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Seven of Cups: Venus in Scorpio, Venus in Victory
LORD OF ILLUSIONARY SUCCESS
As Nathan was taking a leisurely walk through the Tarot Realm, he suddenly had a vision of a cloud with seven golden cups. As he peered carefully at the cups, he noticed that they seemed to be offering him a choice. In one golden cup, a fierce dragon, full of fearsome strength and power, appeared to be nesting. In another, a golden cup with a faint skull etched on the side contained a victory wreath. Next to that, another golden cup, faintly etched with a woman's face, brimmed over with jewels, some of which seemed almost like bubbles. A lonely tower loomed above the fourth cup. On the upper left, a blue head floated dreamily above a golden cup. A golden snake extended from another. In the middle, an anonymous figure shrouded by a bright pink cloth lifted up her arms in supplication or devotion. The figure appeared to be emanating light. Nathan hesitated. He could not choose. All of the cups seemed both appealing and off-putting in some way.
The King of Cups (AI Version)
Later that day, Nathan rode his horse along the beach and eventually found the King of Cups. Nathan dismounted from his horse and bowed. "I serve thee always, your Majesty, but if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you a question."
The King responded, "Yes, my friend, what is your query?"
Nathan carefully described the seven cups in his vision. Then he said, "Your Majesty, each golden cup offered something valuable, but I just couldn't choose because it seemed that something negative was associated with each golden cup. Do you have any advice?"
"I can give you advice, my valiant knight, but the final choice is yours."
"Yes, I understand, your Highness."
"You've been having spirit visions again! You are adjusting well to this realm, my friend. The Queen has told me a little about your other visions. The thing to remember is that the instincts come into play as you are faced with this choice. Do you want to be as fierce and strong and powerful and wild as a dragon? That might impress people, but you might also scare everyone away. Do you want to face death constantly just to attain the honors associated with victory? Do you want glittery jewels that attract superficial people, baubles that often inspire relationships as transitory as bubbles? Do you want to be all alone in a high tower above everyone else?
"I'm not sure, your Highness. That is why I hesitated."
"Do you want to be dreamy and detached from reality? Do you want to be like a golden snake that is reborn as it sheds its skin, a snake associated with the intense forces of the kundalini, forces that can carry you to other realms but can leave you unbalanced and ungrounded in this realm?"
"This is a hard choice, your Highness."
"Yes, it is. I'm not saying each of these choices is bad. Each of us learns and evolves through experience, but I agree that all the choices seem illusionary or negative in some way. Think for a moment about the anonymous figure shrouded in pink. Why do you think the figure in your vision was emanating light?"
"Well, your Highness, because pink represents high spiritual love, I think the figure was representing a spiritual path of some kind, but I was put off a little by the figure's anonymity."
"That's understandable. What subtle forces did you experience during your vision?"
Nathan pondered for a moment. "Venus in Scorpio, I think, but I don't understand why I experienced them."
"Venus is the Goddess of Love who represents the mythological principle of 'The Marriage of Heaven and Earth.' Were you attracted more with your heart or your instincts to the anonymous figure?"
"With my heart, now that you ask, your Highness. So spiritual love can create a marriage of heaven and earth?"
"Love creates a sense of oneness as well as the understanding that we live in a realm interwoven with divine spiritual and physical energies. Through the experience of love, we feel that everything is connected in a sublime fabric of light, our personal consciousness a facet of Universal Consciousness. Sometimes a great transformation must occur before we understand this spiritual truth. Scorpio is a force that brings this transformation. Unfortunately many fear this change as much as they fear death. Sometimes we must be as a little child as we experience such a tremendous inner change."
"Thank you for your sage advice. I think I know which choice to make."
"You are very welcome, my friend."
Nathan bowed, "I serve thee always, my King."
The Empress: Venus (AI Version)
Nathan found a Tarot card very similar to what he had witnessed in his vision: the Seven of Cups. The decan association in the card is Venus in Scorpio, and the Tree of Life correspondence is Venus in Victory, the Seventh Emanation on the Tree of Life. So the Goddess of Love truly presides here, Nathan thought. The figure of Death on a pale horse, on the other hand, dominates Scorpio. Nathan noticed then in the Tarot card known as Death that a little child, while experiencing his transformation, is handing a flower to the horrifying skeletal figure in black armor.
Death: Scorpio (AI Version)
Nathan rode to a secluded part of the forest where he could perform a ritual with the Seven of Cups.
The Passive and Active Invoking Pentagrams
Because Nathan was creating a living image based on the Seven of Cups with the Tarot Pentagram Spread, he placed all the foundation cards down on his makeshift altar with the tops facing west on his altar. Since Water is a passive element, Nathan used the Passive Invoking Spirit Pentagram while laying down the cards, starting in the lower left corner of the pentagram, moving to the upper right corner and continuing from there. After he placed all of the cards, he tapped each card in the direction of the Passive Invoking Spirit Pentagram, making sure to tap the one in the lower left corner to complete the pentagram.
Then he placed The Seven of Cups in the middle of the pentagram, saying, "The Seven of Cups, Venus in Scorpio, Venus in Victory." Then he tapped the card.
Modifiers for the Seven of Cups: Death and The Empress
Next, he placed Death on the Ace of Cups in the upper right hand corner of the pentagram as a modifier. The card representing the zodiac sign goes first, he remembered. As he placed Death on the Ace of Cups, he stated while tapping the card, "Death, Scorpio, the Meeting with the Powers of Death." As he tapped the card, he recognized that the powers of death can bring great transformation on the spiritual and mental and emotional levels instead of just physical death.
Then he placed The Empress in the upper right hand corner on the other modifier, Death. As he placed The Empress, he stated while tapping the card, "The Empress, Venus, the Marriage of Heaven and Earth." As he tapped the card, he recognized that a true understanding of the Marriage of Heaven and Earth often occurs only after great inner transformation.
Spirit Pentagram
Then Nathan drew the Passive Invoking Pentagram and the spirit wheel in the air in brilliant white above the Seven of Cups on the altar, charging the pentagram and the symbol in the usual way with the Sign of the Enterer.
After that, he drew an Invoking Pentagram for Water directly over the Passive Invoking Spirit Pentagram, charging the pentagram and the symbol of the eagle, associated with Scorpio, in the usual way. At that point, he imagined the symbol of the eagle's head turning into the anonymous figure with the glowing pink shroud. Then he imagined the figure moving a few feet west of his altar and coming alive as a full-length figure. As he visualized the living image, he imagined undines flowing from the Archangel Gabriel and filling the living image while at the same time the bright points of Water flowed from his aura and filled the living image as well.
Then he stated, "I name you Luminary of Oneness and High Spiritual Love."
Then he said, "Help me to know the oneness of the interwoven, divine spiritual and physical energies within creation. Help me to know that everything is connected and that each personal consciousness is a facet of Universal Consciousness. If a great inner transformation is necessary before I truly understand this spiritual principle, then let it be so! Let me be as a little child as I experience this awesome inner transformation." Then he humbly stated, "Perform this task then return to the divine Emanation of Victory, doing no harm. So mote it be!"
Before he finished the ritual, Nathan imagined for a few minutes the living image of the shrouded figure making him aware through love of the oneness of Creation, and he felt a great transformation: His personality was completely erased while at the same time he experienced a profound sense of eternity. After awhile, he ended the Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram with the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Nathan felt one with creation sometimes afterwards, and he knew that his new ally was guiding him.
(Note: All AI versions are based on my 3D Blender rendering, my paintings, or my photographs)
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