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Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Two of Cups — Love

Love

Two of Cups — Love

love · union · reciprocity · harmony · attraction

A reflective starting point

What is Two of Cups — Love asking you to look at?

Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.

Upright

A harmonious union is possible or already under way: cultivate it with openness and reciprocity.

At first sight

Love, friendship, reciprocity, harmony between two people or two parts. It points to a happy meeting, an agreement, a sincere reconciliation.

Within you

The experience of mirroring yourself in another and recognising yourself; the wish to share that comes from fullness, not from lack.

On the path

Water in Chokmah, the original force of love, with Venus in Cancer in the first decan: affection in its tenderest and most protective form. Love is the will to union that precedes every form, the polarity that recognises and attracts itself.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals infatuation, emotional dependence, sentimentality or dissolving into a relationship.

Reversed

In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.

Imbalance in the relationship, expectations not returned, difficulty communicating feelings.

In love, work and spirit

Love. Mutual falling in love, engagement, reconciliation after a misunderstanding.

Work. Happy partnerships, harmonious collaborations, agreements based on trust.

Spirit. Love as law: polarity reconciled into unity.

Correspondences

Chokmah · Water · Venus in Cancer

Crowley's note

In the Thoth deck two intertwined dolphins rise from a lotus and pour water into two cups on a calm sea: love as the harmony of polarities.

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