Suit of Cups
Tarot · Suit of Cups
Five of Cups
Grief and Emotional Alchemy
The painful process of grieving what is lost, requiring an alchemical shift in focus toward what remains.
What it meansThree cups are spilled in front of the cloaked figure and two stand upright behind him. He is not wrong that something is lost — he is only wrong about the total. Grief here is read as an accounting error made honestly, and the bridge home is already in the picture.
Tarot · Suit of Cups
Six of Cups
Nostalgia and the Inner Child
Memory as balm: the past's sweetness can heal, until living there crowds out the present.
What it meansChildren in an old garden, the cups filled with white flowers rather than wine. Waite's phrase is things that have vanished. The sweetness is genuine and it is also finished, and the card turns on whether you are remembering the past or trying to live in it.
Tarot · Suit of Cups
Page of Cups
The Muse of the Subconscious
Insight that arrives before reason can justify it — trust it, but don't live inside the daydream.
What it meansA fish rises out of the cup and looks at him, and he looks back, entirely unsurprised. The Pages are the suit's beginnings, so this is the first form the inner life takes: something addresses you from a place you were not attending to, and the only skill required is not flinching.
- Ace of CupsThe Root of the Powers of WaterRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Eight of CupsThe Spiritual DepartureRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Five of CupsGrief and Emotional AlchemyRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Four of CupsContemplation and ApathyRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- King of CupsThe Master of Emotional EquilibriumRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Knight of CupsThe Romantic QuesterRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Nine of CupsFulfillment and Cosmic SatisfactionRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Page of CupsThe Muse of the SubconsciousRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Queen of CupsThe Sovereign of IntuitionRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Seven of CupsIllusion and the Labyrinth of ChoicesRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Six of CupsNostalgia and the Inner ChildRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Ten of CupsDivine Harmony and WholenessRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Three of CupsJoyful Communion and AbundanceRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
- Two of CupsLove and Sacred UnionRider-Waite-Smith Tarot
