Ace of Cups
The Ace of Cups meaning is related to new beginnings, emotions, love, and intuition. It is a good omen for happiness, fulfillment, and hope. It also signifies letting go of the past and opening the heart to new people and opportunities. It may indicate a new relationship, a birth, or a spiritual awakening.
Joy, abundance, perfection, fertility, fulfillment. Good things overflowing, fullness. Favorable outlook, faithfulness. Love.
Symbolism
The card is often depicted as a hand holding a chalice or cup, symbolizing the emotions and feelings that the card represents. The water in the cup symbolizes the emotions themselves, and the overflowing water can indicate an abundance of emotions. The card can also feature imagery such as a dove, a symbol of the Holy Spirit, and indicate a spiritual connection or a heart, representing love and emotions.
The hand holding the cup can symbolize the querent’s openness to receive and embrace new emotions and feelings, while the cup can represent the querent’s emotional capacity. The water in the cup also symbolizes emotions and can indicate that they are pure, flowing, and nurturing.
The imagery of a dove, a symbol of the Holy Spirit, can indicate a spiritual connection and the manifestation of love, joy, and inner peace. The card can also show a heart, representing love and emotions, indicating that the reader is ready to open their hearts and receive love and emotional fulfillment. The dove, of course, is a symbol of peace; the peace that such love brings a person and the peace that one is able to thus send out into the universe.
New Experiences
In a reading, the Ace of Cups can suggest that the reader is about to experience a new emotional connection or that a current relationship is about to enter a new phase. It can also indicate that the querent is ready to open themselves up to new emotional experiences and to be more in tune with their own emotions and the emotions of others.
The card can also indicate that the reader is ready to let go of past emotional baggage and to start fresh with a new emotional connection. It can signify that the reader is open to love and is ready to receive it, or that they are ready to move on from a past relationship.
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Deep Love
The Christian ritual of communion is a re-enactment of Christ making the ultimate sacrifice for his followers. When the Ace of Cups appears in a Tarot reading, there is the feeling that a love is so deep that one partner would be willing to die for the other. This is not a precursor of any such passing, just a metaphor for the depth of the love that is being expressed here.
Astrology
My curiosity lead me to research a little about what was going on astrologically in April:
April is about letting go of inhibition so that you can enjoy all that is before you. There’s a lot going on socially, as well, and if you can get past your fear of getting too close to a person, you’ll find that during the month, you’ll make new friends — the kind that last and can be trusted. This month you’ll be asking impulsive questions and giving even more impulsive answers. This reshapes your working world into a more creative form and increases romance in your love life many times over. A parent-child bond is ready to be reviewed or restarted and becomes so much stronger.
Warmly,
Kellysaltair