If you missed the last Card by Card post on Judgement, you can read about it here.
Once again, I’ll be taking a look at several variations from different decks and gathering that particular Author and/or Artists thoughts and perspectives.
The Two of Cups is the randomly drawn COTW-card of the week. What does it mean when you receive this card in a one card daily drawing or it turns up in a spread?
The first Two of Cups we will be looking at is from the Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. 2003.
Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, the inter-relation of the sexes, and – as a suggestion apart from all offices of divination – that desire which is not in Nature, but by which Nature is sanctified. ~Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The suit of Cups are associated with the element of water and with our emotions. Cups are sometimes called Chalices, Bowls, Vessels, Rivers, and Water.
In Tarot for Magical Times, Rachel Pollack & Johannes Fiebig, discuss the Two of Cups”
“A man and woman, both of them solemn and strong, hold up their Cups to each other, with the man reaching out his hand to the woman. Between the Cups, as if generated by their joint energy, rises the ancient magical symbol of the caduceus, two snakes wound around a column. Usually wings will appear at the top, but here we see a lion’s head as well, an alchemical image of transformation. Modern Tarot sees this card as a romantic relationship, possibly a commitment. Here we can see something deeper, people coming together to create a new world. Notice the basic equality of the man and woman, and the energy generated between them. This new society will be one of equality and cooperation.”
