Chalice.

Simple Wicca Altar Chalice, a Silver Plated Vintage.

... a little of a tarnish - still a beauty,
With a hourglass-like shape to accent feminity's aspect.


Tool.

A chalice is essentially just a goblet or cup intended to hold drink, but, in religious terms, it is specifically a cup intended for use during a ceremony or ritual. Wicca and other forms of Neopaganism often make use of chalices in their rituals, and a chalice (containing wine, whiskey, water or other liquids) may be placed on an altar or on the ground.

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In Wicca, the chalice is one of the four elemental tools of witchcraft (along with the pentacle, the athame and the wand), and represents the element of Water. It is a symbol of containment and represents the womb of the Goddess. The base is symbolic of the material world, the stem symbolises the connection between man and spirit, and the rim or opening symbolically receives spiritual energy. In the Wiccan Great Rite, a chalice (as a feminine principle) is often used in combination with the athame (a ceremonial black-handled knife, as a male principle) as a ritual symbolic representation of sexual intercourse, and as a symbol of universal creativity. A chalice is also used in the Small Rite of Wicca.

The chalice can be made of any material. In olden times, horns, shells and gourds were used to hold sacred liquids during ritual. Then, in later times, silver became the preferred material, having long been associated with the moon and the Goddess. The chalice is used to hold the blessed water and wine during ritual, and it is traditional in many covens to pass the chalice around all members, who then take a drink, as a token of unity.

Source: www.witchcraftandwitches.com.


TAROT.

Cups represent the Element of Water.

Key idea here is 'Soul', when cup card is drawn, it might mean that from Soul an answer(s) might arise.

Water in itself is incapable of being held, or understood. With cups it becomes capable of being held or analyzed. As water symbolizes our feelings, the cups represent everything that gives graspable form to our mysterious spiritual forces. Cups are 'personification' of specified feelings, show mainly our wishes & fears, souls' needs & neccessities.

Associations with Cups: 'woman's womb', 'woman's heritage', 'search for holy grail by medieval knights', 'source, also origin', 'outlet, also destiny', 'water of life & death', 'source of eternal youth', 'baptism', 'tears', 'fulfillment', 'moon'.

-- Translated & Paraphrased from the book 'TAROT dla początkujących' by Evelin Bürger, Johannes Fiebig.