Two of Cups

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partnership · the toast · chemistry

Two cups, two people, a pact that can be as small as a look. This is reciprocity — the pleasure of being met — so make the toast and let the bond be equal enough to stand on. Love here includes friendship, collaboration, the caduceus of two snakes learning one spine.

Reversed

a broken toast · imbalance · attraction with no table

One cup is heavier, or the toast was theatre. Name the imbalance without prosecuting it. Two reversed can be a beautiful almost that needs a boundary, or a repair waiting on a single honest sentence. Do not call a one-way drink a marriage.

On the card

• Shared cups

  A pact. Two people meaning the same hour.

• Caduceus

  Healing in the meeting. Chemistry with a witness.

• The lion head

  A blessing over the pair. This is not only private.

When it shows up

This looks like the good conversation, the beginning of a we, the toast that is also a promise.

History

A man and woman exchange cups; above them a caduceus topped with a lion’s head. Smith’s winged lion is desire blessed, not devouring. Waite’s Two is the lesser Lovers — human covenant in the suit of water. The house and hills behind them say this bond has a landscape to live in.

If you want to sit with it

Who are you actually meeting — and what is the honest cup you are offering?

Optional. Nothing is saved.