Two of Cups: tarot meaning, upright and reversed

Two figures exchange cups beneath a winged lion and caduceus.

Upright

reciprocity · meeting

A relationship or agreement grows through mutual recognition.

Reversed

imbalance · separation

The exchange may be uneven or the agreement unclear.

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

Venus in Cancer, 0–10 degrees. 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.