The Suit of Cups: The Legend.

The legend of Eros and Psyche is really the story of the development and maturation of feelings and the capacity to relate to another person. In its own way it is a journey although unlike the great journey of the Fool through the Major Arcana it is a specialized adventure which circles around the...

The Minor Arcana: The four Suits.

The four Suits of the Tarot - symbolized by the cup, the wand, the sword and the pentacle - are descriptions, in pictorial form, of experiences in four different dimensions or spheres of life. Like the ancient four elements of Greek Philosophy, from which it was once believed that all manifest...

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Prince of Cups

"The moral characteristics of the person pictured in this card are subtlety, secret violence, and craft. He is intensely secret, an artist in all his ways. On the surface he appears calm and imperturbable, but this is a mask of the most intense passion. He is on the surface susceptible to external...

The World.

Here we meet Hermaphroditus who in myth was the child of Hermes and Aphrodite. On an inner level, the image of Hermaphroditus is an image of the experience of being whole. Male and female and more than sexual identifications limited to the genital organs. They are great polarities which encompass...

The Sun.

Here we meet the radiant sun-god Apollo, the gentleman of Olympus and lord of prophecy, music and knowledge. On an inner level, Apollo, the sun-god, is an image of the power of consciousness to dispel the darkness. Like Hecate, who under the name of Artemis was Apollo's twin sister in myth, the god...

Judgement.

Here, as we approach the end of the cycle of the major Arcarna, we meet that whom we encountered in the beginning – Hermes the Psychopomp, Guide of Souls. On an inner level, Hermes the Psychopomp is an image of a process which occurs at certain critical moments if life: a summing-up, when the...

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The Star.

Here we meet Pandora, who in myth opened the chest which Zeus had maliciously given to mankind, and released all the spites. On an inner level, the image of Pandora and the Star of Hope is a symbol of that part of us which, despite disappointment, depression and loss can still cling to a sense of...

The Devil.

Here we meet the great god Pan, whom the Greeks worshipped as the Great All. On an inner level, Pan, the Devil, is an image of bondage to the crudest, most instinctual aspect of human nature. Because the god was worshipped in caves and grottoes, attended by fear, his image within us suggests...

The Tower.

Here we see the famous Labyrinth of King Minos, which was struck by an earthquake when the angry God Poseidon rose up from the waters to topple the Kingdom. On an inner level, the god-struck Tower is an image of the collapse of the old forms. The Tower is the only man-made structure in the Major...

Death.

Here we meet the dark God Hades, lord of the underworld, whom we first encountered in the card of the Empress as the abductor of Demeter's daughter Persephone. On an inner level, Hades, lord of Death, is an image of the permanent and final end of a cycle of life. When we change, a new attitude or...

The Hanged Man.

Here we meet Prometheus, the Titan who defined the law of Zeus and stole the fire of the gods to give to man, knowing full well that he would suffer for his deed. On an inner level, Prometheus, the Hanged Man, is an image of voluntary sacrifice for a greater good. The sacrifice can be of an external...

The Hermit.

Here we meet the ancient god Cronos, whose name means Time. On an inner level Cronos, the Hermit, is an image of the last of the four Moral Lessons which the Fool must learn: the lesson of time and the limitations of mortal life. Nothing is allowed to live beyond its span, and nothing remains...

Strength.

Here we meet the great warrior Heracles, called Hercules by the Romans, who in myth was the most invincible of heroes. On an inner level, Heracles battling the Nemean Lion is an image of the problem of containing the powerful and savage beast within us, while still preserving those animal qualities...

Temperance.

Here we meet Iris, goddess of the rainbow and messenger to Hera, queen of the gods. On an inner level, Iris, goddess of the rainbow, is an image of the second of the qualities or faculties which the Fool much learn to form a stable individuality; a balanced heart. Where Athene, who embodies Justice,...

Justice.

Here we meet Athene, goddess of Justice, whom we earlier encountered in the card of the Lovers. On an inner level, Athene, goddess of Justice, is an image of the uniquely human faculty of reflective judgement and rational thought. To the Greeks, this faculty was divine, because it differentiated man...

The Chariot.

Here we meet the war-god Ares, who was said in myth to have been conceived by Hera, queen of the gods, without male seed. On an inner level, Ares, the driver of the Chariot, is an image of the aggressive instincts guided and directed by the will of consciousness. The horses which pull the Chariot in...

The Lovers.

Here we meet the Trojan prince Paris, who was commanded by Zeus to judge a beauty contest between three Goddesses – Hera, Aphrodite and Athene. On an inner lever, the judgement of Paris, as it is known in myth, is an image of the first of life's great challenges to the developing individual: the...

The Hierophant.

Here we meet Chiron, king of the Centaurs, healer, priest and wise teacher of all the young heroes in myth. On an inner level, Chiron, the Hierophant, is an image of that part of us which reaches upward toward the spirit in order to understand what is required of us by God. He is the inner spiritual...