Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana
Ace of Cups — Root of the Powers of Water
Root of the Powers of Water
budding love · receptivity · grace · emotional fertility · openness
A reflective starting point
What is Ace of Cups — Root of the Powers of Water asking you to look at?
Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.
Upright
The heart opens: welcome what arrives without calculating. A favourable moment for love, creativity and emotional healing.
At first sight
The principle of love, joy and emotional fertility. It announces a new feeling, a reconciliation, a gift, a period of the heart opening.
Within you
The capacity to receive: the heart that empties itself so that it can be filled. It invites you to lower your defences and let life touch you.
On the path
The Ace in Kether: the root of Water and the first He of the Tetragrammaton, the Mother as a cup receiving the Father's force. Its throne is the celestial quadrant of Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius, governed by the Princess of Cups.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, it signals sentimentality, overflowing emotion, a dependence on the need to be loved.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
Emotions held back or drained, difficulty receiving; or a wave of feeling that drowns judgement.
In love, work and spirit
Love. A new love, declarations, reconciliation, deep intimacy possible.
Work. A harmonious environment, projects born from sincere passion, caring or artistic work.
Spirit. The inner Grail: receptivity as the condition of grace.
Correspondences
Kether · Water · Root of Water
Crowley's note
Crowley paints the Holy Grail resting on a crescent moon and receiving a ray of white light from above, over a sea of lotuses: the Cup as the matrix of the supreme Mother.
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