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Cups · Ace

Ace of Cups

Root of the Powers of Water

The face of Ace of Cups, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Root of the Powers of Water.

The heart opens. Love, intuition and grace pour in; make room to receive.

Upright

New love, emotional renewal and intuitive opening. The heart is ready to receive.

Reversed

Blocked feeling, or giving so much that nothing comes back in.

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The spirit work

Corson, King of the West, governs this quarter. The Goetia gives him no seal, so this deck uses a Golden Dawn rose sigil of his name. Read with a bowl of water nearby.

Where the card sits

Correspondences

Tree of LifeKether in Briah, the root of water
Letter of the NameHeh of the Tetragrammaton
QuadrantLibra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, the throne of the Princess of Cups
Governing angelsArchangel Gabriel of the West; Tharsis, ruler of water
Elemental kingNichsa of the Undines; Kerub of the Eagle
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King of the WestCorson (קורסון), one of the four great kings of the quarters named in the Goetia. No seal is given, so the card carries a rose sigil of the name.
Ace of Cups in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.