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Queen of Cups Tarot Card Meaning and Art Catalan Tarot Deck Fragment

Designation

Queen of Cups

About the Deck

Catalan Tarot Deck Fragment

From an uncut sheet found in a museum in Barcelona. Like the Stukeley Deck, this sheet was found inside the pasteboard used to make a book cover.

Provenance

Spain, c. 1495

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.