 The Thoth Tarot - QUEEN OF CUPS & The SpellCaster's Tarot-QUEEN OF CUPS: To an Astrologer, this Queen rules from 21 degrees Gemini to 20 degrees Cancer. To a Hermetic- Qabalist, She is Water of Water, i.e. Specific Water/Imagination in the World of Primal Water/unconsciousness.  On the Thoth Queen of Cups, there is a Crayfish in her cup and she has her right hand with lotus on an Ibis.
 The Queen of Cups, on both Cards; The double water reflection ,
on the Thoth Tarot Card, symbolizes "as above so below" which is the
axiom of western metaphysics and simply points out that she expresses
inner and outside feelings as well. Her outer self is always the
accurate reflection of her inner self. The SpellCaster's Tarot-Shows water
below, as a pool and water above, as a great waterfall. The Crescent Moon is most exhalted on her Throne, showing mastery over the water element.The Thoth Queen who represents the- All Mother of the Hermetic Qabalah, is one who reflects the image of the one who looks at her, just
as does the Soul, who reflects the personality that looks into it. In
her hand is the ubiquitous cup, not only symbolizing the suit of the
card, but also the "wholly womb" . The Queen of Cups is the Macrocosmic Anima (Latin for-Spirit) Womb of-time-space, that encloses all form. The Great Mother Intelligence-Understanding- and/or Sanctifying Intelligence. The Queen of Cups sits on the Thrones of the Waters; and rules the Undines and Nymphs. Her symbols are:
The organizer and counterbalance of Chokmah. She is the requiter. She is also the Sterile Mother-The Crone
 The Principle symbol of Binah,
is the Yoni, a Sanskrit word for female vagina, and is shown as a triangle, as depicted by the red yoni mandala. Hence, I refer to her as, "The
womb with a view", indicating that she is the "all understanding" Will to Form,
from which all Life emerges. This Great Womb, is known to every
culture, with many names. She is the completion of the Upper Supernal
Triangle, which began as a Point, in Kether, and a Line in Chokma and a
Triangle in Binah. Now before you get all Victorian,
overcome by social flesh-o-phobia, and/or shudder at the sexuality of
the Divine Creative, think upon this: The Primary Female, Binah, stands at the
head of the Pillar of Severity, while the Primary Male Sephira is Chokma
and he stands at the head of the Pillar of Mercy. In our
Patriarchal society, one would think it the other way around, for the
male is said to be of a sever nature and is supposed to be the
disciplinarian and the female is the merciful one. However, the
Qabalistic definition of sexuality is about qualities rather than static
forms of sex. The Soul is ultimately hermaphrodite. The Male quality is
called because it is unrestricted, energy ejaculated outward; Electric.
The Female qualities of Energy are restrictive; Thus, form is made out
of energy-in-motion enclosed in a pattern, a type of oppression we call
Magnetic. Thus a Severe limiting quality is applied when building a
form. Hence, a Cupping action. However, some confusion
may yet again form, as beneath Binah on the Pillar of Severity we find
the Male God Mercury in Hod. And at the base of The Pillar of Mercy, we
find the Goddess Venus in the Sephira Netzach. So the "left hand path"
is not entirely feminine, nor is the "right hand path' entirely
masculine.Yet there is only severity on the left hand path, this is
because Time/Saturn shows no mercy. The anthropomorphism of the
qualities of Intelligent Energy, binds us to Sexual figures as energy is
at once expressed and then confines. By understanding the 1st Law of
Thermodynamics, you may see the problem of sexing the qualities of
energy. Plus, the Divine Creatrix, as Venus, covers the entire Qabalistic Tree of Life.The 1st Law of Thermodynamics states:"There is only one Energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed (and Transmitted)."
These Transmissions and Transformations, are caused by Qualities of
expression-He and repression-She. I find it best to say that She is
Magnetic and He is Electric. Thus, the value statements of the mundane towards genitalia
are not involved in any misunderstanding. Therefore, the restrictive nature of Will to Form (Binah) is a discipline imposed on the ejaculation/expression of Chokma who is Will to Force . At the same time She is the Great Unconscious Sea from which all images of life emerge. Binah is described in the Qabalistic Mysteries of the Golden Dawn, as "The Dark Robe of Concealment","the Great Dark Sea".
Many of us know that "our dark-side" resides in the Unconscious; yet
as The Queen of Cups, Binah is also the Bright Fertile Mother aspect
of Creation(Understanding) that gives life by restriction---the First
Law of Form. However as Crone- Law giver- she is the Dark
Sterile Mother of Death as well. This duality is found in Yesod--The
Moon, who reflects the "illusion" of Sunlight into Malkuth-the material
plane. Mythology has given us the Bright Moon-Diana and the Dark
Moon-Hecate, one is the adverse of the other. Hence, the Dark hair on the SpellCaster's Queen. To reiterate: Astrologically, the Queen of Cups is in the last Decan of Gemini and the First two Decans of Cancer. The Queen of cups is Specific Water (Imagination) in the Realm of Primal Water (Unconscious). Here the "Will to Form" of Binah is "reflecting on consciousness" The Thoth orCrowley's card shows
this reflective nature in an abstract way. Here The Queen is enthroned
on still Water, her image is of purity and beauty and is robed in veils
of pure light. The Truth of her is not seen by the observer, who can
only see themselves in reflection. In her ethereal hand
is a shell like cup with a crayfish climbing out of it, a symbol
relating to the Moon and its reflective qualities. Truth being, one of
the characteristics of this card is that like water and/or unconsciousness as the
flow changes according to the influences around it. As before stated: There is also an Ibis in
abstraction shown on this card, Here, we see the influence of
Thoth-Hermes . The Ibis is a traditional Egyptian symbol of this Moon
God. Hence, again the Male and Female influences are never separate, for the Divine Creative is both, inseperable. Chokmah the 2nd Sephiroth on the Tree of Life, is often represented as the Greek god-Python,
the First Husband, represented as a snake or Serpent Force, i.e. a Spiraling
Force. In Mythology, the Ibis eats the eggs of the Snake, which relates
to Binah's  "consuming the seeds of ideas" (understanding) from Chokmah who is represented as Wisdom.
However, in Egyptian theology, the Ibis also consumes the corpses of
the dead. This may seem contradictory, but the corpses of the dead are "Conscious seeds",
personalities, which are recycled so that data is consumed and recycled
in the Universal Unconscious. Thus we have reference to the Great Sea
of Binah (Universal Unconscious) from which life flows out, and also
flows back into. Here the understanding of the Moon and the cycle of
tides add to the knowledge the image conveys. The Lotus which is shown in the art of theThoth Tarot,  is
the Eastern Rose, and is the Sacred flower related to Great Mother Isis
an Egyptian form of Binah. The Western sacred goddess flower is the 5
petal Rose. Rather than
through the touch of her hand, as the Queen of Wands is shown
controlling the Leopard, the Queen of Cups uses the intermediary of the
Lotus (Womb) to cause the Ibis to do its work. The Tranquil waters, on
which the Lotus float, are the means of force transmission. The key characteristics associated with The Queen of cups, are dreaminess, illusion and tranquility. As
is Water the perfect agent and patient solvent, the Queen of Cups, is
able to receive and transmit everything without affecting herself in so
doing. If the Queen of Cups is caused to be ill dignified by the
accompanying cards in a reading, then everything is refracted and
distorted, as she is directly affected by surrounding influences. The chief pleasure of this type of Archetypal personality:
If ill dignified Ill dignity is dependent on the influences which affect her.
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Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Queen of Cups & The SpellCaster's Tarot- Queen of Cups
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