Cups are the suit ruled by the element "water". Traditionally, they deal with things emotional, intuitive, and instinctual. The tables of correspondence will give more information on the relationships between individual cards in the suit and their alignments. Cups generally prophecy love and happiness, and are often seen in readings about relationships and matters of strong emotional significance to the querent.

ACE
Dignified: The beginning of joy, fertility. Fill your mind with spirit, and material happiness follows.
Reversed: Hesitancy, false love, unattainable or erratic joy.



TWO
Dignified: Balance of masculine and feminine. Returned love. Partnerships, love affairs, attraction.
Reversed: Unrequited love, violent love, misunderstanding, miscommunication. Folly.



THREE
Dignified: Rejoicing, Celebration, Unity, sisterhood, success, abundance. Good luck. Pleasure.
Reversed: Overindulgence. Bacchian pleasures. Oversensuality. Too much food or drink.



FOUR
Dignified: Stasis. A period where one cannot see the abundance one has. Obsession, weariness, kindness from others.
Reversed: Remobilization, re-evaluation. New goals or ambition. New relationships are possible.



FIVE
Dignified: Loss, with something left over. Mourning. Disappointment or sadness. Broken marriages or friendships.
Ill-Dignified: New Alliances, Return of a loved one. High expectations, perhaps too high to be reached.



SIX
Dignified: Happiness, Joy from the past. Old or new friends. Good memories. New Opportunities. Childlike joy.
Reversed: Focusing too much on the past. Holding on to the old, whether it's thinkng, people, ideas, or traditions. Inheritances. Nostalgia.



SEVEN
Dignified: Gifts or knowledge from dreams. Seeing all possibilities. Guidance from the spirit. Deception. Overactive imaginations. Illusions.
Reversed: Nightmares. Unable to see your own wealth. Resolutions, determination. Make sure to act quickly on past successes, they may be fleeting.



EIGHT
Dignified: Passing the torch to new seekers. Long journeys. Removal of physical signs of success. Not appreciating gains. External wandering.
Reversed: Interest in emotion and success. Joy. Spiritual matters abandoned for the physical preoccupations.



NINE
Dignified: Called the "Wish Card"...the querent will get his/her wish. Abundance. Fulfillment. Outer joy. Physical well-being.
Reversed: False freedom. Overindulgence. Strife. Struggle to attain dreams; or the wish, when granted, isn't appreciated.



TEN
Dignified: Attainment of the richness of life. Joy. Family pleasure. A journey is complete, a life is well-lived. Contentment.
Reversed: Betrayal, waste, loss of friendship. Divorce.



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Dignified: Melancholy youth. One who is imaginative, and is in ready service to the querent. If no such youth is present, it can indicate a predilection for the arts, meditation. Possible birth of a child, or new methods of doing old things.
Reversed: Lack of motivation. Seduction. Bad news. Obstacles. A lie may be revealed, either told to or by the querent.



KNIGHT
Dignified: A graceful young man, who is a dreamer. May be a poet or a bringer of invitations or proposals. If no such man, then it is indicative of the sensual delights of life.
Reversed: Too much sensuality. Can mean lies or fraud. Caution the querent to investigate well all proposals.



QUEEN
Dignified: A woman who is a good wife or mother. She is loyal and able to take a vision and turn it to reality. If not such a woman in querent's life, she indicates someone with that vision, someone kind.
Reversed: Intelligent person, but a shifty one. Can mean immorality, or more lies. Bad intentions.



KING
Dignified: A man, possibly of the church, who is skilled in merchant trades and the law. (Law of either 'God' or man) He is kind, and open. Or, the traits of generosity, creativity and intelligence. A combining of both art -and- science.
Reversed: Calm with a tempest underneath. Someone shifty. Could indicate a robbery or theft of virtue and/or money. Utter power corrupts utterly.