Page of Cups
Page of Cups
A gentle, imaginative message arrives from your heart or intuition. Receive it with curiosity.
Love A sweet gesture, crush or tender message may appear.
Work A creative idea or new approach surprises you. Explore it.
Money Creative ideas might lead to opportunities; start small.
Wellbeing Creative play and imagination refresh you.
Growth You are learning to trust your intuition.
Feelings may be tender or confusing. Be patient with yourself.
Love Insecurity may colour things. Communicate kindly.
Work Creative blocks ease with play.
Money Avoid decisions based on fantasy.
Wellbeing Ground your emotions with routine.
Growth Nurture your inner child.
Symbols in the glass
- Fish in the cup an unexpected intuition or creative idea
- Sea the unconscious and emotion
- Floral tunic imagination and gentleness
- Surprised gaze openness to wonder
A young page in a flowered tunic stands by the sea, holding a cup from which a small fish peers out. The page regards it with gentle surprise.
Deeper lore
- Element
- Water
- Astrology
- Book T gives the Princesses no zodiac span: each rules a quadrant of the heavens around the North Pole, above the signs Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and acts as the Throne of the Ace.
- Court element
- Earth of Water
- Golden Dawn title
- Princess of the Waters and the Lotus
- Number
- Page, the student of Water: a sensitive, imaginative messenger of feeling.
- Names
- Page of Cups · Valet de Coupes · 圣杯侍从
Waite, 1911
Waite: "fair young man, one impelled to render service ... a studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation". Reversed: "taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice".
What gentle message might your intuition be sending?
Ask Iris about this cardFor reflection and entertainment. Meanings follow the Smith-Waite tradition.