Ten of Cups

What the card means

Upright

The whole cup, shared with everyone in the house. A rainbow of ten cups, two people with their arms round each other looking up, children dancing beside them. Not elation but a condition: the case where the good does not have to be got, because it is already here.

Reversed

The picture of happiness kept up for others. It is quieter and drier inside than out, and everybody knows and says nothing. Sometimes your own happiness is given up for the shared one.

Love and relationships

Upright

Family, a home, a relationship that has come together. A good card for almost any question about a future together.

Reversed

Keeping up appearances for the children, the parents, the neighbours. Or happy separately and not together.

Work and business

Upright

A team that is good to be in. Work that returns more than money. A good end to a long stretch of it.

Reversed

Performing a team. Or work you are proud of and get nothing from.

Money

Upright

Sufficiency that reaches everybody. Shared money that weighs on nobody.

Reversed

Spending on how it looks to other people.

The card's advice

Look around and notice what is already here - the Ten of Cups promises nothing, it points at the present. And check who you are keeping it up for: yourself, or the picture.

As the card of the day

A warm day. Good for home, for family, for being together. Poor for solitary work.

What is depicted

Two figures with arms around each other look up at a rainbow of ten cups; two children dance hand in hand beside them, a house and a river behind. Nobody is holding a cup - they are in the sky rather than in anyone's hands.

Zodiac sign and correspondences

Mars in Pisces - warmth that reached the house.

With other cards

• Ten of Cups + Three of Cups — a shared gladness with both an occasion and a house behind it.
• Ten of Cups + Ten of Pentacles — home and sufficiency together; the best pairing for a family.
• Ten of Cups + The World — fullness carried all the way through.