Ace of Cups
Ace of Cups
Number 1 Water
A cups card: feeling, love, and what you are carrying.
Upright
a new feelingopennesslove offeredoverflow
A cup so full it is spilling before anyone has touched it. This is the offer of feeling: new love, a friendship that turns out to matter, forgiveness arriving, the return of the ability to be moved by things. The card asks only that you are open enough to take it.
Reversed
closed offa feeling withheldemptiness
The cup is turned over or held back. Reversed, this is love not expressed, a feeling suppressed until it went numb, or someone who wants to open up and has good reasons not to. It is rarely coldness; it is nearly always protection.
What is in the picture
A hand offering a cup with five streams pouring from it, a dove descending into it. It is already overflowing and nobody has drunk from it.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: something is being offered emotionally. Take it.
Reversed: a feeling held back, usually for reasons that were once good.
Love and relationships
Upright: new love, or old love recovered. Say it first.
Reversed: one of you is not saying it. Possibly both.
Work and direction
Upright: work that moves you again, or a colleague who becomes a friend.
Reversed: caring about it has stopped and you have not admitted that.
Money and security
Upright: generosity, given or received, that changes something.
Reversed: meanness with money standing in for something else.
Me, honestly
Upright: you can feel things again. That is the whole card.
Reversed: numbness is doing a job. Ask it what job.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes: the option that opens you rather than protects you.
Reversed: you are choosing the safest feeling, not the truest one.
If this card leads
Say the affectionate thing before it is safe to.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, no.
“I can let this in.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
