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Minor Arcana · Suit of Cups · Court card
Page of Cups
Page · Cups
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightA tender messageCuriosityA budding idea
↓ ReversedCharm over substanceFond attachmentSelf-deception
What it means
↑ Upright
A fish has risen from the page's cup to look back at him — a thought taking shape, half surprise and half invitation. He may be someone gentle and studious who brings news or offers help, or he asks you to be that person: curious, willing to learn, ready to take a small, odd idea seriously.
↓ Reversed
Now the fish is a lure. Turned over, the page shows taste becoming attachment and charm becoming artifice — in someone who flatters more than they mean, or in your own wish to be swept up. Enjoy the feeling, but check what is actually being offered, and by whom, before you answer it.
What's on the card
A young page in a tunic patterned with flowers stands on the shore, the sea rolling behind him, holding up a cup from which a small fish has risen to meet his gaze. He regards it calmly, without alarm. In Waite's words, these are pictures of the mind taking form: the fish is commonly read as an idea or feeling surfacing from the depths, unexpected and quietly welcomed.
Waite's meaning, 1910
Upright
Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business.
Reversed
Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.