Ten of Cups: tarot card meaning

Ten of Cups is card 10 in the suit of Cups, associated with the element of Water. Drawn upright it speaks of completion, feelings, connection; reversed, of feeling blocked, disconnection.

Upright meaning

completion, feelings, connection

Emotional fulfilment and harmony -- a full cup of belonging, love and the peace of a settled heart.

Reversed meaning

feeling blocked, disconnection

A family or relationship ideal at odds with reality -- tend the real connection rather than the picture.

The suit of Cups belongs to Water and to feelings, relationships and belonging.

In a three-card reading

In the past position Ten of Cups describes the current that carried you to where you are; in the present position, what is most alive in the situation now; in the future position, the direction things tend toward if nothing changes. A reading weighs it against the other two cards rather than on its own.