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Two of Cups Tarot Card Meaning
The Two of Cups tarot card means partnership, attraction and mutual respect. Partnership and mutual care.
Upright
- Partnership
- attraction
- mutual respect
Reversed
- Imbalance
- a falling-out
- broken trust
Yes or no
Yes
The Two 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 man and a woman face each other, each holding a cup, and he reaches toward her. Above them floats a winged lion's head over a staff with two snakes.
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 Two of Cups is read as a meeting of equals. It points to romance, a close friendship or a good working partnership where both sides give and receive.
Two of Cups reversed
Reversed, it is read as a relationship out of balance, a quarrel, or trust that needs repair.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Two 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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