Keyword/s: Receptivity sensitivity, unity, love, pleasure
ELEMENT: Water
The Suit of Cups is represented by the element of water. Water seeks no challenge or conflict and is happiest when it is free to flow with the changes life brings.
TIME: Sunset represent the west. color red
the urinary and reproductive organs
Cups are representative of emotions, and are largely feminine in nature; as Cups act as a ‘Vessel’. Cups are frequently tied with romance, friendship and other relationships, as well as changes in mood and a shifting of desires.
ZODIAC SIGNS: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.
Cancer is intuitive, nurturing, sensitive, overly-private and jealous. Scorpio represents the emotional element, are intense, powerful, possessive and jealous. Pisces is creative, psychic, the healer and has a tendency to martyrdom.
SEASON: Autumn
Cups represents the months of September, October and November.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION: Feeling
In the four classes of feudal society, this suit is linked to that of the clergy, since the church and religion is all about emotions.
positive meanings: all the positive aspects related to the emotional level of consciousness. consider openness, spontaneity, being in-touch with your feelings and with those around you.
Cups are part of the Minor Arcana
Cups correspond to Hearts in a regular deck of cards.
Sometimes, the Suit of Cups is called the Suit of Goblets.
They stand for everything emotional - what we feel, whether or not we actually live it. Cups have an affinity to the emotional level of consciousness and are associated with connection, feelings and relationships. Most commonly, cups reflect our need to feel connected to people and find love and fulfilment. Connectedness can be found through creative expression, psychic and spiritual connection, as well as the ability to love, care, nurture and heal others. The suit of cups Tarot meaning has to do mainly with the emotional area of your life. It allows you to explore more about your feelings and about the way you connect to the others and to the world.They are the ones directly linked to the heart and to specific feelings such as love, bliss, melancholy, sorrow. When it comes to romantic life, than Cups definitely play an important role in the reading. Cups are romantic and vibrant. They deal with the full range of emotions, the good and the bad, the intentional and the chaotic. Cups are about the heart, displays of feelings, and emotions in relation to people in your life. Cups focus on intuition over logic: they suggest that you are, or that you should be, making decisions with your heart over your head.
When representing people, Cups indicate light brown hair and blue eyes.
Cup people can be entertaining, flirtatious and caring, but they can also be self indulgent, emotionally turbulent and very hard to please.
They go with the flow Therefore, they are easy to adapt, they sometimes cannot accept new ideas, especially when those ideas lack emotions.
negative meanings: disengagement, lack of emotional connection or being overly emotional, having unreasonable expectations, being brokenhearted or having other relationship problems Cups can also represent overindulgence, dissatisfaction and grief,
Archetype: Emotions - how it feels.
Cups represent love, relationships, and imagination. They nourish and bring connection. They help you to be open to the inner feelings of things and the connections between you and others. Options at this stage are frequently based on intuition. They welcome everything and, for that reason, can become indistinguishable, lazy or listless. Although joyful emotions seem to prevail in this suit, there are also grief and loss
When a Cups card appears in a reading, its message is always about things of an emotional nature: Worries, delights, temptations, hopes, affections, disappointments, and so on. Events or situations that primarily affect the heart.
Cups represent emotional issues, both positive and negative, family matters, love, romance and relationships. The suit of Cups is associated with spiritual feelings and our intuition and higher selves. Cups encompass the many-faceted nature of emotions and feelings. The suit of Cups is connected with the realm of feeling. Cups tells of our relationships with others.
A profusion of Cups in a Tarot spread generally indicates a situation involving love and happiness and/or tells of a preoccupation with relationships
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