Western Tarot symbolism
Ten of Cups
The description presents cups in a rainbow, a man and woman looking upward and two children absorbed in their own happiness. A home beyond the figures completes the scene. Contentment and love dominate the main meanings. The additional list gives a favourable marriage for a male querent and, reversed, sorrow or a serious quarrel, making the domestic assignment more specific.
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In the sources
The card account
LiteraryThe description presents cups in a rainbow, a man and woman looking upward and two children absorbed in their own happiness. A home beyond the figures completes the scene.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryContentment and love dominate the main meanings. The additional list gives a favourable marriage for a male querent and, reversed, sorrow or a serious quarrel, making the domestic assignment more specific.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Appearance of Cups in a rainbow ; it is contemplated in wonder and ecstasy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His rightOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 110
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0110
- Original scan leaf
- 116
- Recorded leaf number
- 116
- Current Reader position
- 110
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Ten.—For a male Querent, a good marriage and one beyond his expectations. Reversed: Sorrow; also a serious quarrel.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 150
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0150
- Original scan leaf
- 156
- Recorded leaf number
- 156
- Current Reader position
- 150
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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