are the Androgynous Psyche, in that we are both receptive (female) and expressive (male); both magnetic (female) and electric (male). Being Electromagnetic entity, we are both sides of the same coin. Thus we have great Divine power, "to be or not to be" male or female or even both!
The body is a tool of the Psyche, powered by the Electromagnetic Soul that you are....as a power tool the human body is excelled, but as its operator, you are beyond the reason of bodies. You are obviously a "Will to be" which is very much a "Will to Form" and a “Will to Force” combination, so here is a kicker, YOU ARE THE IMAGINATION ...you don't have it. All the images you see are “Self-Images”!
Remember, Hu- is Mandarin for God and Man- is from the Hindu word for mind---Manas, thus you are called a God Mind! The body is not described in the world human. So you are a Hu-Man, who owns a physical body.
Image-maker, is what the Imagination means, and that dear soul is the Divine Creative's Power. So get off of your suffering butt and stand up and Yell-----I AM Me! And get on with you, and imagine your divinity, for self- impeccability is what you came to do! Remember, what we command by declaration in this Universe produces our own life motions and bodily health. Hence, take charge of yourself and stop blaming environment, or person or thing. Sure they may influence, but they only have the power you give them. What you are is up to your Passionate use of Imagination and therefore, don't accept man-made definitions that only stimulate your imagination to enslavement of your image to another, person, place or thing. You are Imagination; the I-Magi-Nation! When imagination and love flow as one perspective of Self----------You Are Divine in manifestation flowing in luxurious spiritual sensation that is known as the "adorable fire".
When the Two of Cups- Love, is thrown during a reading:
- The querent is in a deep love relationship
- The joyous bliss of receiving as one has been received.
- A loving and healing union of opposites propagating a compassionate and caring response.
- The recent loving bond of consciousness and unconsciousness reconciling the harmony of what seemed opposite. Such as the merging of unconscious desires with those of the Heart.
- The beginning of a love affair or pledge of deep friendship.
- Ideas generated between two partners in cooperation and harmony.
- The merging of Lover and beloved.
- A healing harmony where quarrels and disputes are resolved.
- Romance, trust, sympathy, and desires consummated, vows, engagement and marriage, all permutations of active partnership.
- Where the action of body and Spirit are in sync.
When ill defined by the surrounding cards, it implies:
- Disillusionment.
- Separation.
- Conflict of interest.
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