What does Three of Cups mean for money and finances?

Money spent on people and celebration, which the card treats as money well used rather than as leakage.

Associated with the shared cost: the round, the trip, the party, the gift. Its position is that this is a legitimate category rather than a failure of discipline.

Reversed, overspending socially, and specifically spending to keep up with a group rather than because anybody wanted to. The card is more concerned with the reason than with the amount.

Celebration, friendship, reunion. Good news worth telling people. Collaboration that is genuinely fun.

Its instruction is unusually simple: accept the invitation. The card is associated with the thing that gets declined because of tiredness or work and turns out to have been the important part of the month.

It also favours saying the good news out loud rather than waiting to be asked. Three of Cups is the card of announcing something, and the tradition treats an unshared joy as a diminished one.

Overindulgence, or the third party in a two-person situation.

Also social exhaustion, gossip, and a friendship group that has become draining rather than restorative. That last is the most useful and the least dramatic: a circle maintained out of history rather than pleasure, where everybody is slightly relieved when it is cancelled.

The third-party reading is traditional and worth handling carefully. It describes a configuration rather than an accusation, and it turns up as often for a demanding friend or a relative as for anything romantic.

Upright: friendship, celebration, community, reunion, shared joy

Reversed: overindulgence, third party, gossip, social exhaustion

• Who have I not celebrated with lately?
• Which friendships feed me, and which do I maintain out of habit?