Page of Cups
Upright meaning
A tender message, unexpected feeling, or imaginative impulse. Emotional curiosity without much armour.
Something to consider
A feeling or creative impulse may be asking for a little room. Put it into words or make something small before deciding whether it is sensible.
What is on your mind? Begin a reading →Historical texts
Waite: the card
A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: divinatory meaning
Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: reversed
Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Mathers: meaning
39. Knave of Cups.-A fair Youth, Confidence, Probity, Discretion, Integrity; R. A Flatterer, Deception, Artifice.
Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain