The spot where a flutter is just budding. Someone you met recently keeps coming to mind, or a friend you have long known begins to look different one day. A light message may arrive from them first. Rather than striding closer, the distance of exchanging light greetings suits now.
A small cup holding a fish
Page of Cups: Card Meaning
Page of Cups: Card Meaning
Reading It Upright and Reversed
Page of Cups · Minor Arcana · Cups · Page
In the Page of Cups, a fish pops its head out of the cup held by a youthful page standing by the sea. Upright, it means a time when unexpected flutters and pleasant messages arrive and sensitivity first buds.
A young person in a blue tunic embroidered with flowers, a long cloth draped from a brimless cap, stands by the seashore. From the cup he holds, a small fish pokes out its head and looks up at its owner. Instead of being startled, the page meets the fish’s eyes with an interested face. Ripples sway on the sea behind.
A fish jumping out of a cup is something no one can plan. This picture deals not with results carefully prepared but with something that came unannounced, and its weight lies in the page not pushing it away but gazing at it quietly. The message of this card is the attitude of first gladly accepting feelings and news whose growth you cannot predict.
If the Page of Cups appears, may I share my feelings?
Feelings have only just sprouted, so it is a little early for a big decision. What this card shows is not a sure answer but the fact that a time of getting to know each other has begun. So rather than a setting meant to extract an answer, continuing light greetings and short meetings is far more natural. It is not too late to share your feelings after time spent back and forth has piled up.
Page of Cups: Love
Upright
Reversed
Your heart flips several times a day. It seems to grow fond and then quickly withers, and your mood rises and falls with the speed of a reply. You are still getting to know each other, yet you are impatient to reach a conclusion. Counting only the facts that are surely confirmed calms your heart.
Page of Cups: Money
Upright
A flow of taking a first step with small money. You start a small savings plan or study for the first time the investing you were only curious about. Small unexpected side income or a refund may come in too. If you treat it as a period for getting a feel rather than growing size, there is no trouble.
Reversed
A time when it is easy to open your wallet on a whim with no plan. Payments to cheer yourself up become frequent; each is small, but they are many. Your ears also prick up easily at talk of big money, so the habit of letting a decision sit a day before looking again helps.
Page of Cups: Work
Upright
A time of crossing the threshold of learning. You receive a task you are handling for the first time or set foot in a field you were curious about, and news you were waiting for or an interview invitation may fly in. It is natural to be clumsy in this period, so put your energy into asking and learning a lot rather than into the output.
Reversed
Passion overflows but your hands cannot keep up, and mistakes happen. Trouble easily arises in parts you skimmed past pretending to know, so do not skip the review stage. It is also a time when the work you want and the work you are given diverge and your thoughts keep wandering.
| Card | Page of Cups — Minor Arcana · Cups · Page |
|---|---|
| Suit | Cups — Element: Water. Feelings and relationships — it shows what the heart holds and what it lets flow away. |
| Rank | Page — A young energy that learns and brings back news. |
| Upright Keywords | Excitement · the bud of feeling · welcome news |
| Reversed Keywords | Mood swings · immaturity · false hopes |
Page of Cups Upright
Excitement · the bud of feeling · welcome news
Something stirs in your heart. You are not lovers and nothing is decided, but if your mood shifts subtly when you think of a certain someone or a certain plan, you are standing on this card right now. The feeling is small. But it is a time when long-dormant senses awaken, so your heart moves even at small things you would normally pass over.
It is also a card that brings news. It comes in small forms, like a short message, a sudden invitation or a light proposal, and nearly always out of the blue. The page is still an apprentice and cannot produce great fruit, but does play the role of opening the first door. So these days, set finish aside; jotting down passing ideas and replying to messages you receive is enough.
Page of Cups Reversed
Mood swings · immaturity · false hopes
Reversed, your emotions swing high and low. You float with excitement in the morning and turn indifferent by evening, and a single offhand remark from someone sets you rocking all day. It is closer to not yet having the knack for handling feelings than to having none. At such times, simply not deciding by the day’s mood cuts losses sharply.
It may also appear as expectations inflated on your own. You read uncertain signals however suits you and blow up the story, then stagger badly when it collides with reality. Starting things and failing to finish them belongs here too. Once you complete even one of the things you started, the wavering lessens considerably from then on.
Something to Try the Day This Card Appears
Pick one moment today when your heart rippled slightly and record it briefly. A song playing in a café, a shop sign you passed on the street, a word someone said in passing: anything will do. The sprout of this card grows not with grand resolutions but when you do not let small tremors slip away.
Cards from Other Groups
Cups: 14 Cards
Ace of Cups
Two of Cups
Three of Cups
Four of Cups
Five of Cups
Six of Cups
Seven of Cups
Eight of Cups
Nine of Cups
Ten of Cups
Page of Cups
Knight of Cups
Queen of Cups
King of Cups
A card read on its own means something slightly different from one placed beside other cards. If something is on your mind these days, pick four cards to read on, and if you are curious about your inborn nature, open a Saju reading as well.