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The Tarot of Eli 2, LLC: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-Ace of Pentacles & The Ocean Tarot- Ace of Treasure

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:37:21 -0700

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The Ocean Tarot-Ace of Treasure

Radiant: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Ace of Pentacles

The Rider–Waite–Smith Ace of Pentacles

Kether in Assiah: The Divine Seed of Earth, Incarnation, and Prosperity

The Rider–Waite–Smith Ace of Pentacles represents the concentrated essence of Earth—the divine seed of material existence. It is the first promise of form, fertility, health, abundance, and practical manifestation.

Although Arthur Edward Waite often clothed his Tarot symbolism in Christian mysticism, the Ace of Pentacles contains a much broader current of Western Hermetic Qabalah, sacred geometry, alchemy, and ancient fertility symbolism. This is not merely a picture of a large coin floating above a garden. Spirit is offering us the entire mystery of incarnation—and apparently expects us to do something useful with it.

The Hand of Spirit

An angelic hand emerges from a luminous cloud and presents a golden Pentacle. The cloud represents the invisible spiritual world, while the hand signifies an active extension of Divine Will into manifestation.

The Pentacle is commonly associated with money, possessions, work, health, and material opportunity. However, it is much more than a coin. The five-pointed star also represents the perfected human being: Spirit ruling and harmonizing the four elements of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth.

The Pentacle is therefore an image of embodied divinity. It reveals Spirit successfully clothed in matter.

The hand is not simply offering financial opportunity. It offers the possibility of becoming conscious within the material world—of...Read More

The Tarot of Eli 2: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-King of Cups & The Ocean Tarot- King of Pearls

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:38:21 -0700

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The Ocean Tarot- King of Cups

Radiant Edition: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-King of Cups

Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot — King of Cups

The Ocean Tarot — King of Pearls

The Sovereign of the Astral Sea

The Rider-Waite-Smith King of Cups is shown seated upon a massive stone throne that floats calmly upon a churning sea. This is one of the great visual paradoxes of the card: stone should sink, yet here it floats. In other words, this King has achieved such emotional equilibrium that even the wild sea of the subconscious cannot pull him under.

The waters around him represent the emotional field, the astral sea, and the Collective Unconscious. In Western Hermetic Qabalah, these waters may also be linked to the Great Ocean of Binah, the Supernal Mother and Womb of Understanding. Binah contains the mysteries, sorrows, memories, and primordial wisdoms from which all form eventually emerges. The King of Cups does not deny this deep ocean; he rules from within it.

This is emotional mastery, not emotional suppression. He is not a dry intellectual trying to explain feelings with a spreadsheet. He is the one who has crossed storms, survived inner tides, and learned how to sit still while the sea throws a tantrum.

Fire in Water: The Alchemy of Emotional Sovereignty

The King’s garments reveal the marriage of Fire and Water. His outer robe contains solar yellow and red, while beneath it appears the deep blue of Water. This shows Spirit expressing itself through emotion. Fire gives direction, passion, and will; Water gives receptivity, intuition, empathy, and depth.

The Tarot of Eli 2: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-Queen of Cups & The Ocean Tarot - Queen of Pearls

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:17:06 -0700

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The Ocean Tarot-Queen of Pearls

Radiant: Rider-Waite-Smith-Queen of Cups

Rider-Waite-Smith Queen of Cups & Ocean Tarot Queen of Pearls

The Moon Pool, the Grail, and the Living Waters of the Soul

Astrologically, the Queen of Cups rules from approximately 20° Gemini to 20° Cancer, covering the last decan of Gemini and the first two decans of Cancer. This immediately tells us that she is not merely “emotional,” as many surface-level tarot books like to say. She is feeling informed by perception, intuition shaped by intelligence, and imagination deepened by lunar sensitivity.

In other words, she is not just sitting around “having feelings.” She is reading the psychic weather, decoding the tides of the soul, and probably knowing what you are about to say before you say it. The Queen of Cups is what happens when the mind becomes quiet enough for the deep waters to speak.

The last decan of Gemini gives her subtle intellect, symbolic awareness, verbal sensitivity, and the ability to perceive hidden patterns. The first two decans of Cancer bring lunar receptivity, emotional depth, memory, dream-consciousness, and the instinctive wisdom of the Mother. Therefore, this Queen is both oracle and empath, both listener and seer. She does not conquer by force. She receives, reflects, and reveals.

In the Rider-Waite-Smith Queen of Cups, we see her seated upon a throne beside the calm sea. Her garments flow like gentle tides, and her throne is decorated with watery imagery—merchildren, shells, and sea forms. In her hands she holds the most unusual cup in the entire RWS...Read More

The Tarot of Eli 2: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Knight of Cups & The Ocean Tarot -Knight of Cups

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:15:29 -0700

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The Knight of Pearls-The Ocean Tarot

Radiant Edition: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-Knight of Cups

Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot — Knight of Cups

Western Hermetic Qabalistic Interpretation

The Knight of Cups: Grail-Bearer of the Emotional Soul.

The Rider-Waite-Smith Knight of Cups presents the romantic, imaginative, and questing personality of the Water element. Unlike the fiery Knights of other suits, this Knight rides forward at an easy, almost dreamlike pace, holding the Cup before him as if bearing a sacred offering. This is not brute force, but emotional movement guided by desire, vision, and inner feeling.

In mundane Tarot interpretation, the Knight of Cups is often called the lover, poet, dreamer, messenger, or seeker of beauty. Yet from the Western Hermetic Qabalistic view, this card represents something deeper: the emotional-intuitive personality moving through the astral waters of consciousness in search of the Grail of the Soul.

The winged helm of the Rider-Waite-Smith Knight hints at the higher expression of Scorpio, symbolized by the Eagle. Scorpio has three traditional images: the Scorpion, the Serpent, and the Eagle. The Scorpion represents instinct, desire, self-defense, and the lower passions. The Serpent represents transformation, regeneration, sexuality, and occult power. The Eagle represents the sublimated Scorpio force: the ability to rise above emotional turbulence and see with spiritual vision.

Thus, the Knight of Cups is not merely a sentimental figure. He is the emotional warrior of the inner life, learning to master desire, imagination, attraction, and psychic...Read More

The Tarot of Eli 2: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Page of Cups & The Ocean Tarot -Page of Pearls

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:59:09 -0700

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The Ocean Tarot-Page of Pearls

Radiant Edition: Rider-Waite-Smith-Page of Cups

Rider-Waite-Smith Page of Cups & Archeon Tarot Herald of Cups

The Muse of the Waters and the First Voice of the Soul

The Page of Cups in the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot and the Ocean Tarot both symbolize the awakening of emotional intelligence, intuitive receptivity, and creative imagination. These cards do not represent emotional weakness, but the beginning of emotional mastery—the ability to listen to the subtle waters of the soul without being drowned by them.

In both decks, this figure is a messenger of Water. Water, in Western Hermetic Qabalah, is the element of feeling, reflection, memory, dreams, astral perception, and psychic sensitivity. It is the substance through which the inner world speaks.

Yet this sensitivity must be trained. The Page or Herald of Cups must learn to pass through the shadows of emotional life: manipulation, jealousy, seduction, fantasy, possessiveness, and emotional projection. These are not merely personal flaws; they are initiatory gates. By passing through them consciously, the soul learns compassionate detachment, emotional objectivity, and self-knowledge.

Rider-Waite-Smith Page of Cups

The Rider-Waite-Smith Page of Cups shows a youthful, almost androgynous figure holding a cup from which a fish mysteriously emerges. This image is often treated as whimsical, but it is deeply occult.

The fish is a messenger from the unconscious. It rises from the waters of the inner life, offering inspiration, intuition, dream-language, and symbolic knowledge. The Page does not force the...Read More

The Tarot of Eli 2: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Ten of Cups & The Ocean Tarot - 10 of Pearls

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:19:45 -0700

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The Ocean Tarot- Ten of Pearls

Radiant: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Ten of Cups

Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot — Ten of Cups

The Lord of Perfected Success

In Tarot, the Tens represent the fixed, culminated, and completed expression of elemental force. They are the final manifestation of an elemental current in the material world. In the Suit of Cups, this means the completion of Water: emotion, imagination, love, devotion, psychic receptivity, and spiritual feeling brought into visible expression.

The Rider-Waite-Smith Ten of Cups beautifully portrays this completion. A radiant rainbow arches across the sky, bearing ten golden cups like vessels of divine blessing. Beneath it, a family stands in awe and celebration. The adults recognize the wonder before them, while the children dance freely, expressing happiness without calculation, ownership, or fear.

This is the essential teaching of the card: true happiness does not come from below. It descends from above.

The rainbow of cups symbolizes the descent of joy from the higher planes of consciousness into the field of ordinary human life. It is a visual expression of the Hermetic axiom: “As above, so below.” Divine joy, when received by the open heart, becomes family, harmony, peace, emotional fulfillment, and shared blessing.

This teaching stands in direct contrast to the profane modern belief that happiness is produced by the accumulation of possessions, titles, status, or external validation. The Ten of Cups reveals that happiness is not something one gathers. It is something one remembers, receives, and embodies.

The child at play gives the clearest...Read More

The Tarot of Eli 2: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot -Nine of Cups & The Ocean Tarot -Nine of Pearls

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:35:50 -0700

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Radiant Edition: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-Nine of Cups

Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot – Nine of Cups

The Lord of Material Happiness

The Rider-Waite-Smith Nine of Cups is traditionally called The Lord of Material Happiness. The card shows a satisfied figure seated with arms crossed, smiling before a curved row of nine golden cups. The image suggests pleasure, emotional success, fulfilled desire, and the enjoyment of what has been attained.

Yet in Western Hermetic Qabalah, this card is more than simple wish fulfillment. The number 9 belongs to Yesod, the Ninth Sephirah on the Tree of Life. Yesod means Foundation and is attributed to the Moon, the subconscious mind, dreams, memory, imagination, psychic receptivity, and the astral body. Therefore, the Nine of Cups shows emotional fulfillment arising from the lunar waters of the subconscious.

The nine cups arranged in a crescent-like arc suggest the waxing Moon, the image of increase, fertility, and emotional expansion. These cups are not merely trophies of pleasure; they are vessels of astral magnetism. They show that desire, when properly imagined and emotionally charged, can become a formative power that helps shape experience in Malkuth, the material world.

The blue curtain behind the figure reinforces the symbolism of Water. In Tarot, Water represents emotion, reflection, intuition, and the fluid power of imagination. The curtain may also be read as a veil, suggesting that happiness is partly an inner image projected outward. The figure is pleased, but what we see is still a lunar reflection rather than the full solar illumination of Tiphareth.

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The Tarot of Eli 2: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-Eight of Cups & The Ocean Tarot - Eight of Pearls

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:27:42 -0700

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The Ocean Tarot-Eight of Pearls

Radiant: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Eight of Cups

Rider-Waite-Smith Eight of Cups

The Lord of Abandoned Success

Saturn in Pisces — Hod in Briah

The Rider-Waite-Smith Eight of Cups portrays the esoteric title of this card: The Lord of Abandoned Success. The figure has carefully arranged the cups, showing that effort, emotion, and experience have been invested. Yet the structure is not complete or harmonious: five cups below and three above. This imbalance reveals emotional success that no longer satisfies the deeper soul.

This is not a card of simple failure. It is the card of outgrowing what once fulfilled you.

The seeker turns away from the cups and walks into the dark landscape, guided by an inner necessity. Something has been achieved, yet it now feels hollow. The outer form remains, but the inner fire has gone. In Western Hermetic Qabalah, this is the moment when the personality realizes that emotional pleasure, worldly attachment, and past accomplishments cannot satisfy the evolving Spirit.

The Eight of Cups belongs to the suit of Water and is astrologically assigned to Saturn in Pisces. Saturn brings restriction, discipline, weight, and karmic pressure. Pisces brings sensitivity, imagination, mysticism, compassion, and the dream-ocean of the subconscious. When Saturn acts through Pisces, the waters become heavy. Emotion becomes sober. Fantasy loses its intoxication. The soul begins to separate true spiritual longing from emotional escapism.

This card therefore represents emotional discipline, spiritual maturity, and...Read More

The Tarot of Eli 2: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Seven of Cups& The Ocean Tarot-7 of Pearls

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:08:28 -0700

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The Ocean Tarot- 7 of Cups
Radiant Edition: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Seven of Cups
Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot — Seven of Cups
Venus in Scorpio: Illusion, Desire, and the Alchemy of Choice
The Sevens of Tarot are ruled by Netzach, the Seventh Sephirah on the Tree of Life. Netzach means Victory, but this victory is rarely easy. It is not the peaceful triumph of something already mastered; it is the victory that comes after conflict, emotional testing, temptation, and inner struggle. Netzach is the sphere of Venus, desire, attraction, beauty, emotion, imagination, instinct, and the subtle magnetic forces that shape our choices before the conscious mind even understands them.
In the suit of Cups, this Netzachian force enters the realm of Water: feeling, dream, memory, psychic impression, and subconscious imagery. Here, desire becomes fluid and unstable. The imagination may become a holy instrument of vision, or it may become a mist of fantasy, projection, and self-deception.
This is the mystery of the Seven of Cups.
In the Rider-Waite-Smith Seven of Cups, a shadowy figure stands before seven chalices rising from a clouded ether. Each cup contains a symbolic image, but these images are not simple blessings. They are spiritual powers seen through the distorted waters of the unbalanced psyche. They represent sacred forces that can either awaken the Soul or trap the ego.
The head in the cup suggests intellect separated from gnosis. Thought, when divorced from Spirit, becomes a false ruler. It creates theories, opinions, and...Read More

The Tarot of Eli 2, LLC: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Six of Cups & The Ocean Tarot - Six of Cups

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:52:43 -0700

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The Ocean Tarot- Six of Pearls
Rider-Waite-Smith-Six of Cups
The Rider-Waite-Smith Six of Cups presents a gentle and sentimental image of pleasure, memory, and emotional innocence. Six golden cups overflow with blooming flowers, suggesting simple delight, kindness, and the sweetness of past experience. The bright yellow background implies the warmth of the Sun, while the two children in the garden evoke childhood, nostalgia, and the emotional impressions that remain within the soul long after the original moments have passed.
On the mundane level, this card often speaks of pleasant memories, childhood influence, old friendships, acts of kindness, and a return to emotional simplicity. It may also suggest that the past is influencing the present. The question is whether memory is being used as a healing wellspring or as a sentimental escape from current responsibility.
Arthur Edward Waite, being bound by his Golden Dawn oath, revealed only fragments of the deeper Mysteries in the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Pamela Colman Smith’s imagery is beautiful and evocative, but much of the esoteric structure remains veiled, especially in the Minor Arcana. Therefore, the Six of Cups may appear merely nostalgic to the casual reader, while the initiated eye sees a deeper doctrine of the Solar Child, emotional harmony, and the Soul’s pleasure in incarnation.
In Western Hermetic Qabalah, the number 6 belongs to Tiphareth, the sixth Sephirah on the Tree of Life. Tiphareth means Beauty and is the central Sun of the Tree. It is the sphere of the Solar Self, the Christ-Buddha consciousness, the Higher Self, and the harmonizing intelligence of the Soul. All paths either radiate toward or...Read More