The crowned one
I have gone through what I can find on the Ace of cups here at Aeclectic and did not find the answer to my question, so I will post it now.
Why does A E Waite in "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot" describe the card as "...the cup, from which four streams are pouring..." when it is obviously five?
I thought this might be one of his many simple "misguides" to lead the uninitiated astray perhaps?
Symbolically here is how I see this card : The Cup itself I link to the grail. The dove: spiritual values and peace. The wafer in its beak communion, the Greek or solar cross in the wafer.. the sign of the sun, and therefore life(mankind). The FIVE streams for me are the five senses. The Lily's in the lake are a sign of purity of the heart and rebirth, as they are red rather then white I tend to think the lust stage of love, how it generally begins, over the later mellow but more complete loves that have had time to mature.
In divination, without the influence of other cards My thoughts are: new beginnings, great love/lust, joy, and the cup running over. There are cards that can quickly draw the divining meaning of this card towards fertility, marriage and pregnancy or perhaps creation is a better word just to name a few quick thoughts.
What do others make of the discrepancy beween Waite's words and Rider's art for the Ace of cups?
Why does A E Waite in "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot" describe the card as "...the cup, from which four streams are pouring..." when it is obviously five?
I thought this might be one of his many simple "misguides" to lead the uninitiated astray perhaps?
Symbolically here is how I see this card : The Cup itself I link to the grail. The dove: spiritual values and peace. The wafer in its beak communion, the Greek or solar cross in the wafer.. the sign of the sun, and therefore life(mankind). The FIVE streams for me are the five senses. The Lily's in the lake are a sign of purity of the heart and rebirth, as they are red rather then white I tend to think the lust stage of love, how it generally begins, over the later mellow but more complete loves that have had time to mature.
In divination, without the influence of other cards My thoughts are: new beginnings, great love/lust, joy, and the cup running over. There are cards that can quickly draw the divining meaning of this card towards fertility, marriage and pregnancy or perhaps creation is a better word just to name a few quick thoughts.
What do others make of the discrepancy beween Waite's words and Rider's art for the Ace of cups?