"5 of cups. Disappointment" and "8 of swords. Interference" THOTH TAROT CARD: READING/s. These cards were pulled as a double reading. The Order of the reading is from left to right. *"8 of swords. Interference" analysis and reading soon*

 "5 of cups.  Disappointment" is one of the more negative of the Thoth tarot cards, akin to 5 of Disks "Failure", both representing the geomantic "Rubeus", from  17th Century geomancy, which many early occultis used as a way of discerning patterns in nature as divination and patterns that were devised to create a foretelling.  Rubeus being seen as an inverted glass, within its dot symbolism, and is latin for "Red" and essentially means evil if it is revealed to the participant of the reading.  The card shows five empty cups in the formation of an inverted pentagram, the lotus flowers leaves are falling from the "fiery winds" sitting above a "dead sea", and according to Aleister Crowley's (d1947) interpretation, the card represents the beginning of destruction.  "5 of cups.  Disappointment" is ruled by Mars over Scorpio, apparently also a bad omen.

Reading: 

Is the Earth, another planet's hell?  Is the hell state of the mind?  Do the unsettled thoughts, create the stagnant waters?  The dead sea within?  Did you expect that all would be well from a lofty heights, and you did not expect to fall?  Then you have entered the hell realm, and from here, one must face the fiery winds, the turmoil, as what points down, is the inversion of the will of the self.  But it can be ruled, overcome, and reclaimed.  Self destruction is not your only salvation.  Watch the Lotus flowers wither and die in this place, and see this as only temporary, to withstand is to elevate, and leave this place.  Like the Unorthodox Hindu Aghori sect, who meditate within a ring of fire.  Understand, that the five cups, being the fire senses, can be dulled, controlled and switched off, so I can endure this place.  And, when liberated, may the cups be filled again with the water of life, the sacred elixir. 

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