tarot card meanings · minor arcana · cups
three of cups — tarot card meaning
Cups raised together; friendship, festivity, shared abundance.
reversed
The circle grown stale; celebration as avoidance.
two philosophical anchors, cited
Friendship as the greatest aid · Epicurus, Principal Doctrines 27 (tr. Hicks)
“Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”
Sympathetic joy · Dhammapada, v.204 (spirit) · after Mueller
“Contentment is the greatest wealth; the trusted friend the best kinsman.”
the question we would ask
Whose joy do you celebrate as easily as your own - and who is missing from the toast?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.