Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana
Queen of Cups
reflection · intuition · sensitivity · dream · empathy
A reflective starting point
What is Queen of Cups 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
Listen to your sensitivity and use it to understand: the answer lies in the reflected emotions.
At first sight
A sensitive, intuitive and welcoming person, or the ability to mirror and understand others. It points to listening, empathy, artistic or mediumistic gifts.
Within you
The psyche as a mirror: it reflects what is presented to it faithfully, but risks losing its own outlines.
On the path
Water of Water, the He of He, referred to Binah: pure receptivity, water that reflects without holding. She rules from 21° Gemini to 20° Cancer, where the mind becomes feeling.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, she is dependent, easily influenced, lost in fantasies, unable to tell her own feelings from those of others.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
Emotional confusion, weak boundaries, excess of sensitivity or fantasy.
In love, work and spirit
Love. A sweet, intuitive partner; a deep love that asks for protection.
Work. Caring roles, counselling, art; the ability to understand the needs of others.
Spirit. The purity of the mirror that reflects divine light without distorting it.
Correspondences
Binah · Water · 21° Gemini – 20° Cancer
Crowley's note
The Queen of the Thoth deck is almost invisible, wrapped in veils of light and reflected in motionless waters, with an ibis and a lotus: pure receptivity, a perfect mirror.
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