Cups · Minor Arcana
Beautiful, fair, dreamy--as one who sees visions in a cup.
She sits at the edge of the sea, the cup closed in her lap. Unlike the other queens, her cup has a lid — what she knows, she does not spill. This is the sovereign of inner waters.
Element
Water
Numerology
13— mastery of inner realm, nurture, intuition, depth
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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Beautiful, fair, dreamy--as one who sees visions in a cup. This is, however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and her activity feeds her dream.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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