Queen of Cups
Like the High Priestess, this queen is the very picture of spiritual insight and intuition, holding in her lap a vessel flanked by cherubim, reminiscent of the Ark of the Covenant, the very presence of God.
She sits enthroned over waves of water, smooth stones at her feet. Perhaps she is ready to pour out her love and nurture or to lift her heart in worship.
Like Mary, she hearkens to messages of angels and treasures God's words in her heart, incubating the will of God and highest good for all.
Like Sarah and Rebecca, she may bear children of promise, suffering most when they suffer, in the words of the prophet, like "Rachel weeping for her children because they are no more."
Like Israel as the symbolic wife of Jehovah or the Church as the Bride of Christ, she rules by faith and not by sight over the unseen kingdom of the heart.
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