Page of Cups: tarot card meaning

In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Page of Cups upright means: Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business. Reversed: Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.

The picture

“A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate page, of studious and intent aspect, contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form.” A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910

Upright

Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom the Querent will be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business.

Waite's additional meanings: Good augury; also a young man who is unfortunate in love.

Reversed

Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.

Waite's additional meanings, reversed: Obstacles of all kinds.

In one line

News and reflection: a fish rises from the cup. (Esbat's own summary of Waite's meaning and picture.)

Where it sits in the deck

The Page of Cups is the eleventh card of the suit of Cups, one of the 56 Minor Arcana. The other Pages: Page of Wands, Page of Swords, Page of Pentacles.

In Esbat

Esbat deals a card of the day, face down until you turn it, and holds all 78 cards in the 1910 pictures with Waite's meanings, upright and reversed. The Page of Cups can be shared as a picture. All 78 tarot card meanings.

Sources

Meanings and picture descriptions: A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1910), public domain, checked against the Wikisource transcription. Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, 1910, public domain. Like the app, this page records what the book says; it does not promise outcomes.

Last updated October 25, 2026.

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