Cups · Minor Arcana
Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another.
Three women raise their cups in a dance under the open sky. This is the old magic of gathering — the way joy multiplies when it is shared. Something in you has been working alone.
Element
Water
Numerology
3— growth, expression, synthesis, the first fruit
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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Three of Cups by life area
Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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