FAQ — Two of Cups

The meeting, within oneself, of one's complementary part: a union that takes place not outside, but within.

Between theory and experience: the Book, closed and set aside, shows that she no longer reads knowledge, she applies it — the scene has the value of a rite rather than a lesson.

The masculine part of her soul, what Jungian psychology calls the Animus — an inner encounter rather than an encounter with another person.

As the celestial body of reflections, dreams and the deep psyche, it alone allows this nocturnal revelation.

The sphinx guards the threshold of the walled garden — some encounters require walls; the caduceus, two serpents united around a single axis, is the exact emblem of the inner union taking place here.

The call heard at the water's edge becomes a precise inner encounter here: the heroine is no longer searching, she is discovering herself, in a walled garden rather than at the open edge of the Ace.

No. It remains closed, set to one side — in accordance with the invariant rule, its opening will not occur until the Queen.

The reflection becomes blurred: her complementary part is denied, or projected onto someone else — one searches outside for what is waiting in the water of the garden. Or, on the contrary, the mirror clears: inner union begins.

The masculine reflection glimpsed here in the walled garden — the Animus — finds its fully realised form in the King: the suit opens with this masculine presence glimpsed and closes with the masculine fully integrated.