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

Minor Arcana · Cups

Ten of Cups

• contentment
• repose of the entire heart
• friendship

Upright meaning

Contentment and repose of the entire heart. Waite calls it the perfection of human love and friendship: home, family and belonging.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite reads indignation, a peace that is only on the surface. A prompt to say what is really felt.

• indignation

Symbolism

A couple greet a rainbow of cups; two children dance beside them near a house.

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.