Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot · Love & Union
Tarot · Major Arcana
The Magician
Manifestation, Power, Creation
Skill and will turned on the world — the same power that manifests can also manipulate.
What it meansOne hand to heaven, one to earth: the figure is a conduit, not a source. The four suit emblems lie ready on his table and the lemniscate floats above his head, so the power is borrowed and unlimited at once — which is why the same gesture reads as creation or as conjuring.
Tarot · Suit of Cups
Ace of Cups
The Root of the Powers of Water
Feeling at its source — the heart open to give and receive, and the cost of closing it.
What it meansA dove descends into the cup carrying a wafer, and five streams pour out of a vessel nobody is holding upright. The tradition reads the Aces as roots rather than events: this is feeling before it has an object, which is why it cannot be earned and cannot be kept.
Tarot · Suit of Cups
Two of Cups
Love and Sacred Union
A deep, harmonious connection between two souls based on mutual respect, love, and emotional balance.
What it meansThe two pledge each other under a caduceus crowned with a lion's head — the rod that reconciles opposites, topped by the thing least willing to be reconciled. Union in this reading is not similarity. It is two powers agreeing to be held in one image.
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- Knight of CupsSuit of Cups
- Knight of WandsSuit of Wands
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- Page of SwordsSuit of Swords
- Seven of CupsSuit of Cups
- Seven of PentaclesSuit of Pentacles
- Ten of CupsSuit of Cups
- The DevilMajor Arcana
- The LoversMajor Arcana
- The MagicianMajor Arcana
- Three of CupsSuit of Cups
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