Two of Cups and Two of Swords

A genuine connection and a refusal to look at it. These two Twos contradict each other more directly than any other pair in this tranche: one is mutual recognition, the other is a stalemate held by choice. The tradition reads them together as something real that is not being acknowledged.

The most-drawn version of this pair, and it is usually read as one person waiting for the other to say it. Neither card suggests the feeling is absent.

A working relationship that both parties value and neither will formalise. Associated with unspoken arrangements that function until they need to be relied on.

The pair puts the two cards in a specific order and the order is the reading. The connection came first; the blindfold is a response to it.