48-Queen of Cups – Upright Golden Deck

Your Chosen Card – Queen of Cups Upright Golden Deck

Queens are mature nurturing individuals (mother figures) who are responsive to the emotional climate surrounding the querent. They represent important women related to the current situation or significant personality traits needed by the querent to navigate the matter at hand. When upright, the Queen of Cups is a sensitive and nurturing woman who plays an important role in the querent’s life. She is able to tune into the feeling state of those around her and to use her emotional intelligence to reconcile differences.

Keywords Upright: Dreamy, compassionate, sensitive, patient, empathic, intuitive, imaginative, psychic, creative, receptive, maternal, nurturing, devoted, honest, virtuous, wise, affectionate, enchanting, loving, romantic, emotionally intelligent, mystical, otherworldly, spiritually attuned; a woman above reproach.

Decans/Timing: 20 Gemini–20 Cancer. Tropical, 11 June–12 July; sidereal, 06 July–06 August
Astrology: Water of Water. The Queen of Cups gives birth to summer at the June solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
Associated Trumps: The Lovers and the Chariot.

Jungian Functions: Feeling (Water) in double measure.

When Queen of Cups is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If Queen of Cups is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Queen of Cups 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 Queen of Cups using cards from the Golden 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.


Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot
Book Details
Complete Book of Tarot: Ruled by the Moon, the sign Cancer comes fourth in the zodiac. Cancer the Crab, an initiatory cardinal sign, is associated with the Chariot, trump VII. In the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, which was popular at the time of the creation of the earliest tarot decks in northern Italy, the chariot and its driver were symbols of the cardinal virtue of Prudence. The three other cardinal virtues—Justice, Strength, and Temperance—all have a specific trump card named after them. The Queen of Cups falls largely under Cancer, a sign whose natives are characterized by these traits:

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: When reversed, the Ace of Pentacles (golden coins) suggests that something may have gone awry in your quest for material well-being. Perhaps you are missing a significant opportunity to improve financial security, or maybe your attitude toward wealth and prosperity needs adjusting. In the myth of King Midas, his unbridled greed for the acquisition of material goods leaves him devoid of human contact. Now may be a good time to ponder Buddha’s teachings about nonattachment. Interestingly, the lilies on this card in the Llewellyn Classic Tarot resemble the lotus, a Buddhist symbol of nonattachment; the lotus has the ability to rise above the mire of the swamp and produce an object of beauty.

Portable Magic: Imagine an upright triangle of golden light form itself in the air above the reclining triangle of three rugs on the dais. The lines of the triangle draw themselves from the apex in a counter clockwise direction. Its base floats a foot above the dais, and it is six feet tall.

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Portable Magic: Imagine an upright triangle of golden light form itself in the air above the reclining triangle of three rugs on the dais. The lines of the triangle draw themselves from the apex in a counter clockwise direction. Its base floats a foot above the dais, and it is six feet tall.