03. Three of Cups
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Number: 3
Card Title: Three of Cups
Esoteric Title: Lord of Abundance
Numerical Keywords: 3: Form, Container, Fertility
Numerical Attributions: Saturn, Black, Year, End
Intelligence: Sanctifying Intelligence
Element: Water (cold, wet)
Elemental Keywords: Love, Container, Emotions
Elemental Attributions: West, Fall, Twilight
Astrological Attribution: Mercury in Cancer
Dates & Timing: July 2 to July 11
Qabalistic World: Binah in Briah
Translation of World: The Understanding of Creation
Suit Color: Cups - Blue
Keywords: Pleasure, fun, entertainment, parties, drinking, family reunion, happy hour, weddings, baptism, birth, success, fun lucky turn, group of friends, planned pregnancy.
Ill-Dignified:Excess, partying, over indulgence, alcoholism, accidental pregnancy, promiscuity, failing marriage.
Interpretation: Auspicious times for conception. Good beginning for new venture. Eve of a journey. Joy in Love. Power of emotions is now usable.
Reversed Interpretation: Situation: Wild abandon to escape something. Pleasure becomes pain. Gossip from an old friend. Talents and abilities hidden. Abundance becomes want. There is a woman with dark hair, red hair and blond hair.
Rider-Waite Imagery
Three young women cand in a garden. They raise their cups in the air in a toast. The garden has grapes, gords and other vegetables.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another.
Divinatory Meanings: The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfillment, solace, healing,
Reversed: Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Three.Unexpected advancement for a military man. Reversed: Consolation, cure, end of the business.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Threes = progress; 3 Threes = unity 2 Threes = calm.
Reversed: 4 Threes = great success; 3 Threes = serenity; 2 Threes = safety.
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.
- THREE. Realization of this commencement. The love is mutual.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
47. Three of Cups.Success, Triumph, Victory, Favorable issue; R. Expedition of business, Quickness, Celerity, Vigilance.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Cancer II
A man cloathed in comely apparrel, or a man and woman sitting at the table and playing; it bestoweth riches, mirth, gladness, and the love of women:
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
LV. The Lord of Abundance:
Three of Chalices
A WHITE Radiating Hand, as before, holds a group of lotuses or water-lilies, from which two flowers rise on either side of, and overhanging the top cup; pouring into it the white water. Flowers in the same way pour white water into the lower cups. All the cups overflow; the topmost into the two others, and these upon the lower part of the card. Cups are arranged in an erect equilateral triangle. Mercury and Cancer above and below.
Abundance, plenty, success, pleasure, sensuality, passive success, good luck and fortune; love, gladness, kindness, liberality.
Binah of HB:H (Plenty, hospitality, eating and drinking, pleasure, dancing, new clothes, merriment).
Therein the Angels HB:RAHAL and HB:YBMYH are lords.
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.
- 4 Threes Resolution, determination.
- 3 Threes Deceit.
