Three of Cups Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present. I made a digitally retouched and painted version of this deck, which I call the "Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck". The cards from that deck, as well as a modern English translation of the romantic English descriptions by Arthur Edward Waite (as appear on the Waite Smith Tarot deck) appear in a cross-referenced format in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot: In Vivid Color"
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Tags
cups-3, three-of-cups, three, cups
Description
Maidens in a garden-ground with cups uplifted, as if pledging one another.Meaning of Three of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.
Reversed
Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Mutual love.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Unexpected advancement for a military man.
Reversed
Consolation, cure, end of the business.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Success, Triumph, Victory, Favourable issue
Reversed
Expedition of business, Quickness, Celerity, Vigilance.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
a son born in the course of the year; unity of sentiment.
