| The Cups represent the element of Water, the world of Briah, Neshamah
of the soul.
Briah translates as "creation", and like Neshamah, Briah is the stage
where the human soul creates individual personality and identity, to define a
specific form and function from the amorphous energies of Atziluth. The
creation done in Briah is not the creation of a conscious thought like in
Yetzirah, let alone any physical creation like in Assiah, it's rather the first
creation of a precondition that is needed to create anything at all.
The Cups like the Water also represent the qualities of passivity, dependency
and receptivity, typical for emotion, passion and desire, because those
feelings are always dependent on outside influences, they need a goal or an
impulse to come alive.
In common Tarot, the cups are mostly taken for the emotions or definitions
regarding human relations, and this is somewhat understandable when our human
emotions most often aim at someone else. Nevertheless, a Cup card should not be
viewed with any restriction such as this, because sometimes we really might
miss the point when wondering all the time 'What the hell has Keith got to do
with it??' ...
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