Ace of Cups
The Overflowing Spring
The energy of the card
From a cloud a hand offers the cup, a dove descends into it, and five streams flow into the pond with its water lilies. The card stands for abundance of soul, grace and healing – for a happiness that comes from within and overflows. Just as the water lily blooms out of the mud, something beautiful can grow out of hardship.
Your path with this card
This abundance shows itself as soon as you accept the cup. With every moment of gratitude it fills further, and the next gift becomes visible. The card invites you to open your heart and give happiness room.
- What does your soul long for most right now?
- What are you wholeheartedly grateful for today?
In the shadow
Happiness lies ready, and the hands stay folded – out of doubt, out of habit, out of fear of your own joy. The card reminds you to reach out when life offers you a gift.
The image and its meaning
The suit of Cups is devoted to the element of water.
The Ace of Cups lets the spring of truth, wisdom and life flow. This primal spring connects above with below, gives healing and life energy, a spring of spirituality. A spring of imperishable being and creative power.
This magical spring dissolves the polarities and lets them merge into one. The card is a call to allow this energy in and let it flow through you. The golden cup with the W for wisdom and truth (Wahrheit) symbolizes the spiritual spring of life, full of true abundance and inspiration.
The water of life and love flows without any effort on our part – to drink from it, we only have to be ready. The dove stands for love, spiritual inspiration and magical energy – this card also stands for the Hermetic law of vibration and of magic: as above – so below, as below – so above. As within – so without, as without – so within.
As in the great – so in the small. In this sense, the spring also refers to our personal willpower, our feelings and the flow of our inner and outer perception.
Related cards
Tarot Ace of Wands
The Ace of Wands lights a fire of action, the Ace of Cups opens a spring of feeling. Two beginnings, one in the will, the other in the heart.
Lenormand The Fish
In the Lenormand, The Fish carry the same element: water, abundance and a current that brings wealth.
Symbols on the card
- Fünf Wasserströme · Sinne, ÜberflussDie fünf Ströme symbolisieren emotionale Tiefe und Vielfalt.
- Hand aus Wolke · Göttliches GeschenkEine spirituelle Chance – das Herz wird geöffnet.
- Kelch mit überfliessendem Wasser · Emotionale FülleDie Liebe oder spirituelle Energie fliesst über.
- Lotusblumen auf dem Wasser · Reinheit, AufblühenSpirituelle Öffnung und emotionale Schönheit.
- Taube mit Hostie · Heiliger Geist, FriedenSymbol für göttliche Liebe und spirituelle Verbindung.
