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

Minor Arcana · Cups

Queen of Cups

• loving intelligence
• the gift of vision
• wisdom
• virtue

Upright meaning

Loving intelligence and the gift of vision: Waite says she sees, and also acts. Care that is both intuitive and practical.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite admits the accounts vary. We read it as care that needs a clearer boundary.

• the accounts vary

Symbolism

A queen on the shore gazes at an ornate, closed cup.

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.