Card 36 • cups

Ace of Cups

Brief Description

The Ace of Cups signifies overflowing emotion, empathy, creativity, and intuition. It represents the highest potential of emotional and creative fulfillment, encouraging openness and vulnerability. The reversed Ace warns of emotional depletion and advises seeking support to manage intense feelings.

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Overview

The Ace of Cups overflows with emotion, empathy, creativity and intuition. The waters from which the hand emerges are calm and nurturing to the water lilies that crowd the surface. Some of the flowers have yet to open up, while others are in full bloom. The waters in the chalice are flowing out of it in an intricate, frothing fountain. Like the other Aces, this card represents the highest potential of the suit.

Emotional and Creative Fulfillment

The Ace of Cups is a card of creative and emotional fulfillment, of intuitive understanding, of our heart guiding our actions, for better or for worse.

Encouragement

The Ace of Cups is also a loving card. In its most positive aspects, it encourages us to let our guard down, to be vulnerable, to feel our feelings and to feel them deeply. It advises us to let the waters flow out, to offer ourselves to others and to the world emotionally, spiritually and creatively.

Reversed Ace of Cups

The Ace of Cups reversed, of course, reminds us that perhaps we have poured too much of ourselves out. Like a freely bleeding wound, the reversed Ace shows us at our most emotionally volatile and exposed, and advises us to look for calmer waters. It shows us where we are bleeding, and advises us not to hide our hurt from others, but to seek their help and support instead of bottling up all our feelings until the dam breaks.

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