Ace of CupsTarot card meaning
The Ace of Cups is a Minor Arcana card in the suit of Cups. In tarot it means new love, open heart and overflow. As a yes or no answer, it leans yes.
The cup is being offered, take it with both hands. The Ace of Cups is a new feeling arriving: love, friendship, forgiveness, creative tenderness. Hearts that open now, fill.
In a yes or no reading: Yes · yes or no tarot →
- Element
- Water
- Astrology
- The root of water
- Number
- 1
What the card shows
A hand offers a golden cup from a cloud, and the cup overflows in five streams into a pond of lotus flowers. A white dove dips toward it carrying a small wafer. The feeling on offer is more than the cup can hold; that is how you know it is real. The only question the card asks is whether you will take the cup.
Ace of Cups reversed
The cup is full and you're holding it upside down. Reversed, it names feelings held back, love offered to someone who can't receive it, or self-love postponed again.
How to read a reversed card →Ace of Cups in love
In love, the Ace of Cups is the heart opening: the cup overflowing on four sides and the dove descending toward it. It speaks of a new feeling, of a declaration, of a pregnancy, or of a tenderness returning to a couple that had lost it. The card says there is more love than fits. Receive it without asking yet how long it will last.
Is Ace of Cups a yes or a no?
The Ace of Cups answers yes, and the cup in the picture overflows on four sides while a dove descends toward it. What you ask has the heart on its side: there is more feeling than fits. It is the cleanest yes in the suit of water. Receive it with both hands.
Compare: the same card in all four suits
| Card | Keyword | Element | Yes or no |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ace of Wands | spark | Fire | Yes |
| Ace of Cups | new love | Water | Yes |
| Ace of Swords | clarity | Air | Yes |
| Ace of Pentacles | opportunity | Earth | Yes |
Cards that often appear with it
- Two of Cups
The next card in the suit
- Ace of Wands
The same number in the opposed element
- The Moon
The Major Arcana that rules this suit's questions
Number and correspondence
In the deck's old correspondences, the Ace of Cups belongs to the root of water.
Will this card find you tonight?
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