Tarot Of The Day July 20, 2018 - Day 27: The Raven’s Prophecy Deck - Ace of Cups
The Rider-Waite deck’s Ace of Cups shows a hand, emerging from clouds, holding a golden goblet in its palm. Water flows from the goblet in five streams like a fountain into a body of water below, likely a pond or lake, given the lily pads and lotus blossoms growing in it. In the far distance there is a shoreline with hills. The goblet itself is engraved with either a ‘W’ or an ‘M’ (the meaning of which is a hotly debated topic in tarot scholarship,) and a dove bearing a wafer with a cross dives into the goblet’s mouth.
The Rider-Waite booklet offers the following keywords for the Ace of Cups: true heart, joy , contentment, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, holy table, felicity (upright,) false heart, mutation, instability, and revolution (reversed.)
In my studies of the tarot, I was taught and continue to teach that the Aces are the wellsprings, or sources of the energies that flow through each suit, and that as we move through the suit, those energies are distilled, refined. Each Suit represents another, smaller part of the Fool’s journey - the Cups represent the journey of the heart, of family, of celebration. The Ace represents the raw emotions when we start something new, good or bad.
In Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven’s Prophecy Deck, she shows the Ace of cups as a baby raven in a pool of water. She writes, “ the cups are interested in love and relationships, and the Ace of Cups, like the aces of all the suits, represents an opportunity or a beginning. When you see this, you’re about to be faced with the possibility of a new relationship. Right now, it's just a tiny thing, like the baby bird on the card, but it has the possibility to be the kind of all-involving intimate friendship or love affair that we dream of. The kind of relationship that you hold on to for a lifetime. ...Of course, like all of the aces, this is only a promise. You have to be open to such a relationship, which usually means being generous with your time and confident in yourself; this easy step sidesteps a lot of the possible hurt or jealousy that could come later in the cups suit.”
Maggie gives the following keywords for the Ace of Cups: love, beginnings, friendship, and excitement.
Tomorrow - Practicum 4
***TOTD will cover the entire 78 card Raven’s Prophecy Deck alongside the Rider-Waite deck for comparison. In order to not completely burn out, on Saturdays, I will break the lessons up by doing a practicum lesson. Practicum lessons will take the form of a layout or spread that I will walk you through the steps of interpretation for. After the first round of sessions ends, we will start over with a short break for a poll to be done to see what deck everyone wants to see next round. ***
I am posting a daily tarot course in a group I am a member of on Facebook ('A Kaleidoscope of Magical Perceptions' is the name of the group, please feel free to request membership - it is full of fun people and really great posts about all manner of topics) and I thought I would cross post the information here to this blog as well. Once the initial sessions of the course have passed, it will start over using a different tarot deck. The text of the twenty-seventh session follows.
The Rider-Waite deck’s Ace of Cups shows a hand, emerging from clouds, holding a golden goblet in its palm. Water flows from the goblet in five streams like a fountain into a body of water below, likely a pond or lake, given the lily pads and lotus blossoms growing in it. In the far distance there is a shoreline with hills. The goblet itself is engraved with either a ‘W’ or an ‘M’ (the meaning of which is a hotly debated topic in tarot scholarship,) and a dove bearing a wafer with a cross dives into the goblet’s mouth.
The Rider-Waite booklet offers the following keywords for the Ace of Cups: true heart, joy , contentment, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, holy table, felicity (upright,) false heart, mutation, instability, and revolution (reversed.)
In my studies of the tarot, I was taught and continue to teach that the Aces are the wellsprings, or sources of the energies that flow through each suit, and that as we move through the suit, those energies are distilled, refined. Each Suit represents another, smaller part of the Fool’s journey - the Cups represent the journey of the heart, of family, of celebration. The Ace represents the raw emotions when we start something new, good or bad.
In Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven’s Prophecy Deck, she shows the Ace of cups as a baby raven in a pool of water. She writes, “ the cups are interested in love and relationships, and the Ace of Cups, like the aces of all the suits, represents an opportunity or a beginning. When you see this, you’re about to be faced with the possibility of a new relationship. Right now, it's just a tiny thing, like the baby bird on the card, but it has the possibility to be the kind of all-involving intimate friendship or love affair that we dream of. The kind of relationship that you hold on to for a lifetime. ...Of course, like all of the aces, this is only a promise. You have to be open to such a relationship, which usually means being generous with your time and confident in yourself; this easy step sidesteps a lot of the possible hurt or jealousy that could come later in the cups suit.”
Maggie gives the following keywords for the Ace of Cups: love, beginnings, friendship, and excitement.
Tomorrow - Practicum 4
***TOTD will cover the entire 78 card Raven’s Prophecy Deck alongside the Rider-Waite deck for comparison. In order to not completely burn out, on Saturdays, I will break the lessons up by doing a practicum lesson. Practicum lessons will take the form of a layout or spread that I will walk you through the steps of interpretation for. After the first round of sessions ends, we will start over with a short break for a poll to be done to see what deck everyone wants to see next round. ***
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