Queen of Cups Tarot Card Meaning and Art Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck
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About the Deck
Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck
These cards are featured in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot" by Loren Lundgren. I took the information for the meanings on these tarot cards from "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination", by A. E. Waite, 1911, now in the public domain. I edited the tarot card descriptions and meanings for clarity and brevity, modernizing the text. I scanned in the original black and white illustrations of the cards drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, from the 1911 book. I digitally retouched and painted those illustrations in detailed color.
Provenance
Loren Lundgren, © 2021
Description
She is beautiful, fair, and dreamy; as if she sees visions in her cup. This is, however, only one of her sides; she sees, but she also acts, and her activity feeds her dream.Meaning of Queen of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
Good, fair woman; honest, devoted woman, who will do service to the Querent; loving intelligence, and from it the gift of vision; success, happiness, pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a perfect spouse and a good mother.
Reversed
Good woman; otherwise, distinguished woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonor, depravity.
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.
