Revel of Cups

Element: Water

Upright

·celebration
·friendship
·community
·joyful gathering

Reversed

·overindulgence
·isolation
·gossip
·fading friendship

Upright

Three cups lifted in a circle, and a room that has gone golden with company. This is the small gathering, the chosen family, the few who would come help you carry boxes at midnight without asking why. The card honors them. Do not underestimate the medicine of a room full of people who love you. Make the dinner, pour the third cup, stay the extra hour.

Reversed

The cups still raised but one chair empty, or one cup too many poured and the talk gone thin and gossiping. Somewhere your people are waiting and you have been alone too long. Go to them.

In the imagery

Three mismatched cups crowd together on a shelf at dusk, ringed with dried orange peel, clove, and a little spilled tea that nobody minded. Three candles burn close, their light overlapping into one warm pool. The crowding is the point, three small flames keeping more warmth between them than any one could hold alone.

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