1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. Page of Cups

Minor Arcana · Cups

Page of Cups

• studious
• news
• message
• reflection
• meditation

Upright meaning

A gentle, studious messenger: news, reflection and meditation. Waite calls it the pictures of the mind taking form.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite gives inclination and attachment. A prompt to check whether a fancy is leading the way.

• inclination
• attachment

Symbolism

A young page looks at a fish rising from the cup he holds.

Group

Minor Arcana · Cups

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part III §2 (The Lesser Arcana). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.