Queen of Cups
Secret whisperShe gazes into a closed chalice and sees the depth of the sea.
Upright meaning
Upright keywordscompassion, intuition, emotional security, calm
Compassionate, intuitive and emotionally wise. Trust your feelings and care for others — and for yourself.
Reversed meaning
Reversed keywordsinsecurity, codependence, overwhelm, martyrdom
You are giving too much or drowning in emotion. Set boundaries so your care has somewhere to come back to.
About the suit of Cups
Cups belong to Water: feelings, love, friendship, intuition and the imagination. They show what is happening in the heart and in your relationships.
Reading the Queens of the tarot
Queens hold the suit inwardly: mastery through care, receptivity and emotional maturity.
In Waite’s own words (1910)
From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, public domain. Original English text.
Divinatory meaning: Good, fair woman; honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision; success, happiness, pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a perfect spouse and a good mother.
Reversed: The accounts vary; good woman; otherwise, distinguished woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonour, depravity.
The picture
Beautiful, fair, dreamy--as one who sees visions in a cup. This is, however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and her activity feeds her dream.
