Cups · Minor Arcana
Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is contemplated in wonder and ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife.
A rainbow of cups arches over a family — two adults raising their arms in blessing, two children dancing. The house and the green fields stand near. This is the soft summit — not the end of story, but the season where the garden holds.
Element
Water
Numerology
10— endings and beginnings, cycles complete, legacy
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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Ten of Cups by life area
Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is contemplated in wonder and ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His right arm is about her; his left is raised upward; she raises her right arm. The two children dancing near them have not observed the prodigy but are happy after their own manner. There is a home-scene beyond.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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