Page of Cups
Page of Cups
Number 11 Water page
A cups card: feeling, love, and what you are carrying.
Upright
a tender messageopennesscreativitysurprise
A fish in a cup: a feeling turning up in a form nobody expected. The Page of Cups is a message with affection in it, a creative idea arriving sideways, or someone young-hearted and unguarded. It asks you not to be too cool for this.
Reversed
immaturitya feeling badly expressedmoodiness
Feeling handled clumsily. Reversed, this is emotional immaturity (yours or theirs), a sulk in place of a sentence, or a creative impulse abandoned at the first criticism.
What is in the picture
A page in a flowered tunic holding a cup with a fish looking out of it. His expression is the only genuinely surprised face in the deck.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: a tender or creative thing arriving unexpectedly. Do not be too cool for it.
Reversed: a feeling being expressed indirectly, and badly.
Love and relationships
Upright: a sweet, slightly awkward approach. Take it kindly.
Reversed: someone not saying what they mean, in a small way.
Work and direction
Upright: a creative idea worth protecting from the first meeting.
Reversed: sensitivity to feedback getting in the way of the work.
Money and security
Upright: a small unexpected gift or piece of luck.
Reversed: money handled with more feeling than thought.
Me, honestly
Upright: your softness is not a liability here.
Reversed: sulking is not the same as communicating, and you know that.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes, in the spirit of trying it.
Reversed: you are deciding in a mood.
If this card leads
Take the sweet thing seriously.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, maybe.
“I do not have to be too cool for this.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
