Cups are the Minor Arcana suit most closely associated with emotions, relationships, intuition and the inner world. In modern tarot correspondences, Cups are linked with water.

What do Cups represent?

Cups commonly appear when a reading focuses on love, family, friendship, emotional fulfilment or creativity.

All 14 Cups cards

Ace: emotional opening and new feeling. Two: connection and reciprocity. Three: friendship and celebration. Four: withdrawal or reassessment. Five: grief and disappointment. Six: memories and nostalgia. Seven: choices and imagination. Eight: walking away. Nine: satisfaction. Ten: emotional fulfilment. Page: sensitivity and messages. Knight: romantic movement. Queen: empathy and intuition. King: emotional maturity.

For historical context, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s history of tarot explains that tarot developed from card games and describes the familiar 78-card structure.

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