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The Suit of Cups
Cups = water (feeling/emotion)
The Suit of Cups Tarot cards deal with the emotional level of consciousness and are associated with love, feelings, relationships and connections.
The Suit of Cups is associated with the element of water. Water is fluid, agile and ‘in flow' but it's also very powerful and formative. It can be soft and gentle, like waves lapping against the sandy shore, or it can be powerful and even forceful, like a raging river.
The element of water is symbolic of fluidity, feelings and emotions, intuition, relationships, healing, and cleansing. It is a feminine element and reflects the subtle power that often resides within women. It is receptive, adaptable,purifying and flowing.
In a deck of playing cards, Cups corresponds to Hearts
What Do the Cups Tarot Cards Mean in a Reading?
Cups Tarot cards indicate that you are thinking with your heart rather than your head, and thus reflect your spontaneous responses and your habitual reactions to situations. Cups are also linked to creativity, romanticism, fantasy and imagination.
The negative aspects of the Suit of Cups include being overly emotional or completely disengaged and dispassionate, having unrealistic expectations and fantasising about what could be. There may be repressed emotions, an inability to truly express oneself and a lack of creativity.
Cups Tarot cards often represent the astrological signs of Water – Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio. When you see a Cups Court Card in a Tarot reading, it often relates to a person with a Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio star sign. Generally, Cups people are emotional, artistic, humane and creative. They are connected with their emotional selves and will draw energy from what they feel within.
What Does it Mean When a Tarot Reading is Mostly Cups Tarot Cards?
Should a Tarot reading be predominantly Cups cards, you are seeking solutions to what are primarily emotional conflicts, personal interactions, love matters, feelings and creativity.
Ace of Cups: Fulfillment
General
Ace of Cups stands for a potential that is present in you. The card indicates an opportunity that you can use. Ace of Cups symbolizes deep fulfillment of your feelings.
This card, along with Ace of Coins, is one of the great luck cards of the tarot. The card can give you the deepest fulfillment you desire. That is, you have the ability within you to experience this fulfillment. What this fulfillment is depends on the meaning you give it. This one is different for everyone. It can be related to gratitude, joie de vivre, success in the social ladder or intimacy in the sense of the deepest happiness of being together.
Work
In your work, Ace of Cups indicates that you are on the right track. The card indicates that you have the unique opportunity to be emotionally and internally involved in your work or what you are doing. This allows you to find deep inner fulfillment in what you do.
Love
In relationships, Ace of Cups stands for deep fulfillment and above all for a great love experience. The chance that Ace of Cups offers can mean that you fall in love instantly or have the deepest happiness of love, which has grown over time. Ace of Cups can also indicate that you have security and that you feel confident with the other person.
To ask
What gives me deep fulfillment?
Did I take my chance?
Where can I find my happiness?
Two of Cups: Loving Concession
General
Cups Two stands for a loving encounter on an emotional level. The card can indicate a new contact that touches you emotionally. Cups two can also represent reconciliation or loving intercourse in an existing relationship. Most importantly, the map works out in terms of our personal relationships. Here Cups Two can, for example, indicate a flirtation, love at first sight or a happy reunion. The card can also indicate the beginning of a tender relationship or friendship. Cups Two is in the first place that you are welcomed and that you can count on a sensitive and spontaneous contribution. Another meaning of Cups Two is that you treat yourself lovingly and reconcile yourself inwardly with yourself.
Work
In your work, Cups Two provides a pleasant working environment, good cooperation and a pleasant to cordial atmosphere. When changing work or profession, Cups Two indicates that you will be met in an open and friendly manner. You can count on understanding and cooperation from your new colleagues. You can also assume that you will be received and met in a sympathetic way with job applications and new business relations.
Love
The effect of Cups Two is strongest in relationships. The card stands for meeting each other on a feeling level. Often this is a period of falling in love, courting and loving each other or for someone who unexpectedly comes into our lives. Cups Two can also indicate that in an existing relationship you share deep feelings and treat each other lovingly. In an existing relationship, the card can also represent reconciliation after a conflict or a time of disagreement.
To ask
Am I loving myself?
Do I treat others with love?
Who or what should I reconcile
Three of Cups: Gratitude
General
Cups Three stands for celebration, joy, carelessness and gratitude. The card indicates that you have achieved or received something that is very valuable and important to you. This event makes you feel happy and satisfied and grateful for the result.
Work
In your work, Cups Three indicates that you have achieved something important. The card indicates that you celebrate the result with joy and gratitude. Cups Three can be about passing an exam or getting a good job or a promotion, salary increase or finishing an important project. At Bekers Drie there is a pleasant and friendly working atmosphere and pleasant interaction with colleagues.
Love
In relationships, Cups Three stands for joy, growth and a true flowering time. Full of joy and zest for life, you go along in a loving and harmonious relationship. Cups Three indicates the gratitude with which you experience the relationships yourself. The card can also indicate in an existing relationship that there has been a period of growth in the relationship and that you are now grateful for the result.
To ask
Am I grateful for what I have achieved?
Do I really feel happy about this?
Am I willing to share my joy with others?
Four of Cups: Depressed Mood
General
Cups Four stands for grumbling and a depressed mood. The card indicates that you are oversaturated. Cups Four shows that your feelings are quite variable. One moment you really want something, the next moment, if you have it (too much), it causes aversion, irritation and dissatisfaction. This can lead to stubbornness, quarrels and bitterness because at such a moment there is nothing left to fulfill you. It is important with Bekers Vier that you should not immediately destroy everything and close yourself out of aversion and dissatisfaction. The card offers valuable opportunities for reconciliation that you would not see and could therefore miss out on.
Work
In your work, Cups Four indicates that you have reached a low point and that you no longer have motivation. The longer you remain in a bad mood, the angrier and more and more disgruntled you become. Cups Four can also mean feeling dulled by the monotonous grind or being stubborn and offended at being reprimanded or rejected in some way. Cups Four indicates that you are overlooking beautiful and perhaps important opportunities if you get stuck in your anger and keep complaining.
Love
In relationships, Cups Four represents a tense or perhaps a poisoned atmosphere. The card indicates that you are blind with jealousy or feel hurt and angry for other reasons and are brooding sulking. You do not judge the other person worthy of a word and thereby consciously ignore him. Cups Four indicates that in such a mood you have no eye for conciliatory and sincere gestures. The card also shows that it is important to overcome your sulking behavior and to be more open to the other person.
To ask
Do I have too much?
Do I have the right to grumble?
Why am I so crestfallen?
What makes me so dissatisfied?
Am I really so stubborn that I am not open to the reconciliation with others?
Five of Cups: Sadness
General
Cups Five stands for sadness, pain and melancholy. The card indicates that there was something that meant a lot to you for a long time and is now broken. Cups Five also shows that you are not left to your own devices with your pain. You can count on the understanding and compassionate support of friends. Despite this support in your grief, the pain is serious. It can therefore take some time before you are happy and full of life again. The card indicates that you have underestimated and destroyed something through your own complacency. Cups Five does show that there is a way out so that you don't have to stay in this deep sadness unnecessarily.
Work
In your work, Cups Five stands for gloomy feelings and disappointment. This can be due to the failure of a project, for example. The card could mean failing an exam, being turned down for a job application, or having things you expected a lot from didn't give the results you hoped for. With Cups Five it is important to look for the cause of the failure and to see to what extent your own complacent behavior or depressed mood has been the cause.
Love
In relationships, Cups Five usually indicates that an important relationship has broken down or that you are disappointed in a contact that you expected a lot from. When it comes to a sad end to a loving relationship, it is important at Cups Five to see what your own part has been in this.
To ask
Do I dare to admit my sorrow?
Do I take time for my sorrow?
Why am I so disappointed?
What is my own part in this situation?
Am I open to the help and support of others?
Six of Cups: Past
General
Cups Six represents the past and your personal memories. The card indicates that these come up and what you think about in a romantic or nostalgic way. The card can also indicate that something is coming up or coming into your life that has to do with your childhood or childhood. Cups Six also stands for the unequal relationship such as the parent-child relationship in which one person protects and teaches the other. The card can also mean giving and receiving, but more in the sense of what you have been given in your upbringing.
Work
In your work, Cups Six indicates that you spend your days at work romantically and dreamily instead of being business-like and goal-oriented. In creative professions, this can be a big plus. The card works less positively in work where a clear and objective business insight is required. Then Cups Six can cause some irritation. When you are not sure about your job or are looking for another job, Six Cups indicates that you have memories of your childhood dreams or ideals. Cups Six can also indicate that you fondly think about work you did in the past because it was a better time for you then.
Love
In relationships, Cups Six indicates that you are in a period of warm security and dreamy infatuation. Often the card represents the memories you have of such times and not that it is the case at the moment. In relationships, Cups Six works out most strongly in its melancholy, sentimental and dreamy sides. The card can also indicate that someone is coming back into your life. Someone you know from the past and whom you had and perhaps still have nice and warm feelings for.
To ask
What were my ideals?
Can and do I still want to realize them?
Would I like to meet people from my past?
Do I ever go back to my past? Do I still want to see people from the past?
Seven of Cups: Illusion
General
Cups Seven stands for fantasies, imagination, deception and illusions. The card indicates that you have false hopes and expect something that is not real. You are fooling yourself and being misled. Cups Seven indicates that you have a heightened perception of reality. As a result, you have high expectations and beautiful ideals in mind that almost always lead to disappointment. The heightened perception can also represent daydreaming or infatuation, the pink glasses.
Work
In your work, Cups Seven may involve building castles in the air. You don't see things as they are and have too high expectations. You do not limit the image to what is feasible, but dream of beautiful ideals. With Cups Seven you have illusions and you are in a phase where you allow yourself to be misled and tempted very easily. The card shows fake transactions, deceptive acts and often also impure practices and behavior that you can question. Cups Seven can also stand for daydreaming at work.
Love
In relationships, Cups Seven can represent the intoxication of infatuation. The card immediately indicates that there can be a strong sobering up when you wake up from this intoxication. With Cups Seven the relationship can be serious, the expectations you cherish are just way too high. Because of this, you will always endure disappointment. The card is therefore a warning to view the relationship with some sobriety and not lose sight of reality.
To ask
What is my ideal?
How high is my expectation?
Don't I see it all too beautiful?
Am I not being tricked?
How strong are my rose-colored glasses?
Eight of Cups: Painful Departure
General
Cups Eight indicates that you are leaving with a heavy heart from a familiar environment. You have a heavy feeling about this departure. You leave people or things that are of great significance to you and move towards a future of which you are not yet certain. The card does not imply that you will be sent away, but that you have chosen to go, perhaps because you have no other choice. Cups Eight feels like an extra burden to you because there are two things going on at the same time: You leave with a heavy heart from what had meaning for you and you don't know where you are going or what the future will bring you.
Work
In your work, Cups Eight indicates that you are saying goodbye to your work. This could be that you stop practicing your profession or that your job ends due to closure or something else. The card represents goodbye to the work that had meaning for you and uncertainty about what the future will bring you from now on. Cups Eight can also mean losing certain tasks or for a painful insight that you have to let go of certain projects, plans or expectations.
Love
In relationships, Cups Eight indicates that it is with a heavy heart that you say goodbye to people or friends who have had a lot of meaning for you up to now. Cups Eight also immediately indicates the uncertainty about what the future will bring. The map stands for dividing roads so that everyone can take their own direction. Cups Eight indicates that the decision to leave has not been imposed, but that you have chosen to do so yourself. In another way, Cups Eight can mean that you say goodbye to the (dream) image you had of your partner. You then realize that the other is not the dream partner you thought and you resign yourself with a heavy feeling to reality, how the other really is.
To ask
What do I have to break free from?
Am I right to give up everything?
How do I feel about the new way I have to go?
Am I strong enough to make this choice?
Nine of Cups: To Enjoy
General
Cups Nine stands for a pleasant, carefree time, or a period in which you can enjoy yourself. The card stands for carefree, joie de vivre, conviviality and fun. Cups Nine can go overboard in the conviviality, so that the urge to enjoy it takes on excessive proportions, but often this is not the case.
Work
In your work, Cups Nine stands for a period in which you enjoy your work and everything is easy for you. There is conviviality and good collegiality. Cups Nine indicates that you can be light-hearted with each other. This creates a good mood and that you can overlook or completely forget about mistakes and conflicts that were there.
Love
In relationships, Cups Nine stands for a happy time in which you can enjoy yourself. The other is open to you and will be happy to spend a pleasant time with you. There is no further deeper meaning for this card. Because of this, having a good time is also the only thing the other is willing to do at the moment. If you can find yourself in this, you can count on a good time.
To ask
Are there moments that I really enjoy?
Do I occasionally make time to share fun with others?
Can I let go of my worries and enjoy?
Ten of Cups: Joint Happiness
General
Cups Ten stands for great harmony and love that makes you happy deep inside. The card indicates that you feel safe and secure, that your feelings are real and that you are not being misled or delusional. Cups Ten stands for a friendly mood, happiness, trust, love and gratitude. The map reflects every situation in which this atmosphere is recognizable. Cups Ten can also literally have meaning on a family or domestic situation.
Work
In your work, Bekers Tien stands for good collegial cooperation and a harmonious team. The card ensures friendly and friendly interaction with superiors, employees and colleagues. Cups Ten can also indicate new business relations with whom you can do business in a pleasant way or other pleasant contacts that are important for your work.
Love
In relationships, Bekers Tien stands for security and the feeling of being safe. The card thus indicates a period in which the difficulties of the past dissolve. Cups Ten ensures that you overcome inhibitions so that joy, gratitude and contentment can take their place. The card indicates that good times are coming for you in the relationship in which you gratefully enjoy love, trust and rich feelings. Very often, Cups Ten is a harbinger of a new long-term friendship or relationship and sometimes the card can be a clue to wedding plans.
To ask
Where do I feel completely happy?
Who do I want to share my happiness with?
Where do I feel at home?
Can I offer happiness and security to others?
Page of Cups: Loving Gesture
General
Page of Cups represents a great opportunity or a gesture of love or reconciliation for which you do not have to do anything. The impulse always comes from the other person, who touches your feelings deeply and to which you respond gratefully and satisfied. Page of Cups is the peace proposal that is offered to you after a conflict or phase of battle. The card also stands for the compassion you receive in a difficult time, a loving contact or falling in love. The impulses you receive from the other are generally good and fair.
Work
In our work, Page of Cups represents an impulse that is approaching us. This impulse does us good and makes us feel good. This can be in the form of recognition, a compliment or a message about improvement in our work, for example. Page of Cups often gives an invitation to socialize with others, for good advice or well-intentioned help in carrying out our work.
Love
In relationships, Page of Cups represents a compassionate, sometimes loving, conciliatory gesture by the partner. The card can be seen as an atmosphere of pleasant warmth that you feel after a period of struggle and detachment. Page of Cups can also stand for a spontaneous gesture of affection or in some cases for a marriage proposal.
To ask
Am I open to a loving gesture?
Am I willing to make peace?
Do I dare to be touched?
Knight of Cups: Peace
General
Knight of Cups stands for an atmosphere of romance, love and peace or for a good mood. The card gives you a period in which you are in harmony with yourself and with the other. Knight of Cups also stands for romantic dreams and an atmosphere in which you fall in love. When there are conflicts, Ridder van Bekers ensures reconciliation and peace.
Work
In your work, Knight of Cups ensures a pleasant working atmosphere that is calm and relaxed. You are in a good mood and doing your job is easy. Knight of Cups indicates more about how you perform the work than about the content of the work that you do.
Love
Knight of Cups has the greatest significance in relationships. The card represents a period of joy and infatuation. The card gives an atmosphere of loving togetherness, security and carefree enjoyment in a relationship. Knight of Cups ensures peace and also reconciliation after battle. The card represents a deep mutual understanding where half a word is enough. You use your feeling more.
To ask
Am I willing to make peace?
Can and do I want to reconcile with the other?
Shall I express my love?
Am I full of love and kindness?
Queen of Cups: deep feelings
General
Queen of Cups stands for emotional power, profound feelings, emotions, sensitivity, empathy, mediumistic gifts and the ability to sacrifice oneself. The card is more inward-facing. Queen of Cups does not rationalize her emotions, she feels, so that there is more unity between herself and the emotional world. This gives Queen of Cups a very large and strong ability to sense things. She may have trouble putting her feelings into words and will therefore express them more in a mood-setting way. Queen of Cups has knowledge of and insight into the invisible and stands for helping and healing powers.
Work
In your work, Queen of Cups indicates that you are in a quiet, waiting period. In this you listen to your inner self to gain clarity in what you now want to do in your career. The card can also indicate that you are going to use your mediumistic knowledge and make it your work. This can be, for example, in the field of esotericism, music, film, radio, or occultism.
Love
In relationships, Queen of Cups represents a mysterious time of delicacy and loving intimacy, tenderness, surrender and complete integration. The card can also indicate your deep desires or the need to seek support from the other person.
To ask
How well do I know my own feelings?
How important are my own feelings to me?
Do I trust my intuition?
Do I dare to use my power of feeling to help others?
Can I find a way to express my feelings?
King of Cups: Power of Feeling
General
King of Cups stands for emotional power, profound feelings, emotions, creativity, your search for (transcendental) experiences, redemption and mystical union with the primal power. He knows that this will always remain a closed area for the mind. This can only be experienced by someone who is open to his intuition and is willing to be attracted and touched. The card indicates your own will to use your feelings and mediumistic talents more and more, so that you can shape the vibrations you pick up in music, poetry or other artistic expressions.
Work
In your work, King of Cups indicates that you are in a period in which you are working on an inner experience, your psychic powers, and also want to express them. The card shows that you try very hard to express your feelings in your work. King of Cups can also indicate that you are opting for a profession or that you are in favor of a new beginning in your current work, giving you tasks in which you can make more use of your psychic knowledge.
Love
In relationships, King of Cups represents a period in which your feelings are more present. You then have the power to empathize more with your partner's wishes, desires and fears. It is precisely because of this that you can be very understanding and offer help and (emotional) support. The card often represents a romantic time in which you express your own feelings and are open to intense experiences. King of Cups also indicates that you love to dream sentimentally.
To ask
How well do I know my own feelings?
How important are my own feelings to me?
Do I trust my intuition?
Do I dare to use my power of feeling to help others?
Can I find a way to express my feelings?
