Cups · Minor Arcana
A youth and maiden are pledging one another, and above their cups rises the Caduceus of Hermes, between the great wings of which there appears a lion's head.
A youth and a maiden lift cups to one another; above them, the caduceus and the winged lion. This is the holy geometry of two — not the surrender of either, but the meeting place where both are honoured. What you are forming now is a living pattern.
Element
Water
Numerology
2— balance, partnership, choices, receptivity
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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A youth and maiden are pledging one another, and above their cups rises the Caduceus of Hermes, between the great wings of which there appears a lion's head. It is a variant of a sign which is found in a few old examples of this card. Some curious emblematical meanings are attached to it, but they do not concern us in this place.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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