The suit of Water: feelings, relationships, intuition and care.
Cups is the suit of Water. Its fourteen cards deal with feelings, relationships, intuition and care: falling in love, friendship, grief, contentment and daydreams. In astrology it corresponds to the Water signs, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces.
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Ace of Cups tarot meaning: an opening of the heart, new love and compassion upright; emotional blockage and held-back feeling reversed. Love and work covered.
Two of Cups tarot meaning: mutual attraction, partnership and real connection upright; imbalance, miscommunication and a stalled bond reversed. Love and work.
Three of Cups tarot meaning: friendship, celebration and community upright; overindulgence, gossip and feeling left out reversed. Love, work and advice.
Four of Cups tarot meaning: apathy, contemplation and missed offers upright; renewed awareness and readiness to accept reversed. Love, work and advice.
Five of Cups tarot meaning: grief, regret and focusing on what is lost upright; acceptance, forgiveness and moving on reversed. Love, work and advice.
Six of Cups tarot meaning: nostalgia, childhood memories and simple kindness upright; stuck in the past or idealising it reversed. Love, work and advice.
Seven of Cups tarot meaning: choices, fantasy and illusion upright; clarity, commitment and cutting through confusion reversed. Love, work and advice.
Eight of Cups tarot meaning: walking away, seeking deeper meaning and letting go upright; fear of leaving and drifting reversed. Love, work and advice.
Nine of Cups tarot meaning: contentment, gratitude and wishes fulfilled upright; smugness, dissatisfaction and hollow indulgence reversed. Love, work and advice.
Ten of Cups tarot meaning: family harmony, emotional fulfilment and lasting happiness upright; strained bonds and an ideal that does not fit reversed. Love, work.
Page of Cups tarot meaning: a sweet message, curiosity and creative beginnings upright; emotional immaturity and blocked imagination reversed. Love and work.
Knight of Cups tarot meaning: romance, invitations and following the heart upright; moodiness, idealism and unkept promises reversed. Love, work and advice.
Queen of Cups tarot meaning: compassion, intuition and emotional depth upright; over-giving, moodiness and blurred boundaries reversed. Love, work and advice.
King of Cups tarot meaning: emotional balance, calm diplomacy and compassionate leadership upright; suppressed feeling and manipulation reversed. Love and work.