Queen of Cups Tarot Card Meaning and Art Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment
Designation
About the Deck
Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment
(aka Cary-Yale Tarot Deck or Visconti di Madrone Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Cary Yale Visconti Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it. Like the other Visconti decks, it features numerous heraldic devices. Unlike the other Visconti decks, it features a maid and a lady among the court cards.
Traditionally said to have been commissioned by Fillipo Maria Visconti for the 1441 marriage of Bianca Maria Visconti to Francesco Sforza I.
Provenance
Italy, c. 1441.
Tags
cups-13, queen-of-cups, queen, cups
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
A fair woman. The loved one. The mistress of a house.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Sometimes denotes a woman of equivocal character.
Reversed
A rich marriage for a man and a distinguished one for a woman.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
An excursion. A journey. A prevented visit Delayed journey.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
A fair Woman, Success, Happiness, Advantage, Pleasure
Reversed
A Woman in good position, but intermeddling, and to be distrusted; Success, but with some attendant trouble.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Fair, good-natured woman
Reversed
she has had an unhappy love affair.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
the lady is loved; quiet love; the person will obtain a rich wife; betrothal; marriage; the lady will consent.
