Ten of Cups
family joy · harmony · home · a rainbow

Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Cups
In a few words
- family joy
- harmony
- home
- a rainbow
A rainbow of cups over a family and a home. Lasting happiness, love that holds a household together.
Upright
- Everything
- A rainbow of cups over a family and a home. Lasting happiness, love that holds a household together.
- Love
- A happy marriage, a family at peace, love that has made a home.
- Work
- Work in harmony with your life. A team that feels like family.
- Money
- Enough for the family and a roof that is yours. Security with warmth.
- Myself
- Belonging. This is what the striving was for.
Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship; if with several picture-cards, a person who is taking charge of the Querent's interests; also the town, village or country inhabited by the Querent.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 206
Reversed
- Everything
- A family picture with a crack in it. Disharmony at home, or an ideal that does not match the day.
- Love
- Fighting behind closed doors, or chasing a perfect picture instead of a real bond.
- Work
- Work pulling you from home. Or a team where the harmony is only for show.
- Money
- Family finances under strain. Talk about it openly.
- Myself
- Comparing your home to others' photos. Yours is real; theirs is a frame.
Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 206
The card, as Waite described it
Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is contemplated in wonder and ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His right arm is about her; his left is raised upward; she raises her right arm. The two children dancing near them have not observed the prodigy but are happy after their own manner. There is a home-scene beyond.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 206
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.