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The Ace of Cups is one of the Tarot's most lucky cards. With the rest of Aces, it shows the great potential in us, which can lead to the highest fulfillment. The personal significance of this depends on the person's relationship with life. The spectrum of the card extends from the feeling of joy, gratitude, and satisfaction over external success to the deepest happiness of living in unity with everything. In the foreground, there is undoubtedly love, in every form of expression: charity, parental love, sensual, erotic love, love of ourselves and love of God. Of course, the card may also indicate other, more common forms of joy and luck, although the material side of this concept is expressed by the Ace of Disks. In any case, keep in mind that there is a great potential for our intentions, or that it occurs in the realization of our plan. Not intrusive, waiting for exploration and unfolding.

ACE OF CUPS

The Aces represent the roots of the four elements. They are quite above, and distinct from, the other small cards in the same way as Kether is said to be symbolized only by the topmost point of the Yod of Tetragrammaton. In these cards is no real manifestation of the element in its material form. They form a link between the small cards and the Princesses, who rule the Heavens around the North Pole. The Meridian is the Great Pyramid, and the Elements rule, going Eastward, in the order of Tetragrammaton, Fire, Water, Air, Earth. Thus, roughly, Aces-Princesses Wands cover Asia, Cups the Pacific Ocean, Swords the Americas, Disks Europe and Africa. To make this relationship clear, one may go a little into the symbol of the pentagram, or Shield of David. It represents Spirit ruling the four elements, and is thus a symbol of the Triumph of Man.

This card represents the element of Water in its most secret and original form. It is the feminine complement of the Ace of Wands, and is derived from the Yoni and the Moon exactly as that is from the Lingam and the Sun. The third in the Hierarchy. This accordingly represents the essential form of the Holy Grail. Upon the dark sea of Binah, the Great Mother, are Lotuses, two in one, which fill the cup with the Life-fluid, symbolically represented either as Water, as Blood, or as Wine, according to the selected purpose of the symbolism. This being a primordial card, the liquid is shown as water; it can be transformed into Wine or Blood as may be required.

Above the Cup, descending upon it, is the Dove of the Holy Ghost, thus consecrating the element.

At the base of the Cup is the Moon, for it is the virtue of this card to conceive and to produce the second form of its Nature.

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Astrology: Signs of Water Tree of Life: Kether (the eternal, spiritual) through Water (the spring of soul)

The Ace of Cups shows the way deep into our soul, to detect beauty and trust. It stands for the sources of love, for growing feelings, the desire for a relationship or the readiness to have a friend. 

Referring to the Kaballah, the Ace of Cups is attached to Briah - the world of pure feeling and sensitive intention.It is the female counterpart of the Ace of Wands, representing the female element water as a sign for devotion and care. 
The card also tells that the beauty and the ugly are two poles belonging together. Without shadow, there's no light - and mud is needed to make liliths blossom.

Drive: The desire to melt in one another, sympathy, devotion, the beginning of a friendship or passion 

Light: Emotional capacity, fertility, productiveness 

Shadow: Alteration, diffusion, irrational thinking, hysteria, loneliness

THE ACE OF CUPS - Neptune / Jupiter - Sun - Fulfillment

Keywords: exuberant love, emotional purity, deep self-love, true devotion and acceptance

Advice: In touch or with all-embracing love. It fills you up, and you can pass it generously, generously.

Question: How do you express your love?

Suggestion: Let the page affect you for a while. Reread the last two paragraphs of the description and close your eyes. You feel that you are open to the channel or divine energy.

Revelation: Comprehensive love fills me and my environment.

Analogies:

Ji-Ching: 64. Wei Chi (Before Realization, Before Completion)

Mythology: The Completion (The Holy Grail)

Keywords: highest luck, highest fulfillment

Fear of seeing, feeling, or loving should not cause us to protect ourselves.

ACE OF CUPS

General Meaning

The suit in Tarot known as Cups is also referred to as Chalices or Hearts. It represents the emotional and psychic aspects of life — fantasy, imagination, feelings, love.

An Ace of this suit in this position generally shows a hand holding up an overflowing cup, which gives forth an endless stream of water, wine, blood or soma for the people's refreshment and healing.

This card represents an unfailing source of balm for body, heart and soul. It suggests that you can relax into a safety net of love, support and communion.

In the Reversed Position

The Ace of Cups reversed warns of a loss of self-esteem, optimism and faith in the abundance that the universe has to offer. Stop to examine what it is that is causing you to lose altitude. It might be the mental food you are feeding yourself.

It could be that you are putting too much attention on the outer circumstances and not enough on the nurturing energy that is available to you. Retreat and become harmonious within yourself, until you feel love and trust returning. Reclaim your faith in the abundance of the universe. Make no moves or decisions until you have cleansed yourself of any pessimism and negativity that are haunting you at this time.

In the Advice Positon

The Ace of Cups in this position advises you to challenge yourself and discover what is good about every relationship. Practice looking at the world through the eyes of the Divine. Allow your imagination to perceive the spiritual or evolutionary potential in every person and experience.

Look with the eye of a loving parent or companion upon the people and things you come into contact with. Make a conscious decision to approve of and delight in even the quirky developments that make the world turn. No one can be perfect at such unconditional acceptance. Still the practice will sweeten your day to day life. Your magnetism will increase and more loving people may enter your life. The whole world will benefit as this becomes second nature to you.

Read more:

• » The Book of Thoth - A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians by Aleister Crowley.
• » Liber LXXVIII - On the Tarot - A complete treatise on the Tarot giving the correct designs of the cards with their attributions and symbolic meanings on all planes. - A description of the Cards of the Tarot, with their attributions, including a method of divination by their use.
• » Manuscript N - The Tarot - A Golden Dawn Manuscript - A Theoricus Adeptus Minor Paper.