"Princess of Cups" THOTH TAROT CARD: ANALYSIS AND READING.

 

Princess of Cups Thoth tarot shows Aleister Crowley's fondness for Hindu and Buddhist esoteric, with a dancing woman surrounded by a Lotus flower, representing purity and rebirth, upper right side of the card, the Swan above the Princess's head, which in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, particularly Tibetan, represents wisdom and enlightenment.  The river Dolphin, creation and life.  Finally she is holding, in her right hand, an ornamented bowel with a tortoise inside, which is another powerful symbolism of the esoteric, as the tortoise, once again, showing Crowley's affection for Hindu mythology, is seen as the supreme feminine deity that holds the world above its shell.    Yet, it is the Princess who holds the tortoise, announcing how powerful feminine wisdom and intuition can be, as a guide through the waves of life.     

What I like about the Princess of Cups, which comes under the "Princess" set of four cards in the Thoth deck, it is one of the more prominent cards that represent positivity, as opposed to the darker meanings behind the majority of the Thoth cards, although Crowley's dichotomy of light and dark are usually intermixed within its meanings.  The Princess of Cups is more blatantly light, I would read this card as supreme power of the feminine, with its nonchalant care, more so, its care for the self.  The feminine undoubtedly has an intrinsic ability to cater and be self sufficient to its own entity.  Through the great upheaval and turmoil of life, like the waves depicted in the card, she can dance, even if she is carrying the world.  It is carried effortlessly.  To reward the self with the power beyond the material world, can be at times be a material reward.  Such are the diamonds portrayed on the hem of her gown.  You are that diamond within the chaos.  

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(A.Glass 2023)