An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

Cups · Princess

Princess of Cups

Princess of the Waters and the Lotus

The face of Princess of Cups, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Princess of the Waters and the Lotus.

A message from the deep. Dreams and omens are speaking; write them down.

Upright

Sensitive, dreamy and open to the unseen. Messages from dreams, synchronicity and new feelings.

Reversed

Emotional immaturity or ignoring a clear intuitive hit.

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The spirit work

Beleth, one of the four chief spirits Solomon shut in the brass vessel, causes love, the book says. Keep a dream journal by the bed while this card is active.

Where the card sits

Correspondences

Elemental natureEarth of Water
Zodiacthe quadrant of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, the throne of the Ace
Elemental kingNichsa of the Undines
CrestA swan with open wings
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SpiritBeleth, king
The seal of Beleth

Appears as a furious king on a pale horse, with trumpets before him. Causes love. One of the four chief spirits Solomon shut in the brass vessel; called with a hazel wand and a ring. Goetia 13.

Princess of Cups in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Seventy-eight cards in fine gold line. Hear when the deck is ready to hold.

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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.