A hand emerges from a cloud holding an overflowing cup; a dove brings the host, and water falls in five streams into a pond of lotuses. It is the source of the heart: new love, emotional fulfillment, compassion and grace.
The overflowing cup, new love, a heart opening.
Waite’s keywords (1911): House of the true heart: joy, content, nourishment, abundance, fertility.
Reversed
Reversed, the cup spills or is blocked: emotional emptiness, repressed feelings, love that is not received, or love that is not given.
Feelings held back, a heart that will not open.
Waite’s keywords (1911): House of the false heart: mutation, instability, revolution.
In love
Upright A new love, or a new depth in the one you have: feelings overflow and the heart opens without fear.
Reversed Love is blocked or unreturned; you give and nothing comes back, or you have closed yourself to what is offered.
In work
Upright Work done with heart, a creative beginning, a job that finally feels meaningful.
Reversed You feel emotionally drained by your work; it no longer touches you.
In money
Upright A gift, an act of generosity, money that comes through kindness or a happy event.
Reversed Money spent to fill an emotional void; buy less, feel more.
At home and in the family
Upright A birth, a blessing, a new warmth in the family; love fills the house.
Reversed A cold house, where feelings are kept behind closed doors.
On your path
Upright Grace descends: an opening of the heart to the divine, to compassion, to love without conditions.
Reversed Your heart is closed to the spirit; soften it, and the water will flow again.
Its counsel
Upright Open your heart and let love in, and let it out.
Reversed Fill your own cup first; you cannot pour from an empty one.
Correspondences
- Arcana
- Minor Arcana, suit of Cups
- Element
- Water
- Rank
- Aces: new beginnings are pressing to be born
Dreams that carry this card
Cups
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