Ace of Cups
Minor Arcana · Suit of Cups
Upright
- new feelings
- love
- compassion
- emotional openness
- emotional block
- emptiness
- repressed feelings
- self-love needed
In the picture
A hand reaches from a cloud holding a cup that overflows with five streams of water into a pond of lilies. A dove descends to the cup carrying a wafer.
Upright meaning
The Ace of Cups is the start of something emotional: new love, friendship, compassion or creative feeling. The cup overflows; the card suggests opening up and letting good feelings in and out.
Reversed meaning
Reversed, the cup is blocked or spilling. Feelings are held back or emptied out. It may point to emotional fatigue or a need to look after yourself before you can give to others.
About the suit of Cups
Cups are the suit of water: feelings, relationships, love and intuition. Cups cards tend to describe how you feel about something and how you connect with other people.
