Tarot card meanings · Cups
What does Page of Cups mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Page of Cups upright means “a studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business”, and reversed “Taste, inclination, attachment”.
Upright
A studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Taste, inclination, attachment.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
It is the pictures of the mind taking form.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Page of Cups fall in a reading?
Page of Cups belongs to the suit of Cups. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.