Ten of Cups
Secret whisperA rainbow of cups above the house; the heart has found its harbour.
Upright meaning
Upright keywordsharmony, family, happiness, emotional fulfilment
Emotional fulfilment, family harmony and lasting happiness. Love is in the home and in your relationships.
Reversed meaning
Reversed keywordsdisconnection, family conflict, broken ideals, misaligned values
Tension at home, or a gap between your ideal picture and reality. Reconnect with the people you love and talk honestly.
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 Tens of the tarot
Tens complete the cycle: the fullest expression of the suit, and the end that opens the next beginning.
In Waite’s own words (1910)
From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, public domain. Original English text.
Divinatory meaning: Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship; if with several picture-cards, a person who is taking charge of the Querent's interests; also the town, village or country inhabited by the Querent.
Reversed: Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.
The picture
Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is contemplated in wonder and ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His right arm is about her; his left is raised upward; she raises her right arm. The two children dancing near them have not observed the prodigy but are happy after their own manner. There is a home-scene beyond.
