Cosmic Tribe Tarot
PRINCE OF CUPS
Dreamer
Young men of every age - the universe calls to you in dreams! And the Prince of Cups hears the call and receives cosmic information through the ancient stories of the emotions. He is the power of emotions on the point of maturity where we learn to believe in ourselves and trust our emotions. Wise guides come to the Prince of Cups not to smooth things out or to provide security, but to tell him what he needs to know.In the card the Prince of Cups is undergoing his initiation into emotional adulthood and everything around him appears surreal. He is both in his familiar water element and out of it. A hole in the surface of reality opens at the top of the card and exposes the iris of the evolved cosmic eye that observes all of our far-flung experience and radiates eternal wisdom back to us. The Prince of Cups has seen the eye in a vision and holds up the cup of his body to receive the transmissions. He is filled with the wisdom of valuing his emotional experience. The green snake girdling the Prince testifies to the blazing transformations happening within him as he learns to work with his internal messages. Messenger fish fly out of the cup of his unconscious realm to remind him that the key to internal awareness is going with the flow.
The Prince of Cups stands in a lotus blossom pool of the divine awakening channeled through our feelings. Its eternal blossom of soul supports our endeavors and links us to the history of the cosmos. Around him water reflects the approval he needs from his companions and ancestors. But he can no longer depend entirely on them. The Prince of Cups undergoes the initiation alone and must learn to hear the messages with his own ears.
