Your Daily Reading:
Ace of Cups
The Ace of Cups is all about love, new relationships, interpersonal connections, and creativity. When you draw this powerful card it often means a new love is on the horizon. Feelings take the center stage. Your dreams point you in the right direction. Indeed, the creative energy attached to this card may make you feel compelled to create a beautiful work of art, however, you may not be ready. A place you've visited, a situation you dealt with or a person you met may all be tugging at your heartstrings. You're left with a strong need for more.
You may feel a strong urge to know what's going to happen next. There is a sense of yearning and impatient excitement connected to the Ace of Cups. You've already lifted the cup and are ready to sip the contents, curious as to how they taste and if they are as great as you've been promised. Is there something in your life you have been anxiously awaiting? The arrival of an old friend or loved one from the past?
The Ace of Cups represents the start of a period of intense creativity and emotion. During this time, expect a lot of joy, happiness, passionate relationships, and love to surround you. Existing personal ties are expected to get stronger, and important new ones are likely to emerge. If marriage is in the cards for you, this is the time to start laying the groundwork.
Have you ever wondered why we use the picture of a heart to represent our feelings? We all know that our hearts don't carry our love, wrath, or fear... so why feature that image? Many say that the heart image is suitable since, like our emotions, the heart keeps us alive. The same way that blood rushes in and out of a heart, so do our emotions.
Fill Your Emotional Cup with Love
The same way that blood rushes in and out of a heart, so do our emotions. But what if the emotional core was shown as a cup instead? The analogy works because a cup, like our emotional well, is regularly filled and drained. Just like a cup may carry a lot of life-giving water, our emotional chalice holds a lot of life-giving feelings. As a result, the Ace of Cups is the ideal card to represent our vast emotional expanse. This card is therefore a potent reminder of the power, depth and complexity of your emotions. You are more than meets the eye and whenever faced with confusion, remember to look within to find the answers.
On the face of the card we see a hand emerging from the mist, holding a huge, elegant cup in its palm. Five streams of water are overflowing from the cup like a fountain. These five streams represent the five senses, while the cup represents your subconscious mind; a well of complexity in its own right. Underneath is a pond loaded with lily pads and their blooms, indicating a strong connection to the physical world, to nature. A dove, the universal symbol of love, flies towards the cup, representing the union between the subconscious mind and physical reality. When you see the Ace of Cups you are asked to remember that love is a central emotion which animates your senses and helps shape your experience of the world.
It's vital to remember the power of emotion when you pick this card. It has the power to begin a life, destroy a relationship, or both. Both love and hatred have been known to spark conflicts in the past. Don't dismiss this card as a sign of weakness; a person who understands his or her own emotional complexity is a force to be reckoned with.
The Ace of Cups asks you some confronting questions: How do you deal with feelings? Are you able to deal with it in others? Are you willing to engage with it within yourself? When emotions arise, how do you handle them? How can you empower yourself by channelling your emotions?
What Ace of Cups Means for You Today
You are calling new love and relationships into your life when you draw this card. This could be about friends, a romantic partner, even work connections, though the energy is strongest when it comes to people who have had a significant impact on you in some way. While the Ace of Cups is often associated with new or novel energies, don’t discount past relationships that may be rekindled with some attention or care. If you have been thinking about a dear friend you have not spoken to, reach out to them. If you sense that your family is in need of your care and attention, make yourself available. Most importantly, open your heart up to receive love and affection from all places. The Ace of Cups urges you to embrace your emotions and release tension or fear connected to the past or a broken heart.