Queen of Cups
compassion · intuition · caring · depth
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Cups
In a few words
- compassion
- intuition
- caring
- depth
A queen gazing into an ornate cup by the sea. Compassion, intuition, feeling that runs deep and stays kind.
Upright
- Everything
- A queen gazing into an ornate cup by the sea. Compassion, intuition, feeling that runs deep and stays kind.
- Love
- A devoted, understanding partner, or the call to be one. Love that listens.
- Work
- Lead with empathy. Counselling, care, art, anything that reads people.
- Money
- Money handled with feeling and fairness. Generous, but not foolish.
- Myself
- Trust what you feel about people. Your intuition is a good adviser.
Good, fair woman; honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision; success, happiness, pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a perfect spouse and a good mother.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 200
Reversed
- Everything
- Feeling too much, or hiding it all. Moodiness, emotional manipulation, a cup spilling over.
- Love
- Smothering, or drowning in someone else's needs. Boundaries are love too.
- Work
- Taking everything personally. Or a colleague using tears as a tool.
- Money
- Spending to soothe. Or lending from pity and losing both money and friend.
- Myself
- Overwhelmed by feeling. Name it, then step back from the water.
The accounts vary; good woman; otherwise, distinguished woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonour, depravity.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 200
The card, as Waite described it
Beautiful, fair, dreamy—as one who sees visions in a cup. This is, however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and her activity feeds her dream.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 200
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.