Page of Cups tarot card meaning
Page of Cups is the card of sensitivity, creativity and messages. A gentle, imaginative beginning. The Page of Cups reflects emotional openness, creative surprises and intuitive messages.
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Page of Cups upright
A gentle, imaginative beginning. The Page of Cups reflects emotional openness, creative surprises and intuitive messages.
Drawn upright, Page of Cups is the card at ease with itself, and sensitivity, creativity and messages sit comfortably side by side. The image of a young figure in a floral tunic standing by the sea holding a golden cup holds the whole of it. Read it as a mirror, and ask what in your own life it is showing back.
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Page of Cups reversed
Feelings kept hidden, or immaturity in emotional matters. Let the surprise in.
When Page of Cups falls reversed, many readers take it as the card’s energy turned inward. The sensitivity it stands for has not gone; it is waiting, or it has been overused. Ask which, and the card has done its work.
What the card shows
The plate shows a young figure in a floral tunic standing by the sea holding a golden cup, a small fish rising from the cup and looking at them, waves behind.
In the tradition this deck follows, the plate’s details are read this way: water as feeling and the inner life; and the cup as the heart and what it holds. Together they are why Page of Cups is read for sensitivity, creativity and messages.
Page of Cups in love
Read for a relationship, Page of Cups asks how sensitivity and creativity are shared between two people. It describes a mood rather than an outcome: where messages is present, and where it is missing. As a card of Cups, the suit of feeling, love and the inner life, Page of Cups speaks of love in the suit’s own tongue.
Page of Cups in work and money
At work, Page of Cups reflects sensitivity, and with money it asks about creativity. Hold it against a real choice in front of you and see where messages fits. Cups belong to feeling, so at work Page of Cups asks less about the task than about how you feel doing it, and who you do it with.
As a question to carry
What creative idea has surprised you lately?
There is no right answer to it; Page of Cups asks only that you look at creativity honestly.
The suit of Cups
Page of Cups belongs to the suit of Cups, the suit of Water, which tradition gives to feeling, love and the inner life. As the page of the suit it is the student of the suit, curious and new to it, often read as a message or a first attempt.
Read with its own keys, sensitivity, creativity and messages, it shows water at one particular point in the suit’s story. See all fourteen cards of Cups.
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Reading about Page of Cups is one thing; drawing it in answer to your own question is another. Members draw from the full deck in the Almanac tarot: the card of the day, three cards, or the ten-card Celtic Cross, each card read in its place.
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Common questions
What does Page of Cups mean in tarot?
Page of Cups is read for sensitivity, creativity and messages. A gentle, imaginative beginning. The Page of Cups reflects emotional openness, creative surprises and intuitive messages.
What does Page of Cups mean reversed?
Feelings kept hidden, or immaturity in emotional matters. Let the surprise in. Reversed, it keeps its theme of sensitivity, seen from the side where it is blocked or overdone.
What does Page of Cups mean in love?
Read for a relationship, Page of Cups asks how sensitivity and creativity are shared between two people. It describes a mood rather than an outcome: where messages is present, and where it is missing.
