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Ace of Cups

Ace of Cups: A hand reaches out of a cloud holding a cup from which five streams of water pour into a pool of water lilies, while a dove descends bearing a wafer.

The picture

A hand reaches out of a cloud holding a cup from which five streams of water pour into a pool of water lilies, while a dove descends bearing a wafer.

The meaning

The Ace of Cups overflows. The tradition reads it as the start of a new feeling, as love, compassion and openness. It stands for a heart that fills and gives on. Readers also see in it inner peace and a fresh start in relationships.

Reversed

Reversed, it is read as feelings held back, or a heart that does not want to overflow just now.

In love

In love it is read as the beginning of a love, or new tenderness in a relationship.

At work

At work it stands for work done with heart, for creativity and a good mood in the team.

As your card of the day

Your heart can be open today. A kind gesture will reach both you and others.

The Ace of Cups stands for a new feeling. Notice today what touches you.

Cups belong to water. By tradition they stand for feelings, relationships and whatever moves us inside.

Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, 1909, public domain (Wikimedia Commons).