Cups · Minor Arcana
A goodly personage has feasted to his heart's content, and abundant refreshment of wine is on the arched counter behind him, seeming to indicate that the future is also assured.
A figure sits before nine cups arranged above him like a cupboard of blessings. This is the card sometimes called the wish. Take the moment: you have some version of what you once asked for.
Element
Water
Numerology
9— fulfilment, culmination, wisdom earned, near-end
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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A goodly personage has feasted to his heart's content, and abundant refreshment of wine is on the arched counter behind him, seeming to indicate that the future is also assured. The picture offers the material side only, but there are other aspects.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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