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Ace of Cups

A 78-card digital tarot drawn in the tones of nacre and dancheong.

Ace of Cups

New love, emotional beginning, compassion, overflowing heart, spiritual opening.

Keywords · Upright

  • new love
  • emotional beginning
  • compassion
  • overflowing heart
  • spiritual opening

Keywords · Reversed

  • blocked emotions
  • emptiness
  • repressed feelings
  • emotional loss
  • self-love needed

Blocked emotions, emptiness, repressed feelings, emotional loss, self-love needed.

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How this deck reads it

The scene in which water overflows from the cup and flows into the pond depicts the property by which emotion does not remain within its vessel but flows outward. Setting the lotus pond as the vessel that receives it shows that the overflow is not waste but a circulation that nurtures other life. The hand emerging from the pearl cloud blurs the source, focusing on how this emotion arrived rather than where it came from.

The small round sweet held in the dove's beak contrasts in size with the water of the cup. The small kernel beside the vast overflow hints that the beginning of emotion is not a grand event but something quietly carried in.

Artwork

A hand emerging from the clouds holds up a large cup overflowing with water, and a white dove descends above it. Lotus flowers float on the pond below.

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