Properties of Ace of Cups

 

Alternate Names: None

 

Keywords / Additional Meanings:

Inflexible will, unalterable law. Reversed: Unexpected change of position.

 

Description:

The waters are beneath, and thereon are water-lilies; the hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host, descends to place the Wafer in the Cup; the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana.

Divinatory Meaning:

House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity hereof.

 

Reversed Description:

House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.

 

Astrological / Elemental Correspondence: The Root of Water