11. Page of Cups
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Rank: Page
Card Title: Page of Cups
Esoteric Title: Princess of the Waters and the Lotus,
Lotus of the Palace of the Floods
Astrological Attribution: The Element of Water
Decans:
Dates & Timing: The Hanged Man
Corresponding Trump: Throne of the Ace of Cups
Elemental Attributions: Earth (cold, dry) of Water (cold, wet)
Elemental Combination: The Senses transform the Emotions
Qabalistic World: Malkuth in Briah
Translation of World: The Kingdom of Creation
Suit Color: Cups - Blue
Interpretation
Temperament: Sensitive, Emotional, Young at heart, helpful, passionate, imaginative, talented, warm, vulnerable, talkative, imaginative, psychic, youthful, flaky, fulfilled.
Professions:
Messages: A message of love, romance, heartbreak or family.
Meanings: Cupid bringing opportunities for love. Pleasant letters, phone calls e-mails or social invitations. Look for family cards (4 of Rods, Ten of Pentacles, Six of Cups) for referring to a child. Gay people. Wonderful plan or idea. Be ready to start a new project. Expansion, yearning, emotional freedom, Enjoyment.
Reversed Interpretation
Temperament: Flaky, shirks responsibilities, Melancholy, Excessive Imagination, moody, emotional,.
Meanings: Slow period in social affairs. May need some time alone. Deception by a friend or close colleague. Lack of communication from a lover or friend. Slow period in duty. Things are changing, don’t dwell in the past.
Rider-Waite Imagery
Court cards can represent your personality, someone close to you and situations you find yourself in. Usually they describe all three at once.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form. Divinatory Meanings: Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business. Reversed: Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Page.–Good augury; also a young man who is unfortunate in love. Reversed: Obstacles of all kinds.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Pages = dangerous illness; 3 Pages = dispute; 2 Pages = disquiet.
Reversed: 4 Pages = privation 3 Pages = idleness 2 Pages = society.
The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]
Signification of the Four Series of Minor Arcana in the Divining Tarot
CUPS. Preservation. Love. Instruction.
KNAVE OF CUPS. A fair child. A messenger. Birth.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
39. Knave of Cups.–A fair Youth, Confidence, Probity, Discretion, Integrity; R. A Flatterer, Deception, Artifice.
Additional Remarks
The following additional remarks may be serviceable to the to the inexperienced Cartomancer. They are chiefly taken from Etteilla.
The Court-Cards, and especially the Kings and Queens, may be taken to represent persons; in this case their additional meaning should not be read. The Swords represent very dark people; Pentacles, those not so dark; Cups, rather fair people; Wands or Sceptres, those much fairer, and so on. Many Wands together might signify feasting, many Cups lovemaking, Swords quarrelling and trouble, Coins or Pentacles money.
Where the mode of reading the cards requires that the person consulting should be represented, he should take one of the Kings to represent himself, according to his complexion. If a lady consults the cards, let her take one of the Queens; if she be rather fair, the Queen of Cups; if she be very fair, the Queen of Wands or Sceptres. If the inquirer be quite a youth or a boy, let him take one of the Knights; if a very young girl, let her take the Knave, etc. Etteilla’s plan was to take two of the Keys for Significators, that answering to the Pope for a man, that answering to the High Priestess for a woman; but I do not think this is so well. The worst of Etteilla’s system is that he so completely destroys the meanings of the Keys in his attempted rearrangement of them, as to make them practically useless for higher occult purposes.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
The Four Princesses
are the Knaves of the Tarot Pack; The Four Princesses or figures of Amazons, standing firmly of themselves: neither riding upon Horses, nor seated upon Thrones, nor borne in Chariots. They represent the forces of the He final of the Name in each suit, completing the Influences of the other scales: The mighty and potent daughter of a King and Queen: a Princess powerful and terrible: a Queen of Queens — an Empress — whose effect combines those of the King, Queen, and Prince, at once violent and permanent; therefore symbolized by a Figure standing firmly by itself, only partially draped, and having but little Armour; yet her power existeth not, save by reason of the others: and then indeed it is mighty and terrible materially, and is the Throne of the Forces of the Spirit.
Woe unto whomsoever shall make war upon her, when thus established!
The Spheres of Influence of the Court Cards of the Tarot Pack
THE Princesses rule the Four Parts of the Celestial Heavens which lie around the north Pole, and above the respective Cherubic Signs of the Zodiac, and they form the Thrones of the Powers of the Four Aces.
XII. The Princess of the Waters; The Lotus of the Palace of the Floods
Knave of Cups
A BEAUTIFUL Amazon-like figure, softer in nature than the Princess of Wands. Her attire is similar. She stands on a sea with foaming spray. Away to her right a Dolphin. She wears as a crest a swan with opening wings. She bears in one hand a lotus, and in the other an open cup from which a turtle issues. Her mantle is lined with swans-down, and is of thin floating material.
Sweetness, poetry, gentleness and kindness. Imaginative, dreamy, at times indolent, yet courageous if roused.
When ill dignified she is selfish and luxurious.
She rules a quadrant of the heavens around Kether.
Earth of Water
Princess and Empress of the Nymphs or Undines
Throne of the Ace of Cups.
Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either 3 of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:
- A Majority of Cups Pleasure, merriment.
- A Majority of Court Cards Society, meetings of many persons.
- 4 Princesses New ideas or plans.
- 3 Princesses Society of the young.
