Thoth Deck – Disappointment
Aleister Crowley's Thoth Deck - Gerd Ziegler
In the Kemetic myth of Asar and Aset (the brother, sister husband and wife rulers of Egypt), Aset is often pictured with a throne on her head. It is Asar’s throne which she symbolically wears on her crown. Essentially, Aset carries Asar’s throne because she is the power behind the king’s desires. When Asar wants to create something in the physical realm he uses his sister wife’s fertility to bring it into being.
Such is the case with the five of cups, disappointment. The fertile feminine energy, depicted as water, has dried up. Either in an individual, or a partnership, the creation process has been disturbed resulting in an imbalance in creative manifesting energy. The proverbial well is dry.
There is hope however, as we see the seeds of change in the beginnings of the formation of a butterfly on the bottom of the card near the base chalice. The metamorphosis is already in progress.
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