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

Minor Arcana · Cups

Two of Cups

• love
• friendship
• affinity
• union
• concord
• sympathy

Upright meaning

Love, friendship, affinity and union: two people pledging one another. A card of mutual regard and concord.

Reversed meaning

Waite gives no reversed meaning for this card. If it falls reversed, we read it simply as its upright themes asking for attention.

Symbolism

A youth and a maiden pledge each other with cups; above them rises a winged staff crowned with a lion's head.

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.