Ace of Cups
The Ace of Cups shows a river nymph offering an overflowing chalice, symbolizing abundant emotion, creativity, and intuitive potential. Water lilies emphasize tenderness, compassion, and abundance, while the fish skeletons and tangled vines at the card's base point to roots, the subconscious, and the purest essence that sustain feeling and intuition. Upright, the card indicates new emotional beginnings, fulfillment, love, creativity, and intuitive insight. Reversed, it warns of repression, inability to express oneself, stagnation, or emotional numbness.
Keywords
Ace of Cups
Poem
Your cup shall never empty and you shall never want for more. Your feelings are what sustain you and they are what you pour.
Meaning
The Ace of Cups depicts a river nymph arising from the water as she offers you a chalice overflowing with energy and potential. She is surrounded by water lilies, representing tenderness, compassion, and abundance. The fish skeletons and tangled vines at the base of the card's illustration signify our roots, or purest essence, of which our subconscious, emotions, and intuition are a part. The Ace of Cups thereby signifies an overflowing of emotion, creativity, and intuition.
Reversed position
In its reversed position, it can signify inability to express oneself, repressed emotion, stagnation, or numbness.
Upright keywords
overwhelming emotion, new relationships, fulfillment, love, celebrations, fertility, creativity, intuitive insight, compassion
Reversed keywords
repressed emotion, emotionally inarticulate, unrequited love, lack of creativity, infertility, stagnation, numbness
Visual Description
A richly decorated golden chalice fills the center of the oval frame, white liquid or light spilling from its rim. Behind it sits a green-skinned, plantlike figure with flowing hair and a serene expression, surrounded by lotus blossoms and floating pads. Delicate fish skeletons or skeletal forms echo along the sides, and long aquatic plants weave through the foreground while the title 'Ace of Cups' appears on a banner at the bottom.
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