Ace of Cups Art and Meaning Moorish Playing Card Deck Fragment Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Moorish Playing Card Deck Fragment
From an uncut sheet found in a museum in Barcelona. This deck provides an important link between the Mamluk deck pattern and the Mediterranean deck pattern, because it shares features of both; in general it looks fairly European, but the wands look like Polo Sticks and the Cups still look like Myriads, harking back to Ancient Chinese money-suited cards.
Provenance
Spain, c. 1414.
Tags
cups-1, ace-of-cups, ace, cups
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Commencement of a love affair.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Inflexible will, unalterable law.
Reversed
Unexpected change of position.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
The inquirer, if male.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Feasting, Banquet, Good Cheer
Reversed
Change, Novelty, Metamorphosis, Inconstancy.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
A love letter, good news
Reversed
a removal or a visit from a friend.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
signifies ardent love; eternal fidelity
