Three of Cups
Three of Cups
Number 3 Water
A cups card: feeling, love, and what you are carrying.
Upright
friendshipcelebrationcommunitygood company
Your people, and a reason to see them. The Three of Cups is friendship as a resource rather than a luxury: the night out that fixes a fortnight, the group who turn up. Often a literal celebration; always a reminder that you have people.
Reversed
gossipa third partyover-doing itisolation
The group is the problem. Reversed, this is gossip, a third person in a two-person situation, celebration that has become escape, or the flat feeling of being on the outside of a circle you used to be in.
What is in the picture
Three women raising cups in a circle in a harvest field. The circle is closed, which readers take both ways.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: see your friends. It is the actual instruction.
Reversed: the group dynamic is costing you something.
Love and relationships
Upright: a relationship with friendship underneath it.
Reversed: a third party, or friends who are too involved.
Work and direction
Upright: a team that genuinely likes each other. Protect it.
Reversed: gossip doing real damage.
Money and security
Upright: money spent on people, well spent.
Reversed: spending to be included.
Me, honestly
Upright: you are less alone than the last month has felt.
Reversed: you have withdrawn from people who would be glad to hear from you.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes, particularly if it involves other people.
Reversed: you are deciding this by committee.
If this card leads
Message the group chat. It is more effective than most things.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, maybe.
“My people count as a resource.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
