Ten of Cups Art and Meaning
Moorish Playing Card Deck Fragment
About the Deck
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.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Uncertainty.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
For a male Querent, a good marriage and one beyond his expectations.
Reversed
Sorrow; also a serious quarrel.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
Fidelity. Lovers. Friendships. Treachery.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
The Town wherein one resides, Honour, Consideration, Esteem, Virtue, Glory, Reputation
Reversed
Combat, Strife, Opposition, Differences, Dispute.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Antidote to bad cards; happiness and success
Reversed
passing worries.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
blessed with offspring; betrothal, merry weddings in the family; fortunate events occur in the family; joyful news; a great prize; a rich inheritance.