Page of Cupsfor Cancer · Work and Career

Cups are the water suit, so the Page of Cups sits in Cancer. That makes this Cancer's own card, so nothing in it is being read from the outside, and the flattering interpretation is the one to distrust. What it asks for is the thing Cancer already believes it is good at: say the feeling to the person it is about. Upright, this is someone at the start of the element: sincere, curious, not yet any good at it.

When reading about work through a Cancer lens, the Page of Cups says that you feel like work is where you prove you are worth keeping around, a place where showing up matters (or where being essential protects you from being let go), and something that should eventually feel like belonging. This has either made you stay in jobs that do not pay you what you are worth, or helped you find a workplace that actually treats you like family. You have not asked yourself what you actually want from this work, only what you think you should want from it. The Cancer blind spot in it is being seen as a burden, or as someone whose needs are too much.

In practice that can look like a resentment that has to be said out loud. Whatever form it takes, it arrives as news, or as someone new and sincere.