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Three of Cups tarot card (Rider–Waite–Smith)

Three of Cups Tarot Card Meaning

Minor Arcana · CupsElement: WaterNumber: 3

Keywords: friendship · celebration · community · support

What you see on the card

Three women wearing garlands, in reddish-brown, brown and white robes, raise three cups high together as if dancing. At their feet are fruit, pumpkins and grapes.

Three of Cups upright

Raising cups with friends: community, celebration and being lifted up by the people who love you

Three of Cups reversed

Too much partying, a third person in the picture, or feeling alone in the middle of a crowd

In love and relationships

In love, the Three of Cups is joy shared with friends: a relationship that fits into your social circle, a happy gathering, being supported by people who love you. Reversed, it can point to excess, gossip or a third person complicating things.

In career and money

At work, it shows teamwork, networking and celebrating shared success. Your community is an asset — collaborate, share the credit and enjoy it. With money, good times are welcome, within reason.

As advice

As advice: lean on your people. Call the friends who lift you up, share both the good news and the worries, and let yourself be celebrated.

In a reading, a card is never read alone: its position, its orientation and the cards beside it change what it says.

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