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Ace of Cups Angelic Tarot Card Meanings

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The Ace of Cups is my favourite card in any deck. I once pulled it twice in a row from two different decks in response to a question I had concerning a spiritual vision involving a white dove (sic!). I therefore find it very difficult to see any negative meaning in it. However, all cards do contain the full spectrum of light and dark. So let’s look at some positive and negative card meanings commonly associated with the Ace of Cups before we dive deep into these energies.

Positive Tarot Card Meanings for the Ace of Cups

  1. New Beginnings: The Ace of Cups represents fresh starts and new emotional experiences. It signifies the beginning of a loving and fulfilling journey in relationships or creative endeavours.
  2. Love and Romance: This card is a symbol of deep emotional connections and the potential for romantic love. It indicates the presence of love, passion, and intimacy in your life.
  3. Emotional Healing: The Ace of Cups signifies emotional healing and the opportunity to release past wounds. It encourages you to open your heart and allow love to flow in, bringing emotional balance and inner peace.
  4. Spiritual Awakening: It represents a profound spiritual experience and a deep connection to the divine. The Ace of Cups can indicate the awakening of your intuition and a heightened sense of spiritual awareness. The whole suit of Cups relates to Shekinah the Age of the Cup Bearers but the energy is the most potent/undiluted in the Ace.
  5. Overflowing Emotions: This card represents an abundance of positive emotions, such as joy, compassion, and happiness. It signifies being in touch with your emotions and the ability to express them freely.

Negative Tarot Card Meanings for the Ace of Cups

  1. Emotional Overwhelm: In some cases, the Ace of Cups can indicate being overwhelmed by intense emotions. It suggests being overly sensitive or overly attached, which may lead to emotional instability or dependency.
  2. Emotional Blockage: This card can suggest a blockage in your emotional life, inhibiting the free flow of love and emotions. It may indicate difficulties in expressing or accepting love, resulting in emotional detachment.
  3. Unrealistic Expectations: The Ace of Cups in a negative context can signify having unrealistic expectations about love or relationships. It warns against idealising others or expecting them to fulfil all your emotional needs without taking personal responsibility.

Feeling into the Ace of Cups

The Ace of Cups is the bliss of compassion & unconditional love. At this level of humanity’s evolution, most humans do not know how to remain in this state for extended periods. Because to do so we must do the same for every living being.

Bliss is something we can only experience as a permanent state when we realise deeply that we all belong to each other. Remembering this, in turn, leads to treating each other how we ourselves wish to be treated. And this makes the Ace of Cups the embodiment of the Golden Rule. If we remember that we all drink from the same cup, we won’t spit in it. What we energetically put out via our emotions always comes back to us.

Christ Consciousness

The Ace of Cups is also the cup of communion with Christ aka Archangel Michael or the Solar Logos. The question we each must answer for ourselves when this card shows up is, ‘What satisfies our thirst for deep spiritual communion with the Divine?’ The next question then becomes, ‘Where can I find this Living Water?’ The Ace of Cups represents our desire for love but also the very love that we seek. Yeshua and other Christed beings teach us to look within for what we seek or desire. Attachment to external sources of joy, love or bliss always leads to disappointment.

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“Now may every living thing, young or old,
weak or strong, living near or far, known or
unknown, living or departed or yet unborn,
may every living thing be full of bliss.”
~ The Dhammapada

Falling in love and devotion

In a Tarot reading, the Ace of Cups signifies a new emotional beginning and an opening of the heart. It can mean falling in love, but whether or not it will lead to reciprocal love and an actual relationship is not clear yet because Aces are only the seeds of a new situation. If that seed is to blossom, it must be nurtured.

However, it can also signify deep and lasting devotion in a reading where the seeker has learned to contain and radiate unconditional love for all living beings. This is the person who has learned to live in a continuous state of divine bliss and who is truly blessed. Such a person touches the souls of others without having to say much. Their complete acceptance of every single soul makes their presence healing.

Affirmation: I AM compassion

Ace of Cups Prayer

Dear Mother-Father God, thank you that your eternal love and light are the very core and essence of my being and that I need not look elsewhere to feel deeply loved, accepted & connected to All That Is. So be it and so it is!

Correspondences for the Ace of Cups

Element: Water

Archangel: Gabriel (Ruler of the Water Element)

Gemstones: Selenite, rainbow moonstone

Essential oil: Jasmine

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The Ace of Cups in Love and Relationship Tarot Readings

The Ace of Cups is often found in a reading at the start of a great new love relationship but it could simply mean falling in love. For reciprocal love, we want the 2 of Cups.

The highest aspect of this card is the gift of unconditional love. The more we embody our unconditional Higher Self, the better we are able to radiate unconditional love into the world.

This is the most emotionally intimate of all the Aces, relating directly to an outpouring of love. If you find this card in a reading and know that it relates to how you feel about someone, you may want to make sure they feel the same. Alternatively, consider if you are okay with love going only one way and what you can learn from this.

“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”
~ Hafiz

Reversed or ill-dignified, especially next to the 3 of Swords, it can indicate a breakup or withholding of affection or devotion.

This is also a symbol of conception, heralding a pregnancy, especially with The Empress or The Sun.

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Ace of Cups Angelic Tarot Card Meanings

Ace of Cups Angelic Tarot Card Meanings