What does the Queen of Cups tarot card mean?

Traditionally, like all court Arcana, this card is interpreted in a spread primarily as an indication of a specific person "encoded" as the Queen of Cups. As a rule, this is a woman—sensual, kind-hearted, intuitive, artistic, creative, soft, and gentle. She is kind, ready to help, and can give wise advice in matters of the heart (and not only, as she has good intuition in general). With her, you can feel cozy and safe. She is good. She differs from The Empress and other queens in that she has her head in the clouds to a much greater extent and is much less distinct and structured in her manifestations. She is entirely filled with spirituality, manifesting most of all in spiritual (and sometimes—fantasy-like, serving as material for creativity) relationships, in which she is usually absorbed.

What does the Queen of Cups reversed mean?

If in her natural state the Queen of Cups is a devoted woman, a cordial spouse, and a wonderful mother, then in a reversed state she gets closer to the modus operandi of a party girl, a hysteric, and a scandalmonger. She is a vicious, dishonest, corrupted, depraved, unscrupulous woman, as the ancient interpreters report. Guggenheim puts it more mildly: "a lady with an unstable psyche, fleeing from her problems into an illusory world." She has her own reality. If she usually gravitated towards harmony, mutual understanding, and the family hearth, here alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity as an artificial search for inspiration and harmony can manifest (the woman may well belong to bohemia, be an actress, sing, dance... "scribbling, daubing, strumming"). Sometimes this is being calibrated by psychological trainings and "how to be happy" books to a state of permanent psychosis.

What does the Queen of Cups mean in love?

The Queen of Cups is considered a card of boundless love, unconditional acceptance. She describes the state of a loving person who is very attentive to the other. In her jurisdiction are subtle feelings, eroticism, trust, as well as grace and compassion.

What does the Queen of Cups mean for career?

Can mean brilliant intuition, hence—success in the conceived endeavor. Self-realization in creative professions, activities related to imagination, to aesthetics—music, poetry, writing, theater, cinema, the recreation and entertainment industry. It can also be work that helps people find peace and restore physical and mental balance—psychology, social assistance, healing, meditation, SPA, as well as a "spa for the soul"—all sorts of creative clubs, interest-based activities associated mainly with creativity or esotericism. Sometimes it is literally working with women, in a women's medical or psychological consultation, in a department of a store selling specifically women's goods, etc.

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Queen of Cups

Cups — Minor Arcana

QUEEN OF CUPS

Sibyl, Lady or Dame of Cups

Water of Water

Queen of the Nymphs and Undines

Astrological equivalents: Libra, Seventh and Eleventh Houses,

embodies and combines the influence of Venus, the Moon, and Neptune (e.g., Venus in Cancer), the Moon in Pisces as a symbol of subtlety of feelings, readiness to help others, and imaginative thinking

The path connecting Binah and Netzach

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