The decipherment of the CUP CARDS card:

The suit of Cups represent your love life and emotional matters. Cups show how you may enjoy yourself and find pleasure. Cup cards indicate that you must use your intuition in the situation. Sometimes you may be over-emotional in reaction to someone. You may wish to change the circumstances to your advantage. How you feel is important, for no matter what you do you must be true to yourself and your personal happiness.

Often the Cup cards will illuminate the circumstances of a romantic affair or will portray the current emotional atmosphere. The cups are a symbol of the long emotional journey that we all travel to maturity, and of those experiences that teach us, hurt us and strengthen our souls.

The Cups can be cards of love and passion. Your strong feelings may lead to emotional commitments such as an engagement or marriage. Enthusiasm for social activities is indicated by the Cups. Cups are personal relationships and contact with others in a social milieu.

Cups compel you to rely on your feelings and instinctual reactions when facing emotional decisions. Cups encourage emotional involvement with the world. Go places and enjoy reality. Do things that are fun and get excited about someone or something. Share your pleasure with a loved one. Associate with people who are your friends or with whom you have something in common. Lovers are the best of friends. Cups can express compassion and sympathy. Cups advise you to follow your heart.

Cups ask you to use your imagination in a creative application. Your wishes may be fulfilled and your fondest dreams realized. Your personal desire for the good life is the driving force in your quest.The Cups represent the Chalice in the Holy Grail.

The long sought after relic of antiquity had originated in the heavens in the constellation of Cepheus, the Emperor of the tarot deck.

Alliances may be made in your pursuit of happiness. The benefits of love, pleasure and family are greater than merely working alone for solely your own good. Cups are a promise of happiness to come after a time of emotional growing. Cups may counsel for compromise, but insist that you first think of your lasting happiness, and the well being of your loved ones.

Sometimes relationships can become prolonged passionate encounters that give emotional satisfaction. The Cup cards urge you to find true emotional fulfillment. The cycle of the cups portray the various stages of emotional relationships. The Cup Court Cards represent individuals with whom you may be emotionally involved. The Cups represent the Chalice of Happiness and the overflowing cup. Sometimes the cups indicate excess or too much of a good thing.

The Cups portray the sacred Cup of the Holy Grail. Long have heros and knights sought the Holy Grail in the days of old. The constellation of Cepheus who is also the "Emperor" of the tarot is the actual origin of cup of the grail. The overflowing cup can be seen in the stars, with the milky way being the overflowing liquid in the chalice.