Page of Cups: tarot meaning, upright and reversed

A fish looks out of the cup held by a young figure beside the sea.

Upright

feeling · imagination

Receive an unexpected feeling or message with an open, curious mind.

Reversed

emotional immaturity · withheld expression

Sensitivity may become avoidance or a message may be hard to express.

In a reading

The position gives this card a particular task: a description of the situation, a challenge, or guidance. Read its image and meaning alongside the other cards and the question that brought them together.

Golden Dawn correspondence

Knave / Princess: Earth of Water. Polar quadrant: Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius; no decan. Court naming differs between decks; this identifies the Book T rank explicitly. This is the attribution in Book T.

Sources

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. These notes are original interpretations of the Waite–Smith imagery, informed by that text.