Monday Tarot Meditation: Ace of Cups

This is the most emotional card of the deck and one of the most powerful of the minor arcana. Suggested here is an emotional upheaval whereby new feelings are substituted for old. Such new feelings at once challenge and transform. As the emotions swing radically from one point to another, there is a concomitant and equally strong change at all levels. Feeling, in this case, precedes the structure of thought or of action.




In the individual this may mean a turnabout in emotions toward another person, or it may mean a total reversal of values. In society, such values in conflict may mean the passion of a new religion, or of a new political movement. The card represents a tremendous outpouring of group energy to effect change.

The fact that a profound change in feelings has been responsible for something new may not be obvious. What goes on here tends to transcend external appearances and, most certainly, is related to activity within the collective unconscious. The Ace of Cups is really that pure and objectless root of emotion which touches upon great mysteries and deep secrets. [Robert Wang]