Queen of Cups

Lead with your heart, and let your compassion be a source of strength. The Queen of Cups sits at the water’s edge cradling an ornate covered cup, gazing into it with tenderness. As a person, she is deeply empathetic, intuitive, and emotionally wise — the one others come to for comfort. As an energy, she invites you to trust your feelings and intuition, to care for yourself and others with warmth, and to hold space for emotion without being swept away by it. Feel deeply and love generously, while keeping enough for yourself.

The emotional waters have flooded their banks. Reversed, the Queen of Cups can mean feeling overwhelmed by emotion, giving so much to others that you empty yourself, or slipping into codependency and insecurity. It can also signal a retreat into moodiness or a loss of that steady inner compass. Restore your boundaries. Care for your own heart first, let some feeling drain off before it drowns you, and remember that empathy without self-protection eventually runs dry.