Page of Cups

The Page of Cups is emotional openness without defences. Sensitive, imaginative, faintly absurd, and unembarrassed by any of it. The one who still expects good news.

A message of the heart. Creative inspiration, a surprising feeling, an invitation. Approach emotionally rather than analytically. Let yourself be a bit ridiculous.

Emotional immaturity, moodiness, feelings expressed clumsily or not at all. Creative block. A message that disappoints.

A love letter, a confession, early tender feeling. Reversed, someone emotionally younger than their age.

Creative work, a new idea arriving intuitively. Good for artists and anyone whose output depends on feeling.

Small, sentimental financial matters. Not a card of strategy.

Wonder. Intuition trusted without demanding it justify itself.

Emotional sensitivity affecting physical health. Gentle approaches.

A young figure in a floral tunic holds a cup from which a fish is looking back at him. His expression is amused. The sea behind is choppy and he is entirely unbothered by it.

The fish is unexplained in Waite's text and has attracted more interpretation than almost any minor detail in the deck: most commonly read as the unconscious surfacing with something to say, in a form too odd to take seriously at first.