Associated with the element of water and the side of the heart suit of mugs inside Tarot has several nice connection cards.
With this suit we explore emotions, relationships, love and friendship, community, intuition, faith, spirituality, creativity and magic, and dive into our own inner wisdom with sensitivity, wonder and joy.
Although we tend to think of it as a symbol of love, the glasses also recognize the difficult emotions we can experience: sadness, loneliness, anger, frustration, sadness, and grief.
Just like Water itself, the cup suit holds infinite depths, violent currents, and rich beauty.
Tarot Cup Basics
The suit of cups is one of the four suits Minor Arcana and contains numbered cards from ace to tens and fours court cards. These cards are associated with the astrological element of Water, which means that this suit is also associated with the three water zodiac signs: Cancer, Scorpionand Fish.
Each of the four Minor Arcana Suits related to an aspect of our humanity.
Cups represents the heart, whereas swords represents the mind, pentacles represents the body and chopsticks represents the soul. Cups help us recognize our most sensitive and personal feelings, the people and communities that attract us, and the ways in which we are held and understood.
Except water and heart, suit of mugs also represents creativity, connection, attraction, love, family, communication, art, beauty, intimacy, vulnerability, empathy, perception and intuition.
Just like the astrological element of water, here we explore the depths we carry, the secrets we keep, the fluid and stagnant times.
As we move through the set of mugs, we discover a new source of emotion, make important connections, struggle with loneliness and despair, reflect on our histories, make important decisions about where to invest our emotional energy, and feel fully supported by the community.
When working with the cards in the Cups suit, remember that these cards are asking us to explore a very complex topic and can help us explore feelings or reactions that we don’t always fully recognize.
- Where are you afraid to explore?
- What secrets do you keep from yourself and how can protective boundaries help you heal and grow?
- How can communication with others help us understand ourselves more fully?
The pips The suit of cups (or numbered cards) shows us many ways to think about this energy, from opening our hearts to protecting it when we feel vulnerable.
These cards help us make room for our own sadness or hurt, encourage us to be more generous with our energy, and extend compassion or kindness in new ways.
The court cardson the other hand, represents individuals who are learning how to use the energy of the cup.
A page is a child and a student, one who is just beginning his journey with creativity and sensitivity; knight – a teenager who seeks to prove his talent and desire with actions; the queen is the master and ruler who teaches others how to use this element internally, and the king is the master and ruler who teaches others how to use this element externally.
These cards can represent the asker, a person in his life, or give advice on how to use the energy of the cup suit for themselves.
Suit of Cups: Tarot card descriptions
Below I offer simple interpretations of each of the fourteen cards in the suit of cups. You can combine them with your own research or intuitive ideas to develop a personal, powerful understanding of each of these cards, but this will give you a place to start.
Ace of Cups
Ace of Cups: New beginnings, joyous connection, expansion and discovery. To open the heart to a new connection, to know more about oneself and to recognize the invitation to develop. The full potential of the suit of cups.
2 cups
2 cups: A shift in intimacy, a new relationship, something growing. Development within an important partnership. An opportunity to strengthen a relationship or learn more about another person.
3 cups
3 cups: Important friends, chosen family, people who see us for who we are. Party, team, team. We ourselves are witnesses, share our victories and sorrows.
4 cups
4 cups: Setting boundaries in relationships, withdrawing from intimacy, being bored or upset with our current situation. Feeling isolated, lonely, or wanting to be selfish with our feelings. Hold on.
5 cups
5 cups: Loss, sorrow, grief, mourning. Acknowledging that something has changed in a way we don’t want, admitting that some hope has been lost. Space for sadness as well as recognition of what still exists.
6 cups
6 cups: Remembering happy times, exploring old memories, digging up the past. Play, childhood, nostalgia, joy, simple pleasures. Finding more magic.
7 cups
7 cups: Getting lost in our imaginations, indulging in fantasies, losing touch with reality or procrastinating on an important decision. Dreaming about a possible future. Learning the difference between dreams and reality, paying attention to illusions.
8 cups
8 cups: Choosing to walk away from a difficult or harmful situation. Letting go of what no longer serves us. Choosing yourself, starting a new journey, leaving negative things behind.
Recognizing when growth is impossible.
9 cups
9 cups: Comfort, pleasure, satisfaction with where we are and how far we’ve come. Dreams do come true, even if we admit we have a few more dreams we want to achieve.
Joy, satisfaction, contentment.
10 cups
10 cups: A beautiful team, joyful cooperation, a deep sense of joy and happiness. Reciprocity, equal giving and receiving of energy. Feeling fully supported. Execution.
Trophies page
Trophies page: A water child brings news of a new creative opportunity, a romantic relationship or a public proposal. Artistic research, new beginnings, opening of the heart.
Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups: An Aquarian known for optimism, romance, dreamy fantasy and wearing emotions on their sleeves. Striving for an ideal, chasing after conquest, taking on a new task, being ready to take risks for love.
Jealousy, delusion, need for balance.
Queen of Cups
Queen of Cups: Ruler of water filled with love, affection, compassion, empathy, sensitivity and artistic gifts. Deeply intuitive, confident. Teacher, artist and great listener.
King of Cups
King of Cups: The ruler of water with a strong understanding of emotion. Strength, endurance, willingness to share feelings and support those who need it. A person who rules with his heart and is not afraid of what he feels. Intuitive authority. Deep care.
Working with cups
For many people, seeing cards from the suit of cups is a joy. After all, love is one of the most popular topics for tarot readings, and many people want to know more about the relationships they can find and develop throughout their lives.
But it is important to remember that these cards teach us a lot about how we experience the world, how art and beauty, communication and sensitivity affect us. Spend time with these cards individually and consider the lessons they may have for you individually rather than focusing on what they might say in a relationship context.
Which cards in this suit attract you the most and why? How do you understand the journey of the suit of cups? How are these court cards different from other suits?
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