Ace of Cups
A fresh emotional beginning is opening your heart to connection or healing.
Upright Meaning
The Ace of Cups represents emotional beginning, joy, love, nourishment, abundance, and the opening of the heart. It suggests a fresh flow of feeling, care, creativity, or spiritual renewal.
Reversed Meaning
Reversed, the Ace of Cups points to emotional instability, false feeling, blocked openness, or a change in the heart. It can suggest that feelings are present, but not flowing honestly or securely.
Symbolism
The hand from the cloud holding the cup, with four streams flowing from it, symbolizes emotion, grace, nourishment, and the fountain of life.
The water and water-lilies suggest the waters of the soul, pure feeling, and an emotional field capable of nurturing life.
The dove descending with the cross-marked host suggests sacrament, blessing, and higher love entering the human heart.
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