Card 36 • cups

Ace of Cups

Brief Description

The Ace of Cups represents the emergence of a new emotional connection and overflowing emotional abundance. It is a fleeting gift or beginning—whether spiritual or earthly—that offers opportunity for growth and the expression of love. The imagery emphasizes balance in giving and receiving, nourishment, empathy, and trust in one's emotions. Reversed, it warns of unreciprocated feelings, dissatisfaction, instability, and false or tainted affection.

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Card Name

ACE OF CUPS

Keyword

Emotional Connection

Description

Two doves (expressions of the Divine) hold a cup overflowing and replenishing itself with water—their equilibrium of giving and receiving. The Ace of Cups is a fleeting gift of emotional connection; the beginning of something beautiful. Whether the connection is spiritual or earthly, it is an opportunity for growth and for an expression of love. When this card graces your reading, take advantage of your moment at this wellspring.

Meaning

giving and/or receiving, empathy, a new emotional connection to others or to the Divine, overflowing abundance and nourishment, love and compassion, trust in your emotions, fertility.

Reversal

unreciprocated emotion, dissatisfaction, instability, tainted happiness, false love, sterility.

Visual Description

A large silver chalice hovers above a deep blue sea, supported by a delicate stand while four graceful streams of water arc from its rim into the water below. Two white doves hover at either side of the cup, poised as if to sip from the surface. Ripples and a softened reflection of the bowl shimmer on the sea beneath, and the surrounding light is pale and serene. The printed title "ACE OF CUPS" appears along the bottom edge of the image.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Jonathan Saiz, Jason Gruhl, Andi Todaro

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