Queen of Cups: thoughts?

These are great insights into the Queen of Cups, she's been in a couple of my spreads in the last few days.
I think of her as a hopeless romantic, the cup is elaborate because of the energy she puts into the fantasy of romantic love and relationships, she looks pensive, perhaps, because men being men, are not like the romantic heros they are in novels and chick flicks and it breaks her heart to have to acknowledge the fantasy is not the reality. Perhaps it makes her wonder if she's making a big deal out of nothing, ie, men are oafs in the romance dept. preferring beer and football games to wine and candlelit dinners and has to accept a bit of disallusion or two, maybe she wants that fantasy ideal lover to be real and if the relationship doesn't live up to her expectations, then she is in the wrong one.

I like the idea of water working the rough edges off of the stones, polishing then. Sort of hang in there, eventually the energy of unconscious emotion of unrelentless love will smooth over the rough spots, just as the ebb and flow of the tides rise and fall, everchanging and renewing the the beach. Love is not a static thing, it's always changing yet consistent in it's cycles.

I'm still working on the cliff in the background, any ideas of what that might mean?

Rusty Neon said:

Referring to the GD card, Wang writes that there's a crayfish emerging from the cup. (In the RWS, you can make out the claws as disguised by Waite)

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Is the Queen of Cups therefore confronting her 'demons?'

No wonder this Queen doesn't hold her cup by the 'handles'.....Ouch!!!

In the Moon card, the crayfish is symbolic of emerging consciouness, I think. So maybe it means that she contains her awareness of her emotions, is conscious of her emotions, but in relation to the Moon card this could also be showing her emergent, uncontainable intuitive, "psychic" nature too. Interesting, I was trying to figure out why there were sharp saw blades on the handles! LOL

queen revearsed

a friend of mine (male) recently appeard to me as a queen of cup revearsed. what could it mean? could it be 'being a trickster with emotions, owns and others '? that's what I feel about. what else could it suggest for you? let me know if you have some insight.
thanks
lou.

Lou, Queen of Cups(R) can mean it is someone who "loves too much", and allows others to take advantage of them. It also describes a woman whose emotions are out of balance. Queen of cups is an emotional woman, upright, but reversed those emotions are imbalanced....TOO emotional, and not rational.

I have found that that a "cup"
..."offering some opportunity from the unconscious"
...can represent an important event or ceremony (e.g. chalice another meaning for cup used in ceremonies)

Maybe the Queen is trying to tell us that she is staring at the cup because she is confused with her intuition. She is not aware of the emotions she is feeling or why her emotions have her feeling this way. Maybe some event has made her feel this way.
The cliff in the background may be a small issue she has to climb. When she gets to the top of the cliff her intuition will be clearer for her awareness & the issue will be delt with.

Maybe there is just tooooo much water in this picture so it is so flowing nothing is stable & she is staring trying to get her balance or to get grounded.

So she's taken the offering of the unconscious & now she is stumped with her own knowing.

Just some ideas.

O.K. this is one card that has bothered me. I also just found in some notes

-you are tuned in to secret areas of your being that are ususally closed off
-a powerful spiritual force is present
-metaphysical disciplines should be learned & practiced now
-red & blue robe that blends the conscious & subconscious minds
-cherubs on the throne , guardianship of divine beings who protect & guide her

*ornate cup of visions and sees in it the event in the sphere of the zodiac; therefore, the cup portrays the divine gift of reflective clairvoyance.
Hope this helps.

Good ideas Ros, especially since I've been getting this Queen reversed in the past several days and thought I must be becoming unhinged and the reversed meanings I found were so strange and nasty that it was making me feel even more apprehensive about the whole thing.
From Rachel Pollack, "Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom" the unity of vision and action is broken. Some one powerful, ambitious, yet dangerous, because she cannot be trusted! EEKS! the love that gives meaning to the action of creating what comes from imagination is lost, so her goals can't be realized, loss of commitment to values greater than her own success. with loss of futher balance becomes dishonorable, even depraved, as creative force lurches out of control. !!!!

I can accept this if I'm looking at this from an artistic standpoint and my goal to turn my art into a business, gaining a name for myself and actually making some $, divorcing my love of painting and creating into reproducing my art for profit and losing that Purity of creation. I am afraid that commercialism could dictate what I create and have avoided that so far, since the business part is still a dream rather than a reality. I look at this as a warning, in order to keep my priorities straight, if I look at art as a means to a goal, rather than the quality of what I create will gain my goal, then my work will suffer and I won't get where I want to.

But as for me, the person, arrgh! Except that the artist IS this person.
I stump myself all the time! The more I learn, the more I have to digest and make sense of and at times it's overwhelming. I'm surrounded by water, I live on an island! Fish are our livelihood! Too funny!

I noticed something when I was really looking at this card, down at the bottom of the throne, between her cloak and the base, looks like the bow of a ship and a crescent moon. I'm wracking my brain to figure out what that could mean.
The little merchild next to it holds a fish (wisdom) with his arm raised opposite but similar to the magician, like a benidiction too, and the wavy lines behind him suggest an upsurge. Wisdom gained from strong emotion?