Ten of Chalices
Chalices
How This Card Is Derived
Papus gives no separate description of this card. It is derived from his system: Chalices is He (ה), the passive, receptive principle, acting in Briah, the creative world; the number 10 is He final of the third series, full realization — the suit spent, and the seed of the suit that follows. The meaning below is that combination read out — the passive, receptive principle taken at its 10th term — not a quotation from him.
Upright
The suit spent. Everything the receptive principle can hold, held — and Papus's tenth term is always also a seed, so this is the kind of completion that hands on rather than the kind that stops. Feeling fully realized becomes a household: not an intensity but an arrangement, durable, containing more people than started it. The card is quiet on purpose.
Reversed
The arrangement kept up after the feeling has drained out of it — the form of a full life maintained by everyone in it out of consideration for everyone else. Or completion resisted, because to complete is to hand on and handing on means it is no longer yours.
Correspondences
- Suit
- Chalices — He (ה), Briah, the creative world
- Suit principle
- the passive, receptive principle
- Number
- 10 — He final of the third series
- Numeric role
- full realization — the suit spent, and the seed of the suit that follows
In a Spread
At the commencement, the matter begins inside something already fully formed. In opposition, an established emotional order the querent's plans would break. At equilibrium everything is in place. As the result: completion — and in Papus's decade, the start of the next suit's business.