Tarot Cards of Love & Relationships
The suite of cups as a rule is about feelings, emotions, intuition, sensitivity, imagination, joy and peace. In the context of a relationship, the cups allow the soul to receive love. The essence of water it is an element that mixes, moulds and flows. It can run shallow or pool off into great depths. This is how a relationship will run its course, where feelings can produce anything from a superficial flirtation to the most powerful experience of a love.
2 of Cups
The 2 of Cups can represent different types of relationships, such as a platonic or healing relationship, where there is great mutual respect. Often it is symbolic of a deep, long lasting spiritual bond with another person, firmly anchored in love and romance. The couple in the card have reached a state of balance and this reciprocal flow produces mutual growth, appreciation and loving unification. They are unified by the caduceus and the lion, indicating healing and passion.
Page of Cups
The youthful quality of the page references the flirtatious potential of love, sensual desires and fantasies. Think about being swept off your feet by the newness of someone you’ve just met. In a relationship the card reflects a lover who is young in age or at heart, or who is highly desirable but emotionally immature.
Knight of Cups
The Knight of Cups is the idea of a newly developed relationship where romance is in full swing. He reflects the early stages of romance so there’s still plenty of exciting growth as he moves towards a deeper, longer lasting commitment. The Knight is relaxed, articulate and expressive of emotion. In a relationship the Knight represents someone who is searching for a committed relationship with a view to moving in together or an engagement.
Queen of Cups
The Queen of Cups has deep emotional maturity with has the ability to express empathy, love and compassion. She is an intuitive, sensual and calming influence who uses love to heal and nurture. The Queen has mastered her emotional self and attunes her attentions with intelligence and awareness. In a relationship she is a committed partner that shows a strength of unwavering love through tenderness, kindness and understanding.
King of Cups
The King of Cups is a wise and emotionally secure person. He is kind hearted, supportive and acts from controlled emotion rather than instinct. He is trustworthy and loves unconditionally. In a reading the King can be a life long partner. The King can appear uncomfortable with his emotional self because emotions may be perceived as feminine, which is at odds with the masculine energy of a King who must be disciplined and controlled. However, underneath this is a man who is sensitive, mature and emotionally balanced.
The Hierophant
The Hierophant card represents the church, sacred institutions and also legal contracts. It is symbolic of traditional practices that align with a code of rules and beliefs accepted on faith, such as marriage. In the context of a relationship, the Hierophant signifies traditional marriage or a formal and legal union between you and the person that you love.
The Lovers
The Lovers represents a relationship based on love and passion. The card signifies unity, where two people engage in the experience of oneness. The couple stand naked and vulnerable before each other, indicating the basis of mutual truth and honesty. The Lovers explores our understanding of our place in the world through a relationship, providing individual and joint development, as well as spiritual growth. In a reading the card refers to the idea or basis of an intimate relationship.