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Waite-Smith Tarot card: Three of Cups
Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith · 1909

Three of Cups

The Three circulates emotion through community. Joy grows by being witnessed and shared, while the shadow warns against belonging that depends on excess or exclusion.

When the energy is open
  • friendship
  • celebration
  • collaboration
  • shared joy
When it enters shadow
  • gossip
  • overindulgence
  • exclusion
  • social imbalance
One symbolic doorway

The vessel of water

The cup receives, contains, and exchanges emotional energy. Its lesson concerns the quality of what you allow yourself to feel and hold. Three makes energy generative; what was potential begins to take form through participation.

The question to carryWhich relationships genuinely increase my capacity for joy?