Three of Cups


Art: Peter Paul Rubens “Education of the Princess”

The Birth of the First Love

Card Number: 38
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Yes / No Key Interpretation: Yes

Keywords: First Love, Rediscovery of Love, A Harlequin, Emotional Growth, Celebration, Friends, Reunions, Socializing, Partying, Festivities, Indulging, Intoxication, Happy Times, Exuberance, A Gathering of  Women, Harvest

In a Reading

Traditional interpretations of the Three of Cups call for a time of celebration of good luck and contentment or rejoicing for the recovery from an illness or the end of a “streak of bad luck”.

This card embodies an all consuming youthful love, a passionate outburst, the dawn or rebirth/rediscovery of the first love, fresh, inexperienced and idealistic. Although the feelings symbolized represent a joyride of youthful emotion, care must be taken- disappointment  of these feelings cause painful emotional wounds.

Adversely it may represent a superfluous, catastrophic idealization of love, an obsession with an impossible love.

Multiple Threes in a Spread: 3 Three uncover fraud and deception and 4 conviction, determination and willpower.