The Shadow Series, Tarot Card Comparisons; The Thoth 3 of Cups & The Shadow Tarot-Zepar

This special card represents the fulfillment of The Will of Love in abounding joy.

Also,subtly, this card  reminds us that the good things in life are not to be trusted as stationary but temporary items.The Three of Cups card  therefore represents emotional or intuitive clarification; clarity about what your feelings and intuition are saying.

Astrologically, this card is Mercury in Cancer. Mercury, on top of card, is the symbol of communication. Cancer, is the ability to communicate the emotional feelings one has especially the nurturing, loving, and light feelings one has as represented by the golden lotus blossoms spraying the "pollen of golden light" into the pomegranate cups.

Pomegranate cups, represent the rich emotions one has received from others. Pomegranates are also sacred to Persephone/ Greek Goddess of Spring.

The golden lotus represents the "solar plexus" (Manipura) chakra an enlightened being, so this is emotion from deep withing; the master within each of us.

The 3 of cups can also represent the deep emotional, abundant feelings that we have for  three important people in our lives; or it can represent the next 3weeks or 3 months should be a good time to communicate your deep feelings and utilize you nurturing communication abilities to motivate, empower, and comfort others. Remembering the Cancer people in your life (June 21 to July 21) with loving abundance and/or to communicate your deep feelings. This card is about love, abundance, healing and the expansion and liberation of self that those feelings generate. Being ternary, this card states that all three states of self identity are involved in communicating these abundant feelings; sub-conscious, consciousness, and self-conscious (ego to some).

 Qabalists and those who have been following this blog know by now that Binah, The 2nd Sephira/Understanding  is "will to form", and a Dark Energy-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. So once 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.(See past blogs)

What may surprise you, is that none of us are the sex of our bodies. We are Androgynous, in that we are both receptive (female) and expressive (male); both magnetic (female) and electric (male). Being Electromagnetic entity, we have great power "to be or not to be". The body is a tool, powered by the Electromagnetic Entity that you are often called Spirit or Spiral Entity. As a power tool the human body is excelled, but as it's operator, you are beyond the reason of bodies and must discriminate emotionally, for your E-Motion (energy in Motion) is the "life journey" of your body. We are obviously a "Will to Be" which is very much a "Will to Form", so here is a kicker, YOU ARE THE IMAGINATION viewing itself!  Sorry dear ego, but you don't have a imagination, it has you.  

In past blogs I stated that, Hu is Mandarin for God and Man is from the Hindu word for mind---Mannas, meaning Mind. Thus you are called a God Mind, which is the Mind of the Image Maker, or Creator, i.e. Imagination!   The body is not described in the world human because you as Spirit, define it as you think you to be (Freedom to choose your own definition). So you are a Hu-Man, who owns a 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 your definition, for self- impeccability for that is what you came to do! Remember, what we command in this Universe is our own image and all phenomena is Imagined! 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 as a phenomena is up to your Passionate use of Imagination!

is also called the Lord of Abundance. Here Mercury is in Cancer, The Angels of the Decan Rachael and Yehomayah.

The Three of Cups, signifies the influence of Binah in Briah, the mental World.

Cancer is a water sign, and is under the command of the Moon. Thus we have Cardinal Water,i.e. Unconscious. Thus, The Three of Cups is perfect affinity with Binah, who is "Will to Form".

The rushing water, swift and extravagant, as it overflows the Pomegranate cups, represents the gifts of Mercury.  The Water arises from a single cup which denotes the "dark calm Sea of Binah" a characteristic of the Unconscious from which all consciousness springs. She is also seen as Persephone, to whom the Pomegranate is sacred and as the "Red Persephone" she is the Lust of Spring.  With the Plenty of Persephone, this card represents plenty, hospitality, and abundance.

Sports the name and sigil of the 16th Spirit, in the order that Solomon bound them  Since the 3 of Cups is a Goddess/feminine card, the Shadow side would be Masculine in nature.

According to Linda Falorio, author of these cards, and Christian demonology, invented by neurotic, paranoid and psychotic medieval superstitious monks, Zepar is a "Great Duke of Perdition" who appears in a red soldier's uniform and armor.

Tradition states, that one calls on Zepar, to bring together in love or cause love to be barren.

Red is the traditional color of Mar's, both  Roman god of war and the planet ( and Persephone's pomegranates). Interesting combination for love's messenger. Be that as it may, it is suggested that by skrying the sigil on the Zepar card, one will acquire the knowledge to "bring together in love". I would leave the barren concept alone, as this is a "cause and effect" universe. You won't like the effect.

When the Three of Cups or The Shadow Tarot-Zepar is thrown during a reading:

 There really isn't a negative to this card, unless blinded by exuberance can be called a negative. But love doesn't really care if others appreciative it or not, it just is the foundation of Spiritual Knowledge.  Love is in itself a force, Unconcerned with approval, as that has already be done by manifestation of its Sensual Being.

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