Your Chosen Card – Ace of Chalices Upright Salem Deck
When upright, the Ace of Cups suggests new beginnings in your emotional life. You are experiencing a period of joy, contentment, camaraderie, feasting, affection, and creativity. Love and fertility are in the air. It is possible to deepen a current relationship or to start a new friendship or love interest. Artists find themselves full of creative ideas. The nurturing waters of the Ace of Cups represent a fertile time, able to produce offspring of the body or the mind. Moving spiritual experiences and opportunities for compassion also accompany this card.
Keywords Upright: Pleasure, feasting, enjoyment, love, friendship, receptivity, fulfillment, fertility, pregnancy, nurturing, healing, creative inspiration, a new relationship, the beginning of romance, good cheer; ‘eat, drink, and be merry.’
Timing: Astrologically, Water is linked to summertime.
Astrology: Root-force of elemental Water, the element associated with the season of summer.
Number Symbolism: 1 – initial spark, will, creation, beginnings, new life.
Crowley/Thoth: The receptive feminine counterpart of the phallic Ace of Wands. Union with God. The Supernal Mother: fertility, pleasure, productivity, elegance, happiness.
When Ace of Chalices is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If Ace of Chalices is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Ace of Chalices is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for Ace of Chalices using cards from the Salem Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Portable Magic: half the base of the Ace of Swords. The two tarot cards will be at a right angle to each other. Thirdly, lay the Ace of Cups pointing toward the west in such a way that half the base of the card touches and overlaps half the base of the Ace of Wands. It will be at a right angle to the Ace of Wands. Finally, lay the Ace of Pentacles pointing toward the north so that half its base touches and overlaps half the base of the Ace of Cups. The other half of the base of the Ace of Pentacles is slid under half the base of the Ace of Swords.
Tarot for Beginners: The Ace of Cups demonstrates a fresh start of a passionate nature and indicates emotional fulfillment, creativity and contentment. From falling passionately in love with a person, or committing to following a spiritual or artistic calling, this is a time of bliss. Pregnancy or childbirth may also be indicated, as this is a card of ultimate femininity.
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Tarot for Beginners: The Ace of Cups demonstrates a fresh start of a passionate nature and indicates emotional fulfillment, creativity and contentment. From falling passionately in love with a person, or committing to following a spiritual or artistic calling, this is a time of bliss. Pregnancy or childbirth may also be indicated, as this is a card of ultimate femininity.