Tarot · Cups
Two of Cups
- meeting
- partnership
- mutuality
The picture
A young man and a young woman face each other and exchange cups, while above them floats a herald's staff topped with a winged lion's head.
The meaning
Two people hand each other their cups, as equals. The tradition reads the Two of Cups as meeting, attraction and partnership. It stands for mutuality, for a promise and for understanding without many words. That is as true of friendship as it is of love.
Reversed
Reversed, it is read as an imbalance between two people, or a misunderstanding that can be cleared up.
In love
In love it is the card of mutual attraction and of a bond that carries both people.
At work
At work it stands for a good partnership, a collaboration or an agreement.
As your card of the day
Meeting as equals matters today. Listen to someone the way you would like to be heard.
The Two of Cups stands for connection. A conversation for two does you good today.
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).