Page of Cups
a tender message · creativity · sensitivity · a surprise
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Cups
In a few words
- a tender message
- creativity
- sensitivity
- a surprise
A young page with a fish peeking from the cup. A gentle surprise, a message of feeling, imagination at play.
Upright
- Everything
- A young page with a fish peeking from the cup. A gentle surprise, a message of feeling, imagination at play.
- Love
- A sweet message, a shy admirer, the first soft signs of affection.
- Work
- A creative idea from an unexpected place. Listen to the junior, or to your own whim.
- Money
- Small good news about money. An offer that begins modestly.
- Myself
- Let yourself be surprised. The imagination is telling the truth sideways.
Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 204
Reversed
- Everything
- Emotional immaturity, or a creative block. The fish will not come out of the cup.
- Love
- Sulking, mixed signals, a crush that is really about you.
- Work
- Ideas that never land. Or a colleague's moods running the room.
- Money
- Naive money decisions. Ask someone experienced before you commit.
- Myself
- Escaping into fantasy. Come back and feel the real thing.
Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 204
The card, as Waite described it
A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 204
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.