Ace of Cups
Upright meaning
A fresh emotional opening: affection, compassion, or a creative feeling ready to be expressed.
Something to consider
There may be room to feel something you have kept at a distance. Begin with a small honest gesture, toward yourself or someone you trust.
What is on your mind? Begin a reading →Historical texts
Waite: the card
The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: divinatory meaning
House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: reversed
House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Mathers: meaning
49. Ace of Cups.-Feasting, Banquet, Good Cheer; R. Change, Novelty, Metamorphosis, Inconstancy.
Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain