Suit of Cups (Water)

The Suit of Cups is the Minor Arcana's water suit, associated with the element of Water, the emotional life, and the faculty of intuition. In the Waite-Smith deck, Cups are ornate chalices, vessels of feeling that can overflow or run dry. The suit governs love, relationships, imagination, and the inner world of dreams — from the Ace's grail of divine love overflowing, through the Three's celebration, the Five's grief, to the Ten's emotional fulfillment and domestic harmony. Court cards (Page, Knight, Queen, King of Cups) embody the spectrum of emotional maturity. In the Marseille tradition this suit is called Coupes.