The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT XLIII THE LORD OF MATERIAL HAPPINESS Nine of Chg/ices A VVHITE Radiant Angelic Hand, issuing from a cloud holding lotus or water-lilies, one flower of which over- hangs each cup; from it a white water pours. Cups are arranged in three rows of 3. !4 and (?פabove and below. Complete and perfect realization of pleasure and happiness, almost perfect; self-praise, vanity, conceit, much talking of self, yet kind and lovable, and may be self—denying therewith. High-minded, not easily satisfied with small and limited ideas. Apt to be maligned through too much self—assumption. A good and generous, but sometimes foolish natured Yesod of( ?הComplete success, pleasure and happiness, wishes fulfilled). Therein rule the Angels?הילאמand .א`רע7?ו XLIV THE LORD OF PERFECTED SUCCESS Ten ofCuþs or Chalice: HAND, as usual, holding bunch of water-lilies or lotuses, whose flowers pour a white water into all the cups, which all 71111 over. The uppermost cup is held sideways by a hand, and pours water into the left—hand upper cup. A single lotus flower surmounts the top cup, and is the source of the water that fills it. Above and below the symbols ὀand X. vm N 193