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Binah and the Queen of Cups: The Sanctifying Intelligence and the Queen of the Waters

In the Hermetic Qabalah, the 3rd Sephira—Binah—is the Great Mother Intelligence, the womb of Form, and the seat of Understanding. Known as the Sanctifying Intelligence, Binah shapes the infinite potential of Chokmah’s pure energy into archetypes, boundaries, and vessels. She is the archetypal womb: the Mother of Forms.

In the Queen of Cups of the Thoth Tarot, this Great Mother finds expression as the Queen of Thrones of the Waters. Water here is not just liquid—it is the infinite, flowing, psychic Sea of Binah, which manifests in the subconscious, the deep currents of emotion, and the Universal Collective Unconscious. This sea is also the astral field of imagination and intuition, the very substance of mystical vision.

The Queen of Cups as the Queen of the Undines and Nymphs

In the elemental traditions of Hermetic Magick, each element is personified by elemental beings:

• Fire → Salamanders

• Air → Sylphs

• Earth → Gnomes

• Water → Undines/Nymphs

Thus, the Queen of Cups is more than a Tarot figure: she is the ruling archetype of the Undines and Nymphs, the elemental intelligences of Water. She embodies the currents of life’s mysteries and stands as sovereign over all fluidic, receptive, and psychic realms.

Undines, as water spirits, represent emotional and intuitive forces, the currents of love, dream, and healing. Nymphs, as nature spirits, extend this watery archetype into the streams, springs, oceans, and moonlit pools of nature, infusing them with inspiration and beauty.

The Queen of the Undines rules these beings, and by extension, she rules over the mysteries of the subconscious, the astral, and the tides of imagination.

Attributes of the Queen of Cups

• Emotional Sovereignty
  She governs the tides of feeling. Like Binah, she teaches that emotions are containers for wisdom, not prisons of reaction.

• Creative Imagination
  Water is the substance of images and dreams. The Queen channels these forces into artistic creation, visions, and inner landscapes.

• Psychic Awareness
  As the Great Lady of the astral tides, she is guardian of clairvoyance, scrying, and divinatory intuition.

• Compassion and Nurturing
  Like the womb of Binah, she offers sanctuary, healing, and the archetypal power of the Mother.

Astrological and Qabalistic Correspondences

• Sephira: Binah (Understanding, the Great Sea, Aima Elohim)

• Element: Water, receptivity, form-giving, astral currents

• Planetary Influence: The Moon (tides, cycles, fertility, dreams), with undertones of Saturn (Binah’s depth, structure, and boundary-making)

• Divine Archetype: The Great Mother, Sophia, Isis, Mary, Nuit

• Magickal Associations: Fertility, psychic opening, compassion, dream-work, astral projection, emotional mastery

Symbolism in the Tarot

The Queen of Cups mirrors the Queen of the Undines:

• The Chalice → containment and consecration of emotional power

• Moon Imagery → cycles, tides, psychic rhythms

• Water Bodies → symbol of the boundless subconscious and astral matrix

In readings, she represents inner knowing, empathy, and intuitive mastery. She is both gentle and profound: the reflection of Binah’s vast sea upon the waters of human emotion.

Ritual and Invocation

To attune to the Queen of Cups / Queen of the Undines, one may:

• Work during lunar tides, especially Full and New Moons

• Use tools of Water: chalice, seashells, silver, mirrors

• Employ purification rites with consecrated water

• Perform meditation at dawn or dusk beside a natural body of water

Example Invocation:

"O Queen of the Undines, Sovereign of the Great Sea,
You who are Binah, Mother of Understanding,
Open the depths of my heart and imagination.
Teach me sovereignty over my emotions,
Vision in my dreams, and compassion in my being.
May I reflect Your Great Sea in purity and wisdom."

Hermetic Insight

The Queen of Cups is not simply a card or elemental figure. She is the reflection of Binah in the astral and emotional body. She is both Mother and Mirror. In her cup is the mystery of how all things are received, gestated, and brought into being. She reminds us that the True Magus does not suppress emotion—but sanctifies it.

Thus, when we meditate upon her, we are gazing into the Waters of Binah herself—the Divine Mother Intelligence—who shapes all life through the currents of her Infinite Sea.

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The Living Waters of Consciousness

“In the Waters she resides; hence She is also within the human body, for we are made of Water.”

The Queen of Cups—like Binah, the Great Sea—abides not only in the Cosmic Waters of the Unconscious, but also in the living waters of the human vessel. Our bodies are composed of over 70% water, making us literal chalices of her mystery. In Hermetic thought, this is no accident: Water is the matrix of consciousness, the reflective medium in which Soul and Spirit move.

The Mystery of the Inner Sea

• Water as Memory: Modern science hints at what Hermetic Magi have long known—that water retains vibrational impressions. In the body, this suggests that every cell swims in a sea of resonance, where experiences, thoughts, and emotions leave subtle imprints. Thus, our emotional life and psychic sensitivity are “written” into the waters within.

• Water as Reflection: Just as a still pond mirrors the Moon, the inner waters mirror the images of the Soul. When calm, they become the perfect reflector of intuition and higher guidance. When disturbed, they distort the true image, leading to confusion and emotional turmoil. The Queen of Cups teaches mastery of this inner tide.

• Water as Carrier of Spirit: In Qabalistic magick, Water corresponds to the astral field—the intermediary plane between Spirit and Matter. In the human being, the blood, lymph, and cellular fluids carry life-force (ruach, prana, chi), linking us to the Universal Ocean of Being.

Consciousness in the Waters

To say the Queen “resides in the Waters” is to affirm that consciousness itself is fluidic. Our awareness is not a fixed state but a wave, a tide that ebbs and flows. The ancients called this the Anima Mundi—the Soul of the World—which permeates every droplet.

Thus, when we drink, bathe, or weep, we engage with the living presence of Binah’s sea. Our tears are not weakness but a sacrament: the body’s water made holy by emotion. Our dreams, too, are voyages across this astral sea, guided by the Queen of the Undines.

Hermetic Elucidation

• Binah as the Inner Ocean: Just as Binah shapes Chokmah’s energy into form, so does the water within us shape the flow of Spirit into sensation and thought.

• Humanity as Chalice: The body is not merely flesh and bone—it is a grail, filled with the waters of memory, intuition, and dream.

• Living Waters as Collective Consciousness: Since all beings are 70% water, each of us shares in the Universal Sea. The waters of your body are not separate from the rivers, rains, and oceans outside you. Consciousness is one great tide moving through countless drops.

A Meditation with the Inner Sea

Sit quietly with a glass of pure water. Hold it as though it were the Queen’s chalice. Whisper into it your prayer or vision. Then drink, knowing that the waters in your body become one with that intention, carrying it to every cell. Here you enact the truth: the waters are alive, and they are conscious.

In the Medieval Feathers Tarot, the Queen of Cups is illustrated as a radiant goddess of the seas, sovereign over the deep waters of emotion and intuition. In her hand she raises a goblet, a vessel that signifies her infinite, swirling nature—the eternal sea enclosed for a moment in form. This chalice is not simply a cup but the container of psychic tides, the vessel of healing compassion, and the sacred womb of Binah’s oceanic wisdom.

Seated serenely, the Queen appears passive, watching the motions of life and the conversations of those around her. Yet appearances deceive. She is not merely observing—she is listening with her soul. She sees into emotional hearts, attunes to their subtle vibrations, and knows intuitively who carries pain, who hides sorrow, and who is silently crying out for support. With a word, a glance, or a simple gesture of compassion, she begins the process of healing.

At her side, her loving servant brings her a chalice of cures—reminding us that the Queen does not heal by force but by quiet offering. She inspires wholeness, rather than imposing it.

The American redstart feather she holds is a token of her mission: to nurture, protect, and care for all who dwell in her watery realm, particularly the delicate, the forgotten, and those without a voice to express their anguish. Like the bird itself, which flits gracefully yet vigilantly among branches, she is a guardian presence, alert to subtle shifts in the soul’s song.

Upright Meaning

The Queen of Cups here represents the capacity to assume guardianship over all you hold dear, whether people, dreams, or even the fragile beauty of the natural world. She calls you to care deeply and to extend compassion even to those who may not ask for it.

At the same time, the card points to your own tendency to place too much weight on privacy. While solitude has its gifts, this Queen reminds you that healing happens in communion. To withdraw entirely is to deny yourself the blessing of connection. Open your circle to trusted companions who elevate you, who see your value, and who make you feel good in your own skin. True guardianship of the heart means guarding against isolation as well.

Reversed Meaning

If the Queen of Cups appears reversed or inverted, she warns of being haunted by painful memories or past traumas that have left you defensive, wary, and emotionally detached. The waters of the past may be clouding the present, making it difficult to trust again or to extend your natural compassion.

Her message is gentle but firm: do not let old wounds close your heart. Your gift is your caring soul, and even though it has been wounded, it is still capable of profound love and healing. Allow yourself to open again, little by little, and become the person you most wish to encounter in others.

Hermetic Insight

In Hermetic symbolism, the Queen of Cups is an emanation of Binah—the Great Mother of Understanding—within the watery realm of the psyche. She is the sanctifying vessel of the subconscious, the astral sea of dreams and intuitions. In the Medieval Feathers deck, her image as Sea-Goddess emphasizes this archetypal role: she is both the container and the healer, the chalice and the sea.

Her feather, her cup, and her throne by the waters remind us that compassion is not weakness but sovereignty. To rule the sea of emotion is not to repress it, but to guide its currents toward healing, communion, and lo

In traditional tarot, the Queen of cups represents the Mesopotamian Goddess Mari-Goddess of the Sea (Stella Maris). As a personality she is a sensitive, loving person who offers an empathetic ear. This Queen may also be a sign that you need to nurture yourself. This card also indicates psychic awareness and creativity and that you are an empath...which means not all that you feel is your emotions. This requires that you to pay attention to how you think and become more discerning by not taking on other people's emotional dramas.

The Queen of Cups – Binah in the Waters of Gemini and Cancer

Astrologically, the Queen of Cups rules the last Decan of Gemini and the first two Decans of Cancer. This is the liminal space where the airy brilliance of Gemini descends into the lunar tides of Cancer. It is the threshold between mind and feeling, thought and womb, where words dissolve into silence and intellect is baptized in the intuitive sea.

In the language of Hermetic Qabalah, the Queen of Cups is Specific Water in the Realm of Primal Water. She is Binah—the Will to Form—manifesting through the reflective nature of consciousness itself. Here, Binah’s archetypal shaping power becomes the mirror of imagination, the Moon Pool in which forms gestate and emerge. The full and crescent moons embroidered upon her gown signify this reflective nature of the Unconscious, waxing and waning with the tides of inner vision.

Crowley’s Queen of Cups

Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Queen of Cups shows this mystery in a distinctly abstract and symbolic way. She is enthroned upon still waters, not turbulent seas, for her dominion is serenity, receptivity, and reflection. She is robed in veils of pure light, an image of beauty and purity, yet also of concealment. The Queen is never directly perceived—her essence is masked by the radiance surrounding her.

At her feet lies the Moon Pool, a mirror-like surface that dazzles the observer with light and reflection. The uninitiated onlooker believes they see the Queen, yet what they perceive is merely themselves, refracted upon her astral waters. The Queen of Cups hides herself in her veils, for her truth cannot be grasped outwardly—it must be realized inwardly.

The Mirror Mystery

What the observer does not immediately recognize is that the Queen is also looking back at them. Their reflection in her Moon Pool is not only their own—it is her self-identity. She perceives herself through them. This is the secret of Binah as the Great Mother: She is the one who understands you more deeply than you understand yourself, because she sees you as her own emanation, her child of waters.

Thus, the Queen of Cups reflects not only the unconscious of the querent but also the cosmic understanding of the Self. She is the mirror in which the Soul comes to recognize its own beauty. In Hermetic terms, this is Binah’s function as the Sanctifying Intelligence: to consecrate raw consciousness into form through the vessel of compassion, reflection, and understanding.

Astrological Depth

• Gemini (last decan): The restless air of Gemini is here absorbed into the womb of Water. The Queen receives the mind’s multiplicity and translates it into image, dream, and feeling.

• Cancer (first two decans): Under the rulership of the Moon, Cancer gives her dominion over tides, memory, and the deep instinctual self. This is why she governs psychic vision, intuition, and dream-magic.

• Moon Symbolism: Her gown and throne are marked by the full and crescent Moons, signifying her role as the matrix of cycles, tides, and unconscious rhythms.

Hermetic Elucidation

The Queen of Cups is not simply an archetype of empathy—she is the embodiment of imaginative consciousness itself. Through her, the formless becomes form, yet always through reflection, never through direct confrontation. She is the passive but all-encompassing womb of Selfhood.

To meditate on the Queen is to gaze into a mirror of infinite depth, where one’s own image dissolves into the archetype of the Divine Mother. She whispers:

"I am you, and you are I. In my waters, your face is my face.
What you see as reflection, I see as truth."

The Reflective Nature of the Queen of Cups

The Queen of Cups, like water itself, is reflective and mutable. Consciousness—symbolized by water—flows according to the influences around it, taking the shape of its vessel, mirroring its surroundings, and shifting with the tides of energy. In this, the Queen represents the plasticity of the unconscious mind—the Moon Pool in which every thought, emotion, and image finds a reflection. She reminds us that the astral waters are never static; they are ever responsive, ever mirroring, ever shaping.

The Ibis of Thoth-Hermes

Crowley’s Thoth card deepens this symbolism with the subtle inclusion of an abstract Ibis, upon which the Queen’s hand and lotus rest. The Ibis is a sacred bird of ancient Egypt, associated with Thoth, the god of wisdom, language, and the Moon. Thoth-Hermes is the Magus of the Logos, the measurer of time, the writer of destiny, and the scribe of divine law.

By placing her hand and lotus upon the Ibis, the Queen reveals her union with this Lunar and Mercurial current. The lotus—symbol of purity, spiritual unfolding, and rebirth—rests gently upon the back of Thoth’s sacred bird, signifying that her waters, though passive and receptive, are always in dialogue with wisdom, reason, and divine speech.

The Union of Male and Female

Here, the Hermetic maxim “As above, so below; as within, so without” is expanded into the principle of complementary polarity. The Queen of Cups, as the archetype of the receptive waters of the Mother, does not act in isolation. Her reflection is given depth and meaning by the creative Logos of the Divine Masculine. The Ibis of Thoth demonstrates that male and female forces are never separate, but eternally interwoven.

• The Queen: Water, receptivity, womb of images.

• The Ibis of Thoth: Word, wisdom, shaping influence.

• The Lotus: the flowering of their union, beauty born from darkness.

Thus the card is not simply about emotion or intuition, but about the alchemy of union: Wisdom (Thoth-Hermes) and Understanding (Binah-Queen), Logos and Matrix, reflection and speech.

Hermetic Elucidation

When meditating on this card, one is invited to see themselves in the astral waters, just as the Queen gazes back from the depths. But deeper still, one may realize that the image reflected is not only personal—it is cosmic. The Queen’s waters hold the reflection of Thoth’s wisdom and the divine intelligence of the Logos. She reflects not only you but also the archetype of Self as Divine Word, the marriage of Male and Female currents within consciousness.

She whispers through the ibis, through the waters, through the lotus:

"I am your reflection, yet within me shines the Word.
Through me, Wisdom flowers in Beauty.
Through me, the Two are One."

The Mystery of Binah and the Young Chokmah

Words often fail before the Great Mystery that underlies and builds all consciousness. Yet the Qabalah, through its veils of symbol and number, gives us keys to approach the Infinite. To deepen our gnosis of the Great Sea of Mother Binah, we must also contemplate the role of Chokmah—the Young Husband, the Serpent Force.

Binah: The Great Sea

Binah, the 3rd Sephira, is Understanding, the Sanctifying Intelligence. She is the archetypal Mother, the Womb of Form, the Vessel of all images. From her waters flow the astral tides, the dream, the imagination—the substance of the subconscious. Binah is Aima Elohim, the Mother of the Gods, for she gives shape to the unshaped, boundaries to the limitless, and form to the eternal.

Yet her waters alone, though infinite, are inert. They await the spark, the fecund seed, the Serpent that stirs the depths to life.

Chokmah: The Young Husband

Chokmah, the 2nd Sephira, is Wisdom—yet in Hermetic symbolism he is the First Husband, the Young Lord of Force. He is the flash of lightning from Kether, the primal will-to-create. Often depicted as a serpent or dragon, Chokmah is the fertilizing current, the endless vitality that seeks union.

In Greek myth, this archetype is echoed as Python, the primordial serpent of Delphi—the first Husband, whose energy must be transformed, not destroyed, if wisdom is to flower. In Hermetic thought, Chokmah is the ever-young force, forever pouring into the Great Sea of Binah.

The Union: The Formula of 0 = 2

From Kether, the 0, arises polarity: the duality of Chokmah (Force) and Binah (Form). The formula is simple yet profound:

• 0 = 2 → From Nothing, arises Two.

• The Serpent (Chokmah) and the Cup (Binah) enact the primal marriage.

• This union becomes the foundation of all consciousness, for every thought, dream, or creation is born of the interplay of Force entering Form.

Thus, the Great Sea of Binah is stirred into motion by the Young Chokmah. Without her waters, the Serpent’s force has no vessel; without his spark, the Sea remains dark and unformed.

Consciousness as the Child

When the Young Chokmah enters the Great Sea, the first stirrings of consciousness arise. This is the eternal sonship, the Child of the union—Tiphareth, the Solar Self, born as the reflection of both Father and Mother. Consciousness, then, is not merely the flickering of neurons but the very offspring of cosmic polarity.

Every thought you think, every dream you dream, is the union of Serpent and Sea. Force and Form, Will and Imagination, are joined in the womb of your own psyche.

Hermetic Elucidation

To contemplate Binah and the Young Chokmah is to look into the mystery of how awareness itself arises. The Great Mother reflects you in her waters, but the Young Husband stirs those waters to create ripples, images, identities. You are at once the reflection and the ripple, the mirror and the movement.

This is why the Magus must honor both:

• Chokmah, as the fiery Serpent of inspiration,

• Binah, as the Ocean of Understanding that sanctifies and contains.

Together, they generate the living consciousness that is the Soul of Man.

Chokmah as the First Husband – The Serpent Force

In Qabalistic symbolism, Chokmah, the second Sephira, is the primal archetype of Wisdom—but in Hermetic practice it is often personified as the First Husband, the masculine principle of pure, unbounded, and fecund energy. Chokmah is dynamic will, the first spark of force that arises from the unmanifest Limitless (Ain Soph).

The Greeks expressed this archetype in the mythic figure of Python, the primordial serpent of Delphi, slain by Apollo but remembered as the ancient husband of the Pythia, the Oracle. More broadly, the serpent or snake symbolizes the First Force: sexual, fecund, fertile, and eternally creative. It is the current that penetrates the womb of Binah, the Great Mother, who shapes its potential into form.

The Serpent in the Prince of Cups

This serpent-force is vividly portrayed in the Thoth Tarot’s Prince of Cups. Emerging from the Cup he holds is a serpent rising, a clear image of Chokmah’s phallic, fertilizing force issuing forth into the receptive vessel. The Cup itself becomes the womb, the Grail of Binah, while the serpent is the will-to-form descending into manifestation.

In Mythology, the Ibis eats the eggs of the Snake, which relates to her "consuming the seeds of ideas" from Chokmah who is represented as Wisdom and/or Thoth. However, Ibis also consumes the corpses of the dead. This may seem contradictory, but the corpses of the dead are "Conscious seeds", personalities recycled so that data is consumed and recycled in the Universal Collective Unconscious. Thus, we have reference to the Great Sea of Binah (Universal Collective Unconscious) from which life flows out and flows back into. Here also the Moon and the cycle of tides add to the image of flowing change.

The Western Rose is the sacred flower related to Mother Binah/Isis while the Lotus is the "Eastern Rose" and is the sacred flower of the East related to Great Mother Isis who is an Egyptian form of Binah. 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 normally float, are the means of force transmission.

The key characteristics of The Queen of Cups are dreaminess, illusion, and tranquility. As Water is the perfect agent and patient solvent, the Queen of Cups can 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, just as the purity of water is affected by pollutants.

The Reflective Mystery of the Queen of Cups

In The Book of Thoth (p. 157), Aleister Crowley defines the Queen of Cups’ reflective nature with precision:

“Her image is of extreme purity and beauty, with infinite subtlety; to see the Truth of her is hardly possible, for she reflects the nature of the observer in great perfection.”

He goes on to describe her as:

“The perfect agent and patient, able to receive and transmit everything without herself being affected thereby.”

This is the essence of Binah’s reflective Sea, embodied in the Queen of Cups: she is the perfect mirror of consciousness. To gaze upon her is to see oneself, yet perfected, untouched by the distortion of the outer world.

The Queen as Imagination

The Queen of Cups is the agent of imagination—not mere fantasy, but the deep, astral imagination that reflects the Self with crystalline clarity. Whatever image is projected into her waters is reflected flawlessly, whether true or false, whether born of Spirit or distortion.

This is why Crowley calls her the perfect agent and patient:

• Agent, because she reflects actively, shaping thought-forms with perfect fidelity.

• Patient, because she receives everything without resistance, without distortion, without being altered herself.

In this way she is the “self-reflective imagination,” the great astral sea of the psyche.

The Reflection of Self

What we imagine ourselves—or others—to be, is reflected in her waters, and imprinted upon our unconscious. If we see ourselves as weak, unworthy, or broken, that is the image the Sea reflects back. If we see ourselves as radiant, divine, and beautiful, she reflects that, too.

Yet, as you rightly observe, none of this touches the Universal Collective Unconscious, which remains vast, infinite, and untainted. The Queen reflects without absorbing. The waters are stirred, but the Sea itself is never diminished.

Thus, when we peer into her Moon Pool, she shows us the Beautiful Self we were before distortion—before the indoctrination of dogma, before the hypnosis of media and social programming, before fear and criticism clouded the mirror. She shows us the Self as seen by Binah: the unfallen Child of the Mother, radiant and whole.

Hermetic Elucidation

Here lies the great key:

• The Queen of Cups does not reveal herself—she reveals you.

• The beauty you see in her is your own beauty, purified of conditioning.

• The ugliness one projects into her sea is likewise only one’s own distortion.

She is imagination as the flawless reflector of consciousness. This is why she is so subtle, so elusive: to see her truth directly is almost impossible. She can only be known in reflection.

Practical Meditation

When working with the Queen of Cups:

1. Visualize her Moon Pool before you—still, perfect, glowing with lunar light.

2. Place into the waters the image of your Self as you long to be—free, radiant, sovereign.

3. Watch as she reflects this image back to you, not as fantasy but as truth, already present within you.

This practice reclaims the Self from distortion, opening the imagination to its true function: to reflect the divine, not the programmed illusion.

Therefore, if well dignified, the Queen of Cups reveals one's inner beauty; if ill dignified she can be dangerous and cruel, distorting reflections, she casts back on her unsuspecting victims who think ill of others and often do not understand that to think ill is to be ill. Subconsciously the hidden images of themselves will be seen as monsters in the mirror. So, when using the power of imagination, think well of your fellows, for they are another way to be you. You don't have to like what a person does, but you mustn't cast forth your inner images by giving voice to dehumanizing titles or names for you are using the power of I AM with the flowing vibrations of voice ...the casting bounces off the mirror of light and reflects upon you.

A personality that is under her rule on the Tarot Birthday Wheel, is signified as someone with intuitive understanding, empathic feelings, and depth of experience; as one who erases the boundaries between dream and reality and/or urges one to cross borders and remove limitations, even those of gender.

There are some well noted Queen of Cups-personalities. These include Paul McCartney, Jacques Cousteau, John D. Rockefeller, Nikola Tesla, George Orwell, and Gerald Gardner. Therefore, it behooves the Tarot Reader to understand that the Court Cards are not specific sexual identities or genders. Besides, we are all mental hermaphrodites (Hermes/Aphrodite) as we have a left-male and right-female sides to our brains and our Souls are Androgynous and/or hermaphrodites.

In astrology, each zodiac sign is divided into three decans, each spanning ten degrees of the zodiac. The last decan of Gemini and the first two decans of Cancer have distinct characteristics:

1. Last Decan of Gemini (20-30 degrees Gemini):

   • This decan is influenced by the planet Uranus. It brings an unconventional and innovative energy to the intellectual and communicative qualities of Gemini.
   • Individuals born under this decan may possess a strong sense of individuality and originality in their thinking and communication style.
   • They may be inventive, curious, and open-minded, often embracing change and exploring unconventional ideas.
   • However, they may also exhibit restlessness, unpredictability, and a tendency to challenge established norms.

2. First Decan of Cancer (0-10 degrees Cancer):

   • This decan is ruled by the Moon, the natural ruler of Cancer. It emphasizes the emotional and nurturing qualities of the sign.
   • Individuals born under this decan are typically sensitive, empathetic, and deeply intuitive. They are strongly connected to their emotions and may have a nurturing instinct.
   • Family and home are important to them, and they may prioritize creating a secure and nurturing environment for themselves and their loved ones.
   • They may also be highly imaginative and creative, with a strong attachment to the past and a tendency to be nostalgic.

3. Second Decan of Cancer (10-20 degrees Cancer):

   • This decan is influenced by the planet Pluto. It adds depth, intensity, and transformational energy to the emotional nature of Cancer.
   • Individuals born under this decan may have a powerful emotional presence, with a tendency towards intensity and passion in their relationships and pursuits.
   • They may undergo significant personal transformations throughout their lives, experiencing both emotional highs and lows.
   • They possess a strong sense of intuition and may have psychic or occult abilities. They are also drawn to uncovering hidden truths and delving into the depths of their psyche.

These decans provide additional layers of nuance and complexity to the traits associated with Gemini and Cancer, offering a more detailed understanding of individuals born under these signs.

The Queen of cups represents Specific Water in the Realm of Primal Water. In other words, She is the "will to form" intelligence that resides in the Divine Collective Superconscious (Supernal Triangle). Here the "Will to Form" of Binah is "reflecting on consciousness" as an archetypal personality.

• The querent shows issues surrounding motherhood.
• Suggesting emotional empowerment, as the querent can express feelings honestly, blamelessly and without judgment.
• Implies too much imagination about issues and not enough action taken to solve them.
• Emotional and Intuitive abilities that show highly evolved interpersonal interactions and psychic abilities.
• Implies the querent is extremely empathetic and thus must watch out for moodiness and fluctuating feelings.
• Suggests that one inspires from within and could be a time of deep inner musings, thoughts focused within where the mind is engulfed in Imagination.
• That a mature woman of deep sexual and fertility powers, where everything in her life is related to nourishment, sexual exchange, passionate giving and receiving maybe involved in the life of the querent or is the querent.
• Motherhood, or innovative ideas formulating for a creative line of work.
• An ethereal person of the highest ideals imagined...sometimes unattainably high in the physical world of constant change.
• Wisdom and virtue can denote a perfect spouse and a good mother.
• Scrying and reflecting.

If ill defined by the surrounding cards in the layout it implies:

• Vagueness
• Dreaminess.
• Irrationality.

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Because a true Magus does not read for you—he reads with you. Together, we explore your unique resonance with the living archetypes of the Tarot, peeling away the illusions of false ego and awakening your authentic Self.

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Special sliding-scale pricing is available so no seeker is turned away.

Discover the Tarot not as superstition, but as a sacred key to self-sovereignty, clarity, and transformation.

May you live long and prosper.

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