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The Queen of Cups card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck

Cups

Queen of Cups

empathy · depth · holding space

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She holds the most elaborate cup in the deck and looks directly at it. The Queen is emotional intelligence: feeling deeply without drowning in it, and being the person others can bring things to.

Reversed

Reversed, you may be absorbing everyone else's weather until you can't find your own — or shutting the door completely, which is the same problem from the other side.

If this is your card this month

Whose feelings are you carrying that aren't yours?

A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.

Where this card came from

If Queen of Cups arrived on a postcard, it was drawn for you for that full moon, and the reflection on the back was written from what it means. And if it didn't, well — that's the other thing we do here: a card and a reflection in your mailbox every full moon.

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