Tarot Reading

Tarot Cups

Cups tarot are associated with emotions, feelings and spiritual experiences. Cups indicate that the querent will be preoccupied with relationships and spiritual experiences. There is a focus on being rather than on doing.

Tarot Card Cups represents some of the powerful issues such as:

• Psyche
• Heart
• Emotions

Tarot Cups

In the Tarot cup, the suit of cups is related to matters of relationship and emotions. It is connected to the water element and directed towards the west. In most chalices you will see is depicting a cup, or cauldron, or goblet, anything that can hold water.

This Suit defines heartbreak, decisions of the heart, relationships, with love, your family or anything that connects you to other people. It tells you about your family situation and the choices that affect it.

Symbolism of a cup

Like other tarot cards, even the suite of cups is rendered with other names. This may confuse a subject that is beginning to learn it, but different perceptions and ideologies are needed for the soul and the preciseness of the reading. When people usually talk of the suite of chalices, goblets, cauldrons or hearts, they specifically mean the tarot cup.

The watery depths

Water as most people know, is the essence of life. It constitutes some of the most mysterious and deep realms of life. The sup cards represent this essence. You will always notice a flow of water in these cup cards. These symbols may have different meanings like - fertility, spirituality, emotions, psychic an intuitive arts, grace, sacred sexuality, and serenity. They are the dreamy part of the minor arcana. They support clairvoyance and stimulate your ability to visualize.

In all there are 14 suit cups. They are -

• Ace or One: spiritual insight, new love, good fortune. This card often indicates a miracle or blessing.
  

  Reversed: Disappointment, sadness. Being aware of others feelings.

• Two: Development of important relationships down the path - close friends, soul mates, etc.

  Reversed: A tiny argument causing a gap - time to mend some fences!

• Three: Celebration and rejoicing. It can include family gatherings or occasions Reversed: Personality may be a little down. Family occasions may be spoilt.

• Four: Forming a new friend, it may also mean there's more to a relationship that what it seems.

  Reversed: Indicates that a relationship is losing its touch

• Five: Emotional sacrifices may be needed; you may have to make a choice between two loves.

  Reversed: An emotionless sacrifice may be made.

• Six: You may be dealing with memories of the past. Often these are connected to childhood.

  Reversed: May remind you of a person you have lost

• Seven: Making long term choices that will help you later rather than only right now.

  Reversed: You may be a little emotionally dependant

• Eight: Relationships that were taken for granted may end.

  Reversed: Leaving the past behind and moving on

• Nine: Emotional abundance. You are exactly where you need to be.

  Reversed: You may be the one taking your loved ones for granted.

• Ten: A fresh start in life or your house.

  Reversed: You may have to face stress regarding your home of personal life,

• Page: someone may be trying to get your attention

  Reversed: Someone young is trying to get your attention

• Knight: A new lover, a new talent or a new passion discovered.

  Reversed: Watch out for people who want attention from you in order to feel validated.

• Queen: self confident woman with a lot of attention.

  Reversed: A woman with insecurities about herself

• King: A social man, who loves to entertain as a host.

  Reversed: A man suffering from depression or loss of self confidence.

Card	Keyword Description
Ace of Cups	Good karma, contemplation, love, new love
Two of Cups	Relationship, romance, communion, partnership, unified love
Three of Cups	Planned pregnancy, harmony, celebration, birth
Four of Cups	Apathy, re-evaluation, hope, boredom, honeymoon is over
Five of Cups	Change, regret, disappointment, despair, don't cry over spilt milk
Six of Cups	Good karmic ties, childhood, pleasure, nostalgia, reunion
Seven of Cups	Imagination, magic, possibility, illusion, fantasy
Eight of Cups	Loneliness, withdrawal, independence, abandonment, turning away
Nine of Cups	Happiness, comfort, wishes fulfilled
Ten of Cups	Rapport, contentment, familiarity, marriage, attainment
Page of Cups	A service rendered, a messenger
Knight of Cups	An offer of love, kindness
Queen of Cups	Emotional security
King of Cups	Honourable feelings