Suit of Cups

  • Other Names: Chalices, Grails, Cauldrons, Hearts, Vessels
  • Element: Water
  • Attributes: Passive, female; cold, wet
  • Astrological Signs: Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio
  • Direction: East
  • Season: Pagan – Autumn- / Esoteric – Summer
  • Self: Emotions, love, receptivity
  • Jungian Function: Feeling
  • Body Part: Heart
  • Qabbalistic World: Briah – the Creative World

Water is seen as the emotions, your feelings, and your intuition. Considered passive, water can be deep or shallow; you like the ocean, are responsive to the moon; your tears can rise and fall; out of control, your emotions flood;

Cups represent your emotions, feelings, your subconscious, intuition and psychism. They deal with love affairs, all relationships, inner expression, your reactions or responses and the pursuit of happiness. Generally passive and not outwardly extrovert, creativity through expression are some of the traits of this suit. Careers are usually in the arts or creative pursuits, they are, poets, painters, florists and designers, nurses, social workers and care-givers. Cups people are happy in the background doing their own thing, though they are often actors distinguishing the limelight from private time like no others.

Keywords: creative, intuitive, clairsentient, psychic, passive, affectionate, receptive, imaginative, caring, relationships, love, dreams, sensitivity, romantic, artistic, spiritual, compassionate, tactile, nurturing, the unconscious mind, domesticity, culture, expression, flexibility, fluidity, calm motion, serenity, empathetic, aesthetics and beauty.
Reversed: needy, co-dependent, intense, neglectful, fantasists, uncaring, cold, unfeeling, moody, unresponsive, illogical, lost, negative, pessimistic, emotional, overly sentimental, tearful, selfish.

  • King – Repression of deep feelings, possible alcoholism; Reversed: Selfishness
  • Queen – Emotionally nurturing, intuitive, sensitive; Reversed: Ignorance
  • Knight – Romantic, adventurous, following one’s heart; Reversed: Pessimism
  • Page – Creative, inspired, learning artistic skill; Reversed: Gloomy
  • Ace of Cups – emotional fulfillment, joy; Reversed: Indifferent
  • 2 – Partnership, mutual attraction, compatibility; Reversed: Abandonment
  • 3 – Celebration, fun with friends, laughter; Reversed: Jealousy
  • 4 – Boredom, dissatisfaction with what is being offered; Reversed: Avoidance
  • 5 – Dwelling on the negative, self-pity; Reversed: Alienation
  • 6 – Sentimentality, kindness, help; Reversed: Discouraging
  • 7 – So many choices, indecision, getting lost in fantasy, wishing and dreaming; Reversed: Lethargic
  • 8 – Abandoning something in search of something better, vision; Reversed: Sacrifice
  • 9 – Indulgence, self-satisfaction; Reversed: Disintegration
  • 10 – Emotional bliss, happiness, attainment; Reversed: Disruption