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THE MINOR ARCANA
Cups
The Meanings Of The Suit Of Cups
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The Suit of Cups in Tarot Cards deals with the level of consciousness that emotions reside. They are often associated with feelings, connections, love, and relationships.
This suit is also associated with the element of water. Water is much like emotions. Both are agile and fluid, but also very powerful and formative. Both water and emotions can be gentle and soft, or powerful and forceful. The element of water symbolizes feelings, fluidity, intuition, emotions, healing, cleansing, and relationships.
It’s a feminine element that reflects the subtle power that resides within women. In a deck of playing cards, the Suit of Cups corresponds to the Suit of Hearts.
What Do The Cups Tarot Cards Mean In A Reading?
When reading Tarot cards, if you identify a card of the Suit of Cups, it indicates you are thinking more with your heart than your brain. This can be reflected in your spontaneous responses and your habitual reactions to the situations you experience.
The Suit of Cups is also linked to fantasy, imagination, creativity, and romanticism. Some negative aspects of the Suit of Cups is often being overly emotional or completely dispassionate and disengaged. This could be because of repressed emotions, or feeling as though you are unable to truly express yourself and a lack of creativity. You find yourself having unrealistic expectations and fantasizing about what could be.
It is common in Tarot for the suit of Cups to represent the astrological signs of water–Pisces, Scorpio, and Cancer. In Tarot readings, when you see a Cups Court card, its meaning will often relate to a person who is of a water astrological sign. Generally, the Suit of Cups finds people who are artistic, emotional, creative, and humane. They are connected to their emotional self and draw their energy from what they feel within.
What Does It Mean When A Tarot Reading Is Mostly Cups Tarot Cards?
If a Tarot reading is predominantly made up of the suit of Cups, that means you are seeking solutions to what are primarily emotional conflicts, feelings, love matters, creativity, and personal interactions.
