Queen Of Cups Tarot Card Meaning: Love, Career & Spiritual Messages

Estimated Reading Time: 4–6 minutes

Keywords: Creative endeavours, fantasy and creation, emotional and family therapy, repression emotions, nervous breakdowns, feminine, artistic, religious, intuition, lacking in confidence, sympathetic, love of animals and children, overly emotional, manipulative, emotional pain, hidden talents.

Element: Water

Yes / No: Yes

Love: Upright, Nurturing, emotionally mature love. Reversed, Emotional imbalance or codependency.

Career: Upright, Caring leadership and supportive work environment. Reversed, Oversensitivity at work.

Spiritual: Upright, Strong intuition and deep spiritual connection. Reversed, Emotional blocks or losing intuitive clarity.

What Does Queen Of Cups Mean?

Queen Of Cups Meaning & Symbolism

The Queen of Cups is highly intuitive. One of her greatest assets is the ability to sense the needs of those around her. Due to her associations with the element of water, the Queen of Cups can be passive and receptive. Her sensitivity draws those who struggle and suffer towards her. In many ways, she is a safe harbor for others. Her ability to connect on a soul level enables her to remedy the broken hearts of others. Her warmth and genuine caring make her a beacon of light. She often represents intuition, divination, and dreams.

Because she is so responsive to the feelings of others, the Queen of Cups must constantly uphold her boundaries between herself and others. If not properly protected, the Queen of Cups can lose her own sense of self. This is her greatest vulnerability.

Queen Of Cups Upright Meaning

• Nurturance
• Intuition
• The need to explore your feelings
• Pay attention to your dreams
• Generosity
• An emotionally deep partnership

Feminine and creative, the Queen of Cups is artistic and incredibly intuitive

Talented with a great deal of potential, she tends to work less than her potential; her laziness and lack of self-belief influence this.

The Queen of Cups loves deeply and with a great deal of perspective, but with a tendency to put her partner first. Soft hearted, she can be very emotional and likes to nurture children and animals.

She can't bear to see anyone or anything in distress and will do anything in her power to right wrongs. Sometimes her concern for others can make her forget her own obligations and commitments.

Queen Of Cups Reversed Meaning

• A gossip
• A selfish and moody woman
• Co-dependency
• A martyr
• Infidelity
• Not getting your needs met

When the Queen of Cups is reversed, her moods become quick changing and her personality is overwhelmed by her emotions.

The intensity of her mood affect everyone around her and she sometimes uses them tomanipulate others.

Another meaning for the Queen of Cups reversed is a woman who has long lasting emotional wounds, their pain affecting other aspects of her life. When someone is trapped in this part of the Queen of Cups, her talents are rarely used. She is aware of them but lacks the esteem and hope to use them.