Two of CupsTarot card meaning

What the card shows

A man and a woman exchange cups under a winged lion's head rising from two entwined serpents on a staff. They look at each other, not at us. It is the deck's image of meeting as equals: two full cups, offered at the same time, neither poured into the other.

Two of Cups reversed

The cups are uneven. Reversed, it names imbalance, one gives, one takes; one texts, one reads. Before walking away, ask whether the level can be restored.

Two of Cups in love

In love, the Two of Cups is the card of the couple: two people exchanging their cups at the same height, looking at each other. It speaks of love between equals, of mutual attraction, of a reconciliation where both give the same ground. If you ask about someone, it says the feeling runs both ways. If you ask about yourself, it says you already know who.

Is Two of Cups a yes or a no?

The Two of Cups answers yes, between equals. The two figures exchange their cups at the same height, with the caduceus and the winged lion above. What you ask works because both sides put in the same. If one puts in more than the other, the card still says yes, but look at the tilt.

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Compare: the same card in all four suits

Cards that often appear with it

• Three of Cups

  The next card in the suit

• Two 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 Two of Cups belongs to Venus in Cancer.