Card of the Day for November 21 - Two of Cups
Sesheta
Attribution - Venus in Cancer
Cups is the suit of emotion, inner
states, feelings, relationships, memories, spiritual experiences.
Twos represent formation, duality,
balance, partnership, dilemmas, choices, competing or combined
forces, conflict, see-saw, creativity not yet fulfilled,
reflection. The number two represents yin energy and promotes
co-operation, partnership, friendship and receptivity.
Rider-Waite Imagery
The Number two is related to the 2nd Kabalistic world and is called wisdom. Cups represent the world of emotions and relationships. These two ideas together form the two of cups which is about the union of soul mates and all relationships based on mutual understanding. A man and a woman are shown on this card looking at each other. The woman is wearing a Laurel wreath (controlled energy) and the man is wearing a rose wreath (ennobled passion).
They are offering their cups as a pledge of
faith and fidelity. The Lion, above the couple, is the symbol of
the soul created from the union of a pair of people or opposites.
The red that shows up on this card on the lion, rose head wreath,
and woman’s’ shoes represents desire. Both figures are wearing
white (spirit). The woman has a blue (wisdom) over garment and the
man is wearing yellow (consciousness).
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The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
A youth and maiden are pledging one another, and above their cups
rises the Caduceus of Hermes, between the great wings of which
there appears a lion’s head. It is a variant of a sign which is
found in a few old examples of this card. Some curious
emblematical meanings are attached to it, but they do not concern
us in this place.
Divinatory Meanings
Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and–as a suggestion apart from all offices of divination–that desire which is not in Nature, but by which Nature is sanctified.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Two: Favourable in things of pleasure and business, as well as
love; also wealth and honour. Reversed: Passion.
UPRIGHT
Co-operation and union between the sexes.
In harmony with oneself and all of nature.
Being connected to others.
A new friend with similar interests
and emotional content.
Sharing secrets.
Experiencing love.
Making memories.
Partnerships, friendship, balance, finding common ground, reconciliation in an existing relationship that has undergone difficulties.
Getting engaged, marriage.
I love you.
Expect a surprise letter, gift or joyous event.
Harmonious feelings of well-being.
A relationship that has the power to heal.
Plea bargains.
Property settlement.
A discreet encounter.
Solidarity.
A new level of friendship.
REVERSED
Quarrels and misunderstandings in a relationship.
Locked in a bad relationship.
False love, a show of commitment may
not be honest – beware.
Longing for one who does not return
the interest.
A fantasy lover.
A feeling of never being noticed.
Lonely, isolated, unappreciated.
Being the one who always has to give.
Lacking physical and emotional resources.
Over-committing to too many people.
Jealousy, over-possessiveness.
Be watchful of an “all or nothing” attitude – with this card you will lose it all.
Divorce or separation.
Suspicion of infidelity but no proof.
Disillusionment.
Conflict of interest.
Awkwardness.
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2. Robin Wood
3. Old Path
4. Celtici
5. Durer
6. Celestial
