Cups · Minor Arcana
A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him.
A young figure in flowing robes holds a cup, and from inside it, improbably, a fish lifts its head. The Page of Cups is the moment inspiration arrives in the form of something absurd and true at once. Do not dismiss the strange small voice inside you.
Element
Water
Numerology
11— curiosity, messages, youthful energy, exploration
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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