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Cups · Minor Arcana

Three of Cups

Three figures, three cups - joy shared, not hoarded.

The Three of Cups tarot card, Rider–Waite–Smith deck
Rider–Waite–Smith deck, 1909 - public domain

Three of Cups upright

Three women raise cups in a circle, vineyards around them. Celebration with the people who actually know you.

Be there. The Three of Cups rewards showing up for someone else's win - the social fabric this card builds compounds.

Three of Cups reversed

Reversed, the celebration tips into excess, or the inner circle has gone gossipy. Time to thin the room.

Keywords

  • celebration
  • friendship
  • community
  • shared joy
  • fellowship

Where this reading comes from

Meaning authored from the Rider-Waite-Smith reader tradition rather than copied from any single modern source.

Common questions

What does Three of Cups mean?
Three figures, three cups - joy shared, not hoarded. Three women raise cups in a circle, vineyards around them. Celebration with the people who actually know you.
What does Three of Cups mean reversed?
Reversed, the celebration tips into excess, or the inner circle has gone gossipy. Time to thin the room.
Is Three of Cups a good card to draw?
Three of Cups belongs to the cups suit, which deals with feeling, relationship and attachment. No card is simply good or bad; what it means depends on the question and where it lands in the spread.

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