Queen of Cups
The Queen of Cups is an emotionally intuitive and sensitive card, representing compassion, creativity, love, and care. She is a stable force, embodying gentle contemplation and becoming part of the emotional flow. In a reversed position, her emotions become unchecked and require deep examination to address the core issues.
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Emotional Intuition and Sensitivity
The Queen of Cups, to me, is one of the most emotionally intuitive and sensitive cards. She represents the energy of compassion, creativity, love, and care. She reminds me of the Star in her gentle contemplativeness. She is not simply still; she is stable. Rather than being overwhelmed by or brimming over with emotion, she is part of the flow. That's why I wanted to put her in a natural landscape, and one that's reminiscent of my Star card.
Fairytale Queen Imagery
The Queen of Cups is like a fairytale queen—ethereal, kind, and mysterious. For this card, I drew stylistic inspiration from the Aesthetes, Pre-Raphaelites, and Symbolists in how I portrayed her. She also always makes me think of motherhood. Her caring and creative nature is visually expressed in the fact that she is literally pregnant—with ideas, with deep feeling, with some kind of deeply intimate endeavor. She is in control of this endeavor, but it's a gentle and caring kind of control. She is leading by being a part of it.
Reversed Meaning
Reversed, the queen's emotions run unchecked. She is capricious, unpredictable, volatile. Her emotions bleed like an open wound. And when an injury is this grievous, a simple bandage may not be enough—the Queen of Cups wants us to get to the source of the problem, because only by identifying it can we treat it correctly.
Fyodor Pavlov tarot
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