Two of Cups and Ten of Cups

The beginning and the settled version of the same thing. Two is the meeting between equals; ten is the full cup, a household rather than a couple. Read in sequence, the tradition treats them as one relationship at two distances.

The most straightforwardly positive pairing in the suit. Associated with relationships that grew into something wider than the two people.

A partnership that became an organisation. Read as two people who started something small and are now running a thing with other people in it, which is a different job from the one they agreed to.

The ten includes other people by design. The pairing asks whether the thing you are building has room for anyone else in it.