Within Waite's four-rank court, the Page is the water suit's junior figure; in the Golden Dawn's Knight, Queen, Prince, Princess restructuring the Thoth deck follows, the equivalent rank is the Princess of Cups, assigned the elemental pairing Earth of Water, feeling given the most grounded and least active of the suit's four expressions. Unlike the King, Queen and Knight, whose Golden Dawn equivalents each rule a thirty-degree zodiacal span, the Princess ranks carry no decanic attribution at all; Book T instead completes the suit's elemental matrix through them, earth crossed with each of the four elements across the deck's sixteen court cards, water's contribution to that matrix being feeling grounded into a concrete, apprentice form.
Pamela Colman Smith's picture, a young figure in a flowered tunic standing by the sea, gazing in evident surprise at a fish that has popped its head from the cup in his hand, has no equivalent in the Tarot de Marseille, whose Valet de Coupes is a static heraldic figure holding a cup with no sea, fish or expression of surprise at all; the fish itself, alive and looking back, is one of the more startling single details Smith gave any court card in the deck.
Crowley's Thoth card keeps the Golden Dawn name Princess of Cups, rendering her holding a cup from which a turtle emerges rather than Smith's fish, a comparable image of unexpected life surfacing from stillness, worked in Harris's more overtly emblematic style.