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Minor Arcana · Suit of Cups · Number card
Ten · Cups
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightLasting happinessHome and familyPeace of heart
↓ ReversedPeace for showFamily strainHidden anger
What it means
↑ Upright
Contentment of the whole heart, painted as a rainbow of cups over a couple with their arms raised and children dancing beside them, a house beyond. It is love and friendship making a home, wherever it is and whoever makes it up. Tend it in ordinary ways — time given, thanks spoken — since peace of this kind is kept by small acts.
↓ Reversed
A happy home held up like a picture in front of a quarrel. Its old name is the repose of the false heart: calm on the surface, resentment underneath. Rather than keeping up appearances, find the one honest conversation that has been put off, and hold it somewhere safe, at a time when nobody is already angry.
Ten is the full measure, and in Cups it is fulfillment shared by a whole household. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows ten cups set in a rainbow above a man and woman who lift their arms toward it, two children at play beside them and a house among trees beyond. The rainbow is an old sign of promise and peace; the children, as Waite notes, have not seen it, and are happy in their own way.
Upright
Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship; if with several picture-cards, a person who is taking charge of the Querent's interests; also the town, village or country inhabited by the Querent.
Reversed
Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.