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Ten of Cups Tarot Card Meaning
The Ten of Cups tarot card means harmony, family and lasting happiness. Happiness at home.
Upright
- Harmony
- family
- lasting happiness
Reversed
- Tension at home
- a broken ideal
- disconnection
Yes or no
Yes
The Ten of Cups is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Cups. Cups are the suit of water: feelings, love, friendship and intuition.
What the card shows
A couple stand arm in arm, each raising an arm to a rainbow of ten cups in the sky. Two children dance beside them, with a house and a river beyond.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Ten of Cups is read as emotional fulfilment: a happy family, a loving home, a sense that this is what it was all for.
Ten of Cups reversed
Reversed, it is read as strain in the family, or a picture-perfect life that does not feel that way from inside.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Ten of Cups is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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