Three of Cups
celebration · friendship · community · a toast
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Cups
In a few words
- celebration
- friendship
- community
- a toast
Three women raising cups. Friendship, celebration, the joy of good company.
Upright
- Everything
- Three women raising cups. Friendship, celebration, the joy of good company.
- Love
- Happiness shared with friends and family. A wedding, an engagement, a gathering.
- Work
- A team success worth celebrating. Collaboration and goodwill at work.
- Money
- Prosperity shared. A group venture pays; generosity comes back.
- Myself
- You are not alone. Call the friends who make you laugh.
The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 220
Reversed
- Everything
- Too much party, or a friendship that turned. Gossip, excess, a third person in the way.
- Love
- An outsider disturbing the pair, or celebration that hides a problem.
- Work
- Cliques and gossip. Or a team that celebrates but does not deliver.
- Money
- Overspending on show. Or a group deal where not everyone is honest.
- Myself
- Loneliness in a crowd. Choose fewer, truer people.
Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 220
The card, as Waite described it
Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 220
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.