tarot card meanings · minor arcana · cups

two of cups tarot card, original ink-line art

two of cups — tarot card meaning

Two cups exchanged; partnership, the meeting that changes both.

reversed

Broken reciprocity; a bond kept for the wrong reasons.

two philosophical anchors, cited

The friend as another self · Aristotle, NE IX.4 (1166a) (tr. Ross)

“His friend is another self.”

Highest good is like water · Daodejing, ch. 8 · after Legge

“Water benefits all things without striving - the model of unforced relation.”

the question we would ask

In this bond, is what flows between the cups going both ways?

how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.