Two 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
A young man and woman pledge themselves to one another. Above their cups rises the Caduceus of Hermes, with a lion's head between its spread wings. It represents our desire to find a soul mate, by which desire Nature is sanctified.Meaning of Two of Cups from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, consensus, sympathy, the relationship between men and women.
Reversed
Passion.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Opposition. Unimportant obstacles raised by one of the lovers.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Favourable in things of pleasure and business, as well as love; also wealth and honour.
Reversed
Passion.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Love, Attachment, Friendship, Sincerity, Affection
Reversed
Crossed desires, Obstacles, Opposition, Hindrance.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
a marriage; fidelity in wedlock
