The Cups - Meaning of The Cups Tarot Cards

The Suit of Cups is considered to be a part of the minor arcana in Tarot cards. This suit can be associated with Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio. It represents the emotional aspect of our daily lives and can be associated with water.

Ace of Cups

Ace of Cups represents the birth of emotions and feelings. It has a potential for creation and can be related to a search for love. It can be associated with joy, content and nourishment.

Two of Cups (Love)

Two of Cups represents love between two people. It can be associated with finding common feelings and happiness with one another. This card can also be associated with love, passion, friendship, concord and sympathy.

Three of Cups (Abundance)

Three of Cups indicates the union arising from the combination of two cups. Hence, this card is associated with pregnancy, birth, engagement, marriage proposal or a romantic affair.

Four of Cups (Luxury)

The Four of Cups asks if the emotional outreach of feelings expressed in the Three of Cups is really going to last. It can be associated with weariness, disgust and aversion.

Five of Cups (Disappointment)

Five of Cups indicates that the expectations from the two or three of cups were not as good as you hoped. The Five of Cups shows that your own emotional fulfilment has to come from within and your partner can not provide you with all that happiness and emotional support that you expected.

Six of Cups (Pleasure)

Six of Cups indicates that trying to make someone happy will be a complete failure. This card makes you realise that not only does happiness come within, but also you have to pursue your own happiness and fulfilment.

Seven of Cups (Debauch)

Seven of Cups can be associated with fairy favors, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, idea and design. This card makes you think how far you can go with your pleasures without facing any troubles.

Eight of Cups (Indolence)

Eight of Cups is usually found that the card shews the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence, either for good or evil. This card can be associated with joy, mildness, timidity and honour.

Nine of Cups (Happiness)

Nine of Cups indicates that there is a balance between being happy and making someone happy. It indicated a very happy phase in your life. It can be associated with content, victory, success and satisfaction.

Ten of Cups (Satiety)

The Ten of Cups shows that trying to maintain the happiness you have experienced already takes a lot of work and effort, as you are now discovering. Eventually things can only go so far.

Page of Cups

Page of Cups indicated a dreamy young man. Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom the person will be connected. This man will also be fortunate in love.

Knight of Cups

The Knight of Cups represents the airy part of Water. Such a person has an intense secret nature. On the surface he is calm, but underneath is intense passion, and as a result, people do not trust him.

Queen of Cups

The Queen of Cups is an older woman who is dreamy and rather passive about things. Her views tend to reflect those of people she is influenced by.

King of Cups

The King of Cups is an older man who is a dreamer or very creative. Such a person may be difficult to understand.