Cups
The suit of Cups: 14 cards of the element of water. Meaning of every card upright and reversed, keywords and symbolism.
Cups are the suit of water: of feeling, attachment, imagination and inner life. Everything that happens between people, and inside a person before it takes the shape of words or acts, is read through this suit.
The numbered cards run from the overflowing Ace through union, shared joy, satiety and loss to a quiet fullness — or to illusion, when a feeling is replaced by a picture of itself. The court cards show degrees of maturity in handling emotion, from the impressionability of the Page to the depth of the Queen, who knows the cost of her own feeling.
All cards
Ace of Cupsnew feeling · love · emotional beginningTwo of Cupspartnership · mutual love · unionThree of Cupsfriendship · celebration · communityFour of Cupsapathy · boredom · contemplationFive of Cupsregret · loss · disappointmentSix of Cupsnostalgia · childhood · innocenceSeven of Cupsillusions · fantasies · choiceEight of Cupsdeparture · search for meaning · disillusionmentNine of Cupssatisfaction · wishes fulfilled · wellbeingTen of Cupsfamily happiness · harmony · emotional fullnessPage of Cupscreative inspiration · intuitive messages · dreaminessKnight of Cupsromance · a proposal · idealismQueen of Cupsempathy · care · intuitionKing of Cupsemotional maturity · equanimity · wisdom